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Behaviour of Single Wood Fibres under Axial Tensile Strain

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INTEREST has arisen recently in the stress-strain properties of single wood fibres and tracheids, because of their importance to the properties of paper, board and other composite structures. Techniques for handling and mounting these fibres, which are only about 1 mm in length and 30 µ in diameter, have been developed in several laboratories and apparatus for determining stress-strain curves has been built. A survey of recent work is given by Duncker and Nordman1. To provide for simultaneous microscopical observation of the strained fibre, an apparatus was built incorporating an Instron tensile tester and a Zeiss research microscope (K. W., R. Bain and D. H. P., unpublished work). The preliminary results of this study are reported here and indicate that the deformation of wood fibres under uniform axial strain is by no means a simple matter.

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PAGE, D., EL-HOSSEINY, F. & WINKLER, K. Behaviour of Single Wood Fibres under Axial Tensile Strain. Nature 229, 252–253 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229252a0

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