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On the origin of growth stresses in trees

Part 1: Micro mechanics of the developing cambial cell wall

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A mechanism for growth stress generation is studied which involves a contractive strain in the microfibril direction and swelling strain in the transverse direction in the developing wall of wood cells. A cylindrically anisotropic elastic model is used to calculate the accumulation of residual stresses in the S2 wall as it is formed. An explicit relation between the shrinkage/swelling strains in the growth increment of the cell wall and the resulting axial and circumferential stresses induced in the cell is derived. For gymnosperm cells the transition from tensile stress in normal wood cells to compressive stress in compression wood cells is found with increasing microfibril angle.

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Archer, R.R. On the origin of growth stresses in trees. Wood Sci.Technol. 21, 139–154 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00376194

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