Microplastic (MP) contamination is an urgent environmental issue to address. Fibrous microplastics (FMPs) are the principal MP type in air and have already been found human stool lung tissues. FMPs generated from lifecycle of synthetic blended textiles expected increase due fast fashion. Among textile processes, finishing fabrics estimated generate 5000 t/year waste fibers Italy, including FMPs...

because thin plate reinforced concrete members such as walls and slabs are greatly influenced by the drying shrinkage, cracks can occur in these members due to the restraint of the volume change caused by drying shrinkage. therefore, the control of cracking due to drying shrinkage is very important in building construction that the thin plate members are frequently used. however, few researches...

PET plastic bottles are a major contributor to in all big cities, this Research, we assess Eco-Bricks (a possible solution disposal) from an experimental point of view. This Research paper aims the feasibility using as Eco Bricks, in-wall module material. study suggests Eco-blocks that filled with single-use waste posed for disposal, liberty reoccupying filler material when advanced recycling c...

Functionally graded materials (FGM) in the form of layered structure consisting of yttria stabilized zirconia (8 mol% Y2O3) and nickel were fabricated by spark plasma sintering procedure. The relative density, linear shrinkage and Vickers hardness of each layer of graded materials were measured. The microstructure and the composition of these components were studied. The results obtained show t...

this research concentrates on the effects of low frequency, vertical mechanical vibration during solidification on the microstructure and mechanical properties of a380 aluminum alloy. two series of sr-modified and al-5ti-b grain refined a380 alloy samples were solidified in both static and dynamic conditions in the frequency and amplitude of 60 hz and 0.2 m, respectively. their physical, micro-...

it is well-known that severe deformation to metals causes a direct grain refinement of the matrix without special heat-treatments due to the mechanism of dynamic continuous recrystallization (dcr). however, the microstructural revolution during severe deformation is seemed to be different depending on the deformation mode, namely the direction of deformation. in general, multi-directional defor...

This paper proposes new enhancement models to the methods of nonlinear anisotropic diffusion to greatly reduce speckle and preserve image features in medical ultrasound images. By incorporating local physical characteristics of the image, in this case scatterer density, in addition to the gradient, into existing tensorbased image diffusion methods, we were able to greatly improve the performanc...

It is well-known that severe deformation to metals causes a direct grain refinement of the matrix without special heat-treatments due to the mechanism of dynamic continuous recrystallization (DCR). However, the microstructural revolution during severe deformation is seemed to be different depending on the deformation mode, namely the direction of deformation. In general, multi-directional defor...

The accurate estimation of covariance matrices is essential for many signal processing and machine learning algorithms. In high dimensional settings the sample covariance is known to perform poorly, hence regularization strategies such as analytic shrinkage of Ledoit/Wolf are applied. In the standard setting, i.i.d. data is assumed, however, in practice, time series typically exhibit strong aut...