Grain Structure and Grain Storage

Excerpts from the report Introduction: An understanding of the nature of cereal grains and their behavior during storage is a necessary basis for their proper handling on the farm or after they have left the farm. The 5 to 30 percent damage that occurs annually in stored grains not only results in a huge waste of food and feed but is a financial hazard to grain growers, elevator operators and grain processors. Dockage for damage brings to growers and dealers considerably lower prices for their grain. Damage to grain is eventually reflected in the lowered yields and quality of products made from it, as well as in difficulties encountered in processing. Certain phases of research at the Northern Regional Research Laboratory have been concerned with determining the suitability of stored and artificially dried grain for industrial processing. Some of the work was done in cooperation with the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, and was especially concerned with the effect of grain maturity and of conditions of artificial drying on the value of corn for wet milling for starch production. In connection with these studies, an extensive survey was made of what has been published on the subject, to determine what is known about causes of grain spoilage in storage—particularly causes other than insect and rodent infestation. Results of the survey form the major basis for this publication

Gelatinization and retrogradation changes in corn and wheat starches shown by photomicrographs

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Literature Review and Finite Element Study of Fibre Damaged CFRP laminates in Compression

This work is a direct continuation of (Magnani 2020) who investigated the effects of fibre cuts on the compressive strength of CFRP laminates. The previous study experimentally found that fibre damage reduces compressive strength regardless of damage configuration. In addition, Magnani proposed a FR model which appeared to be in agreement with his experimental findings. The original objective of this work was to reproduce the proposed finite element model in order to perform a parametric study. However, the model was proven to be unsuitable and when its shortcomings were corrected, no strength reduction was found from fibre cuts. Additional models in agreement with the established literature were developed. A literature review of experimental and numerical investigations into fibre damage in CFRP compression was conducted and found evidence suggesting that fibre cuts have minimal impact on the compressive strength of CFRP laminates, in complete contradiction with the experimental findings in (Magnani 2020). The observations made by Magnani do however appear to match well with investigations of fibre kinking and microbuckling. The proposed explanation for this is a failure in experimental methodology which filed the gaps in fibre cracks with resin without properly opening the cracks with the required tensile preload. This meant that, as the coupons were compressed, the fibre crack fronts entered matrix instead of butting into each other. The plastic deformation from the low yield polymer as the fibres penetrate this region would have induced unrealistically large distortion of fibres. This made the tested coupons behave as though they contained extremely large fibre misalignments induced by the gratuitous presence of matrix whose plastic deformation twisted the fibres out of alignment. This is in contrast with the fibre damage one would expect in real circumstances which would invariably crack the weaker matrix as well

LA HISTORIA GENERAL DE LAS COSAS SEGÚN ALFONSO MENA

La seducción fue el punto de partida para construir la Historia general de las cosas, título de la exposición de más de 200 obras, entre pintura, escultura, dibujo y video, que el artista visual Alfonso Mena (DF, 1961) exhibirá a partir del 20 de octubre, y hasta finales de enero de 2012, en el Centro Cultural Estación Indianilla de la ciudad de México. Se trata de obra producto de una estancia de un lustro en Nueva York

The determination of iron and its relation to the hydrogen-ion concentration in nutrient solutions

Master of Science (M.S.

Investigations concerning some factors influencing rhythmic crystallization from aqueous solution

ChemistryDoctor of Philosophy (PhD