New generation of tools for wood cutting industry

木材是一种容易获得的异质材料，具有用于家具、包装、建筑结构、梁防水板、地板和许多其他应用的大量品种。考虑到林业在加拿大的重要性（205，000个就业岗位和330亿美元的出口，2019年数据），木材切割在该行业中占据关键地位。 具体而言，根据加拿大政府2020年关于“加拿大森林状况”的报告，2018年加拿大收获了超过1.58亿立方米的工业圆木。工业所面临的主要挑战之一是切削工具的快速劣化，这显著降低了切削木材的表面质量，增加了木材浪费，并导致相同数量的加工木材的切削树木数量显著增加。因此，使用高性能的长效工具将具有显著的环境（在总产量相同的情况下砍伐更少的树木）和经济（工具更换，低质量木材生产等）。影响加拿大。然而，生产高性能、长寿命的刀具是一个多方面的复杂科学技术问题。拟议的4年项目的目标是更好地了解合金成分，热处理参数，表面处理和涂层特性对木材切削刀具性能之间的基本相互作用，以期开发下一代高性能木材切削刀具。

Wood is a readily available heterogeneous material with plenty of varieties used in furniture, packing, building constructions, beam flashings, flooring, and many other applications. Considering the importance of forest industry in Canada (205,000 jobs and $33B in exports, 2019 data) wood cutting occupies a key role in this industry. Specifically, according to the government of Canada's 2020 report on the 'state of Canada's forests' more than 158 million cubic meters of industrial round wood has been harvested in 2018 in Canada. One of the major challenges faced by industry is the rapid deterioration of the cutting tool, which significantly reduces the surface quality of the cut wood, increases wood waste, and leads to significant increase of the number of cut trees for the same amount of processed wood. Therefore, the use of high-performance long-lasting tools will have significant environmental (cutting less trees for the same total production) and economic (tool replacement, low quality wood production, etc.) impacts for Canada. However, producing high-performance long-lasting cutting tools is a multi-faceted complex scientific and technological problem. The goal of the proposed 4-year project is to better understand the fundamental interactions between alloy composition, heat treatment parameters, surface preparation, and coating characteristics on the performance of wood cutting tools with the view to develop the next generation of high-performance wood cutting tools.