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Carina A. E. Costa, Filipa M. Casimiro, Carlos Vega-Aguilar and Alírio E. Rodrigues
Lignin is a raw material that can potentially be converted into valuable compounds through depolymerization reactions in addition to its use as a polymer or material. However, the chemical recalcitrance and the heterogeneous composition and structure of ...
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Franziska Witte, Erik Sawas, Lisa M. Berger, Monika Gibis, Jochen Weiss, Anja Röser, Matthias Upmann, Eike Joeres, Andreas Juadjur, Ute Bindrich, Volker Heinz and Nino Terjung
Larger processing equipment to produce minced meat could affect its structure due to intensive processing and a high energy intake in the meat mass. To assess if this would result in alterations in the minced meat quality, finely chopped meat (FCM) was a...
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João Vítor Felippe Silva, Cristiane Inácio de Campos, Bruno Santos Ferreira, Maria Fernanda Felippe Silva (Author)
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Oriented strand board (OSB) panels, like plywood, are destined for structural use. Both of them may undergo preservative treatments that extend their lifetime and increase their resistance against weathering and xylophagous agents. One possibility is a h...
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Kwok L. Chung, Lei Yuan, Songtao Ji, Li Sun, Chengping Qu and Chunwei Zhang
Dielectric characterization of concrete is essential for the wireless structural health monitoring (SHM) of concrete structures. Guo Biao (GB) concrete refers to the concrete mixed and cast in accordance with the Chinese standard. Currently, China is the...
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Javier Sotomayor, Mariana Ramírez
Pág. Page 69 - 79
The wood construction industry requires data of the mechanical strength of wood with dimensions and classification suitable to be used as structural elements. This research proposes an experimental strategy for the mechanical characterization of wood bea...
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Faisal Mahmood, Seyed M. Hashemi and Hekmat Alighanbari
Detrimental environmental impacts due to the increasing demands of the aviation industry have gained tremendous global attention. With a potential fuel saving, along with high aerodynamic performance and maneuverability during different phases of a fligh...
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Pier Paolo G. Bruno
In this paper, seismic exploration methods are reviewed with a particular emphasis on the use of the reflection seismology to investigate the subsurface structures and characterize active faults. The paper provides a descriptive overview, intended for a ...
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Liliana Edith Rojas-Candelas, Mayra Díaz-Ramírez, Adolfo Armando Rayas-Amor, Rosy Gabriela Cruz-Monterrosa, Juan Vicente Méndez-Méndez, Adriana Villanueva-Carvajal and Alejandro de Jesús Cortés-Sánchez
Expanded popcorn grain is widely consumed as a healthy snack all around the world; however, the study of the behavior of its components by processes such as nixtamalization is scarce. Therefore, the aim of this work was to characterize the nanomechanical...
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Válter Xavier, Rita Couto, Ricardo Monteiro, José Miguel Castro and Rita Bento
As many European countries, the Portuguese territory is a region of moderate seismicity, and a large part of its building stock includes reinforced concrete (RC) buildings built before the introduction of modern seismic codes (<1983s). Currently, the Lis...
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Francesca Savini, Carlo Rainieri, Giovanni Fabbrocino and Ilaria Trizio
Road networks are disseminated of bridge structures whose typology reflects the time of design and construction of the transportation infrastructure and its relevance in the reference geographical area. Among others, masonry bridges are still widely oper...
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Dhanalakshmi A.,K. Karthikeyani Vijayakumari,U. Surendran
The soil is the most important constituent to fulfilment of all the basic needs of human beings and also is an important component of our farming. The study was conducted with the main objective to investigate the soil samples of Pudukkottai district of ...
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Bert Verstraeten, Jan Sermeus, Tom Van der Donck, Paul Schuurmans and Christ Glorieux
A laser ultrasonics approach to remotely characterize the elastic and thermal properties of a coating-substrate structure, used to protect fuel claddings in lead-bismuth eutectic cooled nuclear reactors, is presented and validated with experimental resul...
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Wei-Kai Wang, Shih-Yung Huang, Ming-Chien Jiang and Dong-Sing Wuu
Approximately 4-µm-thick GaN epitaxial films were directly grown onto a GaN/sapphire template, sapphire, Si(111), and Si(100) substrates by high-temperature pulsed laser deposition (PLD). The influence of the substrate type on the crystalline quality, su...
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Francesco Chidichimo, Michele De Biase, Francesco Muto and Salvatore Straface
The productivity of metamorphic aquifers is generally lower than that of the more common alluvial and carbonates ones. However, in some Mediterranean areas, such as the Calabria region (Italy), water scarcity combined with the presence of extensive metam...
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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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Margarita Zyrianova, Timothy Collett and Ray Boswell
One of the most studied permafrost-associated gas hydrate accumulations in Arctic Alaska is the Eileen Gas Hydrate Trend. This study provides a detailed re-examination of the Eileen Gas Hydrate Trend with a focus on the gas hydrate accumulation in the we...
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Susana Barrios, Andrés Guzmán and Albert Ortiz
Corrosion directly affects the structural stiffness of a steel element, reducing the thickness, thus inertia, due to the gradual deterioration of the material. Quickly identifying corrosion damage to the stiffness of a steel structure is a challenge in c...
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Olga Sánchez-Guillamón, Jose L. Rueda, Claudia Wienberg, Gemma Ercilla, Juan Tomás Vázquez, Maria Gómez-Ballesteros, Javier Urra, Elena Moya-Urbano, Ferran Estrada and Dierk Hebbeln
Carbonate mounds clustering in three fields were characterized on the upper continental slope of the northern Alboran Sea by means of a detailed analysis of the morphosedimentary and structural features using high-resolution bathymetry and parametric pro...
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Carlos Cunha, Marina Tenório, Daniel F. Lima, Arthur Rebouças, Luís C. Neves and Jorge M. Branco
Despite their favorable physical and mechanical properties for structural use, tropical woods, such as Iroko (Milicia excelsa), present knowledge gaps to be filled mainly about their mechanical characterization, which currently limit their use or result ...
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Sebastián Jovic,Gerardo Páez,Matías Galina,Diego Guido,Conrado Permuy Vidal,Luciano López,Stabro Kasaneva
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The high sulfidation epithermal gold deposit El Guanaco is located in the Palaeocene-Lower Eocene metallogenic belt in the Antofagasta Region, northern Chile, 215 km SE of Antofagasta city. The deposit is characterized by a system of sub-parallel ledges ...
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