Issue: The moisture content of a fill material will affect its compaction characteristics and needs to be evaluated during quality control of the fill operation. When the fill is drier than its optimum moisture content, any moisture in the fill serves as a lubricant and helps the relative movement of the particles when densifying under vibratory compaction. When the fill is wetter than its opti...

Sweet maize is an annual plant that extremely useful and economical for planting harvesting. However, stands are damaged quickly in the case of nutrient water deficiency. This research was carried out under dripping irrigation conditions control plots without irrigation, involving seven different hybrids. The obtained results showed no existing variation dry matter content cob (DMC) between irr...

In this paper the influence of the moisture content on the flow characteristics of blast furnace dust is investigated. The flowability of granular material is essential for the design and operation of dust separators, transport equipment and storage silos. Two blast furnace dust samples from different blast furnaces were investigated. The moisture content was adapted for measurement with the sh...

The effect of variety and moisture content on some engineering properties of five improved paddy rice varieties was investigated within moisture content range of 10% and 30% dry basis (d.b.). Increase in moisture content was found to increase the linear dimensions, mass of 100 seeds, surface area, apparent volume, true volume, arithmetic mean diameter, effective geometric diameter, sphericity, ...

Electrical resistance measurements are often employed for the purpose of nondestructive long-term monitoring wood moisture content (MC) in timber structures. As a structural material high-performance load-bearing applications such structures, beech laminated veneer lumber (LVL) enjoys growing popularity. However, due to processing LVL affecting physical properties, calibration curves bulk canno...

In this paper, a helical capacitive sensor is developed to measure the moisture content (MC) in woodchips. Firstly, based on orthogonal test method, structure of optimized obtain best possible uniform sensitivity. Then, effect type and random distribution woodchips MC measurement investigated. Finally, three different algorithms, including support vector machine, forest deep neural network, are...

In order to provide a relatively simple means of predicting live herbaceous plant moisture content from a readily available meteorological index with an accuracy adequate for fire hazard assessment, the moisture content fluctuations of certain species were correlated with the values of a seasonal drought index based on soil moisture deficiency. The simple linear regression models provided the b...

High litter moisture content, often referred to as wet litter, is a major problem in poultry production. Wet litter is often related to poor management, diseases, and digestive problems. In this experiment, the objective was to study the relationship between nutrient content and the moisture content of the excreta of broilers. A dataset containing 351 observations was built and contained the nu...

Cereal Chem. 79(3):383–386 The objective of this study was to compare the structure and properties of flours and starches from whole, broken, and yellowed rice kernels that were broken or discolored in the laboratory. Physicochemical properties including pasting, gelling, thermal properties, and X-ray diffraction patterns were determined. Structure was elucidated using high-performance sizeexcl...