GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
WOOD COMPOSİTES, STRUCTURAL AND TECHNOLOGİCAL PROPERTİES/5121338
Course Title: WOOD COMPOSİTES, STRUCTURAL AND TECHNOLOGİCAL PROPERTİES
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Gains the ability to comprehend and use the knowledge necessary to identify and solve advanced problems in woodworking and furniture industries.
Gains the skill to control and teach social, scientific, cultural and ethical values in the stages of collection, implementation, interpretation and a
Gains the ability to transfer his / her knowledge, skills and experiences to interdisciplinary applications.
Gains the skill of evaluation, data analysis and writing / oral presentation of scientific studies.
Ability to determine research topics that may contribute to the literature according to the needs of society and industry.
To be able to work effectively in interdisciplinary teams and to gain leadership skills in these teams.
New ideas / methods / designs / applications that bring innovation to the field and contribute to the literature. gain the ability to do original work
Gains the ability to bring innovation to science / to develop a new scientific method / to apply the known method to a new area.
To be able to make independent research and to comment on scientific studies.
Questioning, problem solving, creative thinking etc. gain the ability to develop methods.
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
   The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Overview of Wood-based Composite Materials Why Wood Composites, Resource Utilization, ,Material Dimensions;
2. Week  History; Material Comparison. Understanding composites, Wood as a complex natural composite
3. Week  Dimensional Composites (Beams) 1. SCL (Structural Composıte Lumber)
4. Week  2. PSL (Parallel Strand Lumber)
5. Week  3. Tabakalanmış Şerit Kereste
6. Week  4. OSL: Oriented Strand Lumber
7. Week  5. LVL: Laminated Veneer Lumber
8. Week  Midterm Exam
9. Week   6. GLULAM: Glued Laminated Timber
10. Week  7. I-Joists., 8. (CLT :Cross Laminated Timber)
11. Week  9.Structural Plates: Solid Wood Laminates, Plywood, Oriented Strand-board/Flake-board (OSB);Stress-Skin Panels; compact laminate,
12. Week   COM-PLY lumber, , Mechanically laminated elements 10. Non-Structural Plates: plywood, sandwich, Particleboard
13. Week  Fiberboard; hardboard; Cement & Gypsum Bounded Fiber Products. Molded Wood Composites, Wood Particles;Wood Strands; Wood Fibers.
14. Week  11. PROCESSING 1. Manufacturing Processes for Wood-Based Composites Species Selection; Primary Processing of Solid Wood; Moisture Control of W
15. Week   Grading Techniques; Adhesives Selection; Adhesive Application; Forming and Composite Lay-up; Consolidation Technologies; Molding and Emboss
16. Week  Non-wood products Wood-Composites, Composites are used as binders of inorganic materials (gypsum boards, magnesium cement board, cement board Portland
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
20
 Assignment
0
0
 Application
1
10
 Projects
1
10
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
40
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
0
 Searching in Internet and Library
8
5
40
 Material Design and Implementation
0
 Report Preparing
0
 Preparing a Presentation
6
5
30
 Presentation
5
2
10
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
5
6
30
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
6
6
36
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
188
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.52
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6
7X
8X
9X
10X
11X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Prof. Dr. Musa ATAR )
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   ( www.gazi.edu.tr/musaatar)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (musaatar@gazi.edu.tr)