NON-BIODEGRADATION OF POLYMERIZED POLYETHYLENE RADICALS AT SELECTED DUMPSITES IN KEFFI, NASARAWA STATE NIGERIA by Sufiyan I., Salamatu A. E., Alkali M

“…In addition, polyethylene are lightweight, easily processed and offer near-zero moisture absorption. …”
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Sleep Posture Detection via Embedded Machine Learning on a Reduced Set of Pressure Sensors by Giacomo Peruzzi, Alessandra Galli, Giada Giorgi, Alessandro Pozzebon

“…By locally processing data from a minimal set of pressure sensors, the system avoids the need to transmit raw data to remote units, making it lightweight and suitable for real-time applications. …”
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Multiobjective Topology Optimization of Spatial-Structure Joints by Nanhai Zhu, Jinlei Liu

“…In comparison to hollow spherical joints with the same weight, topology-optimized joints have a superior ability to resist deformation and improve low-order frequency, which verifies the feasibility of applying multiobjective topology optimization to the lightweight design of joints.…”
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Mechanics Design of Conical Spiral Structure for Flexible Coilable Antenna Array by Hairui Wang, Yao Zhang, Siyu Chen, Yinji Ma, Heling Wang, Ying Chen, Xue Feng

“…Combined with a theoretical model to predict the deformation of the membrane, the model provides an important theoretical support for the lightweight design and mechanical design of flexible coilable antenna array, such as the thickness of the coilable membrane. …”
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Influence of Plastic Deformation on the Precipitation Evolution in the Aluminum Alloys in Friction Stir Welding by Iuliia Morozova, Anton Naumov, Nikolay Doynov, Vesselin Michailov

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Integration of a 3D-Printed Façade Unit in a Curtain Wall System by Francesco Milano, Ringo Perez Gamote, Nik Eftekhar Olivo, Valeria Piccioni, Po Yen Chen, Caitlin Gallagher, Arno Schlüter, Benjamin Dillenburger, Andreas Luible, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler

“… Plastic materials, known for their lightweight, formability, transparency, and durability, are the state of the art for building façade applications. …”
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Influence of microstructure on fatigue property of ultra high-strength steels by Kanji Okuda, Kazuhiro Ogawa, Yuji Ichikawa, Tsuyoshi Shiozaki, Naoki Yamaguchi

“…Ultra-high-strength steels (with tensile strength higher than 980 MPa) are widely used in automobile manufacturing owing to their lightweight that contributes to fuel efficiency. The fatigue strength of ultra-high-strength steels with a notch tends to decrease, which is known as the effect of notch sensitivity. …”
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Effects of LECA Content on the Behavior of Steel Fiber-Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete at High Temperature by Lafta Ghassan M., Ali Ahmed S.

“…This paper examines how steel fiber and the amount of lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LECA) affect the mechanical and microstructural properties of geopolymer concrete (GPC) made from fly ash after being heated. …”
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Study on Vibration Control and Parameters Influence of Cable Inerter Viscous Damping System by Ruoyu Zhang, Meigen Cao

“…The research shows that the additional mass and damping of CIVD can be amplified hundreds of times through the rotation, so as to realize the lightweight and high efficiency of the damper and make up for the engineering defects of the traditional TMD system. …”
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DM-YOLO: improved YOLOv9 model for tomato leaf disease detection by Abudukelimu Abulizi, Junxiang Ye, Halidanmu Abudukelimu, Wenqiang Guo

“…Specifically, firstly, lightweight dynamic up-sampling DySample is incorporated into the feature fusion backbone network to enhance the ability to extract features of small lesions and suppress the interference from the background environment; secondly, the MPDIoU loss function is used to enhance the learning of the details of overlapping lesion margins in order to improve the accuracy of localizing overlapping lesion margins. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Impact of the Stirrer Design in the Stir Casting Route to Produce Metal Matrix Composites by Farooq Muhammad, Shawnam Jalal

“…Aluminum matrix composites are widely utilized in many sectors, and their popularity is rising due to their ability to combine high mechanical characteristics with their lightweight. Stir casting is typically achieved in a closed crucible with an invisible flow pattern to produce aluminum alloy matrix composites. …”
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Human-Structure Dynamic Interaction during Short-Distance Free Falls by E. Shahabpoor, A. Pavic

“…By using a similar analogy for lightweight floor structures, it is shown that ignoring the dynamics of floors in the contact model can result in an up to 35% overestimation of the peak force experienced by a falling human. …”
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Real-Time Identification of Nonstandard Thermal Inkjet Codes on the Surface of Hot-Rolled Steel Sheets in Complex Environments by Xing-Hua Wang, Le Liang, Hong-Wei Sun, Wei-Bin Chen, Can-Can Wang, Yang-Yang Sun

“…Most of the existing mainstream identification methods rely on manual visual observation and traditional image recognition to obtain them, with low recognition efficiency and poor recognition effect. In this paper, a lightweight YOLO with ResNet18 as the backbone network is used as the detection and recognition framework, and deformable convolution and text feature extraction techniques are purposefully added to detect the location of thermal inkjet codes images to achieve accurate and fast positioning and segmentation of thermal spray codes. …”
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Effect of pre-tensioning force on behavior of Buckling Restrained Brace (BRB) supported by double pre-tensioning system by Mohamed Selim, Muhammad E. Kamel, Eman Elshamy, Mohamed Emara

“…The results showed a 66% improvement in bearing capacity, with the external restraining case thickness reduced to 20 mm, making it lightweight, economical, and easy to maintain. The specimens with a pre-tensioning force of 70 kN, 50 kN and 40 kN providing a 31%, 51% and 73.2 % for steel 37, 44 and 52 respectively over than the design specimen without pre-tensioning system.…”
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Titanium/FRP hybrid sandwich: in-plane flexural behaviour of short beam specimens by C. Bellini, V. Di Cocco, F. Iacoviello, L.P. Mocanu, L. Sorrentino, R. Borrelli, S. Franchitti

“…Adopting novel sandwich structures with FRP (Fibre Reinforced Polymer) skins and a metallic lattice core, both of which have high specific strength and stiffness, is one way to achieve better mechanical performance while remaining lightweight. Flexural stress is a load pattern that frequently occurs in the structural frame components of automobiles; nonetheless, while the in-plane load scheme has scarcely been examined, the out-of-plane load one has. …”
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Semantic‐aware visual consistency network for fused image harmonisation by Huayan Yu, Hai Huang, Yueyan Zhu, Aoran Chen

“…First, the authors modify a lightweight image harmonisation backbone and combined it with a pretrained segmentation model, in which the extracted semantic features were fed to both the encoder and decoder. …”
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Tiny Machine Learning Implementation for Guided Wave-Based Damage Localization by Jannik Henkmann, Vittorio Memmolo, Jochen Moll

“…This work leverages ultrasonic guided waves (UGWs) to detect and localize damage in structures using lightweight Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. It investigates the use of machine learning (ML) to train the effects of the damage on UGWs to the model. …”
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Covalent Organic Frameworks for Membrane Separation by Yuan‐Hang Jin, Meng‐Hao Li, Ying‐Wei Yang

“…The ordered structures and customizable functionality provide COFs with a lightweight framework, large surface area, and tunable pore sizes, which have attracted increasing attention for their applications in membrane separations. …”
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Characteristic Analysis of Bending Fatigue Stress of Asymmetric Gear with Small Teeth Number by Cai Youjie

“…On the development of miniaturization,lightweight and energy efficiency for mechanical transmission device,asymmetric gear with small teeth number attracts a lot of interests in both fundamental research and application,but the study of the bending fatigue stress characteristics is few. …”
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Output Torque and Speed Influence by Trapped-oil of Gear Motor and Its Ripple Minimization Strategy by Rui Peng, Jianfeng Wang, Ziwen Sun

“…It is concluded that lightweight through fewer teeth and ultra-low ripple through axis double-pairs with dislocation meshing can be perfectly fulfilled，which provides the basis for the further research and development of high quality gear motor.…”
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