Fostering wider application of wood is one of the basic tasks which is also stressed in long-term planning document “Latvian Forest Based Sector Technology Platform Vision 2030”. It is very essential to solve technical and technological issues timely to use wood and timber materials more widely.
- Evaluation of quality of Latvian industrial wood species as structural material, depending on growth conditions and forestry activities;
- Forecasting the quality of timber by applying high accuracy sensor technologies for evaluation of round wood quality
- Forecasting of plywood quality depending from the quality of raw materials and manufacturing technology
- The possibility to use low-quality wood for manufacturing of wood composite materials
- Setting strength parameters for solid and glued structural timber materials using non-destructive testing methods
- Comparison of methods for determination of timber strength properties
- Research of wood equilibrium moisture content for Latvian wood species under different conditions
- Improvement of wood exploitation properties by changing physically mechanical parameters
There should be convinced conventional wood product fitness for the new application or should be created new products for the new field of application.
The main current issue is to increase wood competitiveness in construction both applying it in the operations where it is used already, and removing barriers, which do not allow using it more widely and more effectively.
Therefore there are carried out well-planned and long-term studies for new solutions of wood application and for possibilities to introduce innovative materials.
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