Concrete with recycled aggregates from construction: Properties, emissions and carbon capture assessment by Eduardo Rigo, Giovanna Patrícia Gava, Emerson Felipe Felix, Pietra Moraes Borges, Edna Possan

“…Concrete mixtures with different water/cement ratios (0.45 and 0.65) and RA replacement levels (0 %, 50 %, and 100 %) were made and studied. …”
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Fracability evaluation and classification of deep coal reservoirs in the Shenfu block by Wenchun PENG, Honggang MI, Lifu XU, Jian WU

“…The minimum horizontal principal stress ranges from 17.5 to 40.8 MPa, with an average of 33.8 MPa. The difference in horizontal principal stress ranges from 2.9 to 6.8 MPa, with an average of 5.7 MPa. ③ The fracability index is calculated by the dynamic Elastic modulus, dynamic tensile strength, dynamic compressive strength, dynamic Poisson's ratio, horizontal principal stress difference of coal, and minimum horizontal principal stress difference between the roof and floor of the coal seam. …”
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Study on the advancement process of alkali loss and deterioration of concrete under MgSO4 erosion by Zhongzhe Zhang, Hua Yin, Shuai Hao, Meiqi Cao, Yumeng Du, Yongsheng Ji

“…To clarify the damage mechanism of the layer erosion argillization of concrete eroded by sulfate attack, this study investigates the compressive strength decay characteristics of eroded concrete. …”
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Microstructural, Mechanical and Fresh-State Performance of BOF Steel Slag in Alkali-Activated Binders: Experimental Characterization and Parametric Mix Design Method by Lucas B. R. Araújo, Daniel L. L. Targino, Lucas F. A. L. Babadopulos, Heloina N. Costa, Antonio E. B. Cabral, Juceline B. S. Bastos

“…The results showed that lower silica modulus (0.75) achieved the highest compressive strength at 80.1 MPa (28 d) for pastes compressive strength, densifying the composite matrix. …”
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A novel BCC-L21-BCC hierarchical heterostructure high entropy alloy with excellent corrosion resistance and mechanical properties in as-cast state by Shuai Hu, Junyang Zheng, Guangzeng Zhang, Jiakai Xing, Ran Wei, Tan Wang, Shaojie Wu, Yongfu Cai, Shaokang Guan, Fushan Li, Chen Chen

“…Moreover, this HEA exhibits not only excellent corrosion resistance in 3.5 wt% NaCl solution that close to super-stainless steels, but also high mechanical properties combining yield strength of 1712 ± 56 MPa, compressive plasticity of 21.2% ± 0.5% and hardness of ∼560 Hv. …”
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Experimental Study on the Influence of DPF Micropore Structure and Particle Property on Its Filtration Process by Zhongwei Meng, Jia Fang, Yunfei Pu, Yan Yan, Yi Wu, Yongzhong Wang, Qiang Song

“…The particle layer thickness was directly measured online to analyze the different filtration stages. The influence of particle property on particle layer stage performance was also investigated. …”
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On the microstructure evolution and fracture behavior of titanium alloy plates subjected to underwater explosion by Pan Zhang, Yuan Guo, Jianhui Wei, Fei Yan, Chang Ye, Xiaoyang Lu, Peng Jiang, Yuansheng Cheng

“…The objectives of current study are to examine the dynamic behaviors of the Ti80 alloy plates with different heat treatment processes in response to underwater explosion. …”
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Research on the Performance and Mix Ratio Optimization Design of Recycled Aggregate from Construction Waste for Lime-Fly Ash Stabilized Crushed Stone Base Materials by Yong Chen, Zhi Liu, Xianhu Hu, Kai Wang, Yingjie Yuan, Weixuan Xu, Changjin TIAN, Wei Lu, Zhenguo Lu, Kun Meng

“…Specimens of lime-fly ash stabilized crushed stone base layers with different mix proportions were prepared, and experimental research was conducted on the mechanical properties and frost resistance of the recycled aggregate lime-fly ash stabilized crushed stone base layers. …”
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Effect of Mechanical Force Stress on the Inflammatory Response in Human Periodontal Ligament Cells by Thira Rojasawasthien, Supreda Suphanantachat Srithanyarat, Wajathip Bulanawichit, Thanaphum Osathanon

“…The effects of various mechanical forces, including compressive, shear, and tensile forces, on hPDLSCs are discussed. …”
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PBAT/PLA copolymer properties improved with end-of-life polyester, viscose, cotton, and silk fibers by Luísa Rosenstock Völtz, Linn Berglund, Kristiina Oksman

