Replicating sawmill sawing with TOPSAW using CT images of a full-length hardwood log

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 72-75

  Guddanti, Suresh ^a   Chang, Sun Joseph ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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