CONTROL-VOLUME FINITE-ELEMENT MODEL OF MECHANOSORPTIVE CREEP IN TIMBER

This article presents the application of the control volume finite ele ment (CVFE) numerical solution technique to the analysis of drying-ind uced stresses in timber. Two stress formulations me presented: first, a plane strain elastic analysis and, second, a mechanosorptive creep a nalysis, which models the well-known behavior of stress reversal in ti mber. In order to highlight the applicability of the CVFE method in st ress analysis problems, the numerical solutions to two problems are co mpared against an analytical solution and previously published numeric al simulation remits.