Fatigue Performance of Recycled Hot Mix Asphalt: A Laboratory Study by Marco Pasetto, Nicola Baldo

“…The fatigue study was carried out with four-point bending tests, each one performed at 20°C and 10 Hz. …”
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Photocatalytic Decomposition of Amoxicillin Trihydrate Antibiotic in Aqueous Solutions under UV Irradiation Using Sn/TiO2 Nanoparticles by Robab Mohammadi, Bakhshali Massoumi, Mohammad Rabani

“…The photocatalytic activity of samples was tested by photocatalytic mineralization of amoxicillin trihydrate (AMOX) as a model pollutant. Sn/TiO2 nanoparticles exhibited high photocatalytic activity during the mineralization of AMOX under UV light due to increase in the generated hydroxyl radicals, band gap energy, specific surface area, and decrease in the crystallite size. …”
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Analysis of Vibration Response Law of Multistory Building under Tunnel Blasting Loads by Runke Huo, Shuguang Li, Zhanping Song, Yoshiaki Fujii, Shan Lei, Jianchao Mao, Sisi Tian, Zizhen Miao

“…With the increase of the building floor, the main frequency domain of the building decreased and then gradually tended to the low-frequency domain. The high-frequency particle velocity gradually decreased, gathered to the low frequency, and developed from the dispersed multiband to the concentrated low-frequency band. …”
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Persistent homology based topological analysis on the gestalt patterns during human brain cognition process by Zaisheng LIU, Fei NI, Rongpeng LI, Honggang ZHANG, Chang LIU, Jiefang ZHANG, Songyun XIE

“…The integrated development of information communication technology and neuroscience heralds the possibility and great potential of brain-to-brain wireless communication(B2BC).The physiologically meaningful features of brain responses were extracted to different contour and shape in images in Gestalt cognitive tests by combining persistent homology analysis with electroencephalogram (EEG).The experimental results show that more brain regions in the frontal lobe were involved when the subject perceives the random and disordered combination of images compared to the ordered Gestalt images.Meanwhile, the persistence entropy of EEG data evoked by random sequence diagram (RSD) was observed to be significantly different from that by the ordered Gestalt images(GST) in several frequency bands, which indicated that human cognition of shapes and contours, such as a preliminary advanced cognition process, could be separated to some extent through topological analysis.This method can digitize the neural signals while preserving the whole and local features of the original signals.In general, the cognitively related neural correlates by persistent homology features of EEG signal are revaluated and quantified, which provides an approach to realize the digitization of neural signals in brain-to-brain wireless communication.…”
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Effect of different environmental conditions on surface crack growth in aluminum alloys by V. Shlyannikov, R. Yarullin, I. Ishtyryakov

“…It is found that there is a steady relationship between the crack growth rate and the plastic SIF in the form of general curve within a relatively narrow scatter band for all tested specimens at different temperatures.…”
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From Domestic Setting to Display Space: The Evolution of the Foster Associates’ Work Spaces and Methodology by Gabriel Hernández

“…The Foster Associates team has been depicted, among many other identities, as superheroes, a rock-band, tandem riders and a football team. Founded by Norman and Wendy Foster, their collective working methodology has become one of the practice’s primary trademarks. …”
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Nanoscaled Electrocatalytic Optically Modulated ZnO Nanoparticles through Green Process of Punica granatum L. and Their Antibacterial Activities by Xolile Fuku, Abdoulaye Diallo, Malik Maaza

“…Electrochemical investigation revealed the redox properties and the conductivity of the as-prepared ZnO nanoparticles. The optical band gap of ZnO NPs was calculated to be 3.48 eV which indicates that ZnO NPs can be used in metal oxide semiconductor-based devices. …”
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Influence of mean stress on the fatigue strength of ASTM A743 CA6NM alloy steel by José Alexander Araújo, Felipe Oliveira, Jorge Luiz de Almeida Ferreira, Braitner Lobato da Silva

“…Based on the obtained results it was possible to determine parameters that describe the fatigue behavior of the evaluated material, obtain its S-N curves, its endurance limit and its scatter bands. In the assessment of the mean stress effects of fatigue life, Goodman, Gerber, Walker and Kwofie’s relations were tested in order to evaluate the validity of the use of such rules for the tested material. …”
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Design of Dual Polarized FMCW Radar System With High Gain Lens Antenna for Through-the-Wall Human Detection by Chanhee Lee, Kyung Hwan Park, Hyungju Kim, Jayol Lee, Hyunseok Kim, Kyeong-Han Shin, Jeong-Wook Kim

