Model of a digital device for assessing the state of xylem in tree trunks

Abstract

For the development of systems for predicting the state of forests and trees, adequate models of the influence of temperature and humidity environment fluctuations on the kinetics of the wood microstructure are needed. Formalized modeling should be based on monitoring data obtained with controlled accuracy in real time. The aim of the work was to substantiate the layout of a device for measuring the potential difference in tree trunks to study their state. For the first time in the article, the recorder layout with the operating principle based on the phenomenon of thermally stimulated polarization of wood has substantiated. In addition, a formalized model has presented for processing the monitoring data of the studied potential difference in the framework of classical thermodynamics, which makes it possible to determine the parameters of the kinetics of the microstructure of wood in tree trunks at fluctuations of external factors. As a result of the research carried out, a model of a digital device for assessing the state of wood of tree trunks was developed. The proposed device for recording the response of the trunk wood on the fluctuations of external factors practically does not violate the unique microstructure of the biocomposite and has a controlled accuracy in real time.