The article presents a recognition of the current state of the art in the field of bridge structures made using concrete on lightweight aggregate. The article aims to show the reader why aggregate with low mechanical parameters and high absorption ca...
Due to their multiple advantages, piezoceramic materials have been widely used in structural health monitoring (SHM). Piezoceramic patch-based smart aggregate (SA) and spherical piezoceramic-based smart aggregate (SSA) have been developed for damage...
The construction industry increasingly relies on concrete to meet growing urban population demands. However, concrete has a high carbon footprint, which contradicts the Sustainable Development Goals and the Circular Economy policies promoted by the E...
The aggregation of a polypeptide chain into amyloid fibrils and their accumulation and deposition into insoluble plaques and intracellular inclusions is the hallmark of several misfolding diseases known as amyloidoses. Alzheimer′s, Parkinson′s and Hu...
The aggregation of proteins compromises cell fitness, either because it titrates functional proteins into non-productive inclusions or because it results in the formation of toxic assemblies. Accordingly, computational proteome-wide analyses suggest...
The quantity of construction demolition waste (CDW) has been increasing due to the demolition of many old buildings throughout the world. So far, all the statistics indicate that there is a very large generation of CDW, which increases annually. The...
Particle media are widely used in engineering and greatly influence the performance of engineering materials. Asphalt mixtures are multi-phase composite materials, of which coarse aggregates account for more than 60%. These coarse aggregates form a s...
Plastic is a widely consumed material with a high decomposition time, occupying significant space in landfills and dumps. Thus, strategies to reuse plastic waste are imperative for environmental benefit. Plastic waste is a promising eco-friendly buil...
Protein amyloid aggregation is linked with widespread and fatal neurodegenerative disorders as well as several amyloidoses. Insulin, a small polypeptide hormone, is associated with injection-site amyloidosis and is a popular model protein for in vitr...
The aggregation of amyloid beta (Aβ) into fibrillar aggregates is a key feature of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathology. β-carotene and related compounds have been shown to associate with amyloid aggregates and have direct impact on the...
Basalt-fiber-reinforced recycled aggregate concrete (BFRAC) produced with 100% recycled coarse aggregate is still constrained by the inferior quality of recycled aggregate and the difficulty of optimizing fiber reinforcement parameters. This study in...
Dendrimer molecules and aggregates are chemical structures with regular branching that underlies their physicochemical properties. Regular dendrimers have been studied both theoretically and experimentally, but the irregular intermediate structures b...
With the rise of blockchain technology and the Ethereum platform, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have emerged as a new class of digital assets. The NFT transfer network exhibits core–periphery structures derived from different partitioning methods, leadi...
Geopolymer cement (GPC) is a sustainable alternative to ordinary Portland cement (OPC) that considerably cuts the emission of carbon dioxide linked to the building of concrete structures. Over the last few decades, while a large number of papers have...
Using recycled concrete aggregates from construction and demolition wastes on structural concrete is a sustainable solution to reduce the consumption of natural resources and the detrimental effects of concrete production on the environment. This pap...
To develop a design method for concrete using low-quality recycled aggregates, an experimental study was conducted on applicability to examine the structural strength correction value (S value) and calculation of mix proportion strength of recycled a...
Objective: This study investigates the influence of high-temperature treatment on the deformation properties and structural deformation of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) in response to potential fire hazards in the construction industry. Methods:...
Structural health monitoring (SHM) systems can improve the safety and reliability of structures, reduce maintenance costs, and extend service life. Research on concrete SHMs using piezoelectric-based smart aggregates have reached great achievements....
Against the backdrop of global warming, changes in the frequency and intensity of freeze–thaw cycles in cold regions profoundly impact soil physical structure. This review examines the mechanisms by which freeze–thaw cycles influence soil...
Studies on many dense correspondence tasks in the field of computer vision attempt to find spatially smooth results. A typical way to solve these problems is by smoothing the matching costs using edge-preserving filters. However, local filters genera...
With the rapid development of urbanization, the construction industry consumes a lot of cement and produces a large amount of construction waste. To overcome this situation, the rational use of recycled aggregate produced from waste concrete is one o...
In spite of not being legally accepted in most countries, mixed recycled aggregates (MRA) could be a suitable raw material for concrete manufacturing. The aims of this research were as follows: (i) to analyze the effect of the replacement ratio of na...
In this study, the feasibility of utilizing locally produced coarse recycled aggregate (RA) from demolition waste in the UAE for structural applications was investigated. A comprehensive literature review on the subject showed that the shear and flex...
This study evaluated the combined effect of a cationic coagulant (Magnafloc 1727®) and a high molecular weight anionic flocculant (SNF 604®) on the settling properties, aggregate structure, and rheological behavior of synthetic tailings suspe...
With increasing interest in the use of additive manufacturing techniques in the construction industry, static rheological properties of fresh concrete have necessarily come into focus. In particular, the knowledge and control of static yield stress (...
