Eva Haviarova

Assistant Professor

Department: Forestry and Natural Resources
Phone: 765.494.3619
Fax: 765.496.1344
Office: FPRD 111A
E-mail: ehaviar@purdue.edu

Area of Expertise: Wood Products and Wood Products Manufacturing
Curriculum Vitae

Research Group	Facilities	Areas of Excellence	Related Centers
Wood Products and Wood Products Manufacturing	Wood Research Laboratory	Sustainable Hardwood Ecosystems	Center for Advanced Manufacturing Indiana Forest Products Community Purdue Center for Regional Development

Eva Haviarova is presently Assistant Professor of Wood Products Engineering and Furniture Strength Design in Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University. She is responsible for teaching “Furniture and Cabinet Design and Manufacturing” and “ World Forests and Society” courses.

Dr. Haviarova is conducting research in areas of Furniture Strength Design and Product Engineering; Direction for Emerging Furniture Design Challenges; Design and Development of Low Cost Furniture for Underprivileged; and Frame Design for Upholstered Furniture. Through her outreach activities she is working on forest products industry promotion projects. She is also a director of The Wood Research Laboratory. She authored or coauthored more than 45 publications and over 70 professional presentations on the subject of forest products, furniture design, and manufacturing.

Dr. Haviarova received her M.S. in Wood Processing & Furniture Design in 1992 from the Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia , where she researched alternative natural materials and taught a course of aesthetic principles and use of natural materials in furniture production. After completing her Master's degree, she worked as an Industrial Engineer in a French-Slovak joint venture furniture company where she was in charge of scheduling production and quality control. She also received a Ph.D. in Furniture Design & Manufacturing from Purdue University. She designed, built, tested, and structurally analyzed school furniture for production and use in developing countries. She researched practical and environmentally friendly solutions for use of wood materials and their residues for furniture construction.

- Recent Publications

Tora, S., & E. Haviarova (2008). Sources of the Indiana hardwood industry's competitiveness. 16th Central Hardwood Forest Conference, 171-177. http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/14003

Eckelman, C. A., & E. Haviarova (2008). Rectangular mortise and Tenon Semirigid Joint Connection Factors. Forest Products Journal, 58(12), 49-55.

Eckelman, C. A., E. Haviarova, & H. Akcay (2008). Exploratory Study of the Moment Capacity and Semirigid Moment-rotation Behavior of Round Mortise and Tenon Joints. Forest Products Journal, 58(7/8), 56-61.

Haviarova, E. (2008). Sources of Wood & Wood Residue for Energy Production in Indiana. Industrial Biotechnology in: Industrial Biotechnology.

Simek, M., E. Haviarova, & C. A. Eckelman (2008). The Effect of Position and Number of RTA Furniture Fasteners on Bending Moment Resistance of Corner Joints. Universitatis Agriculture et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis., 16, 1-16. http://www.mendelu.cz/veda-vyskum/acta/index.html

Haviarova, E., C. A. Eckelman, & P. Joscak (2008). Analysis and design of Gate-leg Table. Wood and Fiber Science, 40(2), 279-287.

Haviarova, E. (2006). Building Construction Booklet.

Haviarova, E. (2006). Forest Products Supply Chain. Center for Advanced Manufacturing.

Haviarova, E. (2006). Innovations from Wood Research Laboratory. Digital Fabrication: Focus on Indiana Conference.

Eckelman, C. A., H. Akcay, & E. Haviarova (2006). Performance tests of small barn frame constructed with round mortise and tenon joints. Forest Products Journal, 56(4), 41-47.