Sustainable stabilization of fiber-reinforced clayey sand using zeolite as partial cement replacement by Mohsen Ramezani, Saman Soleimani Kutanaei, Ali Seyedkazemi, Ali Esfandiari Fard

“…In this study, the effect of partial replacement of cement with zeolite (up to 50 %) and the addition of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fibers (up to 0.8 wt%) on improving the mechanical, microstructural and environmental properties of clayey sand soil was investigated. …”
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Three-Dimensional Assessment of the Biological Periacetabular Defect Reconstruction in an Ovine Animal Model: A µ-CT Analysis by Frank Sebastian Fröschen, Thomas Martin Randau, El-Mustapha Haddouti, Jacques Dominik Müller-Broich, Frank Alexander Schildberg, Werner Götz, Dominik John, Susanne Reimann, Dieter Christian Wirtz, Sascha Gravius

“…The assessment of the microstructure for Groups 2 and 3 compared to Group 1 showed a clear approximation of Tb.Th, Tb.Sp, Tb.N, and Conn.D to the microstructure of the control group. …”
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Preparation, Characterization and Antioxidant Activity of Rice Protein Peptides with Different Enzymatic Hydrolysis Routes by Lingdong LI, Jun CHEN, Lizhen DENG, Qin GENG, Ti LI, Chengmei LIU, Taotao DAI

“…The hydrolysis degree of five rice protein peptides was greater than 17.60%, the degree of hydrolysis was relatively high, and the microstructure changed from irregular block to sphere. …”
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Current Applications and Development of Radiomics in Osteoporosis: A Narrative Review by Shuyu Liu, He Gong, Peipei Shi, Chenchen Li, Qi Zhang, Jinming Zhang

“…Radiomics allowed for quantitative characterization of bone geometry, material distribution, and microstructure, making it applicable to osteoporosis as well. …”
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USING HOMOGENIZATION AND NANOINDENTATION FOR MICROFIBRIL ANGLE DETERMINATION OF SPRUCE by Lucie Kucíková, Vladimír Hrbek, Jan Vorel, Michal Šejnoha

“…In view of the cell wall microstructure, the effective cell properties were found using the two-step micromechanical homogenization adopting both the Self-consistent and Mori-Tanaka methods.…”
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Electric Arc Furnace Dust Vitrification via Soda Lime Recycled Glass by Andronikos Maris, Dimitra Ioannidou, Ilias Sammas, Stavros Deligiannis, Petros E. Tsakiridis

“…The produced glasses during vitrification were studied by means of chemical and mineralogical analysis, whereas their microstructure in polished sections was examined by SEM/EDS. …”
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Brazing process and high-temperature performance of SUS410/Hastelloy X joint by Yuanbin LI, Hao SUN, Xingdong CHEN, Wei FU, Xiaoguo SONG

“…In order to evaluate the high-temperature service performance of the joint, the influence of high-temperature (620 ℃) aging on the interface microstructure and high-temperature mechanical properties of the joint was studied. …”
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Polysaccharide Hydrogels with Waste Wool Fibre as Matrix for Potential Use as CRF Fertiliser by Ewa Szczepanik, Edyta Molik, Kinga Pielichowska

“…The microstructure and the effect of fibres on the uniformity of the hydrogel were assessed using SEM and optical microscopy. …”
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Influence of Ni60-WC Bionic Unit on the Wear Performance of 20CrMnTi Steel Prepared via Laser Cladding by Bo Cui, You Lv, Zhaolong Sun, Yan Tong

“…The WC content was maintained within a mass percentage range of 15% to 60% in the composite powder system. The microstructure and properties of the bionic unit were characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and a hardness tester, while its dry sliding wear resistance was evaluated using a block-on-ring tribometer. …”
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Investigation on Durability Performance in Early Aged High-Performance Concrete Containing GGBFS and FA by Seung-Yup Jang, Subbiah Karthick, Seung-Jun Kwon

“…Chloride diffusion coefficient was measured under nonstationary condition. In order to evaluate the microstructure characteristics, porosity through MIP was also measured. …”
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Influence of mineral interface stiffness on fracture propagation law of shale hydraulic fracturing by HOU Mengru,LIANG Bing,SUN Weiji,LIU Qi,ZHAO Hang

