| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
Fiscal Year 1995: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This year, using a Modified Distinct Element Method for wood, which was developed last year, simulations on wood fracturing processes, especially on wood cutting, were made and analyzed results were compared with the experimental ones. First simulation object was the second-dimensional wood cutting, which gave different results of chip formation between longitudinal cutting and lateral cutting. The advanced checking in logitudinal cutting was well simulated, but the chip curling process of lateral cutting could not be realized. This inconvenience became from the fact that the program was apt to diverge in large calculating steps and then the simulation of large deformation was difficult. Second simulation object was the effect of the cutting velocity on the cut surfaces. The comparison with the experimental results used cantilever shaped model specimens gave good accordance to the MDEM simulation results. This year, a little improvement was done to the calculating program. Now I can obtain stress distribution in the specimen, and by this, I showed that MEDM could be used similary as a Finite Element Method. Further more, by analyzing the forces acting on the element springs, I found that we can simulate the cutting forces also.
These results were presented at the International Wood Machining Seminar (Oct.1995, Kyoto) and received good response.
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