Analysis of Economic Feasibility of Ash and Maple Lamella Production for Glued Laminated Timber
, Andriy Kovryga 2, Lukas Emmerich 1, Susanne Bollmus 1, Jan-Willem Van de Kuilen 2,3 and Holger Militz 1Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The manuscript has provided useful information for the utilization of hardwood for producing glulam. The manuscript was well prepared. It is interesting to see how yield affect the application of hardwood in producing engineered wood products. Minor language editing is required for final acceptance.
Author Response
The manuscript has provided useful information for the utilization of hardwood for producing glulam.
The manuscript was well prepared. It is interesting to see how yield affect the application of hardwood in producing engineered wood products. Minor language editing is required for final acceptance.
--> Thank you very much for the comments! I checked the updated manuscript, but could not find any language corrections. I checked the document again and hope everything is written and spelled fine now.
Reviewer 2 Report
The present manuscript address and describe properly a well-known European hard wood issue and the same time give a very nice, comprehensive, detailed research to solve the problem from. The achieved results can give a realistic overview for the possible production and utilization of these wood species.
The experiment was set up watchfully, thinking the most important details. This can be understand from the results point of view as well. The obtained results are evaluated against the known norm and standards.
The only drawback I found is that they did not
provide any picture about the final beam, but scientific point of view
it is not necessary. The work that was performed sensitively open the
yield issue and this is sad to see but on the other hand we can rely on
the results. That work is more like engineer perspective than from
design aspects. And this further increase the value of the
comprehensively written manuscript.
Author Response
The present manuscript address and describe properly a well-known
European hard wood issue and the same time give a very nice,
comprehensive, detailed research to solve the problem from. The achieved
results can give a realistic overview for the possible production and
utilization of these wood species.
The experiment was set up watchfully, thinking the most important details. This can be understand from the results point of view as well. The obtained results are evaluated against the known norm and standards.
The only drawback I found is that they did not provide any picture about the final beam, but scientific point of view it is not necessary. The work that was performed sensitively open the yield issue and this is sad to see but on the other hand we can rely on the results. That work is more like engineer perspective than from design aspects. And this further increase the value of the comprehensively written manuscript.
--> Thank you very much for the comments. A picture of the final beam I did not add, because we did not produce a final beam, since all lamellas were tested destructively.
