Experimental investigation of glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) when subjected to low and high velocity impact events by Razali, Noorshazlin

“…The high velocity impact test is performed on three specimens for each thickness using an instrumented Single Stage Gas Gun (SSGG) and the pressure of the gas gun is set to range from 5 bar to 60 bar. Each of the tests is performed using three types of bullet which are blunt, hemispherical and conical. …”
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Harnessing dimethyl ether with ultra-low-grade heat for scaling-resistant brine concentration and fractional crystallization by Foo, Zi Hao, Deshmukh, Akshay, Wilson, Aaron D., Lienhard, John H.

“…At a heat source temperature of 323 K and an interstage pressure of 0.489 bar, DME-driven SDWE achieves an optimal thermodynamic efficiency of 20.5 % and a projected specific cost of US$ 1.93 m−3. …”
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Mixed polyamide-based composite nanofiltration hollow fiber membranes with improved low-pressure water softening capability by Fang, Wangxi, Shi, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…The optimized NF membrane possessed a molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) of 380 Da, an effective pore diameter of 1.27 nm, and pure water permeability (PWP) of 18.2 l/m2 h bar. Under an operating pressure of 2 bar, the membrane exhibited rejection of 96.3% and 93.8% to 1000 ppm MgCl2 and MgSO4 feed solutions, respectively. …”
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Layer-by-layer aided β-cyclodextrin nanofilm for precise organic solvent nanofiltration by Li, Xin, Li, Can, Goh, Kunli, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Wang, Rong

“…Importantly, the LBL-aided β-CD nanofilm exhibits competitive permeances towards both polar (e.g., methanol, 5.8 LMH/bar) and nonpolar solvents (e.g., hexane, 7.0 LMH/bar). …”
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Dissecting the structure-compaction-performance relationship of thin-film composite polyamide membranes with different structure features by Zhao, Yali, Lai, Gwo Sung, Chong, Jeng Yi, Wang, Rong

“…TFC membrane with a PA layer of low protuberances or nodules and dense substrate showed excellent resistance against high pressure (50 bar), with only a slight irreversible decrease of 2.1–3.5% in water permeability when retested at 5 bar. …”
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Fabrication of PVDF ultrafiltration membrane using modified thermally induced phase separation: the role of amphiphilic and hydrophilic non-solvents by Chen, Ningyuan, Zhao, Jie, Shi, Lei, Goto, Atsushi, Wang, Rong

“…The addition of both PEG400 and TEG could significantly increase the membrane's PWP to 645.4 L m−2 h−1 bar−1 with moderate enlargement of the mean pore size of the membrane to 84 nm. …”
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Fractionation of catfish protein hydrolysates using ultrafiltration membrane by Novin, Donya

“…For 5 h hydrolysate, the highest transmission was achieved at pH 5.1, pressure of 2 bar, 0.15 M of NaCl and feed concentration of 1.5 mg/ml. …”
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Fisher vector faces in the wild by Simonyan, K, Parkhi, O, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…Several recent papers on automatic face verification have significantly raised the performance bar by developing novel, specialised representations that outperform standard features such as SIFT for this problem. …”

Anti-fouling thin film composite (TFC) polyamide reverse osmosis (RO) membranes based on piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) substrates by Fu, Jia Shen

“…It was found PVDF-TEP substrate had larger mean pore size (around 33 nm) and higher pure water permeability (254±8 LMH/bar), making it more suitable to be substrate for RO membrane fabrication. …”
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High strain rate and elevated temperature compressive properties of magnesium alloy AZ31B by Myat, Thu.

“…Cylindrical specimens with same dimension but different fabricated directions (Transverse, Angular, Rolling and Normal) are used in compressive split Hopkinson bar test. Experiments are carried out under different temperature and strain rate. …”
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Study of high-strength concrete beam-column joints with high-yield strength steel reinforcement by Abdul Naufal Abdol Jabar

“…The test revealed that using high-yield strength steel reinforcement bars together with high-strength concrete resulted in improving the load-carrying capacity of the tested specimens. …”
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Fabrication of hollow fiber membranes using amphiphilic block copolymers as pore-forming additives by Loh, Chun Heng

“…PVDF hollow fiber membranes with PWP of 118 L/m2•h•bar and MWCO of 5 kDa were obtained when spun with optimized spinning conditions and using 3 wt% of LiCl and 0.2 wt% of Pluronic as the mixed additive. …”
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Brand- and price-based usage pattern analysis on peer-to-peer car-sharing platform by Tan, Xuan Yi

“…The processed data are used to produce demographics illustrated using line and bar graphs, showing different point of views based on the attributes used. …”
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Development of novel electrospun nanofibrous scaffold with nanomaterials for target adsorption in different applications by Lim, Huai Xun

“…The membrane scaffold was investigated for their anionic dye removal in aqueous systems and performed beyond expectations, demonstrating up to 8808 Lm-2h-1bar-1 water permeability at 2 psi with exceptional >99% dye removal capability for anionic dyes in aqueous systems. …”
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Microstructure analysis of magnesium alloy and/or its nanocomposite under high strain rate testing by Tan, Valerie Ying Jia

“…There are two specimens used, one having went through deformation at high strain rate by the Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar Compression Test at room temperature and the other being at its original state. …”
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Protein-protein interactions that mediate the role of AAA-ATPase p97/VCP/Cdc48 in protein aggregation and degradation by Chia, Wei Sheng

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Evaluation of low-cost RFID hardware for automated equipment tracking in first-response vehicles by Chua, Joo Heng

“…Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) were originally developed to take over the bar codes in managing asset tagging or tracking. …”
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Improved design of an advanced Ice Giants Net Flux Radiometer by Aslam, S, Calcutt, SB, Hewagama, T, Irwin, PG, Nixon, C, Quilligan, G, Roos-Serote, MC, Villanueva, G

“…This unique design allows for small net flux measurements in the presence of large ambient fluxes and rapidly changing temperatures during the probe descent to ≥10 bar pressure.…”

C-F bond activation by transient phosphenium dications by Đorđević, Nemanja, Tay, Madelyn Qin Yi, Muthaiah, Senthilkumar, Ganguly, Rakesh, Dimić, Dušan, Vidović, Dragoslav

“…These dications were generated by reaction of the corresponding monocationic precursors with excess Na[BAr4Cl]. Evidence for the existence of transient dicationic species was obtained by trapping the dication 4a2+ with PMe3. …”
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Properties of copper slag concrete by Zhang, Weide

“…The dynamic strength of the concrete evaluated through the Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar test peaks at 20% copper slag replacement after which it reduces as more copper slag is added. …”
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