Al2O3/Al hybrid nanolaminates with superior toughness, strength and ductility by Paul Baral, Sahar Jaddi, Hui Wang, Andrey Orekhov, Nicolas Gauquelin, Alireza Bagherpour, Frederik Van Loock, Michaël Coulombier, Audrey Favache, Morgan Rusinowicz, Johan Verbeeck, Stéphane Lucas, Jean-Pierre Raskin, Hosni Idrissi, Thomas Pardoen

“…This is almost two orders of magnitude higher than bulk alumina and higher than any other thin hard coatings. …”
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Research on Business Environment Risk Governance Based on Occupational Claims: 1784 Cases of Food Safety Disputes by Jiangjie Sun, Yufei Gao, Xueli Jiang, Yan Li, Mengyao Yang, Ziyan Zhao, Hangzhou Yang, Jinliang You

“…Using Excel, Review Manager 5.0 and SPSS 19.0, the number of cases prosecuted as “consumers” were obtained by means of textual analysis, and the development process was directly influenced by occupational claims, with 2017 as a great value point (watershed); the rate of losing occupational claim cases has been climbing since 2018; and the risk of losing occupational claims is higher than that of true meaningful consumer advocacy cases (Z = 6.99, p < 0.001), and in 2019, the risk of losing a case was 33.34 times higher than that of an ordinary consumer. …”
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Experimental Investigation of Unloading-Induced Red Sandstone Failure: Insight into Spalling Mechanism and Strength-Weakening Effect by Yong Luo, Fengqiang Gong, Dongqiao Liu

“…The results show the stress-strain curve of highly stressed red sandstone exhibits a stress step during unloading, and the higher the unloading rate, the lower the stress level required for a stress step. …”
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Mechanical properties and reinforcement mechanism study of sulfate saline soil solidified by polyurethane and water glass by Tiantian Zhang, Dingfeng Cao, Chengchao Guo, Fuming Wang

“…Further, the higher the salt content, the higher the ductility. …”
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Preliminary Study on High-Energy and Low-Energy Microfracture Event Evolution Characteristics in the Development Process of Rock Failure by Guofeng Yu, Guanwen Cheng, Lianchong Li, Chunan Tang, Bo Ren, Yunchun Han

“…The change characteristics of the high-energy AE hits are positively correlated with crack evolution characteristics in the granite specimen and negatively correlated with changes in the Gutenberg-Richter b value. …”
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Experimental Study of Size Effects on the Deformation Strength and Failure Characteristics of Hard Rocks under True Triaxial Compression by Qiang Han, Yaohui Gao, Yan Zhang

“…However, the damage stress (σcd) and peak strength (σp) have obvious size effect; that is, the smaller the sample size is, the higher the strength is. Additionally, the relationship among the peak strength, sample size, and intermediate principal stress (σ2) is power function. …”
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A Study on Using Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites for Shear and Flexural Enhancement of Reinforced Concrete Beams by Hibretu Kaske Kassa, Getinet Melesse, Gashahun Yabasa

“…In the concrete construction sector, issues such as tensile strength of structural elements, brittle mode of failure, rapid crack propagation, and increased overload are common. …”
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Laser surface melting and heat treatment of Tomilloy nickel-based superalloy as gas turbine transition part after service by Bahareh Mohammadi, Homam Naffakh-Moosavy, Hamed Fatemi

“…The measured penetration depth at higher speeds, namely 70, and 80 mm/s, was low, and the passes had inadequate overlap. …”
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High-temperature tensile mechanical behavior and ablation mechanisms of three-dimensional multi-directions braided carbon/boron-modified phenolic composites by Wentao Yang, Yang Jin, Zhengyan Yang, Diantang Zhang

“…In contrast, 3D6d has additional cracks extending along sixth yarn.…”
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Comparison of properties of HAp and CaTiO3-HAp ceramic composite fabricated by different sintering conditions by Chiengsorn Rawisada, Lioroongcharoen Supimkarn, Charoenpanich Adisri, Chanadee Tawat

