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Published in Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, Craig Golding, What is Music Production?, 2012
Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, Craig Golding
As with any art, it needs to be captured so that it can be portrayed. Paintings need a canvas upon which they can be structured and later viewed. Music requires some form of canvas too. This can of course be manuscript using traditional notation, or a sound wave captured in either digital or analog form. The captured work needs to be structured or formed. In music production and recording terms, forming means mixing so the elements can be balanced accordingly. For the painter, this would mean less red, more light, and so on.
Economic strategies for low-temperature transportation of asphalt pavement: a comparative analysis of temperature variations
Published in International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 2022
Xuefei Wang, Peng Pan, Jianmin Zhang, Guowei Ma, Jiale Li
The cooling process mainly reflects the performance of insulation materials in the aspect of heat transfer rate between the aluminium box and the ambient temperature. Materials with slow cooling rates have better thermal insulation effects. All types of materials are cooled after reaching the preset temperature, and the tests are stopped at approximately 90°C (as shown in Figure 4(b)). The heating periods of various materials are different, and hence the initial temperatures of the colling procedure are set at the same starting point. The temperature curve shows that the rock wool-silicon titanium fabric takes the longest time in the cooling test, followed by industrial shoddy cotton, and the canvas takes the shortest time. The conclusion is consistent with the heating test. Notably, the canvas with coating is worse than that of the original canvas during cooling after a certain period, but this phenomenon does not occur for industrial shoddy cotton.
Design and research of life-saving cotton-blended miners’ clothing
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2022
Ren Xiangfang, Shen Lei, Zhang Xiying, Chen Han, Huang Yan, Jin Peng
Miners’ clothing has been defined as ordinary work clothes, so the fabrics used are mostly 100% cotton or blended chemical fiber fabrics. In terms of fabric selection, at present, most of China’s large state-owned coal miners’ work clothes are blue–black 100% cotton denim fabrics, canvas fabrics, etc., which are of good quality and durable. Although 100% cotton fabrics are not treated with anti-static treatment, they can be used in high humidity underground. After moisture absorption in the environment, it also has a certain anti-static function (air humidity is more than 50%). Cotton fiber is also flammable, which will also produce static electricity, causing potential safety hazards of clothing. Although in some mines the traditional 100% cotton fabric also has an anti-static effect, different mine environments have different humidity and temperature, which requires fabric with anti-static performance and a flame-retardant effect [27]; mine working properties are high endurance and high strength, and clothes are often subject to friction and scratch, so the strength of the fabric should be wear resistant and scratch resistant. Generally, it is damp under the mine, and there are oil stains produced by machines and coal. Therefore, the fabric should have the function of being waterproof and anti-oil staining. A plain cool color should be selected, which can reduce the depression and tension of workers in the mine.
Thread-by-thread tear mendings in conservation of canvas paintings: a problem of reproducibility in bonding qualities
Published in The Journal of Adhesion, 2021
Hannah Flock, Stefan Diebels, Elisabeth Jägers, Wulff Possart
Textile canvas supports for paintings are produced from different natural and synthetic fibres. The most common is flax/linen as a natural bast fibre, especially in historic canvas paintings. Main component of flax bast fibres is cellulose as a polysaccharide. In general, cellulose fibres consist of bundled fibrils, which consist of microfibrils themselves.[1] Due to this complex, multilayered structure several internal voids emerge, which are accessible for e.g. water vapour molecules that absorb only within the amorphous fibre sectors (crystalline sectors are not capable to absorb water).[2–3] Therefore, the material has hygroscopic properties.