Development of moringa seed powder-modified slag geopolymers for enhanced mechanical properties and effective dye removal by Soher A. Hashish, Essam A. Kishar, Doaa A. Ahmed, Sheren M. Ragei, Aya Allah M. Ebrahim

“…The geopolymers (SM1, SM2, and SM3) were created by adding different percentages of MSP (0.2%, 0.6%, and 1% by weight) to ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBFS), using sodium silicate and 10 M sodium hydroxide as alkali activators. …”
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Enhancement of Mechanical and Chloride Binding Properties in Seawater Cement Using a Novel Carbon Nanomaterial by Yin Hu, Tianyao Hong, Sheng Zhou, Chuang He, Haijie He, Shifang Wang

“…And the strengths and chloride binding performance of different specimens are analyzed by compressive/flexural strength tests and chloride adsorption equilibrium tests. …”
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Enhancing strength and sustainability of concrete with steel slag aggregate by Ibrahim Kamal Ibrahim, Mohammed Rady, Nouran M. Tawfik, Mahmoud Kassem, Sameh Youssef Mahfouz

“…To further validate the compressive strength improvements and quantify data variability, a statistical analysis was conducted. …”
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Data driven tensile strength prediction for fiber-reinforced rubberized recycled aggregate concrete using machine learning by Avijit Pal, Khondaker Sakil Ahmed, Nur Yazdani

“…The incorporation of different ingredients and mixing proportions makes this property nearly unpredictable. …”
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Influence of Water Immersion on Coal Rocks and Failure Patterns of Underground Coal Pillars Considering Strength Reduction by Haihua Zhu, Peitao Wang, Kewei Zhang, Yijun Gao, Zhenwu Qi, Meifeng Cai

“…A negative exponential function relationship is observed between the compressive strength of coal and the immersion duration. …”
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Behavior of Nylon Fiber Reinforced Concrete at Elevated Temperature by Abhijit Nath Abhi, Mir Mohiuddin, Maysha Ulfat, Sharmin Chowdhury, Raisul Shuvo

“…In this study, experiments have been conducted to better understand the behavior of nylon fiber-reinforced concrete at elevated temperatures by using 17 mm, 25 mm, and 50 mm nylon fiber at 1.5% and 3% dosages. When comparing different temperatures, such as normal temperature condition and elevated temperature conditions (400 °C and 800 °C), always 1.5% dosage has shown the best result for compressive strength and split tensile strength. …”
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Development of sustainable sandcrete bricks using industrial and agricultural waste by Bamidele Charles Olaiya, Mustapha Muhammad Lawan, Kolawole Adisa Olonade, Sani Aliyu Abubakar

“…After casting and curing the bricks under controlled conditions, they underwent mechanical and durability testing. With a compressive strength value of 4.281 MPa, Bricks incorporating 8% SDA-BLA replacement demonstrated improved compressive strength development throughout the testing period because of the pozzolanic activity exhibited by the ashes. …”
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Finite Element Analysis of the Bearing Component of Total Ankle Replacement Implants during the Stance Phase of the Gait Cycle by Timothy S. Jain, Mohammad Noori, Joseph J. Rencis, Amanda Anderson, Naudereh Noori, Scott Hazelwood

“…The von Mises stress and contact pressure were examined on the articulating surface of the bearing component in two newly installed fixed-bearing TAA implants (Wright Medical INBONE II and Exactech Vantage). Six different FEA models of variable ankle compressive load levels and ankle angle positions, for the varying subphases of the stance phase of the gait cycle, were created. …”
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Mechanical Properties and Accuracy of Additively Manufactured Silicone Soft Tissue Materials by Pei Xin Chen, John M. Aarts, Joanne Jung Eun Choi

“…Mechanical testing was conducted for tensile and compressive strength by a universal testing machine and Shore A hardness by a durometer. …”
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Pressure-driven polymeric membrane performance prediction, new membrane dimensionless number, and considerations for effective membrane design, selection, testing, and operation by Alexander R. Anim-Mensah, Alexander R. Anim-Mensah

“…A model is here developed which relates membrane performance, indicated by the permeate solute concentration (Cpi) of species i, to the real-time compressive Young’s modulus (E) during compaction with permeation under a transmembrane pressure (ΔP) or compressive stress. …”
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Behavior of unconfined steel-fiber reinforced UHPC post high-temperature exposure by Sohit Agrawal, Erika Yulianti, Mugahed Amran, Chung-Chan Hung

