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Alghero, no. 44, 2011 - CIB-W18

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eviewer and clear guidelines for the review with check box rating system will be issued.<br />

Suggestion 2 concerns the accessibility of <strong>CIB</strong> <strong>W18</strong> papers as there are wishes to allow the<br />

older papers to be made accessible electronically. Scanned old proceedings and newer<br />

proceedings in pdf version will be available from <strong>CIB</strong> <strong>W18</strong> home page:<br />

www.<strong>CIB</strong><strong>W18</strong>.com within one year. This website will be maintained by the Danish<br />

Timber Information Website. Printed proceedings will be available on a limited basis only<br />

to the participants and library requests etc. Suggestion 3 concerns arranging the excursion<br />

on the last day of the meeting allowing participants <strong>no</strong>t interested in such activity to depart<br />

earlier. H Blass stated that the host may want to showcase their city etc to the participants.<br />

J Munch Andersen suggested a compromise of 1/2 day excursion. H Blass encouraged the<br />

host of the next meeting to consider this option.<br />

A Jorissen gave a short presentation of the developments in EC5. M Fragiacomo added<br />

developments in the timber part of EC8. J Köhler added that as there are many<br />

developments there should be discussions about the basis on the development of design<br />

codes where a 1/2 day discussion of such topic may be appropriate. G Hochreiner<br />

discussed using <strong>CIB</strong> <strong>W18</strong> as an avenue to further facilitate and enhance the process of<br />

changes to standards.<br />

3 STRESS GRADING<br />

<strong>44</strong> - 5 - 1 Assessment of Different K<strong>no</strong>t-Indicators to Predict Strength and Stiffness<br />

Properties of Timber Boards - G Fink, M Deublein, J Köhler<br />

Presented by G Fink<br />

H Blass commented that P Glos did similar work and asked if there was any comparison<br />

with Glos' results. He also asked about the length of the k<strong>no</strong>t section under consideration.<br />

G Fink responded that comparison with Glos' results has <strong>no</strong>t yet been done and the length<br />

of the k<strong>no</strong>t section was 150 mm.<br />

R Harris asked and received clarification that in addition to k<strong>no</strong>t parameters and stiffness<br />

additional indicators included MOE F , MOE ws and density etc.<br />

P Stapel and G Fink discussed suggestion on possible changes in grading practice.<br />

F Lam commented that there commercial machines such as Continuous lumber tester and<br />

Cook Bolinders are available to measure the bending stiffness along member length. It<br />

would be useful to consider such system for obtaining MOE rather than using a predictive<br />

approach.<br />

JW Van de Kuilen received clarification that the six strain measurements within a<br />

measurement zone were averaged for the calculation of localized MOE.<br />

R Harris commented on the influence of juvenile wood could be significant as the current<br />

paper did <strong>no</strong>t consider material with pith presence. His experience with UK Douglas fir<br />

indicated that variation in stiffness when considering juvenile wood seemed to be<br />

significant.<br />

<strong>44</strong> - 5 - 2 Adaptive Production Settings Method for Strength Grading - G Turk, A<br />

Ranta-Maunus<br />

Presented by A Ranta-Maunus<br />

JW Van de Kuilen commented that the interest is to minimize the number of rejects. The<br />

problem here was that it was far too optimized as we would have to ask whether it would<br />

be acceptable that 20% of the material did <strong>no</strong>t meet the requirement.<br />

F Rouger commented that the impact of the method was less than 0.5%. There were<br />

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