Particleboard is widely used in furniture construction, primarily as core stock material for table and counter tops, for case sides, and for such applications as doors and drawer fronts. It is also used to a limited extent to fabricate structural members in furniture such as the front rail on certain types of sofas. Screws are most frequently used in conjunction with particleboard to attach var...

This project work focuses on the comparison of engineering properties Pyrus communis under solar and air-drying method. Green samples wood were dried simultaneously in both kiln open air for 15 days. The daily moisture content reduction (%MC) drying conditions observed recorded. Mechanical tests (shear strength, compressive hardness tensile strength) conducted. results showed that air-dried woo...

In this paper, a partial least square regression (PLSR) and fuzzylogic based smart decision support system (DSS) for crop-specific irrigation notification and control in precision agriculture is proposed, and this can be implemented in farm land, green-house and poly-house. The proposed DSS model continuously acquires real-time soil and environmental data using Zigbee wireless sensor network (W...

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...

Flue-cured tobacco leaves, from low- and middle-stalk positions, offered for sale in each of two markets, within each of five tobacco types, were evaluated for moisture content (MC) and filamentous fungi during August through October in 1968, 1969, and 1970. Alternaria alternata, Penicillium cyclopium, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus repens, and Aspergillus flavus were most frequently isolated f...

Measured by harmonic tests, the viscoelastic properties of Chinese fir during moisture sorption processes were examined under three relative humidity (RH) modes: RHramp, RHisohume, and RHstep. The stiffness decreased and damping increased as a function of the moisture content (MC), which is presumed to be the effect of plasticization and an unstable state. The increasing damping was associated ...

Leaks represent a very important hazard for the buildings and they can affect all sorts of building materials and specially wood due to its hygroscopic properties. Excessive moisture content can affect in a negative way building processes such as the installation of wooden floors or the use of wood as a structural material. Moisture meters can provide prompt and non-destructive determination of...

in this study, the effects of moisture content and corn variety on the physicochemical properties of popcorn were investigated and modeled using response surface methodology. each of the two corn varieties (hybrid corn ksc 600 pc and american) was prepared with a range of moisture (six moisture levels ranging from 10 to 20%) and popped by a hot air popper. variety and moisture content affected ...

Fire behavior of plant mixtures includes a complex set of processes for which the interactive contributions of its drivers, such as plant identity and moisture, have not yet been unraveled fully. Plant flammability parameters of species mixtures can show substantial deviations of fire properties from those expected based on the component species when burnt alone; that is, there are nonadditive ...

Harvesting and threshing are crucial processes that influence the quantity, quality, economic efficiency of rice production. Therefore, threshability varieties is an important agronomic trait for breeding programs. However, selection hardly standardized. With application improved meter, four local temperate japonica was determined during ripening phase (DAF 37–60) in three consecutive years. Pa...