Šilinskas, Benas Varnagirytė-Kabašinskienė, Iveta Beniušienė, Lina Aleinikovas, Marius
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Frontiers in Materials
The study investigated the wood mechanical properties of black alder [Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn.], a widely distributed deciduous tree in Europe valued for its suitability in silviculture and wood industry applications. The aim was to compare these properties among selected half-sib families and assess the relationship between wood hardness and o...
Tang, Jikai Liu, Bin Kang, Lijing Fan, Wei Zhao, Debo Wang, Tao He, Liang Xie, Jing
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Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) confined concrete filled steel tube (CFST) structures effectively harness the advantages of FRP materials, improving the performance of CFST structures and overcoming durability issues of steel tubes. Three-dimensional detailed finite element (FE) models are usually employed to estimate the impact-resistant performanc...
Li, Lianqiang Su, Le Guo, Bingchuan Cai, Rongjiang Wang, Xi Zhang, Tao
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The chloride migration coefficient (CMC) of concrete is crucial for evaluating its durability. This study develops ensemble models to predict the CMC of concrete, addressing the limitations of traditional, labor-intensive laboratory tests. We developed three ensemble models: an inverse variance-based model, an Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based ...
Wagh, Monali Waghe, Uday Bahrami, Alireza Ansari, Khalid Özkılıç, Yasin Onuralp Nikhade, Anshul
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This study investigated the effects of using bagasse ash (BA) and metakaolin (MK) together as substitutes for cement in self-compacting concrete (SCC), together with the addition of glass fiber (GF), on the physical and mechanical characteristics of concrete. Eighteen SCC mixes were created, each containing different proportions of BA (0%, 10%, 15%...
Romaguera, Arnau Medarde, Marisa
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Frustrated magnets with ordered magnetic spiral phases that spontaneously break inversion symmetry have received significant attention from both fundamental and applied sciences communities due to the experimental demonstration that some of these materials can couple to the lattice and induce electric polarization. In these materials, the common or...
Pei, Yiran Liu, Leixin Cao, Xinfeng Zhou, Jian Liu, Cuiyun
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Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) can exhibit different properties in different situations, such as non-emission and highly fluorescent in the dissolved state of the molecule and in the aggregate or solid state, respectively. This property of AIE is distinguished from aggregation-induced quenching (ACQ) or even the opposite. Combining the AIE phen...
Wang, Chengbin Chen, Yadi An, Baoping Guo, Qinglin Wang, Yibo
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The arch expansion damage of asphalt pavement is a typical disease in desert Gobi and saline-alkali areas, and the reasons for arch expansion are very complex. Exploring the impact of salt solution on the mechanical and drying shrinkage performances of cement-stabilized macadam helps to clarify the causes of the arch expansion damage. To this purpo...
Ding, Ziyi Cheng, Yu Jin, Lu Wang, Wentong Yan, Shiying
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The residue generated during the production process of alumina, known as red mud, is a type of solid waste. The engineering properties of red mud can be significantly enhanced through the modification and solidification using inorganic materials. This study primarily utilized red mud as the raw material, supplemented with fly ash, lime, and clay, t...
Lu, Guangming Salje, Ekhard K. H.
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The possibility to use ferroelastic materials as components of neuromorphic devices is discussed. They can be used as local memristors with the advantage that ionic transport is constraint to twin boundaries where ionic diffusion is much faster than in the bulk and does not leak into adjacent domains. It is shown that nano-scale ferroelastic memris...
Zhao, Qingming Chen, Li Wang, Xiaoyu Zhang, Shengru Li, Fan
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To promote the use of solid waste in concrete production and solve the problem of secondary pollution caused by a large amount of solid waste, the four-factor and four-level orthogonal test method was used to investigate the different replacement rates of coal gangue (CG) ceramics (15%, 20%, 25%, and 30%), coal gangue ceramic sand (CGS) (10%, 15%, ...
