Course title
森林生産システム学   [Forest Engineering Systems]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 2  Semester 3rd 
Course type 3rd  Course code 01rn2036
Instructor(s)
岩岡 正博   [IWAOKA Masahiro]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Agriculture Office   Email address

Course description
This 2-credit course provides students with a way of thinking and technique for utilization of material and energy resources from forests and sustainable utilization of forests as environment. It will address the fundamentals of engineering for resource utilization and its impacts on human and environment that are part of the Forest Science Program. The topics covered are engineering for wood production, forest machinery and operation and forest. Students will learn about forest operation, forest machinery and their system.
Expected Learning
Describe various operations through planting to harvesting of trees.
Describe typical operational systems of timber production.
Describe the definition of productivity and calculate it.
Describe regulations for labor safety.
Describe indicators and measurement methods for labor load.
Describe functions, uses and mechanism of forest machinery.
Describe fundamental knowledge of yarding cables.
Describe relationship between geographical features and forest operation system.
Course schedule
I. Overview
1. What is a forest production system?
II. Forestry Production System
2. Forestry production process
3. Forestry production system
4. Silviculture Operation
5. Productivity
6. Production cost
7. Safety in forest operations
8. Labor Science (Work load)
III. Forestry Machinery
9. Portable Machines (Chain Saw, Brushcutter)
10. Vehicles (Drive system, Steering system)
11. Cable Yardars and Cable Yarding
12. Cable theory, wire ropes, and equipment for cable yarding
IV. Forest Environment and Production
13. Topography and working system
14. Summary of the whole class
15. Review of the whole class
Prerequisites
Required Text(s) and Materials
Forest Engineering. Yoshioka, T., Sakai, H., Iwaoka, M., Matsumoto, T., Yamada, Y., Suzuki, Y., Maruzen, Tokyo, 2020
References
The National Board of Forestry, SWEDEN, A richer forest
M Kamiiizaka edt. Forestry Engineering (in Japanese)
M. Kamiiizaka and K. Kanzaki edt. Forest Operation system.
S. Ookawara. Forestry Machinery
Assessment/Grading
Quiz: Quiz will be given weekly.
Final examination and quizzes are both assessed.
Students in this class are assumed to attend at least two thirds of classes.
Message from instructor(s)
This class carries wide spread area. Students can read any of reference publications above.
Course keywords
sustainable use, production system, timber production, forestry
Office hours
After 10:30 every Tuesday.
Remarks 1
Remarks 2
Related URL
http://kenkyu-web.tuat.ac.jp/Profiles/1/0000072/profile.html
Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
Last update
2/3/2022 8:23:45 PM