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Muawia Dafalla and Ahmed M. Al-Mahbashi
The major problematic soils in semi-arid regions include expansive soils and collapsible soils. These two types of soils cause problems and are hazardous for buildings when moisture is introduced following a dry or semi-dry season. In order to assess the...
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Yongzhen Zhang, Yanbo Hui, Ying Zhou, Juanjuan Liu, Ju Gao, Xiaoliang Wang, Baiwei Wang, Mengqi Xie and Haonan Hou
Moldy corn produces aflatoxin and gibberellin, which can have adverse effects on human health if consumed. Mold is a significant factor that affects the safe storage of corn. If not detected and controlled in a timely manner, it will result in substantia...
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Hang Su, Tao Deng, Zengquan Yang, Jianpeng Qin and Lu Zheng
Shield misalignment is a common problem in shield tunnels, which seriously affects the safety and durability of tunnels. However, at present, there is a lack of research on the influence of shield misalignment on the shear capacity of the circumferential...
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Meylí Valin Fernández, José Luis Valin Rivera, Frank Pérez Rodríguez, Henry Figueredo Losada, María Elena Fernández Abreu, Francisco Rolando Valenzuela Diaz, Angel Rodríguez Soto, Alexander Alfonso Alvarez, Roberto Quinteros, Cristobal Galleguillos Ketterer and Gilberto García del Pino
A characterization of composite materials of a polyester matrix reinforced with natural fibers of Cuban henequen and organophilized Cuban bentonite was carried out, the experimental results of which are used to formulate, implement, and validate a scalar...
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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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Xiaoyu Lu, Ruipeng Qin, Chunliang Dong and Chaotao Fan
In many underground engineering projects, rocks are often subjected to cyclic loading and unloading, such as repeated excavation of roadway surrounding rock, which will lead to damage to underground rocks, and the energy of rocks also changes. Therefore,...
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Emilia Damiano, Martina de Cristofaro, Antonia Brunzo, Goffredo Carrieri, Luisa Iavazzo, Nadia Netti and Lucio Olivares
Broad mountainous areas in the western Campania (southern Italy), where young pyroclastic deposits extensively outcrop, frequently experience rainfall-induced slope movements of different degrees of mobility, causing heavy damage and fatalities. Such lan...
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Ming Zhang, Shuai Shao, Penghui Li and Runjuan Zhou
The presence of antibiotics in water environments increases the resistance of bacterial and can also cause irreversible damage to ecosystems and the human body. In this study, disposable bamboo chopsticks were used as raw material to prepare bamboo bioch...
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Fulei Jing, Junjie Yang, Shibai Tang, Quan Wen, Tao Zhang, Jian Wu and Xueling Fan
Considering the influence of non-equibiaxial stress state and initial residual strain on the compressive buckling of the ceramic layer, a quantitative characterization method of the damage generated at the interface between the top coat and bond coat in ...
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Umer Waqas, Hafiz Muhammad Awais Rashid, Muhammad Farooq Ahmed, Ali Murtaza Rasool and Mohamed Ezzat Al-Atroush
This review paper summarizes the recent and past experimental findings to evaluate the damage characteristics of carbonate rocks subjected to thermal treatment (20?1500 °C). The outcomes of published studies show that the degree of thermal damage in the ...
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