Effect of Silicate Fume -Based Activating Solution on Mechanical Properties of Fly Ash/Silica Fume Geopolymer Concrete by Yasmin Abdel Aziz, Abeer El Malky

“…The alkaline activator solution was employed at 30%, 35%, and 40% of binder weight, with different SF/NaOH ratios (0.75, 1.5, and 2.0) to enhance the activation process. …”
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The Influence of the Labeling Effect on the Perception of Command Execution Delay in Gaming by Duy H. Nguyen, Peter A. Kara

“…While such descriptions may be compressed into a couple of words, even a single word may impact user experience. …”
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Microdamage caused by fatigue loading in human cancellous bone: relationship to reductions in bone biomechanical performance. by Floor M Lambers, Amanda R Bouman, Clare M Rimnac, Christopher J Hernandez

“…Cyclic loading was suspended before failure at one of seven different amounts of loading and specimens were stained for microdamage using lead uranyl acetate. …”
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Application of Qusaiba Kaolinite Clays as Secondary Cementitious Material in Oil Well Cementing by Abdulmalek Ahmed, Ahmed Abdulhamid Mahmoud, Salaheldin Elkatatny, Dhafer Al Shehri, Korhan Ayranci

“…Six heavyweight cement samples with different kaolinite concentrations were prepared under high pressure and high temperature (HPHT) conditions. …”
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Tribological response of waste tire rubber as micro-fillers in automotive brake lining materials by Anand Pai, Sayikumar Subramanian, Tribhuvan Sood

“…Mechanical characterization comprising compressive strength, hardness, density, and porosity studies were carried out. …”
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Hybrid multi-criteria decision making approaches for transtibial prostheses socket material selection by Tarun Rijwani, Gurusharan Dumra, Kumar Abhishek, Ganesh Iyer

“…High density polyethylene (HDPE), polypropylene (PP), nylon 6 (Polyamide 6), nylon 12 (Polyamide 12), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), unsaturated polyester resin, epoxy resin, vinyl ester resin, carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP), and polylactic acid (PLA) are assessed based on density, specific compressive strength, yield strength, young’s modulus, thermal conductivity, and relative cost of material. …”
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Effect of Elevated Temperature on Microstructural and Durability Properties of High-Strength Concrete-Containing Eggshell by Samuel Sisay Asgedom, Bahiru Bewket Mitikie

“…Regression analysis provided a more reliable expression for the relationship between the residual compressive strength and UPV with R2 values of 0.9833 and 0.9966 for control and 5%ESP mixes, respectively. …”
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Optimization method for educational resource recommendation combining LSTM and feature weighting by Meixia Yang

“…Therefore, a personalized educational resource recommendation model on the basis of bidirectional long short-term memory and feature weighting is proposed in the experiment. The compressed interactive network is used to clarify the data, and the channel attention mechanism is used to weight the data. …”
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Optimizing encrypted search in the cloud using autoencoder-based query approximation by Mahmoud Mohamed, Khaled Alosman

“…Our research contributes a systematic analysis of how different architectural and training choices impact performance. …”
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MEASUREMENTS OF THE ROCK THERMAL PROPERTIES ON THE STANDARD CORE PLUGS AS A NECESSARY STAGE OF THE THERMALPHYSIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THE HYDROCARBON FIELDS by E. YU. Popov, R. A. Romushkevich, YU. A. Popov

“…The data on correlations between the thermal conductivity and compressive sonic wave veiocity for dolomites are given that were obtained from the core plug collection investigations.…”
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Risk assessment and support optimization for cable trench construction in soft soil areas in Zhejiang province by Linlin Zhang, Rong Bian, Keji Chen, Guoqiang Li, Miaosong Gu

“…Abstract The construction of underground structures such as cable trenches in soft soil areas presents unique challenges due to the high compressibility, low strength, and variability of the soil. …”
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Determination of Optimum Quantity of Cassava Peel Ash (CPA) as Partial Replacement of Cement for Maximum Concrete Strength and its Cost Analysis. by Nasasira, Johnson