“…Moreover, variations in the heating rates adopted across different studies further complicate the ability to formulate broad, generalizable conclusions. …”
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Strength Characteristics of DMJ Piles Based on Indoor Tests by Hongzhi Yue, Yuhe Zhang, Yu Rong, Weizhe Feng, Yang Wang, Lin Zhao, Songtao Wang, Ruosong Ding, Fan Yang, Zhanyong Yao, Kai Yao

“…In order to investigate the pile strength and its distribution characteristics under different conditions, an unconfined compressive strength test was conducted on DMJ pile core samples. …”
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Experimental study on reinforced retaining walls using stabilized silty clay with geogrid reinforcement by Hua Wen, Yanglin Gou, LiLi Yin, Mohammad Najafzadeh, Jiujiang Wu

“…A stabilization method incorporating 2 % soil stabilizing liquid, 10 % densifying powder, and 4 % Portland cement was optimized to enhance clay compaction, shear strength, and compressive strength. Model experiments were conducted under varying wall configurations, including natural slopes, stabilized retaining walls, and reinforced stabilized walls with different slope ratios. …”
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Energy-space random walk in a driven disordered Bose gas by Zhang, Yansheng, Martirosyan, Gevorg, Ho, Christopher Junhong, Etrych, Jiří, Eigen, Christoph, Hadzibabic, Zoran

“…Motivated by the experimental observation [1] that driving a non-interacting Bose gas in a 3D box with weak disorder leads to power-law energy growth, $E \propto t^{\eta }$ with $\eta =0.46(2)$, and compressed-exponential momentum distributions that show dynamic scaling, we perform systematic numerical and analytical studies of this system. …”
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A Simulation of the Densification Process of NdFeB Bulks by a Modified Drucker–Prager Cap Model by Tao Song, Wenbin Jin, Fang Cheng, Bo Sun, Wenbin Qiu, Nan Liu, Hongliang Ge, Rui Wang, Huayun Mao

“…During the sintering process of NdFeB bulks, temperature changes and significant temperature differences between the bulk interior and the surface region will produce high residual stress. …”
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Understanding the post-curing behaviors of polymethylacrylimide: Curing kinetics and molecular mobility by Yuan Chen, Xiaolian Qiang, Yaping Zhang, Ningning Song, Lixian Guo, Siyuan Zhang, Chunrong Tian, Keping Chen

“…Differential scanning calorimetry results identified three distinct temperature zones during the post-curing process, which represented different types of curing reactions. Model-free kinetic methods were used to evaluate the post-curing kinetics of PMI materials. …”
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Effect of temperature and fibre reinforcement on dynamic crush performance of glass-polyamide 6 composite tubes by Holger Böhm, Jonas Richter, Jinbong Kim, Mungyu Jeong, Andreas Hornig, Maik Gude

“…In this study, the dynamic axial crushing response of tubular specimens made of glass-polyamide 6 composite material, with either mat or continuous bidirectional fibre reinforcement is experimentally investigated under three different temperature settings: −40 °C, 23 °C and 80 °C. …”
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Flexible and wake-up free Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 ferroelectric thin films with ultra-low operation voltage and high polarization by Jun-Hui Wang, Tian-Peng Duan, Jia-Jia Liao, Zhi-Peng Wang, Xin-Ran Huang, Shi-Jie Jia, Ke-Yu Bao, Yu-Xin Fan, Bing-Jian Zeng, Li-Mei Jiang, Min Liao, Yi-Chun Zhou, Qiong Yang, Jie Jiang

“…The polarization switching dynamics under bending are investigated based on the switching current measurement, suggesting that the intrinsic switching speeds keep almost constant at different bending radii. In addition, there is a negative correlation between the activation field and the compressive or tensile stress, which is due to the lowered energy barrier induced by the in-plane strain applied to the [111]-oriented hexagonal cell. …”
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Study of the Effect of Hemp Fibers and Brick Waste Powder on the Mechanical Characteristics of Mortar: Experimental and Statistical Analysis by Yazid Chetbani, Messaouda Boumaaza, Rebih Zaitri, Ahmed Belaadi, Aissa Ben Mahammed, Aissa Laouissi, Ibrahim M.H. Alshaikh, Djamel Ghernaout

“…Using response surface methodology (RSM), different proportions of HF (0, 0.25, 0.5%) and BWP (0, 10, 20%) were tested to optimize flowability, compressive and flexural strength. …”
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Case study of the dynamics of thermal expansion of concrete in pavements of South Kazakhstan by Zh.A. Shakhmov, K.K. Mukhambetkaliev, R.E. Lukpanov, D.S. Dyussembinov, A.A. Zhumagulova, D.O. Bazarbayev, A.E. Jexembayeva

“…It was assumed that as the concrete's density and compressive strength increased, the linear expansion coefficient also increased. …”
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