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Introduction to the Application of the Fracture Mechanics in Wood and Bamboo

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In this chapter, the history of fracture mechanics is introduced, and the difference between fracture mechanics and mechanics of materials is discussed. Then, the application history and research progress of fracture mechanics applied to wood are reviewed. And it is described briefly that although wood and bamboo are both cell body plant materials, the differences in macroscopic and microscopic structure bring wood and bamboo different failure mechanisms corresponding to different study methods. When studied the fracture properties, wood can be treated as orthotropic macro-homogeneous body, while bamboo is composite reinforced by fiber distributed non-uniformly, so meso-mechanics should be used to build mesoscale model to study the fracture of bamboo.

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Shao, Z., Wang, F. (2018). Introduction to the Application of the Fracture Mechanics in Wood and Bamboo. In: The Fracture Mechanics of Plant Materials. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-9017-2_1

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