Leaf water potential, leaf relative water content, and relative transpiration of barley were determined daily under greenhouse conditions at 3 growth stages: tillering to boot, boot to heading, and heading to maturity. The leaf moisture characteristic curve (relative water content versus leaf water potential) was the same for leaves of the same age growing in the same environment for the first ...

Upon an increase of moisture, unsaturated soil may collapse or swell, depending on the loading state and history. This important characteristic must be realistically reproduced by a constitutive model aimed for practical applications. In addition to collapse/swelling, other essential features, such as deformation and failure following arbitrary shearing paths, must also be realistically reprodu...

The article analyzes the damage to cable line 35 kV in regions of Tashkent. According analysis results, electrical damages districts Tashkent city were detected more often Shaikhantakhur, Yunsabad, Yashnabad and Almazar than other districts. Electrical was mainly sleeve -51%, – 43% funnel 6%. Moisture, corrosion, mechanical wear, manufacturing defects factors are main causes this damage.

On farm walnut drying is often a major bottle neck during the start of walnut harvest. The recommended maximum drying air temperature for English walnuts is 110 of. This limit is based on tests by university personnel during the introduction of heated air drying (Batchelor, 1924) which demonstrated that long term exposure to temperatures higher that 110°F caused walnuts to turn rancid. This pro...

Influence of pulsed electric field (PEF) simultaneous to pressure treatment on moisture expression from fine-cut cellular raw material has been investigated. Dependencies of specific conductivity σ, liquid yield Y , instantaneous flow rate v and qualitative juice characteristics at different modes of PEF treatment are discussed. Three main consolidation phases were observed in a case of mechani...

This work focuses on moisture effects mechanical properties of GFRP-balsa sandwich structure experimentally and numerically. Firstly, relationships between Moisture Content (MC) Acoustic Emission (AE) wave velocity have been demonstrated by Hsu-Nielsen tests during the water immersion tests. And then, a new methodology was proposed to predict elastic modulus skin wet based relationship MC, AE m...

UNLABELLED Toxic microbial secondary metabolites have been proposed to be related to adverse health effects observed in moisture-damaged buildings. Initial steps in assessing the actual risk include the characterization of the exposure. In our study, we applied a multi-analyte tandem mass spectrometry-based methodology on sample materials of severely moisture-damaged homes, aiming to qualitativ...