Most metal plates are orthorhombic aggregates of cubic crystallites. First, we discuss the representations of the stress tensor, the strain tensor, the elasticity tensor, and the rotation tensor under the Kelvin notation. Then, we give the decomposit...
Methodologies are developed for analyzing failure initiation and crack propagation in highly heterogeneous concrete mesostructures. Efficient algorithms are proposed in Python to generate and pack geometric features into a continuous phase. The conti...
Recent experimental and theoretical work has demonstrated significant potential to tune the properties of silicon and germanium by adjusting the mesostructure, nanostructure, and/or crystalline structure of these group 14 elements. Despite the promis...
Mesostructured silica nanoparticles offer a unique opportunity in the field of biocatalysis thanks to their outstanding properties. The tunable pore size in the range of mesopores allows for immobilizing bulky enzyme molecules. The large surface area...
Mesoporous cobalt hexacyanoferrate nanocubes (meso–CoHCF) were prepared for the first time through a facile sacrificial template method. The CoHCF mesostructures possess a high specific surface area of 548.5 m2·g−1 and a large amount of mesopores, wh...
Cement-based materials, including cement and concrete, are the most widely used construction materials in the world. In recent years, the investigation and application of fractal theory in cement-based materials have attracted a large amount of atten...
Solid backfill mining as a green mining method has already been successfully applied in many mine sites. Higher requirements for the backfilling materials have been put forward in special regions, such as shallow coal seams, ecologically susceptible...
Tropane alkaloids (TAs) are natural toxins produced by different plants, mainly from the Solanaceae family. The interest in TAs analysis is due to the serious cases of poisoning that are produced due to the presence of TA-producing plants in a variet...
Hydrogen production derived from thermochemical processing of biomass is becoming an interesting alternative to conventional routes using fossil fuels. In this sense, steam reforming of the aqueous fraction of microalgae hydrothermal liquefaction (HT...
In this work, we propose two bifunctional nanocomposite catalysts based on acidic mesostructured γ-Al2O3 and a Cu/ZnO/ZrO2 redox phase. γ-Al2O3 was synthesized by an Evaporation-Induced Self-Assembly (EISA) method using two different temp...
Concrete is a heterogeneous material with a disordered material morphology that strongly governs the behaviour of the material. In this contribution, we present a computational tool called the Concrete Mesostructure Generator (CMG) for the generation...
In the present study, the mesostructure of a fused deposition modeling (FDM) processed part is considered for the investigation of its mechanical behavior. The layers of FDM printed part behave as a unidirectional fiber reinforced laminae, which are...
Considerable efforts have been devoted to extending the range of the elemental composition of mesoporous materials since the pioneering work of the M41S family of ordered mesoporous silica by Mobil researchers. The synthesis of transition metal-cont...
The physical composition and stress state of soil-rock mixture (SRM) materials have a crucial influence on their mechanical properties, and play a vital role in improving the performance of subgrade. To reveal the resilient behavior and mesostructure...
A new 3D mesoscale computational approach to simulate the mechanical behavior of soil–rock mixtures (SRMs) with the consideration of the grain-crushing process is proposed in this study. The proposed approach adopts a random SRM mesostructure g...
In this paper, the elastic constitutive relation of polycrystals contains the effect of the mesostucture coefficients. We consider a general case and derive the average elastic constitutive relation pertaining to polycrystals of cubic crystals with a...
The machining of cellular metals has been a challenge, as the resulting surface is extremely irregular, with torn off or smeared material, poor accuracy, and subsurface damage. Although cutting experiments have been carried out on cellular materials...
The knowledge of the mechanical behavior of a 3D-printed material is fundamental for the 3D printing outbreaking technology to be considered for a range of applications. In this framework, the significance, reliability, and accuracy of the informatio...
Thermal conductivity is a fundamental material parameter involved in various infrastructure design guides around the world. This paper developed an innovative neural network (NN) aided homogenization approach for predicting the effective thermal cond...
Traditional macroscopic test methods (e.g., uniaxial compression and indirect tensile strength tests) cannot accurately describe the internal microstructure and its influence on the mechanical properties of asphalt mixtures from a microscopic perspec...
Due to the complex mesostructure and components of composite active layers in lithium-ion battery (LIB) electrodes, coupled with the concentration-dependent material properties and eigenstrains, efficiently estimating the effective modulus of the act...
The development of a new approach to describe turbulent motions in condensed matter on the basis of nonlocal modeling of highly non-equilibrium processes in open systems is performed in parallel with an experiment studying the mesostructure of dynami...
The current paper studies the influence of geometrical parameters of the fused deposition modeling (FDM)—fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printing process on printed part strength for open source desktop 3D printers and the most popular material u...
This paper proposes a novel and efficient mesostructure generation framework integrating stochastic geometry with physically based packing. First, a random radius field (RRF) method is developed, utilizing multi-scale noise superposition and topology...
In this study, we explored the evolution of mechanical properties in hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) propellants under fatigue loading by performing fatigue tests with varying maximum stresses and cycle numbers, followed by uniaxial tensile...
