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Arman Hatami Shirkouh, Farshad Meftahi, Ahmed Soliman, Stéphane Godbout and Joahnn Palacios
The increasing scarcity of virgin natural resources and the need for sustainable waste management in densely populated urban areas have heightened the importance of developing new recycling technologies. One promising approach involves recycling agricult...
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Ekaterina Tikhomirova, Denis Aleksandrov, Bogdan-Marian Tofanica and Aleksandra Mikhailidi
Paperboard boxes represent a sought-after class of packaging products, where the use of recycled fibers offers a cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative to virgin fibers. The presence of a significant proportion of recycled fibers in the ...
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Xiaochuan Jiang, Jun Wang, Ying Zhang and Shenxue Jiang
This paper reports on investigations of the air-coupled ultrasonic (ACU) method to detect common defects in solid timber panels made of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata (Lamb.) Hook.). The ACU technology is a non-contact method for nondestructive tim...
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Cosmin Spîrchez, Aurel Lunguleasa, Carmen-Mihaela Popescu, Anamaria Avram and Constantin Stefan Ionescu
In a context where there is an increasing need for thermal treatments of wooden products, the current research contributes a description of the torrefaction treatment of two of the composite wood materials available on the international market. The prese...
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Slawomir Czarnecki and Marlena Rudner
In the European Union, more than 20% of residential buildings were constructed prior to 1945 and are approaching the end of their projected lifespan. This necessitates renovations or demolitions of these structures. A study was conducted to analyze the q...
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Mateo Gutierrez, Azin Ettelaei, Nathan Kotlarewski and Michael Lee
Significant volumes of plantation hardwood are available in Australia to produce value-added engineered wood products such as cross-laminated timber (CLT). To validate the possibility of utilising this available resource, the bending structural propertie...
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Marta M. Moreno, Sara González-Mora, Jaime Villena and Carmen Moreno
Organic hydromulches (liquid spray-on mulches) have been used traditionally in land rehabilitation, mainly to mitigate post-fire runoff and erosion. However, in recent years, a new application of these materials as an eco-friendly alternative to the wide...
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Tatjana Paulauskiene, Jochen Uebe, Zilvinas Kryzevicius, Valeriia Kaskova, Marija Katarzyte and Donata Overlinge
Crude oil and petroleum products made from it are increasingly being extracted and consumed worldwide as an important energy source. During necessary transportation, e.g., by tanker, an oil spill might occur, which leads to water pollution by oil. One of...
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Gerhard Eggert and Andrea Fischer
Many heritage objects consist of glass in contact with metals. By ion exchange with absorbed water, alkaline aqueous films are formed on the glass surface. They contain sodium and/or potassium, hydroxide, and carbonate (uptake of carbon dioxide) ions. Th...
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Sarath M. Vega Gutierrez, Derek W. Stone, Rui He, Patricia T. Vega Gutierrez, Zielle M. Walsh and Seri C. Robinson
UV-light degradation of wood is one of the top reasons for consumer replacement of outdoor wooden structures. This type of degradation is seldom mechanical, and is instead often motivated by loss of aesthetics (graying). There are numerous commercial pro...
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