this research was conducted to investigate the physico-mechanical characteris-tics of the ethylcellulose-based coating membranes plasticized with different weight percents of dibutyl sebacate. in this experiment, free thin polymer sheetings of the sample formulations, by incorporating incremental weight percents of the plasticizer, were prepared employing a revised casting method of delayed sol...

Wheat straw was pretreated by combined mechanical destruction and alkaline pretreatments to enhance enzymatic saccharification. Four strategies were employed to evaluate the potential of wheat straw as a feedstock for fermentable sugar production. The effects of the pretreatments on the substrate morphology, size distribution, chemical composition, and cellulose crystallinity, along with the su...

Concrete is a brittle material due to its poor tensile strength; consequently, concrete tends crack or peel under an applied external load. Previous studies have investigated the effect of incorporating fiber into concrete, which can improve strength. In this study, static and dynamic mechanical characteristics three types fiber-reinforced (FRC) were examined: carbon-fiber-reinforced (CFRC); Ke...

This study presents a designing process for refurbishing of a 32 MW rotor-generator damaged coupling. The reason of rotor damage was being hit by the quivers of an explosion. The original coupling was union with the rotor formed after a machining process on a mono block forged rotor. In some areas imposed damages caused the breaking off and detachment of some parts in the coupling flange. Becau...

BACKGROUND Responsibility loadings determine relative value units of dental services that translate services into a common scale of work effort. The aims of this paper were to elicit responsibility loadings for a subset of dental services and to relate responsibility loadings to ratings of importance of the components of responsibility. METHODS Responsibility loadings and ratings of component...

Two different preparation methods, viz. incipient impregnation and mechanical mixing, have been used to prepare V-based oxygen carriers with V loadings for chemical looping oxidative dehydrogenation of propane. The effect the method, loading, reaction temperature on performance these measured discussed. It was found that VOx species can be well distributed support when loading is low (5 wt.% 10...

It is well established in the hydroclimatic literature that the interannual variability in seasonal streamflow could be partially explained using climatic precursors such as tropical sea surface temperature (SST) conditions. Similarly, it is widely known that streamflow is the most important predictor in estimating nutrient loadings and the associated concentration. The intent of this study is ...

The thermomechanical buckling of simply supported thin shallow spherical shells made of functionally graded material is presented in this paper. A metal-ceramic functionally graded shell with a power law distribution for volume fraction is considered, where its properties vary gradually through the shell thickness direction from pure metal on the inner surface to pure ceramic on the outer surfa...

Graphene has generated substantial interest as a filler due to its exceptional strength, flexibility, and conductivity but faces obstacles in supply implementation. A renewable, plant-based graphene nanoparticle (pGNP) presents more accessible with the same properties mineral graphenes. In this study, we examine effects of pGNP, which was sprayed on carbon fiber/epoxy prepreg at loadings from 1...