Forest Sustainability: Wood Harvest, Supply and Procurement Chain, and Wood Raw Material Properties
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Wood Science and Forest Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 51681
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest road; forest engineering; timber transport; wood supply chain; gross vehicle weight; axle load
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Interests: influence of habitat and genetic origin of trees on properties of wood; wood raw materials; sawmilling; wood as an engineering material; properties and application of different species of wood
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the persistent challenges facing economic forest management is the task of transporting timber from the forest to the processing site. It has already been pointed out that this activity is among those fundamental to forest management as it significantly impacts the costs of timber harvesting, but also enables the search for the most optimal solutions.
Supply logistics issues, including the organization of wood raw material transport, depend on the characteristics of the tree from which they were obtained (humidity, density, etc.). The volume and weight mass of the transported timber load depends on the season of the year and the origin of the timber, which has a significant impact on the weight mass of one cubic meter of the load. Habitat elements, soil conditions, age, height or site index, which may have a potential impact on the delivery of timber (wood) to the large processing plant (sawmill). The efficiency of wood transport depends not only on the maximum load capacity, but also on the duration of individual transport operations.
In this Special Issue we aim to showcase articles presenting the latest research on the organization of wood raw material transport, in particular, the impact of load parameters on transport efficiency.
Dr. Grzegorz Trzciński
Dr. Paweł Kozakiewicz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- genetic origin
- forest habitat
- dendrometric
- log and timber transport
- wood supply chain
- gross vehicle weight
- axle load
- biomass transport
- wood raw materials
- sawmilling
- wood properties
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