Thermomechanics of Drying Processes

This book presents a systematic thermomechanical theory of drying. The book has an interdisciplinary character and combines the knowledge of Chemical Engineering and Mechanics of Continua. It contents a unified approach to the heat and mass transfer in drying processes as well as a precise analysis...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kowalski, Stefan Jan (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2003.
Σειρά:Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, 8
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Nomenclature
  • 1 Properties of dried materials
  • 1.1 Classification of wet materials
  • 1.2 Characterization of moisture bounding a solid skeleton
  • 1.3 The equilibrium humidity
  • 1.4 Mechanisms of moisture movement
  • 2 Characterization of drying processes
  • 2.1 Drying technique
  • 2.2 Kinetics of drying processes
  • 2.3 Mechanisms of heat and mass transfer
  • 3 The equations of balance
  • 3.1 Preliminaries
  • 3.2 Balance equations: control volume approach
  • 3.3 Second law of thermodynamics
  • 4 Thermodynamic foundation of dried materials in elastic range
  • 4.1 Postulate of local state
  • 4.2 Equations of state
  • 4.3 Phenomenological rate equations of heat and mass transfer
  • 4.4 Physical relations for elastic materials under drying
  • 5 Thermodynamics of viscoelastic materials under drying
  • 5.1 Rheological properties of dried materials
  • 5.2 Constitutive equations for a viscoelastic body
  • 5.3 Analogy between viscoelasticity and elasticity
  • 6 Plasticity in drying
  • 6.1 Elastoplastic behavior of dried materials
  • 6.2 Thermodynamical restrictions
  • 6.3 Theory of plastic flow
  • 6.4 Identification of the coefficients ? and L in the plastic potential
  • 7 Destruction of materials by drying
  • 7.1 Preliminary remarks
  • 7.2 Cohesion forces in drying processes
  • 7.3 Theoretical strength of dried materials
  • 7.4 Fracture of brittle dried materials
  • 7.5 Fracture of partly ductile dried materials
  • 7.6 A measure of damage
  • 8 Conditions of stress generation and boundary conditions
  • 8.1 Conditions of stress generation
  • 8.2 Balance equations for a body with a discontinuity surface
  • 8.3 Boundary conditions in the first and second period of drying
  • 8.4 Receding of the evaporation zone
  • 9 Approach to numerical analysis in drying
  • 9.1 Set of governing equations
  • 9.2 Galerkin's formulation of the numerical problem
  • 9.3 Time integration
  • 9.4 Numerical solution for two-dimensional problem
  • 10 One-dimensional initial-boundary value problem
  • 10.1 Distribution of temperature and moisture content in wet porous plates under drying
  • 10.2 Drying induced stresses in an elastic saturated plate
  • 10.3 Drying induced stresses in a viscoelastic saturated plate
  • 11 Drying induced stresses in products of cylindrical and spherical symmetry
  • 11.1 The phenomenon of stress reverse in a cylindrical sample
  • 11.2 Determination of shrinkage factor on a spherical sample
  • 12 Mechanical effects in dried materials examined on the basis of two-dimensional boundary value problems
  • 12.1 Deformations and stresses dependent on material shape
  • 12.3 Thermal effects in dried materials
  • 12.4 Analysis of dried body response on drying conditions the response of dried body to drying conditions
  • 12.5 Significance of the wet bulb temperature in drying
  • 12.6 Control of drying processes
  • 12.7 Mechanical properties dependent on moisture content
  • 12.8 Concentration of stresses around grooves
  • 12.9 Phase transition inside the dried body
  • 13 Dried materials with anisotropic structure
  • 13.1 Constitutive equations for anisotropic materials with variable moisture content
  • 13.2 Experimental identification of mechano-sorptive strain in wood
  • 13.3 Deformation and stresses in dried wood
  • 13.4 Identification of wood fracture during drying
  • 14 Experimental studies in drying
  • 14.1 Determination of coefficients in physical relations
  • 14.2 Determination of coefficients in rate equations
  • 14.3 Application of acoustic emission in studies of dried materials
  • References.