TRE300 Wood Technology
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Showing course contents for the educational year 2015 - 2016 .
Course responsible: Olav Albert Høibø
Teachers: Geir Isak Vestøl, Mari Sand Austigard, Holger Militz
ECTS credits: 15
Faculty: Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management
Teaching language: NO
(NO=norsk, EN=Engelsk)
(NO=norsk, EN=Engelsk)
Limits of class size:
-
Teaching exam periods:
This course starts in Spring parallel. This course has teaching/evaluation in Spring parallel.
Course frequency: Annually
First time: Study year 2004-2005
Preferential right:
-
Course contents:
Wood quality: Silviculture and wood quality, modelling. Wood physics: Density, wood - water relations, capillary movements and diffusion thermal, electrical and acoustical properties, and dynamic behaviour. Mechanics and rheology of wood: Elasticity (stress and strain), plasticity, creep, crushing strength, bending strength, shock resistance, torsional properties, and shear strength.
Learning outcome:
Knowledge
The student should have knowledge about the physical and mechanical properties of wood and how they vary. The student should know how the different properties relate to the chemistry and anatomy of wood, and know how silviculture and tree growt affect the different wood properties. The student should also know about methods to change or modify the properties.
Skills
The students should know how to accomplish laboratory research and collect data for wood property studies, also when it comes to how silviculture and the growth of the tree affect the properties.
General competence
The studtent should be familiar with how the wood properties of the most common Norwegian species vary and what this means for the different use of wood.
Learning activities:
Lectures, exercises, more and less extensive written assignments, excursion. The exercises are used to concretise the theoretical material. The students must present some of the papers in class. In addition, the students will be given a number of questions related to the course which they voluntarily can answer and get feedback on during the course.
Teaching support:
Information in advance is public available at www.nmbu.no/fronter/artikkel/gjestetilgang-til-fronter.
Syllabus:
Kollmann, F. F. P. and Cote, W. A. 1981 (1968). Principles of Wood Science and Technology, I Solid Wood. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 592 pp. Selected articles.
Prerequisites:
TRE200 or SKOG210
Recommended prerequisites:
FYS111.
Assessment:
Written exam (3 hours) counts 2/3. Exercises and assignments count 1/3.
Nominal workload:
70 hours of lectures and exercises. 380 hours of self-study (semester assignment, report writing, independent study).
Entrance requirements:
Special requirements in Science
Reduction of credits:
-
Type of course:
Ordinary lectures: 34 hours. Exercises: 30 hours. Discussions/student lectures: 6 hours. In total: 70 hours.
Note:
The course is intended for the students in Forest Business, Forestry and structural engineering for buildings and Architecture.
Examiner:
The external examiner evaluates the written exam, assignments and exercises.
Allowed examination aids: Calculator handed out, no other aids
Examination details: Continuous exam: A - E / Ikke bestått