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Coupling low-grade heat (LGH) with salinity gradient is an effective approach to increase the efficiency of the nanofluidic-membrane-based power generator. However, it is a challenge to fabricate membranes wit...
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As a core part of subsea production systems, subsea control modules (SCMs) are costly, difficult, and expensive to install and inconvenient to use in underwater maintenance. Therefore, performance and function...
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Subcritical crack growth at bimaterial interfaces: Part I. flexural peel technique
A flexural peel (FP) technique was developed to study the crack growth behavior along a bimaterial interface. The technique was based on a sandwich specimen where one arm of the specimen was peeled away from t...
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Fatigue crack growth along an Al/epoxy interface was examined under different combinations of mode-I and mode-II loadings using the flexural peel technique. Fatigue crack growth rates were obtained as a functi...
