Many different ingredients and raw materials are processed to make chilled foods. At harvest or slaughter these materials may have a wide range of microbes in or on them. Some of them carry the micro-organisms that cause their eventual spoilage(e.g. bacilli or Lactic acid bacteria) whilst others pick them up during harvesting or processing

Chilled foods are foods which are cooled to a temperature above their freezing point and which need to be maintained at that temperature to preserve quality Generally such foods will lose value if frozen, and in many cases freezing will destroy them. From the refrigeration viewpoint, the range of foods regarded as chilled is very wide. In this chapter they are taken to include fresh fruits and vegetables, both temperate and tropical in origin, the whole range of meat, fish

Have dealt, thus far, with perfect columns, loading eccentricities, and beam-columns. There are, however, many more issues in buckling/(static) structural instability, most of which will try to touch on a) Buckling versus Fracture Have looked at columns that are long enough such that they buckle

We have looked at basic in-plane loading. Lets now consider a second\building block of types of loading: basic torsion There are 3 basic types of behavior depending on the type of cross-section

We have thus far looked at In-plane loads torsional loads In addition, structures can carry loads by bending. The 2-D case is a plate, the simple 1-d case is a beam. Let's first review what you learned in Unified as Simple Beam Theory

Summarizing what we've looked at in elasticity, we have: 15 equations in 15 unknowns 3 equilibrium -6 strains -6 strain-displacement -3 displacements

Recall the definition of stress: o stress =\intensity of internal force at a point\ Figure 3.1 Representation of cross-section of a general body

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