This study presents an integrated approach for lunar subsurface excavation by combining Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) technology with microwave-assisted rock weakening and machine learning-based strength prediction methods. Through comprehensive analys...
Recent advances in concrete recycling technology focus on novel fragmentation techniques to obtain aggregate fractions with low cement matrix content. This study assesses the aggregate liberation effectiveness of four different treatment processes in...
Thermal pretreatments of rock, such as conventional heating and microwave irradiation, have received considerable attention recently as a viable method of improving the energy efficiency of mining processes that involve rock fracturing. This study pr...
Microwave-assisted mechanical rock breaking represents an innovative technology in the realm of mining excavation. The intricate and variable characteristics of geological formations necessitate a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between...
In order to reveal the failure characteristics and burst tendency of coal after microwave irradiation, the microstructure damage effect of microwave irradiation on coal was explored. The microstructure damage, burst tendency and acoustic emission ene...
This study explored methods used to improve the ignition efficiency of a microwave radiation igniter; experimental analyses were conducted to characterize the device’s performance in a model combustion chamber. High-speed imaging combined with an ima...
Microwave-assisted rock breaking is a new and promising technology for the tunneling and drilling industry. Minerals in rocks have an important influence on the effect of microwave-assisted rock breaking. In this paper, common minerals in rocks such...
Developing composite materials with both thermal conductivity and microwave absorption is an effective strategy to solve the problems of heat dissipation burden and microwave radiation interference caused by the development of miniaturization and hig...
Carbonyl iron powder is a widely used microwave-absorbing material due to its numerous advantages. However, carbonyl iron powder is prone to corrosion in high-salt-spray environments, reducing the service life of the composite material and limiting i...
Microwave-assisted rock fragmentation has been considered as one of the most promising technologies in rock excavation, but due to the fact that excavation is usually carried out in water-rich environments, understanding the dynamic fracture properti...
Snack foods are consumed around to globe due to their high nutrition, taste and versatility; however, the effects of various processing methods on quality, structure and oxidative properties are scare in the literature. This study aims to evaluate th...
To explore the law of microwave deicing of carbon-fiber-modified concrete under the action of multiple factors and improve its application in pavement, in this study, we designed a test of the heat absorption and deicing effect of concrete under the...
In order to reduce the content of sulfur and ash in coal, improve the desulfurization and deashing rates, a combined experiment method of microwave magnetic separation-flotation was proposed for raw coal. The desulfurization and deashing rates of thr...
Microwave dielectric ceramics are indispensable in modern communication technologies, playing a pivotal role in components such as filters, oscillators, and antennas. Among these materials, ZnAl2O4 ceramics have garnered attention for their excellent...
In this study, magnesium composites with nano-size boron nitride (BN) particulates of varying contents were synthesized using the powder metallurgy (PM) technique incorporating microwave-assisted two-directional sintering followed by hot extrusion. T...
Cyclone Monica was an intense Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone of 2006. Although no in situ measurements of Monica’s inner core were made, microwave, infrared, and visible satellite instruments observed Monica before and during peak intensity thr...
Microwave pretreatment (MWP) has emerged as a promising strategy to enhance the pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass due to its rapid, volumetric, and selective heating. By disrupting the recalcitrant structure of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin...
This article aims to improve the toughness of pre-packaged grouts (PPG) by incorporating crumb rubber. The mechanism for toughness of PPG with crumb rubber was analyzed based on the uniaxial compression model. Crumb rubber with surfaces treated by di...
Aldol condensation of furfural and acetone (an important initial step to obtain diesel from biomass) was studied over MgAl mixed oxides. The influence of the utilization of microwaves and/or a surfactant (Pluronic 123) during the synthesis as well as...
Dietary supplementation with raw garlic has a preventive and healing effect in cardiovascular diseases, but it could also damage the intestinal mucosa, resulting in impairment of nutrient absorption. Garlic processing, including heat treatment, chang...
Soil moisture is a key variable of the climate system. Microwave remote sensing has become an essential means of obtaining soil moisture because of the unique advantages of its all-day and all-weather observation capability. Theoretically, low-freque...
Carbon nanofibers (CNFs) are usually prepared by the carbonization of cellulose aerogels obtained from freeze-drying. However, cellulose with low concentration (below 1 wt%) is required to maintain the good porosity of the aerogels due to the strong...
The strongly fluorescent and highly catalytic N-doped carbon dots (CDN) were rapidly prepared by a microwave irradiation procedure and were characterized by electron microscopy (EM), laser scattering, infrared spectroscopy (IR), and by their fluoresc...
Fiber-reinforced epoxy sandwich composites, which were designed as the bonded repair patches to better recover the mechanical performance of a central cracked aluminum alloy plate, were layered by carbon and aramid fiber layers jointly and cured by m...
Relaxation behavior of water confined in reverse micelles under temperature-induced micelle clustering is undertaken using broadband dielectric spectroscopy in frequency range 1 Hz–20 GHz. All microemulsion systems with sufficiently noticeable...
From the linear perturbations of Nash–Greene fluctuations of a background metric, we obtain profiles of Hubble function evolution
Two severe dust storm (DS) events (15–17 March and 28–29 March) hit northern China in 2021 consecutively. The lower atmospheric vertical dynamic and thermal structures during the two cases were compared using the ground-based sensor data...
Interventional Radiology (IR) has experienced an exponential growth in recent years. Technological advances of the last decades have made it possible to use new treatments on a larger scale, with good results in terms of safety and effectiveness. In...
Natural rough surfaces have inherent multiscale roughness. This article presents the modeling and analysis of microwave emission from a multiscale soil surface. Unlike the linear superposition of different correlation functions with various correlati...
Ground-based synthetic aperture radar interferometry (GB-InSAR) is a valuable tool for deformation monitoring. The 2D interferograms obtained by GB-InSAR can be integrated with a 3D terrain model to visually and accurately locate deformed areas. The...
Revealing the changes in the Fram Strait (FS) multiyear ice (MYI) export is crucial due to their climate relevance in the context of the loss rate of MYI being faster than that of the total ice in the Arctic. Here, we estimated winter (October–...
Snowmelt water is essential to the water resources management over the Three-River Headwater Region (TRHR), where hydrological processes are influenced by snowmelt runoff and sensitive to climate change. The objectives of this study were to analyse t...
We found statistical evidence for a mismatch between the (global) spatial curvature parameter K in the geodesic equation for incoming photons and the corresponding parameter in the Friedmann equation that determines the time evolution of the backgrou...
The Doppler shift of microwave radar sea surface echoes serves as the foundation for sea surface current field retrieval; it includes the shift caused by satellite platform motion, ocean waves, and sea surface currents. The Doppler shift caused by oc...
This study shows how satellite-based passive and active microwave (MW) sensors can be used in conjunction with high-resolution Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) simulations to provide insights of the precipitation structure of the tropical-like cycl...