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Xianzheng Yu, Hua Liu, Xiaolin Fan, Liangyu Zhu, Chengqi Zhang and Shiyi Zhang
In marine environments, bridge piers and columns are prone to corrosion caused by harmful media, particularly chloride ions. This corrosion can lead to cracking of the steel bars in the protective layer of the bridge piers. To enhance the corrosion resis...
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Jie Xiao, Yikang Murong, Xiyuan Chen, Lingfei Liu, Keyi Zhai, Haibo Jiang, Linhai Huang and Guodong Wang
In recent years, replacing steel bars with basalt fiber-reinforced polymer (BFRP) bars and replacing ordinary concrete with reactive powder concrete (RPC) are considered effective solutions to the corrosion problem of steel bars in ordinary reinforced co...
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Zeqing Fan, Xiaobin Li, Tao Huang and Wei Chen
A multilayer liquid-containing protective structure is composed of a liquid tank, ceramic, a honeycomb sandwich and homogeneous steel. This structure has superior resistance to combined blast wave and fragment loading. Due to the relatively complicated c...
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Guilherme B. A. Coelho and Fernando M. A. Henriques
A render is the first protective layer of exterior walls against the outdoor climate, which, due to its constitution, aims to gradually slow down the liquid moisture penetration to prevent it from reaching the wall inner layers. Due to the future expecte...
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Yu Lin, Rui Wang, Yang Xu, Dongyun Li and Hongliang Ge
Surfaces with translucent and wear-resistant effects have a wide range of applications, especially as protective layers. In this work, a simple and convenient method for the preparation of porous magnesium fluoride (MgF2) coatings was proposed. Nano-poro...
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Ksenia E. Smetanina, Pavel V. Andreev, Evgeny A. Lantsev, Aleksey V. Nokhrin, Artem A. Murashov, Natalia V. Isaeva, Yury V. Blagoveshchensky, Maksim S. Boldin and Vladimir N. Chuvil?deev
The research results conducted on binderless tungsten carbide (WC) ceramics obtained by spark plasma sintering (SPS) of WC powders with different average particle sizes (95, 800, 3000 nm) are presented. Nonuniform distribution of crystalline phases and m...
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Stefano Piacquadio, Dominik Pridöhl, Nils Henkel, Rasmus Bergström, Alessandro Zamprotta, Athanasios Dafnis and Kai-Uwe Schröder
Economic viability of small launch vehicles, i.e., microlaunchers, is impaired by several factors, one of which is a higher dry to wet mass ratio as compared to conventional size launchers. Although reusability may reduce launch cost, it can drive dry an...
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Elham Al Qahtani, Yousra Javed, Sarah Tabassum, Lipsarani Sahoo and Mohamed Shehab
User adoption and usage of end-to-end encryption tools is an ongoing research topic. A subset of such tools allows users to encrypt confidential emails, as well as manage their access control using features such as the expiration time, disabling forwardi...
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Mónica Echeverry-Rendón, Luisa F. Berrio, Sara M. Robledo, Jorge A. Calderón, Juan G. Castaño and Felix Echeverría
Magnesium (Mg) has been explored during the last few decades in the biomedical industry as a biodegradable implant. However, mechanical properties and corrosion resistance are still big concerns for clinical use. Therefore, this study proposes a suitable...
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Stephan Lederer, Sigrid Benfer, Jonathan Bloh, Rezan Javed, Aneta Pashkova and Wolfram Fuerbeth
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