Science and Research

The Faculty’s development strategy is based on its research and technology development goals in terms of world trends and society’s requirements. The aim is to ensure that all the Faculty’s accredited subjects and specialist disciplines provided by its Departments are developed equally.

 The main areas and focal points of the scientific research performed at the departments stem from the Faculty’s Long-term Development Scheme and centre around:

• machines, tools, products, workpieces for woodworking – woodworking processes and energy efficiency, power ratios in woodworking processes, the relationship between the quality of the woodworked surface and occupational health hygiene on the one hand and the technological and technical conditions of the process on the other,
• elements and construction nodes in the working mechanisms of woodprocessing machines and operating systems,
• sourcing, transformation and effective use of energy, especially alternative energy,
• minimising the negative impact of industrial technologies on the natural environment,
• sensory networks and their use in manufacturing technologies,
• numerical 3D imaging processing and optimisation of trajectory generation in two-dimension and three-dimension,
• non-traditional energy sources for microelectronic systems,
• mathematical modelling of the behaviour of hygroscopic anisotropic materials under external load and changes in temperature and humidity,
• theoretical and experimental testing of the operating, strength and reliability qualities of machine parts,
• analysis of tension and deformation in hygroscopic anisotropic materials under static and dynamic loading,
• analysis of the tribological properties of sliding and rolling parts in machines and equipment,
• research into the dynamic qualities, traction and rolling resistance of tyres in mobile machines,
• research into the energy efficiency of machines for the processing and transporting dendromass,
• research into mobile machines, the dynamics of movement and observing the interaction between the forest environment and the mobile machine,
• research into the optimisation of manufacturing, environmental and forest mobile machines using Creo Parametric, MSC Adams and SolidWorks,
• research into endurance tests on operating fluids with a low environmental impact,
• research into the effect work fluids have on the degradation processes of working elements,
• research into the cross-sawing of timber and establishing the technical parameters of the cutting nodes with application for handling and distribution storage and logging machines,
• research into reducing the negative impact of chainsaws on the workforce and forest environment,
• studies into the properties and possible uses of traditional and special technical materials in mechanical engineering,
• improving machine quality and life-expectancy,
• analysis of material properties and enhancing product performance,
• introducing new materials and testing technological approaches in production,
• the design and operation of complex production systems with special emphasis on environmental acceptability, safety and user-friendliness.