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• Week no.1 wood structure, hard wood, soft wood, heart wood, sap wood, annual rings, wood formation
• Week no. 2 Anatomy of wood Plus practical wood structure
• Week no.3 Defects in wood: definition, kinds and classification of natural defects, cause of development of natural and drying defects during seasoning process (Practical wood defects )
• Week no.4 Defects in wood and Practical wood defects. Continued
• Week no. 5 Wood properties, physical properties plus (practical of wood properties )
• Week no.6 Mechanical and chemical properties (practical of wood properties)
• Week no.7 Wood seasoning: definition, preliminary techniques, timber storage, orthodoxal / non-orthodoxal methods of wood drying
• Week no.8 Different stacking methods, moisture content and it’s determination methods (Plus practical wood seasoning and stacking)
• Week no.9 Mid term paper
• Week No.10 Wood preservative, wood preservation and type of application (Plus practical of wood preservation)
• Week no.11 Sawmilling and wood working, various types of sawing machines operation and maintenance, design and layout of sawmills, types of machine. Plus visit to sawmills
• Week no.12 Pulp and paper: characteristics and classification, raw materials, technology of various pulping and bleaching processes, (Visit to paper mill)
• Week no.13 Composite wood products, properties of composite, types of composite wood, plywood, making of plywood. plus practical of composite wood.
• week no. 14 Uses of woods: suitability of timbers for different uses, (Plus visit to wood working plants)
• Week no.15 Utilization of wood waste and integration of forest industries: what is waste? Types of wood waste, wood waste and it’s’ utilization.
• week No. 16 and week no.17 Presentations
• Week no. 18 Final Examination Paper