Cline, J. A. and Trought, M. 2007. Effect of gibberellic acid on fruit cracking and quality of Bing and Sam sweet cherries. Can. J. Plant Sci. 87: 545–550. Rain-induced cracking of sweet cherries (Prunus avium L.) is a major problem in many cherry growing regions throughout the world. One method to reduce cracking is to grow cracking resistant cultivars; however, no completely effective control...

In the purely theoretical approach of pavement design, percentage fatigue cracking is related to damage in a probabilistic manner according to the Miner’s law. Two methods that are currently widely in use are based on assumptions of damage distribution. One method assumes fatigue damage being normally distributed, while the other one assumes fatigue damage being lognormally distributed. Since m...

The productivity and recovery of hot-rolled Al-Mg-Mn sheets often suffer from sodium-induced edge cracking. In this study, AA5182 ingots with different levels Na were prepared by direct-chill (DC) casting, then subsequently subjected to homogenisation hot-rolling processes. crack occurrence during hot rolling in the pass #11 (84% reduction) #18 (96% was investigated, special attention paid impa...

This paper talks about the self-oraganized index maintainance approach of database cracking. It provides fundamental knowledge as well as the description of a basic implementation of database cracking. Alongside multiple cracking algorithms, the implementation also contains the code of a cracking index. By combining these two features the implementation allows the execution of range queries on ...

Concrete structures provided with steel bars may undergo deterioration due to fatigue and corrosion, which leads an increase in repair maintenance costs. An innovative approach eliminating these drawbacks lies the utilisation of glass-fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) sheets as reinforcement concrete instead bars. This article relates investigation flexural behaviour ordinary portland cement (OPC...

Aluminum metal-matrix composites (MMCs) are well positioned to replace steel in numerous manufactured structural components, due to their high strength-to-weight and stiffness ratios. For example, research is currently being conducted in the use of such materials in the construction of tank entry doors, which are currently made of steel and are dangerously heavy for military personnel to lift a...

With the rapid development of internet technologies, social networks, and other related areas, user authentication becomes more and more important to protect the data of the users. Password authentication is one of the widely used methods to achieve authentication for legal users and defense against intruders. There have been many password cracking methods developed during the past years, and p...

Abstract Various experimental analyses on hydrogen evolution, absorption, and cracking behaviors were conducted to gain a fundamental understanding of the embrittlement ultrastrong steel sheets with galvanized (GI) galvannealed (GA) coatings. The evolution absorption are controlled primarily by potential differences between coating exposed substrate, corrosion-induced damage pattern coating. hi...

in this work, ferric coagulation and acid cracking as olive mill wastewater (omw) pretreatments during photocatalysis process were compared in batch recirculation reactor. as ferric ions influence, ferric coagulation has preference over acid cracking. ferric ions influence on intensification of penolic components absorption on tio2 surfacein initial and oxidize organic pollutant during photocat...