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Durability Assessment of Wood Composites Using Fracture Mechanics

Creator:

Mirzaei, Babak

Abstract:

The advent of synthetic adhesives has transformed the structural applications of wood. However, a persistent issue in adhesively-bonded wood products has been moisture durability. When designing wood based composites, moisture durability will depend on both the wood phase and the adhesive phase. A key question, therefore, is how does one...

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Dissertation

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. Nairn Arijit Sinha The advent of synthetic adhesives has transformed the structural
Determining fracture toughness by orthogonal cutting of polyethylene and wood-polyethylene composites

Creator:

Semrick, Kalin

Abstract:

The purpose of this thesis was to evaluate orthogonal cutting as a method to determine the fracture toughness of low and high density polyethylene and wood plastic composites. A test fixture was developed to capture normal and tangential cutting forces at variable depth and rake angle. A tool interface method...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis