Impacts of PU Foam Stand-Off Layer on the Vibration Damping Performance of Stand-Off Free Layer Damping Cantilever Beams by Longqiang Liang, Weibo Huang, Ping Lyu, Mingliang Ma, Fandi Meng, Yingjie Sang

“…In this paper, a stand-off free layer damping cantilever beam is prepared with the steel plate as the base layer, rigid polyurethane (PU) foam as the stand-off layer, and rubber as the damping layer, and the motion equation of the cantilever beam is derived. …”
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Fatty Amides from Crude Rice Bran Oil as Green Corrosion Inhibitors by E. Reyes-Dorantes, J. Zuñiga-Díaz, A. Quinto-Hernandez, J. Porcayo-Calderon, J. G. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, L. Martinez-Gomez

“…The corrosion inhibitory capacity of the fatty amides was evaluated on an API X-70 steel using electrochemical techniques such as real-time corrosion monitoring and potentiodynamic polarization curves. …”
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Developing Smart Measurement Device to Measure Kinetic Friction Coefficients of Bi-Tilt Isolator by Ming-Hsiang Shih, Wen-Pei Sung

“…Then, varying amounts of steel gaskets were applied to adjust the various slopes for sliding tests. …”
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Experimental Study on Two-Step Concrete Corbels with Several Interface Conditions by Mohamed A. Hassan, M. Nasser Darwish, Said M. Allam, Muhammad A. Diab

“…Moreover, using adhesive components on the hardened column–corbel interface was investigated. Besides, steel reinforcement implantation was attempted and studied for corbels with or without horizontal stirrups. …”
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Concrete Mix Design for Service Life of RC Structures under Carbonation Using Genetic Algorithm by Seung-Jun Kwon, Byung Jae Lee, Yun Yong Kim

“…Steel corrosion in reinforced concrete (RC) structure is such a critical problem to structural safety that many researches have been performed for maintaining required performance during intended service life. …”
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Dimensional Analysis and Validity of Uniaxial Residual Stress Distribution for Welded Box Sections by András Horváth, Dénes Kollár

“…This paper investigates the residual stresses induced by metal inert/active gas (MIG/MAG) welding in normal strength steel box sections, focusing on the validity of uniaxial residual stress assumption. …”
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Analysis of Startup Process and Its Optimization for a Two-Stand Reversible Cold Rolling Mill by Guangming Liu, Yugui Li, Qingxue Huang, Xia Yang, Aimin Liu

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Optimizing community-based aquaponics: Evaluating the impact of rotary drum filter implementation on water conservation and operational efficiency by Muhammad Fuad, Arief Budihardjo Mochamad, Shofwan Agus, Sumartono Agus, Setyawan Budi, Inandin Nabiha Puteri

“…The RDF, incorporating a 200 mesh screw made from stainless steel 316 (SS 316) and a casing of polypropylene (PP), is designed for enhanced durability and chemical resistance. …”
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Structural Health Monitoring System for a Complicated Long-Span Continuous Girder Bridge: Implementation and Demonstration by Zhi-Wen Wang, Lie-Ping Xu, You-Liang Ding, Run-Zhou You, Jian-Bin Zhu, Sha Shan

“…The Dongbao River Xin’an Bridge is the first hybrid continuous girder bridge with corrugated steel webs in China. To assess its service conditions and guarantee its safe operation, a continuous structural health monitoring (SHM) system is designed in this paper. …”
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NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR RESTORATION AND PROTECTION OF POWER EQUIPMENT WITH THE AID OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS by A. O. Ischenko, V. M. Kravchenko, O. V. Dashko, D. V. Kakareka

“…Taking the excellent adhesive properties of this composite into account, restoration of worn stainless steel sieve screens to remove abrasive material was fulfilled with the aid of it. …”
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Resistance to Cyclic Fatigue of Nickel-Titanium Files Immersed in Sodium Hypochlorite at Body Temperature by Hind F. Abuhulaibah, Ammar AbuMostafa

“…CF for all the files was tested within a well-lubricated stainless-steel artificial canal in a water bath at 37°C simulating body temperature. …”
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Environmental and economic assessment of the application of an optimised chemical decontamination method on the internal surface of a nuclear steam generator by Rachael Clayton, Anthony Banford, Laurence Stamford

“…., +186 % to +542 % for climate change) due to the absence of steel recovery through recycling. Two key implications are that chemical decontamination and recycling of radioactive metallic structures offer substantial environmental and economic improvements, and that integration of LCA and LCC in waste processing R&D can enable major savings.…”
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Torque Prediction In Deep Hole Drilling: Artificial Neural Networks Versus Nonlinear Regression Model by Ngoc Hung- Chu, Hoai Nam- Nguyen, Van Du- Nguyen, Dang Binh- Nguyen

“…The model has been validated through experiments drilling AISI-304 stainless steel with hole depth-to-diameter ratios of 8 under continuous drilling conditions with ultrasonic-assisted vibration. …”
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Comparison of 304 SS, 2205 SS, and 410 SS Corrosion by Sulfate-Reducing Desulfovibrio ferrophilus by Junlei Wang, Hongfang Liu, Pruch Kijkla, Sith Kumseranee, Suchada Punpruk, Magdy El-Said Mohamed, Mazen A. Saleh, Tingyue Gu

“…Three types of stainless steel (304 SS, 410 SS, and 2205 SS) were evaluated for their corrosion behaviors in microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) by Desulfovibrio ferrophilus strain IS5, a relatively new and very corrosive sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) strain. …”
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An Evaluation Method for Effective Prestress of Simply Supported Prestressed Concrete Beams with Breathing Cracks by Wenlong Guo, Peng Liang, Hexu Liu, Y. Frank Chen, Xiaojin Zhao

“…The evaluation results of the total effective prestress are more reasonable than the traditional method based on the steel stress relief hole technique or frequency test results. …”
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Numerical Theoretical Study on Mechanical Properties of New Reinforced Tenon Precast Shear Walls by Wei Chen, Qing Wu, Dongyue Wu, Longji Dang, Feifei Jiang

“…However, the joint interface slippage between the precast components causes detrimental effect on the mechanical properties, such as dowel shear stress on the connecting steel bars, which strictly restricts the development of assembly technology in aseismic structure. …”
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Assessment of Effectiveness of Av600P Screw Reinforcement in Compressed Reinforced Concrete Elements by Galina E. Okolnikova, Georgy I. Tikhonov

“…The article is devoted to the research of application of reinforcing steel of a new spiral profile for reinforcement of reinforced concrete constructions. …”
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Crack Detection of Reinforced Concrete Structures Based on BOFDA and FBG Sensors by Qinghua Zhang, Ziming Xiong

“…Four continuous distributed optical fibers are fixed on the steel skeleton, which is located within the reinforced concrete beam. …”
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Design and Experimental Study of Composite Cross Arm Tension Release Device by Wenbin Li, Junzhe Lin, Xinlong Wang, Yanlin Li, Xiaolei Zhang, Junfeng Bai, Dehong Wang

“…The composite cross arm tower exhibits excellent electrical performance, which contributes to a reduction in the width of transmission line corridors, minimizes the use of steel in transmission towers, and mitigates issues such as wind bias tripping. …”
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Recycling of the rare earth oxides from spent rechargeable batteries using waste metallurgical slags by Tang K., Ciftja A., van der Eijk C., Wilson S., Tranell G.

“…The spent battery modules were first frozen with liquid nitrogen for the de-activation and brittle fracture treatment. The broken steel scraps and plastics were then separated by the mechanical classification and magnetic separation. …”
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