Understanding the Function of Rays and Wood Density on Transverse Fracture Behaviour of Green Wood in Three Species
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Doç. Dr. Seray ÖZDEN KELEŞ Kastamonu Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Roland Ennos
Makale Türü Özgün Makale (Diğer hakemli uluslarası dergilerde yayınlanan tam makale)
Dergi Adı Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology B
Dergi ISSN 2161-6264
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler Index Copernicus
Makale Dili İngilizce Basım Tarihi 09-2014
Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa 4 / 9 / 731–743 DOI 10.17265/2161-6264/2014.09.006
Makale Linki http://www.davidpublisher.org/Public/uploads/Contribute/550a3e94226b8.pdf
UAK Araştırma Alanları
Orman Botaniği Orman Botaniği
Özet
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in wood properties, because wood is a commonly used and advanced building material. In this paper, the effect of anatomical characters on the transverse fracture properties of green wood was investigated. The specific fracture energy (Gf J/m2) of ash (Fraxinus excelsior), cherry (Prunus avium) and birch (Betula pendula) was evaluated using double edge notched tensile tests. The tests were performed on both earlywood (EW) and latewood (LW) zones in both the radial-tangential (RT) and the tangential-radial (TR) crack propagation systems. Wood anatomy and the failure patterns of each species were also investigated using environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM) and light microscopy (LMC). The results showed that the Gf of RT fracture systems was around 1.5 times greater than in the TR one, whereas there were no significant differences between EW and LW zones. ESEM micrographs showed that the RT fracture system had a rougher fracture surface, while the TR had a nearly smooth and flat fracture surface. In particular, the wood of F. excelsior was the toughest, because of its greater percentage of rays and homogenous distribution of ray cells, while P. avium and B. pendula showed a lower Gf due to their smaller percentage of rays with a distinctive arrangement of ray cells.
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