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Alla Khosrovyan, Hranush Melkonyan, Lilit Rshtuni, Bardukh Gabrielyan and Anne Kahru
The effect of 96 h exposure of the goldfish Carassius auratus to two different types of bioplastic particles, originating from commercial shopping bag (Bag, ~5 mm) and polylactic acid-based (PLA) cup (Cup, =5 mm), and petroleum-based polyamide particles ...
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V. Karpiuk, R. Hlibotskyi
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Anggun Rahman Rahman,Khaswar Syamsu Syamsu,Isroi Isroi Isroi
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Biodegradation of the bioplastic composite based on cellulose from oil palm empty fruit bunches was investigated in this study. Microbes consortium from landfill soil collected from top soil were used as the inoculums for the biodegradation process. Biod...
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Gunasekhar Nachimuthu, Neil V. Halpin and Michael J. Bell
Intensive agricultural practices in farming systems in eastern Australia have been identified as a contributor to the poor runoff water quality entering the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). A field investigation was carried out to measure the off-farm water qua...
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Long Wang, Jianfei Xing, Xiaowei He, Xin Li, Wensong Guo, Xufeng Wang and Shulin Hou
Due to the lack of water resources, the main agricultural planting method used in the northwest region of China is plastic film mulching, with precision hole sowing performed on the film after mulching. However, conventional hole-forming devices damage t...
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José Luis Zambrano, Yamil Cartagena, Carlos Sangoquiza, Ana Pincay, Anibal Rafael Parra, Javier Maiguashca, José Luis Rivadeneira, Cristian Subía and Chang Hwan Park
Global food security faces a substantial risk stemming from water scarcity, particularly in regions heavily dependent on rainfall for agricultural purposes. In the Andean region, which is grappling with water scarcity, innovative and sustainable approach...
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Lei Zhang, Cuikun Wang, Caihua Chen and Mingzhe Cui
Against the backdrop of China?s continuous promotion of green and low-carbon transformation and the development of construction industrialization, high-strength composite structural systems have significant development prospects. However, their research ...
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Miguel A. Franesqui, Jorge Yepes and Samuel Valencia-Díaz
Low-energy asphalt techniques, such as warm mix asphalt (WMA), combined with the rational consumption of geomaterials and waste recycling would promote more sustainable and energy-efficient asphalt pavements. In volcanic environments, a significant propo...
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Andres-Amador Garcia-Granada
Impacts due to drops or crashes between moving vehicles necessitate the search for energy absorption elements to prevent damage to the transported goods or individuals. To ensure safety, a given level of acceptable deceleration is provided. The optimizat...
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Cristina Abbate, Aurelio Scavo, Gaetano Roberto Pesce, Stefania Fontanazza, Alessia Restuccia and Giovanni Mauromicale
The use of plastic mulch films is widespread in agriculture for specialty cropping systems because of several benefits. In this article, we critically review, for the first time under a holistic approach, the use of biodegradable plastic mulches (BdPMs) ...
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Alfredo Liverani, Antonio Bacciaglia, Eugenio Nisini and Alessandro Ceruti
Industrial engineering applications often require manufacturing large components in composite materials to obtain light structures; however, moulds are expensive, especially when manufacturing a limited batch of parts. On the one hand, when traditional a...
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Fernando Gómez-Martínez and Agustín Pérez-García
Current formulations proposed by Eurocode 8 part 3 for the inelastic deformations of existing reinforced concrete members are assessed separately for wide beams (WB) and conventional deep beams (DB). The current approach, based on a large experimental da...
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Bowen Xu, Hui Li, Dan V. Bompa, Ahmed Y. Elghazouli and Jiangbo Chen
This paper investigates the electrical, thermal and mechanical properties as well as the environmental performance of polymer cementitious composites (PCCs) as sustainable coating materials for underground power cables and as high-voltage insulators. Par...
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Nerma Caluk, Islam Mantawy and Atorod Azizinamini
Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) is a durable material that allows the construction of innovative structural elements and conforms with accelerated bridge construction (ABC) goals. The main idea of this research is to utilize UHPC to prefabricate a...
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Semakula Maroa, Freddie Inambao
The growth in demand for power generation and energy from alternative fuels at low cost and friendly to the natural environment is increasing. This study used waste plastic pyrolysis oil (WPPO) and ethanol to apply direct blending of conventional diesel,...
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Ming Ji and Hongjun Guo
During loading and unloading test, various rocks manifest different stress values of elastic-plastic transformation. This study proposes to include axial pressure increment ratio in the conventional triaxial compression test to evaluate different variabl...
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Yongtai Kim, Jaewoong Kim and Sungwook Kang
The welding process, which accounts for about 60% of the shipbuilding process, inevitably involves weld deformation. Considering this, productivity can be significantly increased if weld deformation can be predicted during the design phase, taking into a...
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S. M. Seyed-Kolbadi, J. Sadoghi-Yazdi and M. A. Hariri-Ardebili
Slope uncertainty predominantly originates from the imperfect analysis model and the inaccuracy and imprecision of the observations. The strength reduction method (SRM) is widely used to attain the safety factor (SF) of the slopes, which is similar to in...
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S. M. Seyed-Kolbadi, J. Sadoghi-Yazdi and M. A. Hariri-Ardebili
Slope uncertainty predominantly originates from the imperfect analysis model and the inaccuracy and imprecision of the observations. The strength reduction method (SRM) is widely used to attain the safety factor (SF) of the slopes, which is similar to in...
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Chih-Hung Tsai, Yu-Chen Hsiao and Ping-Yuan Chuang
In this paper, we demonstrated that platinum (Pt) counter electrodes (CEs) fabricated using electrochemical deposition and chemical reduction can replace conventional high-temperature thermally decomposed Pt electrodes. In this study, Pt electrodes were ...
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