Laminate composites which are widely used in the aeronautical industry, are usually subjected to frequency variation of environmental temperature and excessive humidity in the in-service environment. The thermal fatigue and moisture absorption in composites may induce material degradation. There is a demand to investigate the coupling damages mechanism and characterize the degradation evolution...

L.K. Grunenfelder and S.R. Nutt 1. Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0241, USA *Corresponding author: [email protected] Abstract: Void formation as a function of resin moisture content was investigated to better understand and control process defects in composite parts made from prepreg. In this study, uncured prepr...

In the present study, the direct concentration approach (DCA) and the whole-field vapor pressure model developed in Part I of this work (Xie et al., 2009 “Direct Concentration Approach of Moisture Diffusion and Whole Field Vapor Pressure Modeling for Reflow Process: Part I–Theory and Numerical Implementation,” ASME J. Electron. Packag., 131, p. 031010) is applied to 3D ultrathin stacked-die chi...

Studies were conducted to evaluate Bacillus atrophaeus spores’ production by solid-state fermentation (SSF) using sugarcane bagasse as support and soybean molasses as substrate at lab-scale in column bioreactors (forced aeration), plastic bags and Erlenmeyer flasks (aeration by diffusion). Different moisture contents (84%, 86% and 88%; 89%, 91% and 93%) and aeration rates (30mL/min, 45mL/min, 6...

modeling of drying kinetics of canola was studied at 30 to 100 ?c in a lab scale fluidized bed dryer. drying rate of the crop was assessed, using many conventional moisture ratio models employed in food science. effective diffusivity coefficient (deff) and activation energy (ea) of kernel moisture were determined using fick's law of diffusion and arrhenius equation. besides, the effects of...

The effect of high hydrostatic pressure (HHP) treatment on dried soybean, adzuki bean, and kintoki kidney bean, which are low-moisture-content cellular biological materials, was investigated from the viewpoint of water absorption. The samples were vacuum-packed with distilled water and pressurized at 200 MPa and 25 °C for 10 min. After the HHP treatment, time courses of the moisture contents of...

Convective air drying characteristics of mango slices at different drying temperatures (60°C, 70°C and 80°C), at an air velocity of 0.5 m/s and for constant sample thickness (3 mm) were investigated. Results indicated that drying took place in the falling rate period. Drying time decreased considerably with increased drying temperature. Three mathematical models; namely, Newton (Lewis), Henders...