Robert Beauregard

Research scientist
Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt
Pavillon Gene-H.-Kruger, local 2342
Université Laval
Québec, QC, Canada
G1K 7P4

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Research Interests

Dr Robert Beauregard is senior chair holder of Industrial Research Chair on Engineered Wood Products for Structural and Appearance applications (CIBISA). His area of expertise is the modelling of manufacturing systems for the forest industries. He develops comprehensive approaches to the design of business models taking into account the interactions between the wood resource, process development and innovative products for better business performance. Currently, Robert Beauregard supervises a team of nine Ph.D. students, seven M.Sc. students and one research professional, not to mention courses and research opportunities to undergraduate students.

In 1995-97, he was research scientist with the New Zealand Forest Research Institute. From 1997 to 2000, he has been at the Eastern Laboratory of Forintek Canada Corp. where he was instrumental in the creation of the Department for Value Added Wood Products. Robert Beauregard is a director of the Canadian Institute of Forestry. He has been for many years a member of the Society of Wood Science and Technology as well as of the Forest Products Society. He maintains collaborations with scientists across Canada, in the U.S., Sweden and Chile.

Publications

CLÉMENT C., BEAUREGARD R., R. GAZO. et T. LIHRA 2003. Maximizing lumber use: The effect of manufacturing defects on yield. Accepté pour publication au Forest Products Journal. 24 p.
CLÉMENT C., BEAUREGARD R., R. GAZO. et T. LIHRA 2003. Rough mill yield comparison between conventional and short length white birch lumber. Accepté pour publication au Forest Products Journal. 35 p.
CLÉMENT C., BEAUREGARD R., R. GAZO. et T. LIHRA 2003. Maximizing lumber use: White birch lumber used in the Panel industry. Accepté pour publication au Wood and Fiber Science. 28 p.
BUSTOS C., M. MOHAMMAD, R. HERNANDEZ et R. BEAUREGARD, 2003. Effects of curing time and end-pressure on the tensile strength of finger-jointed black spruce lumber. Manuscrit accepté pour publication à Forest Products Journal, 2002, 20 p.
BUSTOS C., R. BEAUREGARD, M. MOHAMMAD et R. HERNANDEZ, 2003. Structural performance of fingerjoined black spruce lumber with different joint configurations. Forest Products Journal, 53(9) :72-76.
BLANCHET P., R. BEAUREGARD, A. CLOUTIER, G. GENDRON et M. LEFEBVRE, 2003. Evaluation of Various Engineered Wood Parquet Flooring Constructions. Forest Products Journal, 53(5) :30-37.
GANEV S., A. CLOUTIER, R. BEAUREGARD et G. GENDRON, 2003. Effect of panel moisture content and density on moisture movement in MDF. Manuscrit accepté pour publication à Wood and Fiber Science, 24 p.
BLANCHET P., R. BEAUREGARD, A. ERB et M. LEFEBVRE, 2003. Comparative study of four adhesives used as binder in Engineered Wood Parquet Flooring. Forest Products Journal 53(1):89-93.
BEAUREGARD R., GAZO R. et R. BALL, 2002. Grade Recovery, Value and Return-to-log for the Production of NZ Visual Grades (Cuttings and Framing) and Australian Machine Stress Grades. Wood and Fiber Science, 34(3):485-502.
YANG D.Q. et R. BEAUREGARD. 2001. Check development on jack pine logs in eastern Canada. Forest Prod. J., 51(10):63-65.
YANG D.Q. et R. BEAUREGARD. 2001. Sapstain Development on Jack Pine Logs in Eastern Canada. Wood and Fiber Science, 33(3):412-424.
JAPPINEN A. et R. BEAUREGARD, 2000. Comparing Grade Classification Criteria for Automatic Sorting of Norway Spruce Saw Logs. Scandinavian J. For. Res., Vol. 15, 2000, pp. 464-471.
GAZO, R., R. BEAUREGARD, M. KIMBERLY, et D. McCONCHIE. 2000. Incidence of Defects by Tree Characteristics in Radiata Pine Random Width Boards. Forest Products Journal, Vol. 50 (9) :28-31.
GAZO, R., R. BEAUREGARD et M. KIMBERLY. 2000. Influence of Pruning and Log Height Class on Incidence of Defects in Radiata Pine Random Width Boards. Forest Products Journal, 50(9):28-31.