Keywords: beech, brittleness of wood, cohesive law, compliance-based beam method (CBBM), compressive elastic modulus, digital image correlation (DIC), equiva-lent crack length approach (ECLA), fracture, mode II, thermal modification, thermally modified wood (TMW), three-point end-notched flexure (3ENF)Published in RUP: 18.07.2019; Views: 2141; Downloads: 115 Link to full text