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WOODEN
PRODUCTS TESTING LABORATORY IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE EUROPEAN STANDARDS CEEX Project, Module 4,
No. 4136, Contract No. 195/10.08.2006
The outcome of this project is to
create and achieve accreditation of a research
laboratory for the certification of wooden products
conformity. The performed studies will lead to
the completion of the present endowment of the
Mechanical Testing Laboratory from the Faculty
of Wood Industry, by performing new equipment
acquisitions. The installations and devices to
be purchased, as well as the operational procedures
to be elaborated are going to be in accordance
with the European Standards presently in force.
The activities within this project
are submitted to the program of creating a research
infrastructure, having in view Romania's integration
into the European structures. This work also creates
the premises for achieving the free circulation
of products and services. The laboratory will
function not only as a high-tech research facility,
but also as a modern educational unit, ensuring
thus high-level training for the students of the
Wood Industry Faculty in Brasov.
SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
2006
1.1. Analysis of testing methods currently used,
alignment to the international standards and the
promotion of new tests.
1.2. Establishment of laboratory interior design
and endowment completion.
1.3. Establishment of equipment suppliers and
technical documentation with a view to equipment
acquisioning.
2007
2.1. Acquisitioning of installations in order
to perform the laboratory tests and putting them
into function.
2.2. Elaboration of quality system documentation
in order to obtain the accreditation of the laboratory.
2008
3.1. Accreditation of the testing laboratory.
3.2. Dissemination of the results and initiation
of collaborations with wood industry representatives.
RESULTS
According to the project theme previously highlighted,
in 2006 and 2007 the main results consisted in
acquisioning performant pieces of equipment for
laboratory tests, based on a detailed documentation.
These are:
- a Universal Machine for Materials Testing with
Two Columns type IBX600 (Foto 1), which can perform
tensile, compression, bending, shearing and hardness
tests on solid wood elements;
- a Zwick/Roell Machine for Testing Wood-Based
Panels (Foto 2), which performs tests related
to the density profile over the panel thickness,
tensile strength (internal cohesion), superficial
tensilestrength (surface quality), screw withdrawal
strength, bending strength and its modulus of
elasticity.
The two machines are state-of-the-art technical
equipment, being endowed with software and methodologies
designed according to the European Standards.
Both machines were set up and put into function
within the Mechanical Testing Laboratory from
the Faculty of Wood Industry, being delivered
according to the required specification norms.
During the same period of time, the quality system
documentation was elaborated, with a view to filing
for the laboratory accreditation.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We gratefully acknowledge the Romanian National
Authority for Scientific Research (ANCS) for financially
supporting this research project.
Research team:
Prof.dr.eng. Virgil GRECU (project coordinator)
Prof.dr.eng. Maria CISMARU
Prof.dr.eng. Gavril BUDAU
Prof.dr.eng. Ioan CURTU
Prof.dr.eng. Vasile CIOFOAIA
Sef lucr.dr.eng. Emanuela BELDEAN
Sef lucr.dr.eng. Luminita BRENCI
Sef lucr.dr.eng. Camelia BOIERIU
Sef lucr.dr.eng. Mihaela POROJAN
Sef lucr.dr.eng. Luminita SCUTARU
Lecturer drd.eng. Adriana FOTIN
Drd.eng. Alin JIDIUC
Drd.eng. Cezar TATAR
Drd.eng. Mariana STANCIU
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