Vikram Yadama*, Michael P. Wolcott
Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.3, No.3, pp. 216-223, 2015, DOI:10.7569/JRM.2015.634103
Abstract The effects of strand undulation angles in wood-strand composites have often been ignored due to the
virtual impossibility of experimental determination of their effects on composite material properties, and
the diffi culty in modeling localized deviations in angle along the path of a strand. The fi ber undulation
model (FUM), that has been previously verifi ed, was applied in this study to predict the elastic constants of
laboratory-manufactured oriented strand panels. A stochastic approach was incorporated where a series rule
of mixtures with probability density functions of angle distributions was utilized in the model to transform
the elastic constants in… More >
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