Surface Skin and Case Hardening: A Dry Exterior Can Hide a Moist Interior

Define the Material or Thermodynamic Model

The primary elastic dehydration model considers a stiff outer skin around a softer drying core. Continued water removal can create mechanical stress and change internal pore geometry. The relevant explanation involves stiffness and constrained deformation, not simply a low average moisture value.

Review a Hypothetical Comparison

In a fictional thought experiment, a core would freely reduce its diameter from 20 to 19 mm during an interval. Its bonded outer skin instead holds the interface diameter at 20 mm. The 1 mm mismatch is a displacement compatibility problem. It identifies a need for a coupled mechanical account; it does not calculate a stress, crack or cavity without the necessary constitutive and geometric information.

Keep the Evidence with the Decision

Ask whether the skin is mechanically distinct, whether the interface remains bonded and whether the core still loses water. Document independent deformation evidence rather than using an average mass change to infer a rigid shell.

The idealization may suit some soft materials and fail for others. No universal skin stiffness, drying condition or damage threshold is proposed, and the source’s numerical pore-expansion cases are not reused.

Which spatial evidence distinguishes a restricted outer layer from a uniformly dry solid?

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Primary References

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