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Long-Term Performance of Mortars with Combined Incorporation of Ladle Furnace Slag and Metakaolin by Tayná Silva, Everton Souza, Eduardo Mariano, Gisleiva Ferreira, Wislei R. Osório

“…Both the fresh and hardened states at 28 and 180 days are evaluated, and the resulting microstructural characteristics and constituent phases are also examined. …”
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Unveiling first self‐healing in metallised film capacitor: A macro–micro analysis by Yushuang He, Feipeng Wang, Guoqiang Du, Lei Pan, Jian Li, Hongming Yang, Xiao Zhang, Zhicheng Zhang, Kaizheng Wang

“…The quantified relationship between the macroscopic characteristics and microstructure evolution (polypropylene decomposition and aluminium electrode vaporisation) is established in MFCs under diverse SH energy levels. …”
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PATNet: Permute attention and transformer-enhanced network for segmentation of musculoskeletal ultrasound images by Yating Wu, Feng Bu, Jin Tian, Li Zhao, Guangfei Yang, Jianming Lu

“…The model is built upon the classical U-Net architecture to enhance the perception of microstructural features in muscle fibers.The Permute Spatial Attention (PSA) module reconstructs spatial information into the channel dimension, improving the model's sensitivity to muscle fiber orientation, density, and fine-grained texture variations. …”
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Effect of Glutinous Rice Slurry on the Reinforcement of Silt in the Yellow River Basin by Microbially Induced Carbonate Precipitation (MICP): Mechanical Property and Microcosmic St... by Jianwei Yue, Limin Zhao, Baoxi Zhang, Qingmei Kong, Siyuan Wang, Hao Wang

“…Based on the technology of ancient glutinous rice mortar and microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP), experiments on optimal mass ratio of cementitious liquid to bacterial liquid and optimal concentration of cementitious liquid for MICP and improved MICP technology were carried out by measuring the production of CaCO3, and direct shear test and unconfined compressive strength test of plain silt, glutinous mixing silt, and improved silt with MICP and modified MICP were conducted. The microstructure of the reaction products of MICP and improved MICP technology were also evaluated based on scanning electron microscopy (SEM). …”
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Introducing MagBERT: A language model for magnesium textual data mining and analysis by Surjeet Kumar, Russlan Jaafreh, Nirpendra Singh, Kotiba Hamad, Dae Ho Yoon

“…This NER model can extract mechanical, microstructural, and processing properties related to Mg alloys. …”
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Investigation of Plane-Strain Fracture Toughness and Failure Analysis of AISI-4140 Alloy Steel by Y. S. Upadhyaya, Rutuja Balaji Kottawar, Narahari Suresh Patil, Vishwanath Managuli

“…The current study focuses on the experimental evaluation of fracture toughness due to its critical role in determining the material’s resistance to fracture and crack propagation. …”
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DYNAMIC IMPACT WEAR AND IMPACT RESISTANCE OF W-B-C COATINGS by Josef Daniel, Jan Grossman, Vilma Buršíková, Lukáš Zábranský, Pavel Souček, Saeed Mirzaei, Petr Vašina

“…Different impact test results are discussed with respect to the coatings microstructure, the chemical and phase composition, and the mechanical properties. …”
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Characterizing variability in passive myocardial stiffness in healthy human left ventricles using personalized MRI and finite element modeling by Fikunwa O. Kolawole, Vicky Y. Wang, Bianca Freytag, Michael Loecher, Tyler E. Cork, Martyn P. Nash, Ellen Kuhl, Daniel B. Ennis

“…This includes the gross cardiac geometry (e.g. from conventional cine imaging), regional diastolic kinematics (e.g. from tagged MRI), microstructural configuration (e.g. from diffusion tensor imaging), and ventricular diastolic pressure, whether invasively measured or non-invasively estimated. …”
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Synergistic Effects of Hollow Glass Microspheres and Sisal Fibers in Natural Gypsum-Based Composites: Achieving Lightweight, High-Strength, and Aesthetically Superior Construction... by Chang Chen, Yuan Gao, Shaowu Jiu, Yanxin Chen, Yan Liu

“…The multifunctional effects of these additives were comprehensively assessed via integrated mechanical characterization, spectrophotometric whiteness evaluation, and microstructural interrogation. The findings revealed that the incorporation of HGMs resulted in a significant decrease in the NGBC density while concurrently enhancing whiteness; they also exerted an adverse impact on both processability and mechanical properties. …”
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