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Christopher Tsang, James Parker and David Glew
A substantial number of dwellings in the UK have poor building fabric, leading to higher carbon emissions, fuel expenses, and the risk of cold homes. To tackle these challenges, domestic energy efficiency policies are being implemented. One effective app...
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Kai-Lin Huang, Yang Song and Yan-Min Sheng
In order to alleviate the increasing serious urban waterlogging problem, the rainstorm resistance of a new self-compacting recycled pervious concrete (NSRPC) under the coupling of freeze?thaw (F-T) and fatigue is studied. The once-in-a-century rainfall w...
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Thamer Alomayri, Babar Ali, Syed Safdar Raza, Hawreen Ahmed and Moustafa Hamad
Seawater mixed (SW) concrete lessens the freshwater (FW) demand and eases the stress on the already depleting FW resources. The use of SW concrete is a sustainable solution that mitigates the environmental impact of concrete production, especially in coa...
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Amel Hind Hassein-Bey, Abd-Elmouneïm Belhadj, Hichem Tahraoui, Selma Toumi, Asma Nour El Houda Sid, Mohammed Kebir, Derradji Chebli, Abdeltif Amrane, Jie Zhang and Lotfi Mouni
The ?excess salt replication process? is a new simple method of fabrication of open-cell metal foam based on the commonly known salt replication method. Porous materials with porosity between 46% and 66% result when the employed alloy is 25% antimonial l...
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Jianquan Ma, Yongqiang Qiu, Yanbin Gao, Yuke An, Zhao Duan and Shibo Li
To explore the influence of sample preparation methods on the permeability and microstructure of remolded loess, remolded loess collected from Heifangtai was taken as the research object. A total of 40 sets of falling-head permeability tests were conduct...
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Xu Dong, Mingdong Wang, Minyuan Song and Ning Hou
The backfilling of lime soil in ultra-deep and ultra-narrow foundation trenches is a difficult construction link, and ordinary-cemented soil has drawbacks, including poor strength, impermeability, and frost resistance. To solve these problems, fly ash (F...
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Sang-Tae Park, Jong-Yong Lee and Sang-Keun Oh
This study analyzed if process oil and synthetic rubber, the main materials of the previous synthetic polymerized rubber gel waterproofing materials (P-SPRG), can be replaced with waste oil and waste rubber to be recycled as raw waterproofing materials a...
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Ewelina Basiak, Manfred Linke, Frédéric Debeaufort, Andrzej Lenart and Martin Geyer
Edible starch-based materials have shown a positive impact on quality parameters. In this study, plums (Prunus domestica cv. Jojo) were divided into five groups: a control, two coating treatments (starch and starch-whey protein (80?20%), and two film sys...
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Keqi Liu, Wantao Ding and Chunxu Qu
The penetration characteristics of the slurry and the support pressure transfer mechanisms are critical to the tunnel face stability control during a mechanized excavation. In this paper, numerical calculations coupling computational fluid dynamics (CFD)...
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Yu-Zhang Bi, Jia-Ming Wen, Hao-Liang Wu and Yan-Jun Du
In this paper, the performance of a gas barrier that consisted of polyacrylamide (PAM)-modified compacted clayey soil was experimentally explored. The moisture content and water loss characteristics of the tested soils were adopted as indicative indices ...
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