Ready to eat packaging Strength and stability
When the bowl is also the packaging and cooking container, the loading varies from stacking loads, to high temperature, to stiffness while hot.
Chips Minimize breakage
A snack food manufacturer designed a new chip expressly for the purpose of scooping dip. They were concerned that the chip would mostly break. Using experimentally determined flexural properties of the product, we performed a parametric study on geometry and thickness to determine the Weibull distribution of breakage.
Extruder Strength and fatigue
Many snack products are manufactured by extruding the product while under high pressure and temperature. When the product exits the die, it flash cooks. The pressures are very high and the geometry is not optimal for pressure vessels.
Sheet roller Thickness uniformity
In producing some snack food products, the precursor sheet must be of uniform thickness. Because of the high pressures required to roll the dry dough, controlling the deflection requires careful analysis.