This study investigates the influence of fiber bridging on the interlaminar strength of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) made from recycled carbon staple fiber yarn (rCF), compared to CFRP made from new fibers (vCF). Double-cantilever beam (DCB...
Recycled carbon fibre (rCF) composites are increasingly being explored for applications such as strain sensing, manufacturing of automobile parts, assistive technologies, and structural health monitoring due to their properties and economic and envir...
The extensive use of carbon fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRP) in aerospace, civil engineering, and other fields has resulted in a significant amount of waste, leading to serious environmental issues. Finding appropriate methods for recycling CFRP wast...
The draping of textile semi-finished products for complex geometries is still prone to errors, e.g., wrinkles, gaps, and fiber undulations, leading to reduced mechanical properties of the composite. Reinforcing textiles made from carbon fiber (CF) ro...
Re-aligned recycled carbon fiber (rCF) yarns provide a complementary architecture to aligned rCF tapes, enabling load-path-oriented reinforcement placement with potential for automated near-net-shape preforming and three-dimensional formability. This...
The stability of composite material that is composed of roof rock, cemented paste backfill (CPB), and floor rock has an important impact on safe mining within metal mines. In order to explore the mechanical properties, acoustic emission (AE), energy...
Carbon fiber reinforced plastics are increasingly used in all areas of industry. With the increasing number of components and semi-finished products, more and more new carbon fibers will be produced. This also generates a greater number of end-of-lif...
Scatterplots can reveal important data relationships, but their visual complexity can make pattern identification challenging. Systematic analytical approaches help structure interpretation by dividing scatterplots into meaningful regions. This paper...
This paper presents the first results on the characterisation of the damage behaviour of recycled carbon fibre (rCF) rovings manufactured into unidirectionally (UD) reinforced plates. In the first step, the mechanical properties of several material c...
Recycling carbon fibers (rCF) for reuse is one approach to improve the sustainability of CFRP. However, until now, recycled carbon fiber plastics (rCFRP) had limited composite properties due to the microgeometry of the fibers, which made it difficult...
This study focuses on producing and processing highly aligned tapes from recycled carbon fibers (rCFs). The rCFs are processed with a modified carding machine, oriented through a specialized subsequent process and consolidated into a semi-finished pr...
Rice–fishery integrated farming has expanded rapidly in China, yet its implications for arsenic (As) accumulation remain insufficiently understood. This study evaluated As bioavailability and enrichment in a rice–crayfish farming system (...
Aiming at the deficiency that blockchain technology is too sensitive to the binary-level changes of high resolution remote sensing (HRRS) images, we propose a new subject-sensitive hashing algorithm specially for HRRS image blockchains. To implement...
This paper investigates the fatigue and residual strength behavior of recycled carbon fiber reinforced plastics (rCFRPs) with different fiber architectures in an epoxy resin matrix: a unidirectional (UD) rCFRP and a non-crimp fabric (NCF) composite....
Rolling contact fatigue (RCF) damages often occur, sometimes even leading to shelling on locomotive wheel treads. In this work, the RCF damage behaviors of two locomotive wheel materials with different molybdenum (Mo) contents were studied, and the i...
Disposing of carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRPs) has become a pressing issue due to their increasing application across various industries. Previous work has focused on removing silane coupling agent residues on recovered carbon fibers via micro...
Fibromyalgia (FM) and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are diseases of unknown etiology presenting complex and often overlapping symptomatology. Despite promising advances on the study of miRNomes of these diseases, no vali...
Compact face verifiers at access-control and surveillance terminals must operate under specular reflection, off-frontal pose, and mask occlusion, disturbances that frequently co-occur in practice. Existing objectives optimize identity discrimination...
The biogenesis and function of eukaryotic cytochrome c oxidase or mitochondrial respiratory chain complex IV (CIV) undergo several levels of regulation to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Adaptation to hypoxia and oxidative stress involves...
Currently, analyzing the microscopic image of cotton fiber cross-section is the most accurate and effective way to measure its grade of maturity and then evaluate the quality of cotton samples. However, existing methods cannot extract the edge of the...
A numerical tool is proposed to simultaneously assess various damage mechanisms that are driven by contact loading. The tool transfers loads to the contact-patch level using three contact parameters: the maximum contact pressure (pmax), the creepage...
Rolling contact fatigue (RCF) and wear are the primary types of damage found in rails and wheels, and these often compete with each other. This paper presents a comprehensive review of studies on RCF and wear of rails and wheels, focusing on their co...
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As the population is aging rapidly, the irrationality of residential care facility (RCF) configuration has impacted the efficiency and quality of the aged care services so significantly that the optimization of RCF configuration is urgently required....
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Refractory ceramic fibers (RCFs) can cause adverse health effects on workers’ respiratory system, yet no proper biomarkers have been used to detect early pulmonary injury of RCFs-exposed workers. This study assessed the levels of two biomarkers that...
Heavy rolling contact fatigue (RCF) may be caused by wheel surface defects under the influence of rail corrosion, which threatens the operational safety of rail vehicles. To investigate the role of surface defects on wheel RCF damage under the influe...
