Mechanical engineering and engineering mechanics

This article provides an overview of the mechanism and performance operating cycle of internal combustion engines using water-fuel emulsions and the efficiency, economy, and environmental friendliness of this fuel type for automobiles.

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This article presents a numerical investigation focusing on the temperature distribution of first-stage turbine rotor blades that do not feature internal cooling channels. The results indicate the regions of peak temperatures and evaluate rotor blade strength.

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This study investigated the mechanical properties of high-performance concrete using notched specimens. All flexural specimens had an identical geometry of 40×40×160 mm3 with a span length of 120 mm.

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In this article, the authors will do novel research of comparative study of SPEA2+SDE and NSGA-II. The novel part of this article is that SPEA2 integrates SDE in comparative study.

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In this study, raw rice husk and bottom ash are used as fine aggregates, while fly ash is used as a binder material in the production of environmentally friendly unfired building bricks. The effect of raw rice husk content on the properties of green building bricks is investigated.

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This study proposes therefore to apply the transmissibility functions for modal identification of ambient vibration testing and investigates its performance in presence of harmonics. Numerical examples and an experimental test are used for illustration and validation.

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In this study, instrumented indentation testing was conducted at room temperature for the investigation of the effect of strain rate on the hardness and yield strength in the weld zone of a commonly used structural steel, SM520.

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This paper presents an efficient and accurate numerical technique based upon the scaled boundary finite element method for the analysis of two-dimensional, linear, second-order, boundary value problems with the domain completely described by a circular defining curve.

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In this paper, the continuous stiffness measurement (CSM) indentation is employed to investigate fatigue mechanical properties of structural steel under cyclic loading. For this purpose, several representative analytical approaches were introduced to estimate the basic mechanical properties including Young’s modulus and indentation hardness from the characteristics of the loading/unloading curves.

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This article presents a number of specific analysis cases, taking into account geological conditions and boundary conditions, and from that, raising a number of issues to note when using numerical methods.

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The main objectives of this research work are as follows: (i) to explore the sensitivity of macro, meso and micro fibers to tensile and compressive properties of SFCs, and (ii) to correlate the tensile strength to compressive strength of SFCs containing macro, meso and micro steel-smooth fibers.

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This paper first briefly introduces principles, construction procedures and quality control techniques of an innovative CDM method that can create head-enlarged column, named as Point Foundation (PF).

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In this study, grid nanoindentation and statistical deconvolution analysis were applied into a developed Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) to broaden the understanding of the microstructure phases and their mechanical properties.

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This study aimed to investigate the possibility of degrading the pesticides of the BAC process. Based on the promising results in the full-scale reactor receiving river water, a lab-scale reactor was installed to study the pesticide removal mechanism and the contribution of nitrifying bacteria to the removal efficiency.

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Mechanical behaviour of bituminous mixtures is characterized by the great thermal sensitivity and the large viscous effects. This paper focuses on the linear viscoelastic (LVE) behaviour of bituminous mixtures that is considered for pavement design.

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Drying shrinkage is the main cause of early age cracking of concrete and mortar. A wide range of research has been conducted to reduce the drying shrinkage, including using fibres or chemical admixtures. This paper investigated the effect of shrinkage reducing admixture on the flexural strength, compressive strength, drying shrinkage, water absorption and porosity of mortar.

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In comparison with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite, the textile-reinforced concrete (TRC) presents stability in mechanical performance at elevated temperatures thanks to a thermal protection layer by the cementitious matrix. This paper presents the experimental characterization and analytical modeling for fire performance of carbon TRC under the thermomechanical regime at constant tensile force.

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The present research aims to investigate the influence of the ratio of reinforced concrete layer height to total height (h/H) on the mechanical properties of functionally graded concrete (FGC) containing fly ash (Fa) and polypropylene (PP) fiber.

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The research in the field of cementitious materials has brought towards many non-traditional binder systems. One of these systems, a ternary binder composed of calcium aluminate cement (CAC), ordinary Portland cement (OPC), and calcium sulfate (C$Hx), called ettringite binder, offers a possibility of very rapid development in mechanical strength.

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This study aims to investigate the fouling mechanism, which mostly impacts the water permeability via empirical modeling. Normally, there are four different physical-based types of fouling: complete blocking, intermediate blocking, cake filtration and standard blocking or adsorption.

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