“…The end-of-life fibers affect the mechanical properties in different ways: polyester fibers almost double the tensile strength, viscose fibers triples flexural strength, and silk fibers lead to the highest compressive strength. …”
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Static and dynamic mechanical behavior of high-strength 22SiMn2TiB armor steel and welded structure by Jitang Fan, Ang Chen, Yongqiang Wang, Ke Bao, Yue Liu, Aiying Chen, Tao Fu, Linli Zhu

“…Static and dynamic compressive mechanical behavior of high-strength 22SiMn2TiB armor steel and welded structure is investigated, which are carried out by using universal testing machine and split Hopkinson pressure bar. …”
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Magnetic field and in-situ hot rolling assisted wire arc additive manufacturing of Al–Mg alloy thin-walled parts: external morphology and internal quality by Jianwu Huang, Xushan Zhao, Hang Lin, Zhaoyang Yan, Ruishan Xie, Hongfei Liu, Guilan Wang, Haiou Zhang, Runsheng Li

“…Simultaneously, plastic deformation enhances dislocation strengthening and refines grains. The compressive stress from HR offsets thermal tensile stress, reducing residual stress. …”
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Local Auxiliary Spatial–Spectral Decoupling Transformer Network for Cross-Scene Hyperspectral Image Classification by Qiusheng Chen, Zhuoqun Fang, Zhaokui Li, Qian Du, Shizhuo Deng, Tong Jia, Dongyue Chen

“…The SaG and SeG features of HSIs are extracted through a dual-branch design, preventing the feature coupling of different dimensions. In order to compress the model’s parameter search space, a local auxiliary global feature extraction strategy is devised. …”
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High-dosage carbide slag-based cementitious material: Workability, mechanical strength, and carbonation behavior with the performance enhancement by Yulong Zheng, Chang Liu, Jingquan Wang, Haozhe Pan, Xingpei Yan, Stuart T. Wagland, Guiyu Zhang, Liang Cheng

“…To investigate the comprehensive performance of CFG, the effects of different dosages of carbide slag (CS, 10 %-70 %) and silica fume (SF, 0 % or 10 %), as well as the CO2 capture capacity, were investigated. …”
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An Image Fusion Algorithm for Sustainable Development Goals Satellite-1 Night-Time Light Images Based on Optimized Image Stretching and Dual-Domain Fusion by Kedong Li, Bo Cheng, Xiaoming Li, Xiaoping Zhang, Guizhou Wang, Jie Gao, Qinxue He, Yaocan Gan

“…The OIS of PAN refers to the optimized stretching method that integrates linear and gamma stretching while DDF indicates a fusion process that separately merges the dark and light regions of NL images using different fusion methods, then stitches them together. …”
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On the Nature of the Bright Front of Solar Coronal Mass Ejections by Hongqiang Song, Rui Wang, Leping Li, Bing Wang, Yao Chen

“…Therefore, we believe that the explanation on the CME front holds true regardless of whether the EUV loops are visible or not prior to the eruption, and it works for events from different regions, including active regions and quiet-Sun regions. …”
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Meso-scale mechanical damage behavior of ECC-repaired wide and narrow joints of longitudinally continuous slab tracks by Long Chen, Tianzhi Xuan, Jinjie Chen, Fengzhuang Tong, Yujie Feng, Yang Yang

“…Finally, the meso-scale damage behavior and interface damage characteristics of the wide and narrow joints under different fiber contents, matrix strengths, and interface bond strengths under overall temperature loads were studied. …”
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Preparation and Properties of Fly Ash and Sintering Red Mud-based Geopolymers by Cheng LIU, Yuxiao ZHOU, Liuyi REN, Siyuan YANG, Shenxu BAO

“…The raw materials and geopolymers prepared at different pretreatment methods were analyzed and tested using XRF, XRD, ICP-OES, and SEM-EDS. …”
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Residual rock deformation of lined caverns for underground energy storage after air deflation considering stress path by Chen Xu, Caichu Xia, Gecheng Zhang, Sheng Wang, Hui Lu, Yingjun Xu

“…This study investigates the mechanical response of an underground cavern subjected to cyclic high gas pressure, aiming to establish a theoretical foundation for the design of lined rock caverns (LRCs) for energy storage with high internal pressure, e.g. compressed air energy storage (CAES) underground caverns or hydrogen storage caverns. …”
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In Silico Trials of Prosthetic Valves Replicate Methodologies for Evaluating the Fatigue Life of Artificial Leaflets to Expand Beyond In Vitro Tests and Conventional Clinical Trial... by Pengzhi Mao, Min Jin, Wei Li, Haitao Zhang, Haozheng Li, Shilong Li, Yuting Yang, Minjia Zhu, Yue Shi, Xuehuan Zhang, Duanduan Chen

“…The fatigue life of the leaflets varied considerably with different implant morphologies. Postoperative balloon dilation positively enhanced fatigue life. …”
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