It is well recognized that many adverse changes occur to a food product during drying. Various pretreatment methods have thus been introduced to maintain the quality of the product. Among the various qualities, or properties, of a food product surface characteristics are one of the most important as these affect directly the consumer acceptance of the product. In terms of food safety surface characteristics may also be related to the attachment and hence thermal resistance of pathogenic microorganisms on the product surface. In this study attempt was made to investigate changes of the surface topographical features of vegetables as affected by pretreatment (blanching in hot water or soaking in 0.5-1.5% v/v acetic acid solution) and hot air drying (60 °C); cabbage and spring onion were selected as model vegetables to represent different natural topographical features of vegetables. An image analysis technique was used to monitor the changes of vegetable surfaces after pretreatment and during drying. The surface characteristic changes of vegetables were described quantitatively in terms of the relative roughness factor (R). It was observed that the surface characteristic changes, as affected by both pretreatment and drying processes, could be well monitored by the evolution of the R value. 相似文献
The properties of composites made by placing inclusions in a matrix are often controlled by the shape and size of the particles. In order to study the joint effect of shape and size of inclusions, we characterize the random shape of particles in composite mathematically by applying Fourier series, then generating random mesostructure of composite for cases of inclusions with (1) same size and different shape, (2) different size and same shape, or (3) random size and shape. Crack paths and effective stress–strain curves of these cases are predicted using spring network method which is given in detail. The study shows we need more elaborate statistical evaluation due to the random nature of composites. This paper outlines an approach to study effect of inclusion geometry on the elastic properties and crack of random composites. 相似文献
A programmable logic controller is used in the automatic control system of hydraulic spring eye machine to realize the automation of the production process. The control system of spring eye machine consists of electricity and liquid. Push-button and sensor control outputs control the opening or shutting of all hydraulic valves to realize automatic movements of the machine. Two pressure sensors measure the pressure on the oil passage of the hydraulic, which guarantees more steady oil pressure to realize normal movements of the machine, and the security of the equipment and workers at the same time. In addition, indicator lamp of operating panel is convenient to notify workers to fetch production at the end of spring eye and find out the reason of the fault. The result indicates that the control system of the pro,grammable logic controller can improve production efficiency greatly. 相似文献
Calibration of the spring constant of atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilevers is necessary for the measurement of nanonewton and piconewton forces, which are critical to analytical applications of AFM in the analysis of polymer surfaces, biological structures and organic molecules.
We have developed a compact and easy-to-use reference standard for this calibration. The new artifact consists of an array of 12 dual spiral-cantilever springs, each supporting a mirrored polycrystalline silicon disc of 160 μm in diameter. These devices were fabricated by a three-layer polysilicon surface micromachining method, including a reflective layer of gold on chromium. We call such an array a Microfabricated Array of Reference Springs (MARS). These devices have a number of advantages. Cantilever calibration using this device is straightforward and rapid. The devices have very small inertia, and are therefore resistant to shock and vibration. This means they need no careful treatment except reasonably clean laboratory conditions.
The array spans the range of spring constant from around 0.16 to 11 N/m important in AFM, allowing almost all contact-mode AFM cantilevers to be calibrated easily and rapidly. Each device incorporates its own discrete gold mirror to improve reflectivity. The incorporation of a gold mirror both simplifies calibration of the devices themselves (via Doppler velocimetry) and allows interferometric calibration of the AFM z-axis using the apparent periodicity in the force–distance curve before contact. Therefore, from a single force–distance curve, taking about one second to acquire, one can calibrate the cantilever spring constant and, optionally, the z-axis scale. These are all the data one needs to make accurate and reliable force measurements. 相似文献