If the first shrinkage value is 25%, then it swells back to its original dimensions; what would the shrinkage value you obtain for 2nd time shrinkage be?Increase or decrease? Why? 0 Reply Eric Author Reply to YING 2 years ago Generally, the first time the wood shrinks it is greate...
Cutting stock problems have numerous applications in a wide variety of manufacturing industries [20], from cutting steel and other metals to cutting paper, textiles and lumber. As a result, the CSP has been studied extensively. Models for the CSP may use a variety of objectives, such as minim...
The observation of the mechanical properties of wood with different mechanical forces has been impressed upon by many researchers over the last century at the macro scale (lumber) and, recently, at the cellular scale with microscopy, such as that reported in [4,5,6,7], or with X-ray ...