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Alon Urlainis, Monica Paciuk and Igal M. Shohet
This study investigates the life expectancy (LE) and life cycle costs (LCC) of three alternatives of interior partitions in residential units: gypsum board, autoclaved concrete block, and hollow concrete block partitions. The aim is to examine the sustai...
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Yan?e Yang, Bo Pang, Yunsheng Zhang, Minghui Wang, Gaixia Miao and Aoxiang Zhou
The properties of a large number of concrete infrastructures in China are deteriorating year by year, raising the need for repairing and strengthening these infrastructures. By introducing waterborne polymers into a cement concrete system, brittle cracks...
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Jozef Gocál, Josef Vican, Jaroslav Odrobinák, Richard Hlinka, Franti?ek Bahleda and Agnieszka Wdowiak-Postulak
In addition to traditional building materials, such as steel and concrete, wood has been gaining increasing prominence in recent years. In the past, the use of wood was limited due to its susceptibility to damage by fungi, insects, and temperature. These...
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Mahmut Cem Yilmaz, Ahmad Aswad and Ömer Mercimek
In this study, an experiment was conducted to innovate a new design of interlocking concrete blocks (ICBs) containing recycled aggregates (RAs) by reducing the consumed time and cost in construction using an environmental approach. Accordingly, the desig...
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Haitham M. Ahmed, Mohammed A. Hefni, Hussin A. M. Ahmed and Hussein A. Saleem
This study investigates the effect of the partial replacement of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) with cement kiln dust (CKD) on the engineering properties of pozzolanic concrete for use in block manufacturing. Ultimately, this could potentially reduce cem...
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Zhipeng Liang, Huawei Zhou, Chunju Zhao, Fang Wang and Yihong Zhou
With the influence of intense solar radiation heat and the greater temperature difference between day and night, surface concrete with a drastic temperature change can easily experience a great nonlinear temperature difference, which increases the risk o...
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Rodgers Musamali, Bhavish Jugurnath, Jackson Maalu
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The broader objective of this paper was to carry out a policy and regulatory review of the framework supporting the fintech ecosystem in Kenya. In light of rapid innovations in fintech, it is at a nascent stage of development and characterized by a deart...
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Domenico Pascarella, Gabriella Gigante, Angela Vozella, Maurizio Sodano, Marco Ippolito, Pierre Bieber, Thomas Dubot and Edgar Martinavarro
The drone market?s growth poses a serious threat to the negligent, illicit, or non-cooperative use of drones, especially in airports and their surroundings. Effective protection of an airport against drone intrusions should guarantee mandatory safety lev...
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Sergio Leyva, Noelia Cruz-Pérez, Jesica Rodríguez-Martín and Juan C. Santamarta
Due to their genesis, volcanic rocks present some singularities that make their geotechnical characteristics significantly different from other more common types of massifs, such as sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. The formation mechanisms of volcanic ...
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Juan Chen, Zhencai Zhu, Haiying Hu, Lin Qiu, Zhenzhen Zheng and Lei Dong
Infrared (IR) Image preprocessing is aimed at image denoising and enhancement to help with small target detection. According to the sparse representation theory, the IR original image is low rank, and the coefficient shows a sparse character. The low ran...
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