“…The cassava peels were sundried and burnt into ash in the furnace at 700-800oc and their chemical and physical properties were studied using the X-ray Fluorescence method which was found to contain elements such as calcium dioxide 85.677%, iron (iii) oxide 5.662%, silicon dioxide 3.517%, potassium oxide 1.731%, aluminum oxide 1.515% manganese(ii) oxide 0.803%, phosphorous pent oxide 0.456%, titanium oxide 0.310%, chromium (ii) oxide 0.143%, and magnesium oxide 0.109%. blended pastes containing OPC and 45 cubes were caster with cassava peel ash (CPA) at different percentage replacement, 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% were investigated for consistency, initial and final setting time for the blended paste CPA- OPC pastes and dry density of cubes and compressive strength of grade 25 (C25) Concrete. …”
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Modeling of Wave Processes in Hydraulic Drive Systems of Technological Equipment by Ivanchuk Y. V., Belzetskyi R. S., Ozeranskyi V. S., Khomenko V. M., Dobrovolska K. V.

“…With the help of the developed methods, the primary dynamic parameters of the amplitude-frequency characteristics of continuous viscous and weakly compressed liquid in the pipeline of hydraulic systems for different flow ranges. …”
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Producing 100+ MPa Field Concrete in Developing Countries: Requirements and Challenges by Youssef ElHawary, Mohamed Hamdy, John Haroun, Omar Youssef, Tamer Breakah, Mohamed Nagib

“…However, producing ultra-high strength concrete surpassing 100 MPa compressive strength in the field remains a challenging task. …”
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Exploitation and Maintenance of Biomethane-Powered Truck and Bus Fleets to Assure Safety and Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Saša Milojević, Ondrej Stopka, Olga Orynycz, Karol Tucki, Branislav Šarkan, Slobodan Savić

“…The reason for this is due to the higher concentration of energy per unit volume of the reservoirs and the lower storage pressure and thus higher safety compared to the high-pressure storage option (compressed biomethane). The presented research is related to a proposition regarding the design of drive systems of city buses using biomethane as fuel in cases when fuel is stored on-board the vehicle as gas in a compressed aggregate state. …”
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Treated Coconut Coir Pith as Component of Cementitious Materials by Dana Koňáková, Eva Vejmelková, Monika Čáchová, Jamal Akhter Siddique, Kirill Polozhiy, Pavel Reiterman, Martin Keppert, Robert Černý

“…Its applicability as cement mixture component was assessed in terms of the physical properties of concrete containing different amount of coir pith. Basic physical properties, compressive and bending strength, and hygric transport characteristics as well as thermal properties belong among the studied characteristics. …”
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Synergistic Effect of Alccofine as Partial Replacement of Cement and M-Sand as Sand Substitution in Concrete for the Assessment of Mechanical and Microstructural Properties by Yellinedi Madhavi, R.S. Ravichandran, J.Saravanan, N. VenkataSairam Kumar

“…The mechanical qualities of the mixtures were evaluated using six different mixes prepared for each M25 and M40 Grade. …”

An Experimental Investigation on the Mechanical Properties including Strength and Flexural Toughness of Mortar Reinforced with Steel-Carbon Hybrid Fibers by Gwang-Hee Heo, Jong-Gun Park, Dong-Ju Seo, Hyung-Min Jun, Sung-Gon Koh

“…The test results showed the highest compressive and flexural strengths in the hybrid FRM reinforced with 75% steel fibers + 25% carbon fibers, confirming the synergistic reinforcing effect of the steel and carbon hybrid fibers. …”
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Analysis of the Influence of Excavated Soil Sand Characteristics on the Rheological and Mechanical Properties of Hydraulic Mortars by Lara Saad, Mustapha Nouri, Mahfoud Tahlaiti, Abdelhafid Khelidj, Julien Fruchet, Prannoy Suraneni

“…The study includes compressive and flexural strength tests at 2, 7, 14 and 28 days. …”
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Experimental Study on Frost Durability of Sprayed Glass Fibre Epoxy Mortar (GFEM)-Reinforced Concrete Specimens by Jianhui Si, Yuanhao Li, Wenshuo Sun, Xiaoyu Niu, Junpeng Ju, Lizhe He, Junlin Xiang

“…The apparent morphology, mass loss rate, ultrasonic velocity, freeze–thaw damage, and strength loss rate of each group of specimens after different freeze–thaw cycles were analysed comparatively. …”
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