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Hao Liu, Hongguang Zhang, Zhicheng Shi, Haitao Lu, Guangyao Zhao and Baofeng Yao
A rapid compression machine (RCM) test bench is developed in this study. The performance characterization and auto-ignition performance tests are conducted at an initial temperature of 293 K, a compression ratio of 9.5 to 16.5, a compressed temperature ...
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Albina Scioti and Fabio Fatiguso
The construction industry involves some of the activities with the highest consumption of raw materials and significant waste production. According to the European Commission, it requires large quantities of resources, representing approximately 50% of a...
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Kaifeng Wang, Ziyu Lu, Yingxue Zou, Yunsheng Zhu and Junhui Yu
For improving the night recognition of road markings and enhancing the driving safety of asphalt pavements, single-factor optimization is used to investigate the effects of the component materials, including luminescent power, pigment, filler, and anti-s...
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Jesús Peña-Rodríguez, Juan Sánchez-Villafrades, Hernán Asorey and Luis A. Núñez
The Muon Telescope, MuTe, is an instrument for imaging volcanoes in Colombia. It consists of a scintillator tracking system and a water Cherenkov detector for particle energy measurement. The Muon Telescope operates autonomously in high-altitude environm...
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Roya Sadat Neisan, Noori M. Cata Saady, Carlos Bazan, Sohrab Zendehboudi, Abbas Al-nayili, Bassim Abbassi and Pritha Chatterjee
Arsenic (As), a poisonous and carcinogenic heavy metal, affects human health and the environment. Numerous technologies can remove As from drinking water. Adsorption is the most appealing option for decentralized water treatment systems (DWTS) for small ...
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Daniyar Tajibayev, Kadyrzhan Mukin, Adylkhan Babkenov, Vladimir Chudinov, Abdelfattah A. Dababat, Karlyga Jiyenbayeva, Serik Kenenbayev, Timur Savin, Vladimir Shamanin, Kuttymurat Tagayev, Askhat Rsymbetov, Minura Yessimbekova, Vadim Yusov, Ruslan Zhylkybaev, Alexey Morgounov, Muhammad Tanveer Altaf, Muhammad Azhar Nadeem and Faheem Shehzad Baloch
Spring durum wheat occupies over 0.5 M ha in Kazakhstan and represents an important domestic and export commodity. This study aimed to characterize 151 durum wheat cultivars and advanced lines originating from eight breeding programs of the Kazakhstan?Si...
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Muhammad Ali Shafique, Arslan Munir and Joonho Kong
Deep learning is employed in many applications, such as computer vision, natural language processing, robotics, and recommender systems. Large and complex neural networks lead to high accuracy; however, they adversely affect many aspects of deep learning...
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Guosheng Li, Huan Xiong, Qi Ren, Xiaoguang Zheng and Libao Wu
Semi-flexible pavement (SFP) is made up of a porous skeleton of asphalt mixture and cement grout. This special structure granted SFP superior strength and durability and made it a promising solution for the paving of heavy trafficked area. This paper per...
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Juhwan Lee, Sangwon Hwang, Jisun Lee and Seungwoo Kang
A number of Augmented Reality (AR) frameworks are now available and used to support the development of mobile AR applications. In this paper, we measure and compare the recognition performance of the commercial AR frameworks and identify potential issues...
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Yi Zhang, Xuancang Wang, Guanyu Ji, Zhenyang Fan, Yuchen Guo, Wenze Gao and Lei Xin
Lignin, as a bio-based waste, has been utilized in the asphalt industry due to various advantages. This study aimed to investigate the effects of two lignin products (lignin powder and lignin fiber) on the mechanical properties of asphalt mixtures. The r...
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Satyajit Chowdhury and Igal Kronhaus
Vacuum arc thruster performance in a magnetic nozzle configuration is experimentally characterized. Measurements are performed on a miniature coaxial thruster with an anode inner diameter of 1.8
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Asma Ben Hamed, Aris Leivadeas, Matthias Falkner and Nikolai Pitaev
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has revolutionized the way network services are offered, leading Enterprise and Service Providers to increasingly adapt their portfolio of network products in order to reap the benefits of flexible network service de...
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Maxime Verbist, Jorge M. Branco and Lina Nunes
Among biological agents, insect attacks may cause severe degradation of timber structures in the service life of buildings which leads to lower mechanical performance and, thus, maintenance problems over time. Additionally, compression perpendicular to t...
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Cement manufacturing is indeed a major contributor to global warming that involves energy-intensive production processes along with emitting huge greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. To adopt sustainable construction practices, agro-industrial waste ma...
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The present study provides a feasible strategy for minimizing automotive CO2 emissions by coupling the principle of the Atkinson cycle with the use of bioethanol fuel. Motor cycles and scooters have a stroke to bore ratio of less than unity, w...
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Styliani Papatzani and Kevin Paine
With the current paper three nano-Montmorillonites (nMt) are applied in cement nanohybrids: an organomodified nMt dispersion, nC2; an inorganic nMt dispersion, nC3; and an organomodified powder, nC4. nC4 is fully characterized in this paper (X-ray diffra...
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Pei-Ying Tsai, Tzu-En Chen and Yueh-Lien Lee
This work contributes to the development and characterization of the corrosion resistance and antifriction properties of high performance polyurethane (PU)/graphene (Gr) composite coating. In this study, PU composite coatings containing 0, 2, 4 and 8 wt....
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Daniel-Ioan Stroe, Maciej Swierczynski, Ana-Irina Stroe and Søren Knudsen Kær
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Riccardo Cadamuro, Maria Teresa Cazzola, Nicolò Lontani and Carlo E. D. Riboldi
Sounding rockets constitute a class of rocket with a generally simple layout, being composed of a cylindrical center-body, a nosecone, a number of fins placed symmetrically around the longitudinal axis (usually three or four), and possibly a boat-tail. T...
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Given a series of intrinsic features of structural glass systems (i.e., material properties, type of restraints, operational conditions, etc.), special care should be spent at the design stage, to ensure appropriate fail-safe requirements, but also in th...
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