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An Article About Albertus C. Van Raalte, Author Unknown, Except for Parts Taken from an Article by Anna C. Post
No full textAn article about Albertus C. Van Raalte, author unknown, except for parts taken from an article by Anna C. Post. The author knew first generation persons in the Holland settlement and therefore, the article has some value.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1890s/1012/thumbnail.jp
Feasibility of wood peeling assisted by infrared heating
No full text"Peeling" is the process of converting a log into a continuous thin (from 0.6 to more than 3 mm) ribbon of green wood termed "veneer" whose production plays an important role in the manufacture of light-weight packaging, plywood and Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) which are amongst the most widely used wood products. Prior to peeling, the round green-wood of most species needs to be heated to temperatures ranging from 30 to 90 degrees Celcius in order to soften the wood and ease cutting. Forming part of a broader program to develop a system that could be embedded on a peeling lathe, the foal of this PhD thesis was to investigate the technological feasibility of using infrared (IR) to heat green logs and so circumvent many of the economic and environmental disadvantages arising from soaking. The main output of this study was to demonstrate that the penetration depth of IR into green woods is limited to several tens of micrometers and that heat transfers into green wood up to the cutting plane (locating several millimeters underneath the surface) is by conduction, which is slow due to the insulating properties of wood. Heating green wood with IR radiation is therefore unsuitable for the high peeling rates currently in use in the industry
Mid-infrared absorption properties of green wood
No full textThere is a lack of quantitative data on the penetration depth and the amount of energy absorbed by green wood under infrared (IR) radiation. This lack of knowledge is a potential barrier to the development of IR heating as an alternative to soaking as a means of warming logs prior to peeling in the manufacture of plywood. Experimental measurements of normal hemispherical spectral reflectance and transmittance over the range 550–5,500 cm-1 wavenumbers on four wood species, beech, birch, Douglas-fir and spruce have brought new knowledge on mid-infrared absorption properties of green wood and removed some uncertainties. For instance, it is not possible to deliver energy deeper than up to 0.3 mm below the wood surface because 70–90 % of all incident IR radiation on the wood surface is absorbed in this layer. Some wood features, such as surface quality, the presence of knots and of free water in wood (the latter two having a more significant effect) influence the amount of energy absorbed. These results illustrate that IR radiation can heat the surface layers, but then heat penetrates deeper into the inside layers of wood by conduction.Institut Carnot ARTS, RYM-TO Doctoral Schoo
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Selection of work by Anna Gerber
No full textVarious journals and magazines Anna Gerber has contributed to. Anna Gerber is a graphic designer and writer based in London.
She is the author and designer of All Messed Up: Unpredictable Graphics (Laurence King, 2004) and co-editor and co-designer
of Influences: A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design (Die Gestalten Verlag, 2006) with Anja Lutz. She writes regularily for magazines such as Print, Eye, Creative Review, Varoom and Idea Magazine and her work has also been published in shift!, dot dot dot and +rosebud.
She teaches at the London College of Communication on the BA Graphic Design and MA Design Writing Criticism programmes. She has also held workshops and lectures across the U.K. (including Tate Modern and the V&A Museum), as well as in India, the U.S., Australia and Malaysia.
Anna Gerber is currently engaged in research and developing projects relating to sustainability and how it applies to graphic
design as well as exploring contemporary graphic design in India
Author and Lecturer Anna Bird Stewart will Speak at the University of Dayton
No full textNews release announcing the visitation and speech of author and lecturer Anna Bird Stewart to the University of Dayton
Operatori del processo edilizio
No full textLemma che descrive i diversi attori del processo edilizio, con particolare attenzione al processo edilizio pubblico - ISBN:ISSN 2284-00IX - visibile su: Wikitecnica.com/author/giovenale-anna-mari
Processo edilizio
No full textLemma che descrive e reinterpreta, rispetto alla letteratura scientifica, il concetto di processo edilizio, definendone l'evoluzione nel tempo ISBN:ISSN 2284-00IX - Visibile su: wikitecnica.com/author/giovenale-anna-mari
Metaprogettazione
No full textLemma che descrive il concetto di metaprogettazione e pone in risalto l'importanza nell'architettura contemporanea dello strumento "metaprogetto" - ISBN:ISSN 2284-00IX - visibile su: Wikitecnica.com/author/giovenale-anna-mari
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