Objectives
Wood is characterized by an excellent loadbearing capacity related to its mass. Its sustainable availability and aesthetical appearance are further positive features. Therefore, wood is an excellent construction material for a wide range of engineering applications and structures. Moreover, wood is also characterized by an intrinsic heterogeneity at a lower length scale. The anisotropic material structure with respect to its multiphysical and inelastic constitutive behavior denote wood as a complex material. Wood has uncertain material properties due to a great diversity of species at many locations worldwide. Additionally, complex fracture and failure behavior are properties of wood. Thus, computational methods and numerical approaches, that capture the challenging constitutive and structural characteristics, are still under development and in focus of current research, in order to provide precise, reliable and robust engineering tools for designing economically as well as ecologically competitive wooden structures, woodbased products, and timber building components.
To address all challenges and to enhance the predicitive capabilities of existing computational methods, detailed knowledge on the time, moisture, temperaturedependent physical behavior of wood at different length scales must be expanded and combined in current modeling strategies, and finally transferred to engineering practice.
The resulting goal of this ECCOMAS Thematic Conference is to serve as a platform for knowledge exchange between scientists in the field of computational wood mechanics. Related experimental and theoretical research as well as applied research up to design solutions for practical applications are welcome to extend the knowledge base on this unique material.
Thus, the scientific and technical areas covered by this conference are numerical and analytical models, experimental investigations, and design concepts for wood at different length scales, woodbased products, building components, and timber structures.