A feasible approach was developed for the synthesis of ordered mesoporous SBA-15-type materials using coal fly ash (CFA) as raw material. In the proposed approach, CFA was, firstly, activated by subcritical water with the addition of NaOH, which allo...
Additive manufacturing is an emerging technology and provides high design flexibility to customers. Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is an economical and promising additive manufacturing method. Due to its many advantages, FDM received great attention...
Mesostructure engineering is a potential avenue towards the property control of coordination polymers in addition to the traditional structure design on an atomic/molecular scale. Mesoframes, as a class of mesostructures, have short diffusion pathway...
As a type of fiber system, nonwoven fabric is ideal for solid–liquid separation and air filtration. With the wide application of nonwoven filter materials, it is crucial to explore the complex relationship between its meso structure and filtrat...
The multi-scale, high-resolution and accurate structural modeling of rocks is a powerful means to reveal the complex failure mechanisms of rocks and evaluate rock engineering safety. Due to the non-uniformity and opacity of rocks, describing their in...
The resistivity of the silica SBA-15 type can be significantly improved by forming a thin layer of carbon on the pore surface. This is possible through the carbonization reaction of a surfactant used as a structure-directing agent in the synthesis of...
We developed a new category of porous silica and organosilicas nanostructures in a facile method based on weakly acidic aqueous-ethanol media by utilizing two different pentablock copolymer templates of type PLGA-PEO-PPO-PEO-PLGA. Pluronic block temp...
We develop a dot matrix method (DMM) using the principles of computational geometry to place aggregates into matrices for the construction of mesolevel concrete models efficiently and rapidly. The basic idea of the approach is to transform overlap de...
This review describes the synthesis and characterization of inorganic materials containing polyoxometalates encapsulated in oxide matrices. Examples illustrating key aspects in terms of synthesis and applications are presented according to the nature...
The paper reviews some recent numerical applications for the interpretation and exploitation of acoustic emission (AE) monitoring results obtained from historical masonry structures and materials. Among possible numerical techniques, the finite eleme...
Generating random aggregate models (RAMs) plays a key role in the mesoscopic modelling of concrete-like composite materials. The arbitrary geometry, wide gradation, and high volume ratio of aggregates pose a great challenge for fast and efficient num...
The absence of standardized evaluation criteria for cold patch asphalt mixtures (CPAMs) leads to arbitrary material selection in pavement pothole repair, resulting in premature failure and recurrent damage. This study develops a comprehensive evaluat...
Ordered mesoporous Zr-Al composite oxide materials (denoted as OMZA-x) with different Zr contents have been synthesized by a solvent evaporation-inducing self-assembly procedure associated with a thermal treatment at 100 °C. A cooperative co-asse...
Two series of alumina (Al2O3)–mesoporous organosilica (Al–MO) hybrid materials were synthesized using the co-condensation method in the presence of Pluronic 123 triblock copolymer. The first series of Al–MO samples was prepared usin...
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are considered to be responsible for the high catalytic activity of transition metal oxides like Co3-xFexO4 in oxidation reactions, but the detailed influences of catalyst composition and morphology on the formation of t...
Titania-incorporated organosilica-mesostructures (Ti-MO) were synthesized using tris [3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl]isocyanurate, tetraethylorthosilicate as silica precursors, and titanium isopropoxide as the titanium precursor via a co-condensation meth...
The non-uniform adsorption characteristics of coal strictly restrict the development and utilization of CBM, and the structure of coal is the fundamental reason for its non-uniform adsorption of methane. To investigate the fundamental causes of metha...
Ionic liquid crystals occupy an intriguing middle ground between room-temperature ionic liquids and mesostructured liquid crystals. Here, we examine a non-polarizable, fully atomistic model of the 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium nitrate family using mole...
Mesostructured layered silicas have been prepared through a surfactant-assisted procedure using neutral alkylamines as templates and starting from atrane complexes as hydrolytic inorganic precursors. By adjusting the synthetic parameters, this kineti...
In recent years, health authorities have become increasingly concerned about preventing consumer exposure to opium alkaloids present in Papaver somniferum L. poppy seeds. In this study, a simple, rapid and efficient method has been optimised to deter...
The anchorage of a supported copper Schiff base complex on SBA-15 materials provides highly efficient heterogeneous catalysts towards the solvent-free synthesis of dihydropyrimidinones derivatives via the Biginelli condensation reaction. The novel na...
The advent of new technologies in the field of medicine and dentistry is creating improvements that lead clinicians to have materials and procedures able to improve patients’ quality of life. The aim of this article is to evaluate occlusion loa...
This study utilized CT scanning and image processing techniques to extract and analyze the internal mesostructure and cement paste distribution of porous concrete. The effects of the mesostructure and cement paste distribution on the compressive stre...
A meso-structured Al-MCM-41 material was impregnated with bromocresol green (BG) dye and then incorporated into a UV-Vis DRA spectroscopic instrument for the online detection of ammonia gas. The absorption response of the Al-MCM-41/BG ammonia sensing...
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) technologies can be classified according to the physical process involving the raw material as fusion-based and solid-state processes. The latter includes sintering-based technologies, which are aligned with conventi...
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