Lightweight concrete has a history of more than two-thousand years and its technical development is still proceeding. This review starts with a retrospective that gives an idea of the wide range of applications covered by lightweight concrete during...
Nowadays the environment and its natural resources face many issues, related to the depletion of natural resources beside the increase in environmental pollution resulted from uncontrolled plastic waste disposal. Therefore, it is important to find ef...
The vast majority of different waste building units have negative environmental impacts around the world. Crushed building units can be recycled and utilized in the concrete industry to solve these problems and maintain natural resources. This study...
Lightweight concrete is widely used in the construction industry due to its low density and high strength. In this paper, lightweight concrete was prepared by a simple two-step method. Firstly, the light calcium carbonate reinforced epoxy macrosphere...
Increasing interest is nowadays being paid to improving the thermal insulation of buildings in order to save energy and reduce ecological problems. Foamed concrete has unique characteristics and considerable potential as a promising material in const...
The demand for high-power density motors has been increasing due to their remarkable output capability and compact construction. To achieve a significant improvement in motor power density, lightweight design methods have been recognized as an effect...
In the field of mechanical equipment manufacturing, the focus of research and development is not on weight reduction, but on how to choose between the rigidity and performance of components (such as strength or flexibility). For this contradiction, l...
This article presents the physical and mechanical properties of geopolymer concrete with lightweight artificial aggregate. A research experiment where the influence of fly ash–slag mix (FA-S), as part of a pozzolanic additive, on the properties...
A detailed analysis of the power demand of an ultraefficient lightweight-battery electric vehicle is performed. The aim is to overcome the problem of lightweight electric vehicles that may have a relatively bad environmental impact if their power dem...
Producing self-compacting concrete with lightweight aggregates is a difficult task. Mixtures with a high content of expanded aggregate tend to separate. It is possible to evaluate the possibility of producing self-compacting lightweight concrete with...
Lightweight aggregate concrete, known for its light weight, thermal insulation, and excellent durability, has garnered significant attention and is considered an ideal material for lightweight ultra-high-performance concrete. Previous research has di...
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...
Lightweight aggregate concrete is a material with very low density and good thermal insulation, and several types of lightweight aggregates have been used for lightweight concrete. Since the characteristics of lightweight aggregates strongly affect t...
Different structural lightweight concrete mixtures of specific density and strength classes were produced by using various lightweight aggregates (LWAs) such as pumice, perlite, and rice husk ash. Their properties were evaluated in fresh and hardened...
Industrial sludge continues to increase in quantity with the development of industry. Therefore, how to effectively treat industrial sludge continues to be an environmental focus around the world. Due to the high calorie content of industrial sludge...
With the massive application of IoT and sensor technologies, the study of lightweight ciphers has become an important research topic. In this paper, an effective lightweight LZUC (lightweight Zu Chongzhi) cipher based on chaotic system is proposed to...
Lightweight gears have the potential to substantially contribute to the green economy demands. However, gear lightweighting is a challenging problem where various factors, such as the definition of the optimization problem and the parameterization of...
Predicting the properties of concrete before its design and application process allows for refining and optimizing its composition. However, the properties of lightweight concrete are much harder to predict than those of normal weight concrete, espec...
Lightweight aggregate concrete is an innovative building material used to reduce the self-weight of a high-rise building. Recently, the use of lightweight aggregate in construction is increasing immensely due to its performance during an earthquake....
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...
Although battery electric vehicles (BEVs) are locally emission-free and assist automakers in reducing their carbon footprint, two major disadvantages are their shorter range and higher production costs compared to combustion engines. These drawbacks...
In order to reduce the weight of optical elements in space remote sensors while increasing their stiffness, this paper takes an off-axis system secondary mirror as an example to design a square mirror with a size of 500 mm × 500 mm. The mirror adopts...
Self-compacting lightweight concrete (SCLC) is a promising construction material for building applications, but most SCLCs today are made with river sand (RS). There is an increasing demand for environmental protection, as well as materials with a hi...
The impregnation of lightweight aggregate (LWA) is an alternative method to its pre-moistening, which is used to limit the loss of fresh concrete workability due to the aggregate’s ability to absorb a great amount of mixing water. The aim of th...
The development of self-compacting lightweight concretes is associated with solving two conflicting tasks: achieving a structure with both high flowability and homogeneity. This study aimed to identify the technological and rheological characteristic...
The lightweight aggregates used by the civil engineering market are sintered at a high temperature, about 1200 °C. In times of high energy prices and regulation of carbon dioxide emissions, lightweight aggregate products of the high-temperature proce...