“…The dual-polarization synthesis technique yields substantial improvements in both SNR and detection accuracy in through-the-wall scenarios.…”
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Synthesis, Characterization and Anticancer Activity of Poly Acetal /PVP Ag, Au Nanocomposite in Treatment of Lung Cancer Cell Line by Maha A. Younus, Dalia J. Hadi

“…The poly acetal, polymer blends and nano composite were characterized by FTIR, FESEM, DSC and TGA. …”
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Quantum magnetometry of transient signals with a time resolution of 1.1 nanoseconds by K. Herb, L. A. Völker, J. M. Abendroth, N. Meinhardt, L. van Schie, P. Gambardella, C. L. Degen

“…Existing protocols primarily focus on static fields or narrow-band dynamical signals, and are optimized for high sensitivity rather than fast time resolution. …”
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Brock's approaching zero method improved as approaching fixed point frequency to solve optimum damping ratio of dynamic vibration absorber in machine tools and experimental confirm... by Hongliang Tian, Xixiao Liang, Xuan Du

“…Moreover, the present paper's absorber has larger band width than the Ormondroyd absorber and Lanchester absorber. …”
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Finite-Element Formulae for Calculating the Sectional Forces of a Bernoulli-Euler Beam on Continuously Viscoelastic Foundation Subjected to Concentrated Moving Loads by Ping Lou

“…In the finite element method, there are shortcomings using the conventional formulae to calculate the sectional forces, i.e., the bending moment and the shear force, at any cross-section of Bernoulli-Euler beam under dynamic loads. …”
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Analytical Solutions for Corrosion-Induced Cohesive Concrete Cracking by Hua-Peng Chen, Nan Xiao

“…A bilinear softening curve reflecting realistic concrete property, together with the crack band theory for concrete fracture, is applied to model the residual tensile stress in the cracked concrete. …”
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Estimation of fatigue lifetime for selected metallic materials under multiaxial variable amplitude loading by Yingyu Wang, Luca Susmel

“…The results show that the usage of these three design procedures resulted in satisfactory predictions for the materials being considered, with estimates falling within an error band of three.…”
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FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF GEARBOX BASED ON ADAPTIVE EEMD AND FAST KURTOGRAM by XIANG Wei, LI RuYu, WANG Hui, TIAN LiYong, YU Ning

“…Firstly, the collected vibration signals are preprocessed by EMD to obtain the key input parameters of EEMD adaptively, and then combined with the “double threshold criterion” of the kurtosis and cross-correlation coefficient quickly choose components for signal reconstruction to highlight the fault characteristic, and through the Fast Kurtogram select optimal band-pass filter parameters, finally, the signal after filtering do envelope spectrum analysis, realize the extraction of fault feature frequency and fault diagnosis.The validity of the proposed method is verified by simulation signal analysis and fault diagnosis engineering application of reducer gearbox and comparing with the EMD method and the traditional EEMD method.The results show that the proposed method can successfully extract the reducer gearbox’s early weak fault characteristics from the signal with strong background noise, and the timeliness and accuracy of fault diagnosis are improved.…”
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Fibrolamellar Carcinoma: 2012 Update by Michael Torbenson

“…In this paper, the clinical, pathological, and basic science literature on fibrolamellar carcinoma is comprehensively reviewed. Key areas of needed research are also discussed.…”
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Observation of non-Hermitian boundary induced hybrid skin-topological effect excited by synthetic complex frequencies by Tianshu Jiang, Chenyu Zhang, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Yingjuan Yu, Zhenfu Guan, Zeyong Wei, Zhanshan Wang, Xinbin Cheng, C. T. Chan

“…We demonstrate that HSTE induces asymmetric transmission along a specific direction within the topological band gap. Besides HSTE, we identify corner states originating from non-chiral edge states, which are caused by the unbalanced effective onsite energy shifts at the boundaries of the network. …”
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Free vibrational analysis of composite beams reinforced with randomly aligned and oriented carbon nanotubes, resting on an elastic foundation by Mohammed Chatbi, Zouaoui Rabie Harrat, Tahir Ghazoul, Mohamed Bachir Bouiadjra

“…The refined beam theory which is summarized by differentiating the displacement along the beam transverse section into shear and bending components, initially the material properties of the composite beam (CNTRC) are estimated using the Mori-Tanaka’s method. …”
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Experimental data on aerosols exhaled into the environment from different wind musical instruments by Ainara Ugarte-Anero, Unai Fernandez-Gamiz, Koldo Portal-Porras, Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede

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