The digital transformation taking place in all areas of life has led to a massive increase in digital data - in particular, related to the places where and the ways how we live. To facilitate an exploration of the new opportunities arising from this development the Urban Thematic Exploitation Platform (U-TEP) has been set-up. This enabling instrume...
A new approach for the prediction of Coke Reactivity Index (CRI) and Coke Strength after Reaction with CO2 (CSR) was proposed. For this purpose, 41 coking coals (40 USCB and 1 Appalachian coals) and 36 coal blends were studied. Cokes were carbonized using a pilot-scale coke oven by a stamp charging. Coals and coal blends were characterized by 14 pr...
A low-temperature magnetic resonance study of the quasi-two-dimensional antiferromagnet Cu(en)(H2O)(2)SO4 (en = C2H8N2) was performed down to 0.45 K. This compound orders antiferromagnetically at 0.9 K. The analysis of the resonance data within the hydrodynamic approach allowed us to identify anisotropy axes and to estimate the anisotropy parameter...
Concrete slurry waste is a dewatered solid residue generated from the production of concrete. The high discharging cost of concrete slurry waste strikes the concrete industry so that it is imperative to find an effective method to dispose concrete slurry waste. This study is conducted to utilise wet-milling to refine concrete slurry waste to partia...
Since the advent of monolayered 2D transition metal carbide and nitrides (MXenes) in 2011, the number of different monolayer systems and the study thereof have been on the rise. Mo2Ti2C3 is one of the least studied MXenes and new insights to this material are of value to the field. Here, the stability of Mo2Ti2C3 under electron irradiation is inves...
Excited states of the neutron-rich nucleus Ce-148 have been populated by neutron-induced fission of a U-235 target. Its electromagnetic decays were studied by means of gamma-ray coincidence spectroscopy with fast-timing capabilities. Lifetimes of the 2(1)(+) and 4(1)(+) states of Ce-148 were obtained and their E2 decay rates deduced. The B-4/2 = B(...
Uncertainty quantification (UQ) due to seismic ground motions variability is an important task in risk-informed condition assessment of infrastructures. Since performing multiple dynamic analyses is computationally expensive, it is valuable to develop a series of forecasting models based on the unique ground motion characteristics. This paper discu...
High-coercivity Nd-Fe-B magnets are required for clean energy applications, particularly for hybrid and electric vehicles. This study was focused on the structural design of a Nd2Fe14B-based magnet by precise engineering of its microstructure, which included grain-boundary diffusion and grain-boundary structuring processes, through the introduction...
The fundamental mechanisms of strengthening/hardening and toughening that may be modified by various nanometer-spaced planar defects in the ultrahard nanostructured diamond and boron nitride (BN), e.g., nanotwins, stacking faults, and coherent heterophase interfaces, are still far from understood. In the present work, by means of first-principles a...
