Wood and wood-based materials, surpassing their conventional image as mere stems and
branches of trees, have found extensive utilization in diverse industrial sectors due to their …

Wood drying is a key operation of wood processing to ensure that the wood retains its
physical integrity and stability in remanufacturing and in use. However, in industrial drying …

Monitoring the moisture content (MC) of wood and avoiding large MC variation is a crucial
task as a large moisture spread after drying significantly devalues the product, especially in …

Monitoring the moisture content uniformity in kiln-dried wood and preventing large gradients
is vital as nonuniformity renders dried timbers susceptible to warpage and degrade. This …

Drilling is one of the oldest and most important methods of processing wood and wood-
based materials. Knowing the optimum value of factors that affect the drilling process could …

The uniformity of final moisture content within a drying timber batch is crucial. Lack of such
uniformity leads to producing large percentages of over-dried and under-dried timber …

In transiting from automated to smart lumber manufacturing, the sawmilling industry should
adopt cutting-edge technologies for efficient and cost-effective lumber production. This …

The shrinkage of bamboo can be traced to the cellular scale; however, research on the
shrinkage of bamboo cells' scale is rare. This gap primarily arises from the intrinsic …

The swelling/shrinking behavior is a complex process of interactions between multiscale
structures, and it is also a major problem affecting the processing and utilization of bamboo …

This paper presents differences in the drying behavior of red oak and yellow-poplar
sapwood, heartwood, and bark and their relationship with selected physical characteristics …