Edited by
J. Paulo Davim, University of Aveiro, Portugal
ISBN : 9781848213159
Publication Date : June 2011
Hardcover 288 pp
96.00 USD
Co-publisher
Wood as an engineering material can be technically defined “as a hygroscopic, orthotropic, biological, and permeable material having extreme chemical diversity and physical complexity with structures, that vary extensively in their shape, size, properties and function”. Therefore, using wood to its best advantage and most efficiency in engineering applications, specific characteristics or chemical, physical and mechanical properties must be considered.
The products are divided into two classes, solid wood and composite wood products. Solid wood includes shipbuilding, bridges, flooring, mine timbers, etc. Composite wood products include insulation board, plywood, oriented strand board, hardboard and particle board.
In recent years, the machining of wood products has acquired great importance due the short supply of wood and increasing environmental awareness among users and manufacturers. The optimization of the machining process centers around the mechanism of chip formation, tool wear, workpiece surface quality, crack initiation and propagation of different types of wood. Other factors are also humidity, temperature, static preloads, and vibrations that can affect the wood during the machining process.
The book provides some fundamentals and recent research advances on machining wood and wood products.
1. Machining of Wood and Wood Composites, Grzegorz Kowaluk.
2. Wood and Wood-based Panel Machining Quality, Cristina Coelho, Nuno Garrido, Jorge Martins, Luisa Carvalho and Carlos Costa.
3. Reducing Tool Wear by Cryogenic Treatment and Cooling with Refrigerated Air when Processing Medium Density Fiberboard, Rado Gazo, Judith Gisip and Harold A. Stewart.
4. Wearing Mechanisms Contributing to Reduced Tool Life after Wood and Secondary Wood Products Machining, Boleslaw Porankiewicz.
5. Monitoring Surface Quality on Molding and Sawing Processes for Solid Wood and Wood Panels, Alfredo Aguilera.
6. Evaluating the Roughness of Sanded Wood Surfaces, Lidia Gurau, Hugh Mansfield-Williams and Mark Irle.
J. Paulo Davim is Aggregate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Aveiro, Portugal and is Head of MACTRIB (Machining and Tribology Research Group). His main research interests include manufacturing, materials and mechanical engineering.
