Humidity change in concrete is the leading cause of concrete shrinkage. Moreover, the moisture diffusion coefficient of concrete is an essential parameter for assessing and predicting the internal moisture content of concrete. However, there is a lac...
When hydrophilic materials (such as natural fiber, epoxy resin or concrete) compose sandwich structures, the moisture absorption from hydrothermal environments may significantly affect their mechanical properties. Although some experimental works wer...
The contact sponge method is applied on a piece of clay brick. According to the standard, the sponge is moistened with water, applied on the surface of the material by means of a cup, and weighted before and after the application. It allows us to det...
There has been a substantial increase in the usage of natural fibers and biodegradable polymers in composite materials due to the recent focus on sustainability of materials. Flax fibers have exhibited higher mechanical properties compared to most ot...
Laboratory tests were carried out in accordance with ASTM C664-10(2020) to measure diffusion parameters in an asphalt mixture. These diffusion parameters are effective measures for use in asphalt mixtures. However, the tests could not provide detaile...
In this research, the moisture diffusion model for concrete was inversely estimated using artificial neural network (ANN) and the data collected from virtual experiments. In addition, the moisture distribution was predicted using the ANN model in num...
Cellulose-fiber-reinforced plain weave composites absorb lots of water from humid environments because of their inherent susceptibility to moisture. Moisture absorption experiments with cellulose fiber plain weave composites have been reported by som...
Water invasion induced aging and degradation of the unidirectional glass fiber reinforced epoxy resin (UGFRE) rod is inferred as the primary reason for the decay-like fracture of the composite insulator. In this paper, the moisture diffusion processe...
The study analyzed the effect of diffusion path lengths (initial, average, and final half-thicknesses) on the shrinkage, effective moisture diffusivity, activation energy, and pre-exponential factor of thin-layer red delicious apple slices under conv...
Plastic packaging has shown its advantages over ceramic packaging and metal packaging in lightweight, thin, and high-density electronic devices. In this paper, the reliability and moisture diffusion of Sop-8 (Small Out-Line Package-8) plastic packagi...
To understand the moisture transfer mechanism of walnuts during the combination of hot air (HA) and microwave–vacuum (MV) drying (HA-MVD) process, the drying characteristics and moisture diffusion characteristics of walnut during HA-MVD were in...
In this study, time-resolved optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanning images of the process of water diffusion in the skin that illustrate the enhancement in the backscattered intensities due to the increased water concentration are presented. In...
This study investigates steady-state conductive heat transfer and water-vapor diffusion through the external wall of a refrigerated warehouse with a specified load-bearing wall assembly. The formal analogy between heat conduction and mass diffusion i...
The cover systems in contaminated sites have some problems, including desiccation cracks, which would lead to degradation of the barrier performance. This study presented a systemic laboratory experimental investigation on the liquid–plastic li...
Laminate composites which are widely used in the aeronautical industry, are usually subjected to frequency variation of environmental temperature and excessive humidity in the in-service environment. The thermal fatigue and moisture absorption in com...
Moisture diffusion in carbon fiber composites changes the mechanical properties of the composite. Therefore, a monitoring method of the actual content of moisture in the composite is important. However, at the moment there are no online methods estab...
This study introduces a novel one-dimensional Fractional Time–Space Stochastic Advection–Diffusion Equation that revolutionizes the modeling of moisture transport within atmospheric boundary layers adjacent to oceanic surfaces. By synthes...
Soil moisture sensors deployed for long-term monitoring often suffer from prolonged data gaps caused by battery depletion, communication dropouts, or hardware failures. When such gaps overlap with irrigation events, key transient phases are obscured...
Thermoset polymers offer great opportunities for mass production of fiber-reinforced composites and are being adopted across a large range of applications within the automotive, aerospace, construction and renewable energy sectors. They are usually c...
A unique methodology due to the effect of stochastic heating is utilized to study the Moisture Diffusivity influence of an elastic semiconductor medium under the effect of photo-thermoelasticity theory. Accurately, random processes are applied at the...
In the context of the two-temperature thermoelasticity theory, a novel mathematical–physical model is introduced that describes the influence of moisture diffusivity in the semiconductor material. The two-dimensional (2D) Cartesian coordinate i...
In this study, a novel wetness and moisture concentration analysis approach is presented. A finite element method is utilized for the solution technique mainly using thermal and surface effect elements. Numerical results obtained from the current app...
This paper examines how wetting the surface of wood affects characteristics of wood materials. An important question is how moisturizing wood has an effect on diffusion parameters of water, which will change conditions of the technological treatment...
This study investigates the potential to transform plant-based waste into a sustainable resource for animal feed through dehydration. Currently, research on the drying performance of decayed plant tissues remains scarce. To address this gap, we explo...
Epoxy molding compounds (EMCs) are commonly used in electronic products for chip encapsulation, but the moisture absorption of EMC can induce significant reliability challenges. In this study, the effects of hygrothermal conditions and structure para...
