With rising timber costs and a decreasing supply of high-grade timber resources, manufacturers of solid wood products need to adopt more efficient processing methods that better utilize existing timber resources. To address this need, this study explores the potential of converting hardwood logs directly into dimension parts. The specific objective of this study was to estimate the potential cu...

Softwood logs are processed into green boards through a series of horizontal or vertical sawing operations that reduce lumber thickness. This paper uses physical understanding to model how systematic and random errors in board thickness accumulate during sequential resawing. The error model is validated on board thickness measurements gathered at a northern California sawmill. The analysis • ex...

The paper argues that prevention only will take place if enforcement is real, but that, for prevention to be successful, it should be kept apart from enforcement. The success of the road trauma prevention activities in Australia is used as an instructive parallel, and the potential of similar cost-efficient approaches, based on public fund workers’ compensation systems in Sweden and Australia, ...

Optimization of the wire sawing process of silicon ingots requires a profound understanding of the dynamic interaction of wire, slurry and silicon material. In this paper, the influence of wire velocity and applied wire stress on the process is investigated using dissipative particle dynamics and discrete element simulations for modelling the fluid and the grains in the abrasive suspension. In ...

The objective of this work was to study maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) wood characteristics and their impact on the sawing yield using virtual stem models and sawing simulation procedures. In the first part of the work, a characterisation of maritime pine as raw material for the wood industry was performed. The stem shape, distribution of knots, and heartwood/sapwood contents were studied....

A 3D log sawing optimization system was developed to perform log generation, opening face determination, sawing simulation, and lumber grading using 3Dmodeling techniques. Heuristic and dynamic programming algorithms were used to determine opening face and grade sawing optimization. Positions and shapes of internal log defects were predicted using a model developed by the USDA Forest Service. L...

Although Pinus sylvestris L. is the most frequently analyzed wood species with respect to cutting forces in sawing experiments, the problem of prediction of reliable values of tangential FC and radial FN cutting forces for specific sawing conditions, according to the method employing a specific cutting resistance K (N·mm) and correction coefficients CR, C, C, CAP, CVC, CMC, CT, as expressed b...

Successful bone sawing requires a high level of skill and experience, which could be gained by the use of Virtual Reality-based simulators. A key aspect of these medical simulators is realistic force feedback. The aim of this paper is to model the bone sawing process in order to develop a valid training simulator for the bilateral sagittal split osteotomy, the most often applied corrective surg...

Circular sawing with diamond-impregnated tools has been extensively used in stone processing plants and prediction of rock sawability is important in the cost estimation and the planning of the plants. Rock sawability depends on machine characteristics, type and diameter of diamond saw, depth of cut, rate of sawing and tool wear, and rock properties. Some researchers have investigated the relat...