One-dimension visco-elastic modelling of wood in the process of formation to clarify the Hygrothermal Recovery behavior of tension wood

Wood production on stem by deposit of concentric layers on its periphery are going along with the setting up of growth stress. Growth stress has two origins: (1) loading due to weight of the structure is applied progressively when the tree is growing; (2) cell maturation, which happened at the end of the deposit of a new layer, causes an expansion, called maturation deformation, which can’t happen freely due to the previous layer and lead to the...