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Non-linearity of softwood in axial mechano-sorptive creep during moisture cycling can be characterised as departure from linear behaviour. Linear behaviour is shown by experimental measurement to be a gradual approach to a creep limit with exponentially decreasing increments of compliance, Ji, per moisture cycle, when tested under a constant stress. On the other hand, when the stress is progressively increased by a small increment Δσ after each moisture cycle, the compliance increments will progressively increase, having a value of \(\Delta \sigma \sum\limits_1^n {{\text{J}}_{\text{i}} }\), where n is the cycle number. By subtracting one compliance increment from the succeeding one, the value of Δσ Ji can be obtained. Analysis of experimental results in bending tension and compression showed that the compression test pieces departed from linearity at total strains around 0.14% to 0.15%, the bending test pieces showed slight evidence of non-linearity at about the same strain, whilst the tensile pieces were approximately linear up to 0.18% strain.
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Hunt, D.G. Linearity and non-linearity in mechano-sorptive creep of softwood in compression and bending. Wood Sci. Technol. 23, 323–333 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00353248
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