Thermomechanics of Drying Processes

1. Front Matter

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2. Nomenclature

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   Pages 13-17

3. Properties of dried materials

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   Pages 18-23

4. Characterization of drying processes

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5. The equations of balance

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6. Thermodynamic foundations of dried materials in elastic range

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7. Thermodynamics of viscoelastic materials under drying

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8. Plasticity in drying

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9. Destruction of materials by drying

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10. Conditions of stress generation and boundary conditions

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11. Approach to numerical analysis in drying

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12. One-dimensional initial-boundary value problems

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13. Drying induced stresses in products of cylindrical and spherical symmetry

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14. Mechanical effects in dried materials examined on the basis of two-dimensional boundary value problems

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    Pages 249-291

15. Dried materials with anisotropic structure

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16. Experimental studies in drying

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17. Back Matter

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This book is interdisciplinary in character and combines the knowledge of me­ chanics and chemical engineering with the aim of presenting a more exhaustive analysis ofthe phenomena occurring in wet materials during drying. Traditionally, the subject of drying has been an almost exclusive domain of chemical engineers. The drying curricula have mostly included only the courses of heat and mass transfer or diffusion. The mechanical phenomena that accompany drying, as for example, warping or deformation of dried materials, or the drying induced stresses and fissures of the material, were ignored or considered in a rather obscure way. This book broadens the scope of drying theory, bringing into the curriculum the tools enabling the study of both heat and mass transport processes and the me­ chanical phenomena that occur in wet materials under drying. There is little available literature that brings together heat and mass transport processes and mechanical phenomena in a unified approach todrying processes.

• chemical engineering
• deformation
• elasticity
• optimization
• phase Transition
• porous media
• simulation
• thermodynamics
• viscoelasticity
• wood

• Institute of Technology and Chemical Engineering, Poznań University of Technology, Poznań, Poland

  Stefan J. Kowalski

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