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Franz Dolezal, Andreas Reichenauer, Armin Wilfling, Maximilian Neusser and Rok Prislan
Several studies on the perception of impact sounds question the correlation of standardized approaches with perceived annoyance, while more recent studies have come to inconsistent conclusions. All these studies neglected the aspect of whole-body vibrati...
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Saleh Ahmed, Katerina Lepkova, Xiao Sun, William D. A. Rickard and Thunyaluk Pojtanabuntoeng
Phenolic-epoxy coatings, which are designed to protect substrates from thermal damage, are widely applied in many fields. There remains an inadequate understanding of how such coatings change during their service life after exposure to various temperatur...
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Aras Dalgiç and Berivan Yilmazer Polat
Geopolymer concrete (GC), also known as green concrete, contains slag, silica fume, and fly ash as binders. The absence of cement in concrete is critical to protect the world from the environmental impacts of cement production. In addition, exposure to h...
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Timothy M. Jacobs, Ashraf M. Tubeileh and Scott J. Steinmaus
Determining the amount of heat units required to kill weed seeds is a crucial aspect for the success of weed control through soil solarization. Lab experiments were designed to determine the duration of exposure for weed seeds that is required to suppres...
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Jaehui Bang and Eunkyung Lee
In this study, the surface properties of marine structures were improved by applying a twin wire arc spray process to high-strength low alloys. The effect of Al and Mo contents in Ni-Al coatings on their mechanical and corrosion behaviors was analyzed us...
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Leo Peiffer, Christian Perfler and Martin Tajmar
Consumable-free electron emitters are presently not feasible for autonomous tether-based deorbit devices such as E.T.PACK due to their power requirement. The bare-photovoltaic-tether (BPT) concept combines the bare tether electron collection with a tethe...
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Boris Chubarenko, Dmitry Domnin, Franz-Georg Simon, Philipp Scholz, Vladimir Leitsin, Aleksander Tovpinets, Konstantin Karmanov and Elena Esiukova
The most massive design on the Baltic shore used geosynthetic materials, the landslide protection construction in Svetlogorsk (1300 m long, 90,000 m2 area, South-Eastern Baltic, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russian Federation) comprises the geotextile and the ero...
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Joaquín Hernández-Fernández, Rodrigo Ortega-Toro and John R. Castro-Suarez
One route of exposure to SPAs is through bottled water since the polymers used to make plastic bottles contain these SPAs, which migrate from the plastic to the water. Solid-phase extraction (SPE), HPLC-MS, FTIR, and DSC are used to identify and quantify...
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Alla Khosrovyan, Rima Avalyan, Anahit Atoyants, Evelina Aghajanyan, Lusine Hambaryan, Rouben Aroutiounian and Bardukh Gabrielyan
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are overgrowths of toxic strains of algae (diatoms, green) and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). While occurring naturally, human-induced environmental changes have resulted in more frequent occurrences of such blooms worldwid...
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Ning Sun, Xiaokai Li, Shanggao Li, Dake Hu, Mengjiao Hu, Faming Zhang, Yiyan Zhong, Menglong Dong and Zinan Li
The surrounding rock stability of large underground caverns in a pumped storage power station is one of the most crucial problems in hydropower project design and construction. In the construction of hydropower projects in Southwest China, many undergrou...
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