With recent developments in the field of autonomous driving, recognition algorithms for road environments are being developed very rapidly. Currently, most of the network models have good recognition rates, but as the accuracy rate increases, the mod...
Cementitious composites often crack because of their low tensile strength. The ability of self-healing cementitious composite to automatically repair cracks has attracted widespread attention. Lightweight aggregate (LWA) has a low density and a high...
The increase in cement production has had a noteworthy impact on the emission of greenhouse gases. As a result, it is essential to develop geopolymer concrete innovations to mitigate the environmental consequences. However, conventional geopolymer co...
Due to their porous nature, lightweight aggregates have been shown to exhibit thermal properties that are advantageous when used in building materials such as lightweight concrete, grout, mortar, and concrete masonry units. Limited data exist on the...
Conventional rolling is a plastic deformation process that uses compression between two rolls to reduce material thickness and produce sheet/plane geometries. This deformation process modifies the material structure by generating texture, reducing th...
In the rapidly developing world of the Internet of Things (IoT), data security has become increasingly important since massive personal data are collected. IoT devices have resource constraints, which makes traditional cryptographic algorithms ineffe...
The aim of this study was to present the problem of durability of structural lightweight concrete made of a sintered fly ash aggregate. The issue of durability was researched for 12 concrete series in terms of their water absorption, water permeabili...
With the rapid development of deep learning, more and more complex models are applied to 3D point cloud object detection to improve accuracy. In general, the more complex the model, the better the performance and the greater the computational resourc...
Accurate and rapid aquatic organism recognition is a core technology for fisheries automation and aquatic organism statistical research. However, due to absorption and scattering effects, images of aquatic organisms often suffer from poor contrast an...
Lightweight concretes have gained great momentum in construction in the last decade, due to the large number of sustainable characteristics and construction advantages associated with them. The sustainability of lightweight concrete depends mainly on...
Tunnel fires pose significant challenges to public safety due to their rapid development and the confined nature of tunnel environments. Traditional fire detection systems often struggle with delayed response times and high false alarm rates, particu...
As a promising and sustainable construction material, alkali-activated slag lightweight high-strength concrete (AAS-LWHSC) may be influenced by lightweight aggregate (LWA) content. In this study, the effects of hollow glass microspheres (HGM) replaci...
Surface defects are inevitable in the production of steel. However, traditional methods in industrial production face great challenges in detecting complex defects. Therefore, we propose LCED-YOLO based on YOLOv11 for steel defect detection. Firstly,...
The aim of this paper is to discuss the unrecognized problem of the scale effect in compressive strength tests determined for cored specimens of lightweight aggregate concrete (LWAC) against the background of available data on the effect for normal-w...
This paper introduces a novel TRNG architecture that employs a wave converter to generate random outputs from the jitter noise in a customized ring oscillator (RO). Using a current-starved inverter, the proposed RO offers the option of operating thre...
Landslides are geological disasters that can cause serious severe damage to properties and lead to the loss of human lives. The application of deep learning technology to optical remote sensing images can help in the detection of landslide areas. Tra...
With the popularity of mobile devices, lightweight deep learning models have important value in various application scenarios. However, how to effectively fuse the feature information from different dimensions while ensuring the model’s lightne...
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is widely recognized as a robust cryptographic algorithm utilized to protect data integrity and confidentiality. When it comes to lightweight implementations of the algorithm, the literature mainly emphasizes ar...
The type of lightweight aggregate and its volume fraction in a mix determine the density of lightweight concrete. Minimizing the density obviously requires a higher volume fraction, but this usually causes aggregates segregation in a conventional mi...
A vehicle detection algorithm is an indispensable component of intelligent traffic management and control systems, influencing the efficiency and functionality of the system. In this paper, we propose a lightweight improvement method for the YOLOv5 a...
The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to achieve the interconnection of all devices in our lives. Due to the complex network environment, the IoT with mobile devices often faces many security problems, such as privacy leakages and identity forgery attack...
The current lightweight face recognition models need improvement in terms of floating point operations (FLOPs), parameters, and model size. Motivated by ConvNeXt and MobileFaceNet, a family of lightweight face recognition models known as ConvFaceNeXt...
In the present trend of constructing taller and longer structures, the application of lightweight aggregate concrete is becoming an increasingly important advanced solution in the modern construction industry. In engineering practice, the analysis of...
Lightweight concrete (LWC) has emerged as a transformative material in sustainable and high-performance construction, driven by innovations in engineered lightweight aggregates, supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), fiber reinforcements, and g...
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