Dr. Philipp Schlotzhauer

Research interests

• Hardwood for use in construction
• Strength grading
• Fibre orientation determintation
• Determination of static characteristics
• Solid wood gluing (surface & finger joint)
• Yield optimisation
• Sawmill technology
• Sawn-wood drying

Projects

• HoMaba
• KlimaKleb
• Laubholz - Innovationsverbund - ZIM-Cooperation Network
• Gerlau - Utilisation-oriented investigations of low-value hardwood assortments for the production of innovative products
• meerHolzbau - ZIM-Cooperation Network
• Nachwuchsgruppe - New markets and applications for native hardwood species

Responsibilities

• Technical wood drying
• Strength grading
• Contact person for Holzbearbeitung

Supervision of student theses (for data protection reasons, the authors names have been made anonymous)

Master theses

2019

• Birch structural timber – Distribution of strength related wood characteristics and their influence on bending properties
• Structural timber from close to pith beech wood assortments - Investigations into the distribution of strength-relevant wood characteristics and their influence on bending properties

2016

• Performance of selected Type I adhesive systems for bonding untreated and modified hardwoods
• Comparative investigations into automatic determination of fibre orientation of hardwood lamellas
• Verification of normative properties of hardwood for load-bearing purposes

2014

• Effect of size on tensile, compression and bending strengths of six European hardwood species

Bachelor theses

2019

• Untersuchungen zum Querdruckverhalten von Birken-Bauholz
• Impact of Aging Time on Phenol Formaldehyde Impregnated Veneers from Birch and Spruce for Plywood and LVL
• Studies on the perpendicular to grain compression behaviour of birch structural timber

2017

• Elasto-mechanical tensile properties across the grain of beech, ash and maple wood

2014

• Comparative investigations into determination of fibre orientation of hardwood lamellae

Project theses

2019

• Volume yield increase of a balsa wood saw mill in Ecuador through cutting pattern optimization

2018

• Report on forestry-related internship at the Georg Fehrensen GmbH sawmill

2015

• Investigation into the sawn timber yield of maple and ash longwood sections for the provision of green lamellae in glue laminated timber production
• Comparative tests of bending strength as a function of testing machine, testing speed, and type of wood

2014

• Investigation into the visual & mechanical strength grading of hardwood lamellae for use in homogeneous glulam beams