The effect of temperature, rest period, and water content on stress relaxation in doughs held at constant extension has been studied with a relaxometer previously described. Temperature was varied from 13 to 35°C, rest period from 2 to 120 min, and water content from 74.4 percent to 86.0 percent dry basis. It is found that the shape of the relaxation curves on a log time plot does not change with temperature in the above range but that the curve is shifted laterally along the log time axis. This permits the construction of master curves valid in the temperature range and extends the time scale of observation. The long relaxation time end of the distribution of relaxation times is affected most by rest period, decreasing as rest period is increased, and the short time end increases as water content is decreased. Activation energies from 11 to 24 kcal per mole are calculated for relaxation from the shift of the curve on the log time axis. There is an indication that the activation energy depends on temperature and increases with rest period. A mathematical framework, based on the general Maxwell model, is discussed and the distribution function on the log time axis is interpreted in terms of viscosity and modulus of the relaxing mechanisms. Special reference is made to the ``box distribution'' and a viscosity is calculated.
Ten electrical moisture meters were tested with 159 samples of Canadian hard red spring wheat, of Grades 1, 2, 3, and 4 Northern, representing a moisture range of 11 to 17%. The two-stage vacuum oven and Brown–Duvel methods were used as bases of comparison. Regression equations, standard errors of estimate, and data on temperature effects are reported. The standard error of estimate of vacuum oven results was 0.15% for the Brown–Duvel method, 0.23% for the Tag–Heppenstall meter, and 0.28% for the Universal meter. Other meters had higher errors of estimate.
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