Stavros Avramidis

Research Areas:

• Wood-water relations and sorption thermodynamics
• Momentum, heat and mass transfer in wood
• Modeling steady-state and dynamic non-isothermal diffusion in wood
• Application of fractals and artificial neural networks to wood properties modeling
• Modeling drying stresses in wood and their effect on quality
• Industrial wood kiln drying optimization and development of new drying strategies
• Radio frequency vacuum (RFV) heating and drying of wood and wood products

Projects

Modeling of wood thermo-sorptive behavior with artificial neural networks

Development of timber drying quality prediction models

Modeling drying stresses in timbers and logs.Development of new methods to increase wood permeability

Evaluation of post-drying treatments on timber quality.RFV drying and heating of wood and wood products

RF phytosanitation of wood

NDE evaluation of wet-pockets in hemlock using NIR technology

Superheated steam drying of western hemlock