Plenary Lecture

Static bending strength and modulus of elasticity in static bending along the height of beech wood (Fagus sylvatica L.) obtained from forest thinning

Professor Badescu Loredana Anne–Marie
co-author Dumitrascu Ramona Elena
Transilvania University of Brasov
Faculty of Wood Engineering/Wood Machining Center of Excellence (CCSPL)
Department of Wood Processing and Design of Wood Products
Romania
E-mail: loredana@unitbv.ro

Abstract: Beech wood resulted from thinning forest is today, in Romania, an important base of raw material: about 14, 53 % of the total of beech wood harvested annually (Romsilva – National Forestry Association from Romania). Being a wood material somewhat slighted in furniture design, its properties have been little studied. Knowledge of the properties of a material is a condition for a better use of its; these provides valuable information for the technological processes of processing.
In this context, the paper presents the results of testing the bending strength and modulus of elasticity in static bending of beech wood (Fagus Sylvatica L.) with Dbase = 14 cm. The study was conducted in the context in which wood of beech obtained from thinning can be considered as an alternative wood resource for the furniture industry, in accordance with sustainable development strategies for Romania.
The paper brings new information for the specialty databases and it, also, opens ways for future research concerning wood from thinning.

Brief Biography of the Speaker: -Professor dr eng at Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania, Faculty of Wood Engineering
-33 years teaching experience in the field of Wood processing
-Wood Machining Center of Excellence founder (president from 2002 to present)
-Coordinated 5 successful national projects and acted as a collaborator in other 40 national and international research projects (LdV, CEEPUS, FP6, FP7)
-Coordinator in National Programme Researches PNII „Modelling to Sustainable Promotion of Wooden Products and Technologies with Impact on the Quality Environment.” The project aims to create and consolidate a package of procedures destined to reduce the entropic pressure over a basic component of the environment in the same time suggesting a model for eco-socio and economical sustainability. At present coordinator of two projects proposed in FP7 and ANR Bilateral programs Fr-Ro “Advancing knowledge on the assessment, verification, testing and modelling of noise, dust and VOC emissions from wood processing to promote a sustainable management of the wood chain”: and „Advanced knowledge, Modelling and Optimization on Structural wood components, of new ECO-products made with Welded WOOD dowels, with direct impact on environment in order to promote sustainable development”
-Author of more than 120 papers published at national and international level, unique author for six books.