“…The alkaline phosphatase activity of MG-63 cells was higher on both ceramics cultured in osteogenic differentiation medium than in complete growth medium, which indicated more efficient osteoinductivity.…”
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Type I Fracture Toughness Test of Rock-like Materials Based on the Particle Flow Method by Ling Yue, Bangyong Yu, Chengxi Zhao, Fei Guo, Fei Huang

“…In order to investigate the feasibility and reliability of the three-dimensional particle flow method in simulating the type I fracture toughness test, four types of numerical samples were established by particle flow code PFC3D: straight crack three-point bending (SC3PB), edge cracked flattened semicircular disc (ECFSD), cracked chevron notched Brazilian disc (CCNBD), and edge cracked flattened ring (ECFR). …”
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Effect of the Reinforcement Phase on Indentation Resistance and Damage Characterization of Glass/Epoxy Laminates Using Acoustic Emission Monitoring by C. Suresh Kumar, K. Saravanakumar, P. Prathap, M. Prince, G. Bharathiraja, S. Kannan, S. Madhu, P. Kumaran

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Experimental study on the splitting tensile failure of a carbon nanotube-modified fly ash foamed concrete filler by Shukun Zhang, Xinghui Wu, Peng Jiang, Haohao Wang, Shuai Wang, Haojie Yang, Lu Lu

“…At a low loading rate, the CNT-modified foamed concrete backfill dissipated less energy, and the reverse was true for higher rates.…”
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Control of peritectic phase content and its effect on properties of CuSn20P1 alloy by semi-solid rheological forming by Hao Zhang, Yongkun Li, Rongfeng Zhou, Dingdong Huo, Yao Li, Lei Wang

“…The results show that the higher mold temperature is conducive to the formation of peritectic β phase, and the content of peritectic β phase increases from 36.18% to 57.88% with the mold temperature increasing from 500 °C to 575 °C. …”
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Effects of wire diameter on mechanical and microstructural properties of Inconel 625 fabricated by wire arc additive manufacturing by Fakada Dabalo Gurmesa, Hirpa G. Lemu, Wakshum Mekkonen Tucho, Adugna Deressa Akessa

“…Hardness also follows a similar trend as tensile strength, showing higher values for the smaller wire diameter and the least for the largest diameter. …”
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Anchored and epoxied ferrocement strips for improving flexural performance of two-way reinforced concrete slabs by Galal Elsamak, Mohamed Ghalla, Moataz Badawi, Abdullah Albogami, Taher A. Tawfik, Ramy I. Shahin

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Mechanical Properties of Bump-Prone Coal with Different Porosities and Its Acoustic Emission-Charge Induction Characteristics under Uniaxial Compression by Xin Ding, Xiaochun Xiao, Xiangfeng Lv, Di Wu, Jun Xu

“…Both of them originated from cracks and belong to homologous signals, crack development bound to be accompanied by stress wavelet, not necessarily free charge; meanwhile, charge pulse being emerged means there must be cracks interaction and the acoustic emission signals are generated prior to charge induction.…”
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Study on the Effect of Rock Strength on the Macro-Meso Shear Behaviors of Artificial Rock Joints by Yujing Jiang, Sunhao Zhang, Hengjie Luan, Qinglin Shan, Baocheng Li, Dong Wang, Chuanyang Jia

“…The particles with larger rotational arcs are consistent with the location of crack distribution, and the cumulative number of cracks on the joints of high-strength rock is higher. …”
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Research on the Impact of Different Force Directions on the Mechanical Properties and Damage Evolution Law of Sandstone with Different Hole Diameters by Fukun Xiao, Renhe Li, Le Xing

“…For the rock sample with the horizontal hole, symmetrical tensile cracks initially appear in the upper and lower parts of the hole and finally form shear failure. …”
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Effect of Organic Material Type and Proportion on the Physical and Mechanical Properties of Vegetation-Concrete by Daxiang Liu, Baohua Zhang, Yueshu Yang, Wennian Xu, Yu Ding, Zhenyao Xia

“…The experimental results show that the porosity of samples containing corn distillers’ grain is clearly higher than those of the other samples types, while situation of the mechanical properties is the opposite. …”
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