DI Jing,WU Kaijie,GUO Nan,et al.Effect of Cyclic Freeze-Thaw Treatment on the Elastic Modulus and Strength of Bamboo Scrimber under Compression[J].Chinese Journal of Wood Science and Technology,2026,40(02):42-48.DOI: 10.12326/j.2096-9694.2025146.
Effect of Cyclic Freeze-Thaw Treatment on the Elastic Modulus and Strength of Bamboo Scrimber under Compression
has been increasingly utilized in the construction industry. However
as a structural material
the degradation mechanism of BS under cyclic freeze-thaw treatment is not yet clear. This study investigated the failure modes
elastic modulus
and compressive strength of BS specimens subjected to 0
20
40
and 60 freeze-thaw (F-T) cycles (each cycle comprising freezing at -20 ℃ for 8 hours followed by thawing in water at 20 ℃ for 8 hours) under three loading directions
i.e.
parallel-to-grain loading
perpendicular to grain I loading (perpendicular to the glue layer)
and perpendicular to grain II loading (parallel to the glue layer). The results indicated that while F-T cycling did not change the failure modes type of the specimens
it significantly altered the proportions of different failure modes. Notably
the proportion of glue layer cracking increased remarkably with increasing F-T cycles from 0 to 60 (from 30% to 64%). Both elastic modulus and compressive strength decreased with an increasing number of F-T cycles across all loading directions
with a decrease of 38.3% and 35.2% in the perpendicular to grain II direction
respectively. Finally
the design characteristic value (0.05 quantile) of the compressive strength of BS was determined based on the statistical analysis of experimental data
and an attenuation model (
R
2
>0.95) of compressive performance with varying numbers of freeze-thaw cycles was established to provide data support for the reliability design of BS structures in cold regions.
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