The characteristic texture of turrón, torrone and nougat was examined. They are typical European confections prepared from almonds, honey, sugars and/or chocolate. Three different instrumental tests: puncture, cutting, and Texture Profile Analysis (TPA), were used in this study and samples prepared from three countries (Spain, Italy, and France), and by six manufactur...

Fe-Mn-C austenitic steels exhibit outstanding high-ductile deformation in their plastic regions along with significant microstructural evolution. In this study, to characterize the microstructural evolution during deformation of these steels, line-profile and texture analyses were carried out using X-ray diffraction. The convolutional multiple whole profile fitting procedure was used for a line...

Motivated by the lack of studies that standardize and optimize parameters texture tests, this study aimed to determine operating conditions for TPA maximize discrimination among samples fruit preserves. The commercial guava preserves was evaluated using a texturometer. Design Central Composite Rotational (DCCR) method applied with four independent variables: speed test, sample volume, time betw...

The objective of this study has been to verify whether a combination the standard Texture Profile Analysis and back extrusion, which we have named “TPAH” since analysis was performed after homogenization, can be applied products that are difficult handle. TPAH 180 samples, divided equally into 18 batches home-made pea-based patties, commercially meat patties. Seven parameters were measured on b...

The rheological and tape casting behavior of ethanol-based Bi0.5(Na0.80K0.20)0.5TiO3-7 mol% BiFeO3 (BNKT-BF) slurries was investigated. The effect of sintering temperature profile on texture development with a preferred orientation was also studied. A 50 MPa pressure assisted three step sintering profile promoted extensive texture development together with densification. The role of BF as a sin...

Texture is a surface characteristic which has a very wide influence on pavements functional quality. It is currently assessed by a number of test methods. Road Administrations face the problems of dealing with data acquired by different methods and, in addition to that, the repeatability and reproducibility of the results. This paper presents an analysis of test methods used for texture depth e...