This study was performed to investigate the effect of storage conditions on seed germination performance of faba bean (cv. Shami). For this purpose, a three factors factorial experiment was conducted in laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Yasouj University, in 2013-2014, based on CRD design with five replications.  The experimental factors were storage temperature...

We evaluated mechanical properties (first matrix cracking stress, strength, and work-of-fracture) of Nicalon-fiber-reinforced silicon carbide matrix composites with three different fiber lay-up sequences (0"/20"/60", O0/4Oo/6O0, and 0"/45") at various temperatures from room to 1300°C. Up to 1200"C, ultimate strength and work-of-fracture for the 0"/40"/60" and 0"/45" composites increased, but th...

Analysis of toughness in 6156 Al-Mg-Si-Cu sheet has been performed using enhanced Kahn tear tests on samples quenched at different rates. Crack initiation energies were hardly affected by changing water quench temperature from 20°C to 60°C; however a significant reduction was evident on air cooling. Crack propagation energy was reduced for both 60°C water quenched and air cooled materials. Obse...

Recently, it was shown that genuine Ng-Ng chemical bonds are present in the endohedral fullerenes Ng(2)@C(60) in the case of Ng=Xe, while it is more debatable whether a chemical bond exist for Ng=Ar and Kr. The lighter homologues with helium and neon are weakly bonded van der Waals complexes. The presence of a noble gas dimer inside the cage is expected to modify the exohedral reactivity of the...

A novel experimental set-up was used to study superstable (magic) Ba-C(60) and K-C(60) compound clusters. The most stable systems observed cannot be rationalized by simple electronic or by geometrical shell filling arguments. Annealing the clusters past the temperature necessary for the fragmentation of the initial metastable clusters formed at the source reveals information about their thermod...

Osmotic dehydration kinetics of beetroot cubes in sucrose solution having different concentrations (30?Brix, 45?Brix and 60?Brix), solution temperature 35, 45 and 55 ?C, sample to solution ratio 1:4 were studied up to 240 min duration. For osmotic dehydration of beetroot in solution of sucrose the effect of all process parameter were significant at 5% level of significance on both water loss an...