Catalogue of Results (JC2017)

Technologies to produce high quantities of oxidative enzymes with low contaminating background activities and using simple conditions.

Contributes the sustainable conversion of wood fibres to textiles.

New material properties for packaging, and reduction of water and energy consumption in production.

Scientific and technical knowledge about LPMO oxidation of cellulose, especially for material applications.

A sustainable high-strength fibre composite, which allows to substitute less eco-friendly materials in various applications.

A sustainable high-strength fibre composite, which allows to substitute less eco-friendly materials in various applications.

Shows the concept and potential of this novel cellulose material.

Proof of concept that high-strength cellulose composites can be achieved.

Proof of concept of innovative approaches to produce hierarchical, multifunctional, and sustainable cellulose-based materials.

Covers grading methodology, underlying regulations for applying strength grading procedures and industrial views on their applicability.

A classification method improving fire design models by thorough experimental validation.

A performance-based specification protocol to enable provision of a software tool for architects and specifiers to embed service life performance specification for wood.

A detailed overview of where wood elements can be applied with which requirements to fire resistance rating, and which field of use is currently excluded.

Fire development and fire properties testing methodology.

Improved fire design models by thorough experimental validation.

Solutions for manufacturers that can be implemented in different technical systems for scanner systems.

Magnus Fredriksson firstname.1.lastname[at]ltu.se

Andreas Weidenhiller firstinitial.lastname[at]holzforschung.at

Andreas Briggert firstname.lastname[at]ri.se

Udo Sauter
firstname.lastname[at]forst.bwl.de

Olof Broman
firstname.lastname[at]ltu.se

Mathematical solutions for different technological grading applications which can be used by scanner manufacturers.

Andreas Weidenhiller firstinitial.lastname[at]holzforschung.at

Olof Broman
firstname.lastname[at]ltu.se

Combinations of different state-of-the-art scanning technologies on log and board basis could provide new concepts for material flow through sawmill production.

Andreas Weidenhiller firstinitial.lastname[at]holzforschung.at

Magnus Fredriksson firstname.1.lastname[at]ltu.se

Franka Brüchert firstname.lastname[at]forst.bwl.de

Wood board finite element models generated from CT data provide an advanced understanding of the wood strength

Olof Broman firstname.lastname[at]ltu.se

An approach for assigning design properties for a batch of timber, when the situation is out-of-scope of EN 14081

Allows practitioners to implement developed solutions into building practice.

Provides exact tall timber building#e2efd9 behaviour data allowing validation of calculations or optimising future designs.

Provides architects & civil engineers better insight on different building technologies and how they affect the overall behaviour of tall timber buildings.

Includes approaches used to model different kinds of tall timber buildings.

Covers specific design advice, state of the art (timber construction systems, finite element modelling, in-situ measurements, …) and case studies.

Design recommendations for multi-story timber buildings built in earthquake areas.

The Abaqus user material subroutine includes multi-surface failure criterion with ideal plasticity.

Common practices and solutions for typical challenges in structural design for engineers dealing with CLT.

An indicator system to assess if a building is designed for disassembly in accordance with ISO 20887

It discusses technical premises for a potential circular use of timber in building construction in low-rise timber buildings, up to 3 storeys, in seven countries

Study

Quantifying the amount of wood available in Finnish residential houses in 2017

Project-specific inventory data for the calculation of life cycle assessments for the building’s demolition stage

A web platform to enable payments for ecosystem services built based on NOBEL’s 3 business models providing a platform for exchanges between providers, companies, and government agencies.

Wood harvesting and extraction innovations aiming to increase sustainable utilisation of small diameter wood.

Demonstrates performance of advanced somatic seedlings and benefits of new management strategies for plantation multi-varietal forestry.

The tool allows to define ecosystem service demands important for society and analyse the optimal management strategy to reach the targets.

Improved in-vitro culture techniques making somatic embryo production more effective, up-scaled and automated.

Enables value-tracking and interactive testing of harvesting and transport responses to challenging climate scenarios.

Conifer trees can memorize stress experienced during early development which could be used as an innovative ‘breeding’ method to introduce new traits of interest.

New methodology of initiating cultures from older trees allowing the direct vegetative propagation of elite trees with known characteristics.

The forest growth modelling output for five important timber producing countries in the EU using different management strategies and climate change scenarios will provide basic data on potential forest growth, harvest output and basis ecosystem services

Based on empirical work studies, optimal working radii were derived for different models of forestry machines, also under the influence of operator assistance such as IBC or rotating cabs. The results served as a foundation for the development of the coach.

In a field study, a harvester was equipped with a sensor platform that can record the machine environment and the position of the harvester head in relation to the forest machine.

In a field study, the cabin of a harvester was equipped with a HUD that displays the machine environment (data collected from sensor platform) to the operator to help with optimal positioning.

Csongor Horvath
firstname.lastname[at]nibio.no

Esteban Arboix
firstname.lastname[at]optea.com

Based on extensive interviews, a list of advantageous and disadvantageous work practices of forest machine operators was developed, which can be used in future machine operator training to better assess strengths and weaknesses of young and also experienced operators

dreger[at]ifado.de

Martin Englund
firstname.lastname[at]skogforsk.se

even[at]skogkurs.no

Based on empirical data, the accuracy of harvester head measurements can be assessed.

Provides leverage points for policymakers to increase coherence among future policies and improve implementation of multiple uses of forests.

Provides recommendations for practice, policy and industry on national and EU level specifically on small forest owners’ perception towards the bioeconomy, forest management, climate change adaptation and forest conservation

Policy recommendations on management strategies to ensure resilience and high levels of ecosystem services provisioning at different scales, ranging from stands and landscapes to the European level.

The updated database will provide a precise overview of past events and trends, and better predictions for the future.

Uses forest simulation models addressing interactions between disturbances, forest management, climate change and structural complexity.

Provides an understanding of the current knowledge and interest of the EU forest-wood sector to invest in somatic embryogenesis technology (Finland: done/submitted for publication; Sweden: ongoing; EU scale: coming soon).

The report can be used to better understand the economic constrains of small forest owners as a basis for policy development.

Provides better understanding of the trade-offs between various ecosystem services.

A service life model to predict performance of wood in construction

Feasibility study and demonstrator for the manufacture of thermally activated wall elements.

Covers the mechanical behaviour of cross laminated timber at in-plane shear loading and notched elements at out-of-plane loading – useful for the development of design codes and standards.

Optimising timber joints by activating further load-carrying contributions such as friction through rough shear planes.

Serves as a basis for the development of realistic joint models.