Research Catalog

Title

Mineral wool : production and properties / B. Širok, B. Blagojević and P. Bullen.

Author

Širok, B. (Brane)

Publication

Cambridge, England : Woodhead : Cambridge International Publishing ; Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blagojević, B. (Bogdan)
• Bullen, P. (Peter Ronald)

Description

x, 185 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series Statement

Woodhead Publishing in materials

Uniform Title

Woodhead Publishing in materials

Subject

• Mineral wool
• Glass fibers
• glass wool
• glass fiber
• Materials science
• Building construction & materials

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-183) and index.

Contents

• MELTING THE RAW MATERIALS: Cupola furnace operation: cupola -- Influence of underdraft on cupola operation -- Measuring temperature and concentrations in the cupola furnace -- MULTUPLE REGRESSION: Hypothesis testing in multiple linear regression -- PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MINERAL WOOL MELTS: Density -- Viscosity -- Surface tension -- Computing algorithm for calculation of density, viscosity and surface tension of mineral wool melts -- DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS: Foundations of dimensional analysis -- FIBERISATION PROCESS: Dimensional analysis of the fiberisation process on a double-wheel spinning machine -- Simulation of chemical composition's influence of fiber thickness -- Regression model of mineral wool fibers on a four-wheel spinning machine -- Cooling of glass fibers -- VISUALISATION METHOD IN REAL PRODUCTION PROCESSES: Monitoring the production process -- Reconstruction of the jet and its trajectory -- APPLYING THE VISUALISATION METHOD TO MEASURING THE THICKNESS OF MINERAL WOOL FIBERS: Experimental results of fiber diameter on a double-wheel spinning machine
• INFLUENCE OF MELTING FILM TEMPERATURE ON THE FIBRE DIAMETER DISTRIBUTION IN MINERAL WOOL PRODUCED BY A DOUBLE-WHEEL SPINNING MACHINE: Thermovision of the spinning wheel melt film -- FORMAITON OF THE PRIMARY LAYER: Influence of blow away velocity field on the primary layer fiber structure in the mineral production process -- Visualization method for measuring the primary layer -- NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF FLOW PROPERTIES IN THE COLLECTION CHAMBER: Numerical analysis -- Numerical results of flow properties in the operating collection chamber -- Numerical simulation of modified geometry of the collection chamber -- Local distribution and spectral analysis of the primary layer structure -- QYALITY OF THE PRIMARY LAYER AND ITS INFLUENCE OF THE FINAL PRODUCT: Experiments -- Regression model of the specific density of the final product -- CURING CHAMBER: Measure of mineral wool layer temperature characteristics along the curing chamber -- Measurements of aerodynamics resistive characteristics of mineral wool layer -- Diagnostics of local homogeneities in the mineral wool layer.

ISBN

• 9781845694067
• 1845694066
• 9781420070453
• 1420070452
• 9781904602637
• 1904602630

OCLC

• ocn181142654
• 181142654
• SCSB-9124006

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library