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Open AccessRecovery of cobalt and copper from single- and co-contaminated simulated electroplating wastewater via carbonate and hydroxide precipitation
Wastewater containing cobalt and copper comprised of plating wash water, plant wash water, and equipment cooling and wash water is generated in the electroplating industry. These metals can be detrimental to h...
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Application of Artificial Neural Network in Predicting the Dispersibility of Soil
Under the action of seepage or surface erosion, earth dams, canal foundations, subgrades and embankments filled with dispersive soils can easily cause pi**, caves, gullies and other damages and even cause ac...
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Effect of electromagnetic parameters on melt flow and heat transfer of AZ80 Mg alloy during differential phase electromagnetic DC casting based on numerical simulation
Based on multi-physical field coupling numerical simulation method, magnetic field distribution, melt flow, and heat transfer behavior of a Φ300 mm AZ80 alloy billet during differential phase electromagnetic DC c...
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Experimental investigation on synergetic prediction of granite rockburst using rock failure time and acoustic emission energy
The frequent occurrence of rockburst and the difficulty in predicting were considered in deep engineering and underground engineering. In this work, laboratory experiments on rockburst under true triaxial cond...
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Open AccessSynergistic degradation of Methylene Blue by novel Fe-Co bimetallic catalyst supported on waste silica in photo-Fenton-like system
In this present study, a novel method to fabricate bimetallic Fe-Co catalyst supported on waste silica was investigated for the photo-Fenton-like (PFL) degradation of Methylene Blue (MB) dye. The uniqueness of...
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Experimental Study on the Effect of Thermal Treatment on the Water Stability of Compacted Loess
In this study, the water stability of compacted Yangling loess after thermal treatment was analyzed in detail. After heat treatment at temperatures of 400°C or less, Yangling loess disintegrates in water; thus...
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Time-variant reliability analysis using moment-based equivalent Gaussian process and importance sampling
Time-variant reliability analysis (TRA) has drawn tremendous interest of engineers attributable to its ability in assessing the probability that a system performs its intended function over the time interval o...
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A Review of Permeability Prediction Techniques for Tight Sandstone Reservoirs
For tight sandstone reservoirs, permeability is an important parameter to evaluate the physical property and seepage characteristics of the reservoir, and it is also the key to tap** the potential of reservo...
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Bifunctional polymer electrolyte with higher lithium-ion transference number for lithium-sulfur batteries
Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have attracted enormous interest due to their super-high theoretical energy density (2600 W · h/kg) in recent years. However, issues such as lithium dendrites and the shuttle ef...
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A Method Based on Multi-Body Dynamic Analysis for A Floating Two-Stage Buffer Collision-Prevention System Under Ship Collision Loads
The collision of ships poses a great threat to the piers in navigable waters. The kinetic energy of the moving ship can be consumed not only with the structural deformation, but also with tensile force from th...
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Effects of In-situ Stress on Blasting Damage during Deep Tunnel Excavation
The in-situ stress has great influence on blasting damage during deep tunnel excavation. However, the effects of in-situ stress on the blasting damage during tunnel excavation are deficient, and its mechanism ...
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Structure and electrochemical characteristics of Mg–Ti–Ni-based electrode alloys synthesized by mechanical milling
The vacuum induction melting was adopted to fabricating Mg50−xTixNi45Al3Co2 (x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 at.%) composites protected by the high-purity helium atmosphere. Subsequently, the surface modification treatment of ...
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Tailoring microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of a high-performance alloy steel through controlled thermal cycles of a direct laser depositing process
Direct laser deposition (DLD), as a popular metal additive manufacturing process, shows advantages of technical flexibility and high efficiency to gain a high-performance alloy steel component. However, during...
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An adaptive niching method based on multi-strategy fusion for multimodal optimization
Various niching methods have been widely adopted for solving multimodal optimization. However, kee** a balance between exploitation and exploration is still a tough task for designers of multimodal optimizat...
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Sb2Se3 film with grain size over 10 µm toward X-ray detection
Direct X-ray detectors are considered as competitive next-generation X-ray detectors because of their high spatial resolution, high sensitivity, and simple device configuration. However, their potential is lar...
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A non-uniform grid approach for high-resolution flood inundation simulation based on GPUs
In view of the frequent occurrence of floods due to climate change, and the fact that a large calculation domain, with complex land types, is required for solving the problem of the flood simulations, this pap...
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Effect of chloride-induced corrosion on the bond behaviors between steel strands and concrete
The corrosion of steel strands due to the chloride contamination is one of the most common causes for the degradation of prestressed concrete infrastructure. In this paper, an experimental study was performed ...
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Longitudinal profiled plate straightening process based on curvature integral method
Considering the variable cross section thickness of longitudinal profiled plate and the dynamic reductions of straightening rolls, an analytical model combining curvature integral method with linear decreasing...
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Field measurement of strain response for typical asphalt pavement
In order to reveal the changing law of the mechanical response of asphalt pavements under the action of vehicle load and provide references for the design of durable pavements, three typical asphalt pavement s...
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Effects of PbO poisoning on Ce–Mn/AC catalyst for low-temperature selective catalytic reduction of NO with NH3
As a common heavy metal in the sintering flue gas, Pb can exist in the form of oxide (PbO) and lead to the decrease in the denitration catalysts activity. Ce–Mn/AC (activated carbon) and PbO–Ce–Mn/AC catalysts...