In this study, the ability of neural network models for lamb carcass classification was compared with a multivariate statistical technique with respect to the classification accuracy. The lamb carcass classification system ...

Meat quality is a subject of growing interest. The meat industry, in response to consumer demand for products of consistent quality, is placing more and more emphasis on quality assurance issues. Tenderness is an important ...

In this study, the Duration of Load (DOL) for crack initiation and propagation, crack speed, and load carrying capacity were investigated for three Rates of Loading (ROL) and four sizes of notched wood beams using high-speed ...

This paper presents a lamb carcass classification system based on image and texture analyses together with multivariate statistical techniques (principal component analysis, cluster analysis and discriminant function ...

Fracture toughness of New Zealand Pinus radiata in TL opening mode was determined from the displacement fields obtained from digital image correlation for about 400 data points within a 7x9 mm² area in front of the tip ...

One hundred and sixty radiata pine boards were dried using different methods (air drying, commercial kiln drying and laboratory kiln drying) to study the effect of knot, wood and seasoning variables on the nature of knot ...

This paper presents results of an investigation conducted to study displacement and strain field surrounding a crack tip in timber in tension using the Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technique. Opening mode fracture was ...

During drying, heat and mass transport in timber results in deformation. Heat transport in timber has long been an important topic in drying technology. In this paper, Lykov's formulas, which were originally developed for ...

As a result of constantly growing consumer expectations for meat quality, the meat industry is placing more and more emphasis on quality assurance issues. Fat content in meat influences some important meat quality ...