Using wood`s natural ability to flex when drying to create curved structures
(PHYSorg.com Chemistry)

A team of researchers from Laboratory for Cellulose & Wood Materials and the Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the University of Stuttgart, in Germany, has found that modeling the contraction of wood while drying can be used to create curved structures. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes their simulations and a test structure they built using their ideas.