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In a previous article of the authors a model was developed for estimating elastic and shrinkage properties of a softwood cell-wall. In the present article this model is enlarged to simulate the elastic properties of defect-free softwoods. The wood model consists of earlywood, latewood and ray cells, each of which have a different cell-wall structure. In the model the ratio of earlywood to latewood is defined by a given wood density. The calculated elastic properties are in good agreement with test results.
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Koponen, S., Toratti, T. & Kanerva, P. Modelling elastic and shrinkage properties of wood based on cell structure. Wood Sci.Technol. 25, 25–32 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00195554
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00195554