Criticism, practice, pedagogy: creative convergence through A.S. Byatt’s Babel Tower by Helen E. MUNDLER

“…Frederica works through this problem by returning to a project begun in The Virgin in the Garden, the first novel of the tetralogy, entitled Laminations. The idea of this intradiegetic text is to write in a series of apparently separate layers, hence the title, and then to allow these layers to come together to create new meaning. …”
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Effect of Aeroelastic Tailoring Design on Wing Mode by Yajuan He, Junli Wang, Jinyang Li, Bofeng Duan, Yang Zhou, Kangjie Wang

“…In this paper, in order to clarify the influence of structural parameters of laminates on the modal characteristics of high-aspect-ratio wings under prestress, the CFD/CSD coupling method was used to study the modal characteristics of nonlinear structures under the influence of layering angle, layering unbalanced coefficient, and layering reference direction. …”
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Constitutive Investigation on Viscoelasticity of PolyVinyl Butyral: Experiments Based on Dynamic Mechanical Analysis Method by Bohan Liu, Jun Xu, Yibing Li

“…Results may offer useful fundamental experimental data and important constitutive characteristics of PVB and shed lights on further studies on viscoelasticity behavior of PVB and energy mitigation ability of laminated glass.…”
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Failure Analysis of Deep Composite Roof Roadway and Support Optimization of Anchor Cable Parameters by Chen Li, Wenlong Zhang, Tianhong Huo, Rui Yu, Xidong Zhao, Ming Luo

“…The key points of stability of the roadway surrounding rock of soft rock composite laminated roof are obtained by theoretical analysis, i.e., improving the effective stress diffusion efficiency of the anchor cable through the reasonable arrangement of the anchor cable. …”
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IMPACTUL FACTORILOR FIZICI INTERNI ȘI EXTERNI ASUPRA CONCENTRAȚIILOR DE RADON INTERIOR CA PROBLEMĂ ACTUALĂ A SISTEMULUI DE SĂNĂTATE ÎN CONDIȚIILE SCHIMBĂRILOR CLIMATICE REGIONALE... by USM ADMIN

“…Studiile din diverse regiuni ale lumii arată, că factorii meteorologici influențează concentrația de radon în interior direct sau indirect. …”
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Post- Impact Fatigue Damage Analysis of Quasi Isotropic by Raghu V. Prakash, Mathew John

“…In this study, the CFRP laminates subjected to three different energy levels of low velocity impact were tested under constant amplitude and aircraft fatigue spectrum loading conditions till it reached the failure state. …”
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Aerodynamic Design and Performance Analysis of a Large-Scale Composite Blade for Wind Turbines by Semyoung Lim, Sungjin Ahn, Hyunbum Park

“…The structural design considering the aerodynamic design results was carried out. The composite laminate theory was adopted. Structural safety was evaluated for the designed blades. …”
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Novel 2D strain-rate-dependent lamina-based and RVE/phase-based progressive fatigue damage criteria for randomly loaded multi-layer fiber-reinforced composites by M. Shariyat

“…Results of the proposed fatigue criteria are first implemented to a composite plate with a complex lamination scheme under a random transverse load and the predicted fatigue lives are verified by the experimental results. …”
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Study of Transformer Core Vibration and Noise Generation Mechanism Induced by Magnetostriction of Grain-Oriented Silicon Steel Sheet by He Qiang, Nie Jingkai, Zhang Songyang, Xiao Weimin, Ji Shengchang, Chen Xin

“…Insofar as the state-of-the-art iron core and binding production adopt the lamination method and weft-free adhesive tape, respectively, the transformer core vibration is mainly attributed to the silicon steel sheet (SSS) magnetostriction. …”
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Manufacturing and Shear Response Characterization of Carbon Nanofiber Modified CFRP Using the Out-of-Autoclave-Vacuum-Bag-Only Cure Process by Erin E. McDonald, Landon F. Wallace, Gregory J. S. Hickman, Kuang-Ting Hsiao

