METHOD OF DETERMINING THE STRUCTURAL PARAMETERS OF WOOD-POLYMER COMPOSITE

A composite material consisting of woody skeleton and polymerized methacrylate has been developed and characterized. This paper presents an experimental program and the results concerning mechanical properties and strength of wood modified with polymerized methacrylate. In the article, there are examples of structural elements made of natural wood. Wood is a composite consisting of the layers of soft and hard wood. Wood is a composite and porous material. The porosity, which is a serious defect of wood, may be simultaneously its advantage. Wood saturation with different impregnates to minimize its disadvantages. If the wood pores will fill the monomer there is obtained the wood polymer composite. This composite is classified as of fiber composites. Such composite is effectively protected against degradation; it is durable in use, and show an improvement in mechanical properties. Design constructions of surface modified wood require the determination of fundamental material constants. Therefore, for the determination of these parameters is very important obtaining the appropriate research material. The surface impregnation of wood allows obtaining strength characteristics in a function of polymer content. This allows to model it's, and then design and perform specific ship structures. In the wood, there are three directions in relation to the annual rings. Wood properties, especially mechanical properties, are different in the selected directions. For the computation takes the orthogonal anisotropy in which there are three mutually orthogonal planes of symmetry, for which there is symmetry properties of the wood.