Wood as a thermodynamic system

✍ Scribed by P. F. Lesse; G. N. Christensen

• Book ID: 104736467
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 640 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0043-7719
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00353682

✦ Synopsis

Wood is considered as a continuum whose behaviour must comply with basic laws of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. This provides a unifying point of view for explaining different processes in wood in terms of basic laws and constitutive assumptions. The equations governing the behaviour of wood under different circumstances (e.g. sorption, swelling, transport of moisture, build up of stresses) are derived from specific constitutive assumptions, more general constitutive assumptions compatible with requirements of non-equilibrium thermodynamics can lead to more realistic mathematical models.