Acoustic imaging systems are essential for underwater target recognition and localization, but forward-looking sonar (FLS) imagery faces challenges due to seabed variability, resulting in low resolution, blurred images, and sparse targets. To address...
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a hereditary disease typically characterized by infection-associated chronic lung inflammation. The persistent activation of toll-like receptor (TLR) signals is considered one of the mechanisms for the CF hyperinflammatory phe...
Railways play a pivotal role in national economic development, freight transportation, national defense, and regional connectivity. The detection of rolling contact fatigue (RCF) defects in rail tracks is essential for railway safety and maintenance....
There has been growing interest and increasing attention in the field of functional clothing textiles, particularly in product and process development, as well as innovations in heat-generating, retaining, and releasing fibers to maintain a healthy b...
The goal was to study the phenotypic manifestations of c.3844T>C (p.Trp1282Arg, W1282R) variant, a CF-causing mutation, in patients from the Russian Federation. Clinical manifestations and complications (the age at CF diagnosis, sweat test, pancre...
Accurate and efficient data-driven prediction of embedded airborne load separation trajectories and attitudes can not only significantly improve the safety of the separation process but also substantially reduce reliance on costly aerodynamic simulat...
This study prepares three types of Si3N4 ceramic bearing balls with distinct microstructures by regulating the content of Al2O3-Y2O3 sintering aids, and systematically investigates the influence mechanisms of microstructure, grain boundary phase dist...
Surface initiated rolling contact fatigue (RCF), mainly characterized by cracks and material stripping, is a common type of damage to turnout rails, which can not only shorten service life of turnout but also lead to poor running safety of vehicle. T...
In this study, a surface treatment process was introduced into the conventional dispersion process for preparing wet-laid nonwoven fabrics to improve their properties, using recycled carbon fibers (rCFs). The conventional binder solution was replaced...
This study investigates the impact of carding and blending recycled carbon fibers (rCF) with crimped thermoplastic polypropylene (PP) fibers on the mechanical properties of rCF, using a Weibull statistical approach. Tensile properties of rCF were eva...
In order to limit the ever-increasing consumption of new resources for material formulations, regulations and legislation require us to move from a linear to a circular economy and to find efficient ways to recycle, reuse and recover materials. Takin...
Vortex beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have increasingly attracted attention in the field of optical communication. However, transmission is still an issue due to transmission loss, especially in optical fibers. In this work, we propose...
The effects of cyclic loading on the surface microstructure evolution of different contact locations in a used pearlitic rail were studied. Microstructures were analyzed using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Meanwhile, grain boundaries and crysta...
To predict the behavior of aromatic contaminants (ACs) in complex soil–plant systems, this study developed machine learning (ML) models to estimate the root concentration factor (RCF) of both traditional (e.g., polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons,...
As critical components in offshore wind turbine (OWT) systems, pitch bearings require exceptional fatigue resistance to ensure the extended operational lifespan and structural reliability demanded by marine environments. Failure of these bearings due...
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is generally treated with vancomycin, metronidazole or fidaxomicin, although fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) represents a promising therapeutic option for antibiotic-resistant recurrent C. difficile inf...
The use of 3D printing technology for manufacturing new products based on sustainable materials enables one to take advantage of secondary raw materials derived from recycling. This work investigates the structural performances of 3D printing composi...
The non-corrosive properties of carbon fibres allow for slimmer concrete components, which may reduce CO2 emissions during production. Given that cement production contributes approximately 8% of global CO2 emissions, finding alternatives is crucial....
Recycling carbon fibre is crucial in the reduction of waste from the increasing use of carbon fibre reinforced composites in industry. The reclaimed fibres, however, are usually short and discontinuous as opposed to the continuous virgin carbon fibre...
Hydraulic fracturing technologies play a major role in the global energy supply and affect oil pricing. The current oil price fluctuations within 40 to 55 USD per barrel have caused diminished economical margins for hydraulic fracturing projects. Hen...
During the production process of commercial carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRPs), a silane coupling agent is added to the carbon fiber at the sizing step as a binder to enhance the product’s physical properties. While improving strength, th...
The interest in recycled carbon fiber (rCF) is growing rapidly and the supply chain for these materials is gradually being established. However, the processing routes, material intermediates and properties of rCF composites are less understood for de...
Globally, the demand for carbon fiber-reinforced thermosetting plastics for various applications is increasing. As a result, the amount of waste from CFRPs is increasing every year, and the EU Council recommends recycling and reuse of CFRPs. Epoxy re...
Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic materials have attracted several applications, including the fused deposition modelling (FDM) process. As a cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternative to its virgin counterpart, the use of milled recycled ca...
Nonwovens made of recycled carbon fibers (rCF) and thermoplastic (TP) fibers have excellent economic and ecological potential. In contrast to new fibers, recycled carbon fibers are significantly cheaper, and the CO2 footprint is mostly compensated by...
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