We are in a global plastic waste crisis. Plastic production has steadily increased over the last half century, while recycling rates remain as low 9% some nations, including Australia. Most ends up landfill or environment lost resource, triggering of more virgin to satisfy demands. Shifting away from this wasteful, linear economy towards circular economy, where products treated valuable resourc...

A novel pretreatment method has been developed for determination of toxic metals in plastic materials by their decomposition under supercritical water conditions. Particularly, quantitative analysis of cadmium in polyethylene has been demonstrated using inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry combined with supercritical water treatment. All the cadmium in a polyethylene sample w...

We study experimentally the flow of a foam confined as a bubble monolayer between two plates through a convergent channel. We quantify the velocity, the distribution and orientation of plastic events, and the elastic stress, using image analysis. We use two different soap solutions: a sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) solution, with a negligible wall friction between the bubbles and the confining pl...

A complete solution to collapse is given for a three-bar symmetric truss made of an elastic/perfectly-plastic material, using linear statics and kinematics, and the solution is found to be partially nonunique in the range of contained plastic deformation. The introduction of a first-order deviation from symmetry and/or the inclusion of first-order nonlinear terms in the equilibrium equations is...

The application of paper–aluminum–plastic packaging has been widely adopted in various fields such as the food and medical industries, owing to its exceptional preservation obstruction properties. Nonetheless, recycling process for paper aluminum from this type typically involves water pulping solvent separation. resulting residual waste, commonly known multi-plastic waste (PMW), poses signific...

INTRODUCTION Invisalign plastic aligners (Align Technology, Santa Clara, Calif) are used to correct malocclusions. The aligners wrap around the teeth and are in contact with gingival epithelium during treatment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the cellular responses of oral epithelium exposed to Invisalign plastic in vitro. METHODS Oral epithelial cells were exposed to eluate obtain...

BACKGROUND Cherries are a valuable dietary raw material and possess medicinal properties. Considering the nutritional, medical and vitamin value of cherry fruits, the purpose of this research was to produce a scientific justification for preserving the quality of cherry fruits using different freezing methods. METHODS To do this, cherry fruits from the Lotovka (Cerasus vulgaris) variety were ...

The original formulation of the MRS–Lade model, with non–associated flow rule on the meridian plane in the cone region, has a corner. In order to reduce the computational effort of corner solution algorithms, a modified plastic flow potential for the cone part is found in the literature. This modification may have a non–admissible flip over of the flow vector in the cone–cap intersection if the...

Abstract—In this study, a general approach to the reliability based limit analysis of laterally loaded piles is presented. In engineering practice the uncertainties play a very important role. The aim of this study is to evaluate the lateral load capacity of free-head and fixed-head long pile when plastic limit analysis is considered. In addition to the plastic limit analysis to control the pla...