“…Tensile testingwas used to study the in-plane shear performance of [±45°]4s composite laminates. Significant difference in failure modes between the control and CNF modified CFRPs was identified. …”
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Performance of reinforced concrete flat slabs having GFRP gratings by Haitham M.F. Mostafa, Ahmed A. Mahmoud, Tarek S. Mostafa, Ahmed N. M. Khater

“…Otherwise, extensive study has been done on FRP bars, laminates, sheets, strips, and rods. This study proposes a novel approach to improve the punching shear resistance of flat slab column connections by inserting GFRP gratings across the slab thickness. …”
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Study on the nuclear shield behaviors of basalt/carbon fibers reinforced PbO blended epoxy matrix composite – A novel material for thermal insulation applications by Raja Thandavamoorthy, Yuvarajan Devarajan

“…The composite is composed of basalt and carbon fibers reinforced varying with lead oxide (PbO) nanoparticles for five different composite laminates, all integrated into an epoxy matrix. The research primarily focuses on evaluating the composite's thermal insulation capabilities, gamma-ray attenuation effectiveness, and microstructural characteristics. …”
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Experimental Investigation on Mechanical Properties of Glass Fiber Hybridized Natural Fiber Reinforced Penta-Layered Hybrid Polymer Composite by Manjunathan Karthick, M. Meikandan, S. Kaliappan, M. Karthick, S. Sekar, Pravin P. Patil, S. Raja, L. Natrayan, Prabhu Paramasivam

“…Five varied stacking sequences of hybrid composites encompassing laminates are used to create four classes of fiber with jute/bamboo/glass by utilizing a conscientious hand lay-up process with glass fiber-laced mats as their peripheral layer. …”
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A Compact High-Gain Coplanar Waveguide-Fed Antenna for Military RADAR Applications by Zaheer Ahmed Dayo, Qunsheng Cao, Yi Wang, Sandeep Pirbhulal, Ali Hassan Sodhro

“…The proposed antenna was fabricated on a new WangLing TP-2 laminate with dimensions (0.195λ × 0.163λ × 0.0052λ) at the lowest resonance of 9.78 GHz. …”
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Residual stresses caused by static and dynamic contact interaction of composite plate and steel spherical indenter by Sviatoslav Eleonsky, Vladimir Pisarev

“…The presented studies were carried out both for static and dynamic application of contact indentation of a spherical indenter into a flat surface of samples made of laminated carbon fiber material with cross-ply stacking sequence. …”
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Désigner l’épouse gallo-romaine. Essai d’analyse des pratiques épigraphiques autour d’uxor et de coniux. by Marianne Beraud

“…By examining Roman colonies and cities with well rooted ius latii, it is to be noticed an over representing of “uxores” and this carries on until the second half of the second century AC. …”
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Preparation of TiO2 Grafted on Graphene and Study on their Photocatalytic Properties by Longli Lin, Lihua Shi, Simei Liu, Jieyi He

“…Results show that TiO2 is well grafted to the laminated structure of graphene using physicochemical interactions among the introduced functional groups after modifying P25 TiO2 and graphene. …”
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Rapid preparation of bioactive composites for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion by Baozhi Ding, Xin Wang, Changqing Zhao, Jie Zhao

“…To solve this problem, the bone mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) screen-enrich-combine circulating system (SECCS) was created to rapidly enrich stem cells and combined with β-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) to immediately produce bioactive MSCs/β-TCP composites. 37 patients who underwent transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) surgery were included in this study and randomly divided into two groups. One group uses laminal bone grafts (LBG) for intervertebral fusion, and another group uses MSCs/β-TCP composites. …”
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Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging Detection of Defects in Civil Aircraft Composites by Mian Zhong, Bingwei Liu, Chen Li, Zhiqi Wang, Dongshan Wei, Bin Zhou, Xin Dai, Yajun Xu

“…To investigate the defect damage detection and its spectral characteristics and imaging of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer composite laminates, defects from the low-velocity impact damage in composites were measured by the THz time-domain reflection imaging system. …”
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Regulation of human papillomavirus E6 oncoprotein function via a novel ubiquitin ligase FBXO4 by Arushi Vats, Luca Braga, Nezka Kavcic, Paola Massimi, Edoardo Schneider, Mauro Giacca, Laimonis A. Laimins, Lawrence Banks

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