The Future for Religious Heritage: European Sustainable Religious Heritage conference was held in the university town of Lund, just 20 km from Malmö and only…
Today we present a short picture story from an experiment that allows you to determine the moisture content in tested wood samples. A fragment was…
From the same trunks from which we obtained the samples to determine the critical energy release rate we had more samples cut – so-called dog-bones.…
The project PRELUDIUM 19 experiments have advanced significantly since the successful tests of the measurement methodology. Moreover, the results obtained with the “wedge splitting method”…
We committed ourselves to measure the fracture toughness of lime wood in a wide range of relative humidities (RH). Thanks to those experiments, we will…
What a week! Surrounded by the Bernese Alps, the Swiss Les Diablerets was this weekend not only a stop on the Tour de France, but…
We started laboratory measurements of the mechanical properties of lime wood. Check out the photo report of our first attempts and small successes (the crack…
What is the fracture toughness of wood? Many engineers have dealt with this topic in terms of applications in construction. But what if we ask…
The breakthrough of the year is, on the one hand, time to slow down and enjoy the upcoming Christmas, and on the other hand –…
Both meetings gathered a really large group of listeners, each over 150 people! The CollectionCare conference, organized by the team from the Universitat Politècnica de…