In this study, the effect of edible coat (carboxy methyl cellulose) before osmotic dehydration anddifferent drying methods on sensory and physical properties of dried apple (V. Golden delicious)rings was investigated. The coated and non-coated samples pretreated with 50% sucrose osmoticsolution and dried in freeze drier (-40 to -50°C, 0.026-0.017 mbar, 24 hr), vacuum drier (70°C, 200mbar, 8-10 ...

expansible soils are those which will suffer considerable swelling and volume change when subjected to water. the resulting swelling pressure may cause complete destruction of such light structures as irrigation canal linings, floor slabs, etc. based upon previous investigations, swelling of clayey soils has been blamed for failure of many irrigation canals in iran and in other countries of the...

in this study, the effect of edible coat (carboxy methyl cellulose) before osmotic dehydration anddifferent drying methods on sensory and physical properties of dried apple (v. golden delicious)rings was investigated. the coated and non-coated samples pretreated with 50% sucrose osmoticsolution and dried in freeze drier (-40 to -50°c, 0.026-0.017 mbar, 24 hr), vacuum drier (70°c, 200mbar, 8-10 ...

A constitutive model is derived from theory of elasticity for predicting ultimate drying shrinkage of concrete. The model was extended by incorporating the semiempirical composite model proposed by Hirsch and Dougill for predicting Young's modulus of concrete. Their composite model is the geometric mean of Paul's upper and lower limit boundaries of a twophase composite. According to the shrinka...

A constitutive model is derived from theory of elasticity for predicting ultimate drying shrinkage of concrete. The model was extended by incorporating the semiempirical composite model proposed by Hirsch and Dougill for predicting Young's modulus of concrete. Their composite model is the geometric mean of Paul's upper and lower limit boundaries of a twophase composite. According to the shrinka...

By incorporating lightweight expanded polystyrene aggregate particles in a conventional highstrength concrete mixture, its density could be adjusted to any desired level. The adjusted density concrete can be expected to have reduced strength and stiffness the permeability of concrete would not be affected since the non-water absorbing polystyrene aggregate particles are dispersed randomly in a ...

This article derives the probability density function (pdf) of the sum of a normal random variable and a (sphered) Student’s-t distribution on three degrees of freedom. Advice is given on deriving the convolution density for higher degrees of freedom. Apart from its intrinsic interest applications of this result include Bayesian wavelet shrinkage, Bayesian posterior density derivations, calcula...

We critically reconsider our recent observation of confining string shrinkage in pure glue SU(2) lattice gauge theory near the continuum limit. Using the advanced numerical techniques we argue that imperfect overlap with the string ground state and corresponding ambiguities in T → ∞ extrapolation are likely to be the cause of the observed scaling violations. In particular, even in the limit of ...

Changes in the physical properties (such as particle density, bulk density of the bed, shrinkage and bed porosity of fresh green peas particulates were compared at 50 o C, during fluidized bed drying and fixed bed drying. Empirical relationships of the following nature were developed for the changes in shrinkage [VR = A + B MR], particle density [ρ p = A + B MR + C exp (-DMR)], and bulk density...