The present study investigates the effect of drying temperature and potassium metabisulfite (KMS) pretreatment on the drying kinetics, effective moisture diffusivity, activation energy, thermodynamic properties, and thin-layer drying-model performanc...
With the surge in digital farming, real-time quality management of fresh produce has become essential. For apples (Malus domestica Borkh.), consumer demand extends beyond sweetness, texture, and appearance to internal quality factors such as moisture...
Understanding mass transfer mechanisms during coffee drying is essential for optimizing postharvest processing conditions. This study aimed to estimate the effective moisture diffusivity coefficient (
The moisture diffusion behaviors of 3D woven composites exhibit non-Fickian properties when they are exposed to a hydrothermal environment. Although some experimental works have been undertaken to investigate this phenomenon, very few mathematical wo...
Effects of the moisture content (MC) of tea on diffuse reflectance spectroscopy were investigated by integrated wavelet transform and multivariate analysis. A total of 738 representative samples, including fresh tea leaves, manufactured tea and parti...
The study of the mechanisms affecting the preparation parameters of carbonated steel slag is of great significance for the development of carbon sequestration materials. In order to elucidate the mechanism of the influence of moisture on CO2 diffusio...
Fresh black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) have a high moisture content that complicates storage and requires energy-intensive postharvest drying. This study evaluated the effects of drying-air temperature and tray rotation speed on BSFL drying kinetics,...
Despite the importance of cell wall diffusion to nearly all aspects of wood utilization, diffusion mechanisms and the detailed effects of moisture remain poorly understood. In this perspective, we introduce and employ approaches established in polyme...
In the present case study, a moisture diffusion model is developed to simulate the drying kinetics of Lavandula x allardii leaves for non-stationary convective drying regimes. Increasing temperature profiles are applied over the drying duration and t...
Water and water transfer are the keys of the concrete durability problem; the non-uniform moisture transfer caused by the concrete micro–meso structure has a great effect on the drying shrinkage crack, transfers of inimical ions, etc. For the n...
Characterized by its exceptional electrical, physical, and chemical properties, 1-phenyl-1-xylylethane (PXE) insulating oil finds extensive application in the realm of power capacitor insulation. In this study, molecular simulation is employed to inv...
Accurate prediction of moisture transfer during drying processes remains challenging. In the present study, a progressive numerical framework was developed to investigate moisture diffusion in ethanol-pretreated beetroot by systematically incorporati...
The paper presents a model of moisture transport in wood taking into account diffusion and the accompanying adsorption of water vapour through the skeleton. A two-parameter form of the source term was proposed, depending on the distance of the curren...
In this work, a novel methodology to determine moisture transport coefficients for MMC PH101 tablets is presented. Absolute permeability, moisture diffusion, moisture transfer, and water vapor permeability coefficients were estimated on compressed po...
The aims of this research were to evaluate the influence of intermittent microwave drying on the moisture diffusion and color qualities of organically and conventionally grown sweet red peppers and mathematically express drying kinetic data. Pepper s...
Drying has been widely studied as a necessary process in biomass utilization. The steam diffusion law plays an important role in drying kinetics. The drying kinetics of a single biomass particle using Fick’s second law of diffusion was studied...
A quite simple method is proposed for the assessment of extremely cold subarctic climate environment destruction of the basalt fiber reinforced epoxy (BFRE) rebar. The method involves the comparison of experimentally obtained long-term moisture uptak...
Molecular transport of low-volatility organic vapors through unsaturated porous media is governed by the coupled effects of diffusion, sorption, and pore structure, yet the relative roles of these processes remain insufficiently quantified. In this w...
Package-level hygrothermal simulations commonly represent drying at epoxy molding compound (EMC) surfaces using idealized boundary conditions, which may not fully capture the coupled effects of bulk moisture diffusion and surface evaporation during r...
This study investigated experimentally and numerically the influence of ultrasound pre-treatment on the drying kinetics of sliced carrot samples. Drying experiments were performed under different conditions, including scenarios with and without ultra...
This paper proposes a method for determining an effective value of the thermal conductivity for moist, highly porous rigid polymer foams. The model of moist foam based on an ordered structure with interpenetrating components was developed in accordan...
This paper presents the steady-state stress analysis of single-layered and multilayered plates and shells embedding Functionally Graded Material (FGM) layers under moisture conditions. This solution relies on an exact layer-wise approach; the formula...
Corrosion investigations of steel-reinforced concrete structures are often based on half-cell potential measurements, in which the diffusion potentials can be a significant source of measurement errors. Therefore, the diffusion potentials must be tak...
Accumulation-type water vapor transport (hereafter referred to as AT-WVT) and permeation-type water vapor transport (hereafter referred to as PT-WVT) represent two fundamental modes of water vapor diffusion in asphalt mixtures, exerting distinct impa...
Lemongrass is a plant that contains aromatic compounds (myrcene and limonene), powerful deodorants, and antimicrobial compounds (citral and geraniol). Identifying a suitable drying model for the material is crucial for establishing an initial step fo...
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