Published in Innovative Infrastructure Solutions
Worldwide, the accumulation of discarded waste tire rubbers remains one of the major environmental concerns unless recycled in an eco-friendly approach. One of the sustainable solutions is to recycle the waste tire rubber as a partial replacement of natural aggregates in concrete. The main aim of this study was to investigate the durability of rubb...
Published in Innovative Infrastructure Solutions
Today, the world is looking for materials that can be effectively used in construction without affecting environmental sustainability. The use of agro-industrial wastes as a constructional material will support in either way of waste handling and environmental conservation. This paper focuses on the behavior of high-strength concrete along with the...
Published in Innovative Infrastructure Solutions
The present economic use of wastes all over the world is to reduce the environmental pollution through waste recycling. This research sought to produce and study alternative form of recycling tree pruning and bamboo waste as partial substitute materials for granite dust in composite tiles. Composite tiles of 190 × 98 mm were produced from various r...
Published in SN Applied Sciences
Composite materials based on natural fibers are increasing in demand in various sectors of industry because of their interesting specific properties. This work is a contribution to the valorization, of plant fibers from agricultural plantations in Cameroon, in fiber cement mortar (FCM). This paper studies the influence of the addition of oil palm m...
Published in Environmental Earth Sciences
Understanding the mechanical behaviors of granite after high temperature exposure and under confining stress conditions is an important issue in deep rock engineering projects such as the mining of deep underground solid mineral resources, deep geothermal energy exploitation and deep nuclear waste repositories. In this research, conventional triaxi...
Published in SN Applied Sciences
Red mud, a by-product of alumina production, has a great impact on the environment due to its high alkalinity. In this paper, two-part geopolymer mortar was synthesized by combining red mud and blast furnace slag (BFS) to obtain optimized compressive strength and flexural strength for construction materials. Geopolymer concrete was prepared with th...
Published in Journal of Biological Engineering
Bioactive ceramics are promising candidates as 3D porous substrates for bone repair in bone regenerative medicine. However, they are often inefficient in clinical applications due to mismatching mechanical properties and compromised biological performances. Herein, the additional Sr dopant is hypothesized to readily adjust the mechanical and biodeg...
Published in Applied Physics A
Two 3d transition metal high-entropy alloys, AlCrCuFeX (X = Ti, V), were prepared by a vacuum arc-melting, and their phase components, microstructures, and compressive properties were investigated. The phase components of the alloy with X = V were the BCC + FCC dual-phases, while that of the X = Ti alloy was composed of a multi-phase structure (2BC...
Published in Plant Methods
BackgroundWind strongly impacts plant growth, leaf traits, biomass allocation, and stem mechanical properties. However, whether there are common whole-plant wind responses among different plant species is still unclear. We tested this null hypothesis by exposing four eudicot steppe species to three different wind treatments in a field experiment: r...
Published in Journal of Polymer Research
We investigate the mechanical behavior of polypropylene/silica composites under mode I and II loading by using molecular dynamics simulations, focusing on the effects of two typical surface coupling agents of HMDZ and APTES on the interface deformation and failure. It is found that under mode I loading, the silica surface functionalized with APTES ...
