WOOD RESEARCH Volume 62, Number 3, 2017
Ján Svoreň, Ľubomír Javorek, Mária Krajčovičová, Katarína Klobušiaková, Ivan Kubovský, and Richard Kminiak

The effect of the circular saw blade body structure on the concentric distribution of the temperature along the radius during the wood cutting process

The paper presents the experimental results of a research aimed at the distribution of the temperature on thecircular saw blade body. The temperature was measured at four distances from the centre of the circular saw blade body (60 mm, 70 mm, 80 mm, 90 mm) by means of an infrared thermometer. Three circular saw blades with the diameter of 350 mm and a variable adjustment of the body (without slots and coating, with slots and without the coating, with both slots and coating) were used for the longitudinal sawing of the spruce wood (Picea excelsa) with the thickness of h = 25 mm. Feed speed vf = 12 m•min-1 and cutting revolutions n = 4000 min-1 were constant. The measured temperature was in the range from 22°C to 30°C. The highest measured temperatures were recorded on the circular saw blade with the slots and coating.

WOOD RESEARCH Volume 63, Number 4, 2018
Miroslav Sedlecký, Monika Sarvašová Kvietková, Richard Kminiak, and Lukáš Kaplan

Medium-density f iberboard and edge-glued panel after edge milling – surface waviness after machining with different parameters measured by contact and contactless method

This article deals with the quality of the milled surface of board edges. The quality is evaluated using the Wa (mean arithmetic deviation of the surface waviness). The Wa was measured by two methods (contact and contactless). Form Talysurf 50 Intra was used for the contact method, and the LEXT 3D measuring laser microscope OLS4100 was used for the contactless method. The variable factors whose effect on the resulting waviness was determined were the machined material, milling cutters, cutting speed and feed rate. The boards used were medium-density fiberboard, medium-density fiberboard with single-sided lamination and spruce edge-glued panel. Three different cutters were used for the milling, all of which were made of sintered carbide, and one of them was coated (CrTiN). The cutting speeds were 20, 30, 40 and 60 m.s-1, and the feed rates were 4, 8 and 11 m.min-1. All the above-mentioned factors as well as their mutual interaction had an effect on the waviness. There was no significant difference between the two methods for determining the waviness. In terms of waviness, both methods are interchangeable.