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Dried materials have been called wet porous bodies under drying conditions. All dried materials (bodies) may be considered as almost fully saturated during the constant drying rate period. When the drying process reaches the critical point, that is, since the beginning of the falling rate period, the body will be considered as partly saturated.
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Kowalski, S.J. (2003). The equations of balance. In: Thermomechanics of Drying Processes. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36405-4_4
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