MEASURING COMPLEX FOR STUDYING EVAPORATION OF LIQUID DROPS ON A SUBSTRATE

The measuring equipment is a hardware-software complex consisting of a capacitive measuring device for the thickness of a lying drop, a digital microscope and a coordinate device. The equipment makes it possible to “scan” the drop and obtain the data of the height, drop shape, and the line of contact of the liquid phase with the surface that change during evaporation.

Modeling of weir height drop on the slope of the open channel hydraulic jump

The model design was developed for the alignment and it was utilized to test for various geometrics and stream conditions searching for a low and incentive for RMSE and the response variable. Also, during the alignment half of the exploratory information was set to their coefficients, and the staying set of information was similarly be utilized for confirmation purposes. Utilizing around thirty out of the fifty informational collections created in the research facility dependent on relapse investigation was applied to the non-direct model to decide the constants. The staying twenty informational collections from research centre analyses were utilized for check of the model. The absence of the fittest was utilized likewise to check the request for the proposed relapse model utilizing the water profundity as the response variable. The Froude numbers from the post-pressure driven hop segment from 0.37 to 0.41 (0.37 < Fr3< 0.41), likewise showing that the streams are subcritical. The Froude numbers from the post-pressure driven hop area inside 0.37 to 0.41 (0.37<Fr3 <0.41), this shows the streams are subcritical. The connection between sequent profundity proportion y3//y2 and speed proportion V2/V3 is around - 5024 +1.485 Fr2 with R2 =0.9957 showing that as the sequent profundity proportion and speed proportion expands the inflow Froude number Fr2 additionally increments, the hydraulic jump extended from - 0.001 to 0.001 which gives some vitality progression with an expansion in the pace of release through the flume. The upstream of the flume, the Froude numbers go from 0.038 to 0.052 (0.038 < Fr1 < 0.52), demonstrating that the streams were subcritical and less harm to the channel.

Effects of Package Content Position on Slap-Down Angle

As part of regulatory requirements, shipping packages must be able to withstand specified height drop accidents under a worst case orientation and configuration. The burden of justifying worst case orientation and configuration is placed on the package applicant. One of the drop cases to consider is slap-down, where the package is dropped at a shallow angle (eg, nearly horizontal). Due to the shallow angle, the initial impact at one end of the package accelerates the opposite end into the target surface at greater than the net drop velocity. The dynamics of the slap-down condition are modeled using simplified rigid-body dynamics to provide test engineers with a basis for establishing a suitable package content placement that could maximize the slap-down condition.

Air Bearing Flying Characteristics on Patterned Media

The air bearing steady-state flying characteristics on patterned media has been studied with a proprietary air bearing simulation code. Variation of minimum fly height with relative pattern-to-slider skew has been characterized at slider positions (ID, MD, OD). The results show that at the steady state minimum fly heights drop with introducing the pattern. Furthermore, the pattern-to-slider skew angle has a noticeable effect on the fly height drop, while the maximum fly height drop occurs on radial servo patterns.

(181) 1-Methylcyclopropene Pretreatment of Roma-Type Tomato Ameliorates Effects of Physical Impact

Roma tomatoes (`Sunoma') were hand-harvested at the mature-green color stage and treated with 100 μL·L-1 ethylene for 60 h at 20 °C and 90% RH. Tomatoes at breaker ripeness stage (<10% red coloration) were sorted by weight (about 100 g) and half of the fruits were treated with 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP; 1 μL·L-1 for 24 h at 22 °C). After 1-MCP treatment, individual fruits were subjected to double impacts over the marked locular surface with force equivalent to a 40-cm height drop using a pendulum impactor. In non-1-MCP treated fruit, impacts increased the maximum respiration rate by 27% (to 39.1 mL·kg-1 per h) and ethylene production by 24% (to 5.5 μL·kg-1 per h). Treatment with 1-MCP decreased relative production of both CO2 (56%) and ethylene (54%) over non-1-MCP treated fruit, while the ripening period (as measured by softening and color development) was extended 2.5 times, to about 8 d. Fruits treated with 1-MCP had increased TTA (about 40%; 0.58% citric acid equivalent), decreased pH (5%), and no difference in soluble solids content (3.7 °Brix); double impacts did not affect these values. Double impacts accelerated the onset of polygalacturonase (PG) activity by about 100% (to 99.8 mol·kg-1 per min*10-5 D-galacturonic acid) at day 6 over non-impacted control fruit. 1-MCP treatment delayed the onset of increased PG activity by 10 d over non-1-MCP treated fruit. Although 1-MCP alleviated the impact-induced increase in PG activity, PG activity recovered to rates similar to those of non-1-MCP treated fruit during the final 4 d of ripening.

Investigation of the differences between deepening and intensification for 500-hpa cyclones in central and East Mediterranean region during warm season of the year

The maximum deepening rate per cyclone track is determined by the maximum height drop at the center of the cyclone (500-hPa low) on the basis of all the 6-h successive steps in its life cycle. The geopotential height gradient is calculated over the entire low area and the calculation continued with the variation of the gradient in the successive steps. The maximum intensification rate per cyclone is then determined as the maximum increase of the gradient in the life cycle. Maximum deepening rate for the 500-hPa cyclones in the area does not exceed, on average, 12 gpm/6 h. Maximum intensification which is 1.4 gpm/100 Km*6 h on average, occurs in the early stages of the cyclone's life cycle. This on the average happens approximately 9 h after the first time the low is detected. At the gulf of Genoa and the Adriatic Sea, cyclones usually show the maximum intensification after the maximum deepening. At Turkey's cyclogenesis area, however, this order is reversed. The spatial distributions of maximum intensification in the three sub-periods, indicate that it mainly occurs over Seas during late warm periods and over land during early and middle warm periods. Such a behavior underlines the role of low-level instability in cyclone development.

Experimental Snap Loading of Synthetic Ropes

Large tensile forces, known as snap loads, can occur when a slack rope becomes taut. Such forces may damage the rope or masses connected to it. Experiments are described in which one end of a rope is attached to the top of a drop tower and the bottom end is attached to a weight. The weight is raised to a certain height and then released. The force at the top of the rope and the acceleration of the weight are recorded during the first snap load that occurs. Repeated drop tests are performed on each rope. The effects of the type of rope, drop height, drop weight, whether the rope has been subjected to static precycling, and the number of previous dynamic tests are examined. A mathematical model is proposed for the rope force as a function of the displacement and velocity of the weight.