Inspired by the unusual shapes of the titration curve observed for many surfactants and mixed colloidal systems, we decided to extend the analysis to isothermal titration calorimetric curves (ITC) by paying special attention to potential structural c...
Cellular structure can possess superior mechanical properties and low density simultaneously. Additive manufacturing has experienced substantial progress in the past decades, which promotes the popularity of such bone-like structure. This paper propo...
Lignin is an important component of plant fiber raw materials, and is a three-dimensional network structure aromatic polymer with abundant resources and a complex structure in nature. Lignin is generally used as industrial waste, and its potential va...
This research aims to produce non-structural concrete with mixed recycled aggregates (MRA) in upscaled applications with low-cement content. Four slabs were executed with concrete made with different ratios of coarse MRA (0%, 20%, 40% and 100%), usin...
Rheology control is an important issue in many industrial products such as cosmetics and paints. Recently, low-molecular-weight compounds have attracted considerable attention as thickeners/gelators for various solvents; however, there is still a sig...
Knowledge of the effects of different organic species on soil structure and strength is gained mostly from experiments on natural soils amended with organic substances of various particle sizes, pH, ionic composition, and inorganic impurities. It gre...
This study compared the physical properties and mechanical strength development of PCBAs with water, sealed, standard, and open ambient air curing over 28 days to find a suitable curing method for the production of phosphogypsum-based cold-bonded agg...
Structural members comprising geopolymer recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) reinforced with glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars have not been investigated appropriately for axial compressive loading cases. The present study addresses this knowl...
This study investigates the feasibility of using recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) as a partial substitution of natural aggregate in pavement engineering. Despite RCA’s good properties, such as polishing value and freeze-thaw resistance, its us...
One of the most significant problems affecting a concrete bridge’s safety is cracks. However, detecting concrete bridge cracks is still challenging due to their slender nature, low contrast, and background interference. The existing convolution...
Long-term cultivation practices, in which mineral fertilizers are the only amendments made to crop-supporting soils, are giving rise to the degradation of soil structures in the world’s most fertile soils. This leads to erosion and to the loss...
An in-depth understanding of the effect of cordierite/belite core–shell structure lightweight aggregate (CSLWA) on the mechanical performance of LWA concrete (LWAC) is critical for improving the failure resistance of LWAC. In this study, the stress d...
In the context of sustainable construction, recycled concrete aggregates (RCAs), including both fine and coarse fractions derived from construction and demolition waste (CDW), are gaining traction due to their potential to mitigate environmental impa...
In this paper, an experimental method that may reveal possible aggregate symmetrical structures in highly diluted solutions is proposed, generated by the method of the release activity, which is not yet completely proven. The release activity phenome...
A multibeam water column image (WCI) can provide detailed seabed information and is an important means of underwater target detection. However, gas plume targets in an image have no obvious contour information and are susceptible to the influence of...
The accumulation of end-of-life tires and the rapid increase in demolition activities pose significant environmental and waste-management challenges. The redevelopment of construction materials incorporating this waste is a potentially promising stra...
In the transition towards a circular economy, redesigning construction materials for enhanced sustainability becomes crucial. To contribute to this goal, this paper investigates the integration of carbonated aggregates (CAs) and basalt fibre-reinforc...
Polyurethane-based materials, which are widely used in exterior cladding, pose a great risk for buildings because they can easily catch fire at temperatures as low as 50–65 °C. Thus, different materials are needed to ensure that structures...
Profiting from the surprising non-linear expressive capacity, deep convolutional neural networks have inspired lots of progress in low illumination (LI) remote sensing image enhancement. The key lies in sufficiently exploiting both the specific long-...
The aqueous self-assembly behavior of amphiphilic statistical copolymers, composed of hydrophilic N-vinylpyrrolidone (NVP) and hydrophobic 2-chloroethyl vinyl ether (CEVE), was investigated. Dynamic and static light scattering (DLS and SLS) analyses...
Dimeric prodrugs have been investigated intensely as carrier-free drug self-delivery systems (DSDSs) in recent decades, and their stimuli-responsive drug release has usually been controlled by the conjugations between the drug molecules, including th...
Natural coumarins are a structurally privileged group of bioactive benzopyranone lactones widely spread across the Apiaceae, Rutaceae, and Leguminosae families, and hold significant potential as inhibitors of pathological protein aggregation in Alzhe...
Organic amendments can alter soil structure, root development, and carbon cycling, yet their coordinated effects remain unclear. Based on a long-term field microplot experiment established in 2009, four amendment systems with equivalent annual N, P,...
Stress and damage estimation is essential to ensure the safety and performance of concrete structures. The capsule-like smart aggregate (CSA) technique has demonstrated its potential for detecting early-stage internal damage. In this study, a 2 dimen...
β/γ-Crystallins, the main structural protein in human lenses, have highly stable structure for keeping the lens transparent. Their mutations have been linked to cataracts. In this study, we identified 10 new mutations of β/γ-cry...
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