Publication detail

Linear woodcutting of European beech: experiments and computations

KUBÍK, P. ŠEBEK, F. KREJČÍ, P. BRABEC, M. TIPPNER, J. DVOŘÁČEK, O. LECHOWICZ, D. FRYBORT, S.

Original Title

Linear woodcutting of European beech: experiments and computations

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Hardwood species are becoming increasingly important with the growing need for a diversity of forests that have recently been facing global temperature changes or conifer pests. This further leads to the growth of its potential as a building material that may originate from sustainable production. As hardwoods need to be properly processed, the article deals with the disintegration of European beech. The influence of wood grain direction, uncut chip thickness and cutting speed on the cutting force magnitudes was experimentally investigated using the device with a rotating arm of approximately 4 m in diameter. Then, the disintegration process was modelled using the finite element method in Abaqus/Explicit. The developed material model consisting of orthotropic elasticity and plasticity with rate-independent and rate-dependent tensile–compressive failure asymmetry was implemented through the user subroutine, while the crack initiation and propagation were realized using the element deletion technique. The computationally predicted average values of cutting forces and chip shapes were, except for a few tests, in good agreement with the experiments. It means that the model may be used for further investigation, such as the influence of tool wear.

Keywords

Cutting forces; Cutting speed; Uncut chip thickness; Wood grain direction; Woodcutting simulations

Authors

KUBÍK, P.; ŠEBEK, F.; KREJČÍ, P.; BRABEC, M.; TIPPNER, J.; DVOŘÁČEK, O.; LECHOWICZ, D.; FRYBORT, S.

Released

13. 1. 2023

Publisher

Springer Nature

ISBN

0043-7719

Periodical

WOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Year of study

57

Number

1

State

United States of America

Pages from

51

Pages to

74

Pages count

24

URL

Full text in the Digital Library

BibTex

@article{BUT182906,
  author="Petr {Kubík} and František {Šebek} and Petr {Krejčí} and Martin {Brabec} and Jan {Tippner} and Ondřej {Dvořáček} and Daniel {Lechowicz} and Stephan {Frybort}",
  title="Linear woodcutting of European beech: experiments and computations",
  journal="WOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY",
  year="2023",
  volume="57",
  number="1",
  pages="51--74",
  doi="10.1007/s00226-022-01442-6",
  issn="0043-7719",
  url="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00226-022-01442-6"
}