Outlook for the dry bulk shipping market in the next 5 years by Sam, Dave Perry, Chang, Yvonne, Yeo, Kai Hong

“…The demand for iron ore will be healthy but is affected by China’s movements in the steel industry. Grain on the other hand will continue to rise in demand as long as there is growth and increased standards of living. …”
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Effects of surface texture on wetting by Kee, Yong How

“…The experimental results showed that sanding a stainless steel and an aluminium surface with unidirectional texture, using a coarse grit sandpaper reduced the contact angles of droplets to nearly half of the Young’s contact angle.…”
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SnO2 nanorod arrays : low temperature growth, surface modification and field emission properties by Huang, Hui, Lim, Chiew Keat, Tse, Man Siu, Guo, Jun, Tan, Ooi Kiang

“…SnO2 nanorod arrays have been deposited on 4 inch SiO2/Si and Si wafers and stainless steel substrates by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition without any high temperature treatment or additional catalysis. …”
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Seismic performance of corroded reinforced concrete column-slab connections by Sutantyo, Samuel Kurniawan

“…This final year project investigated the effect of steel reinforcement corrosion towards the behaviour of reinforced concrete (RC) Flat Plate Slab-Column connections subjected to reversed cyclic loading. …”
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Numerical simulation of microstructural evolution in laser welding process by Cheah, De Yi

“…In this study, stainless steel is selected as the experimental material. A coupled CA-FV model of finite element method is carried out on transient thermal and microstructural analysis using Open-source Field Operation And Manipulation (OpenFOAM) and ParaView. …”
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Fire behaviour and design of hybrid fibre reinforced high-performance concrete columns subjected to uniaxial bending by Du, Panwei, Yang, Yaowen, Tan, Kang Hai

“…No spalling is observed in all the specimens owing to the synergistic effect of hybrid polypropylene and steel fibres. Test results show that mid-height deflection and axial contraction increase with an increase of load eccentricity. …”
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Experimental study and theoretical modeling for the compressive stress-strain relationship of multi-scale hybrid fiber-reinforced SHCC by Zhang, C., Yuan, Z., Shen, Y.

“…In order to better match the multi-level structural characteristics and multi-scale fracture process of cementitious composite, multi-scale hybrid fiber-reinforced strain hardening cementitious composite (MsHySHCC) was designed by adding hooked steel fiber and calcium carbonate (CaCO3) whisker into conventional polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber-reinforced SHCC. …”
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Experimental and simulation analysis of energy absorption capacity of 3D printed structure design by Low, Evans Tze Sheng

“…A 15mm cubed graded closed foam model with an average density of 0.6 together with 4 other closed-foam models of densities of 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8 will be created with the use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) software. 316 stainless steel was assigned to all 5 models for the simulation with a compression velocity of 1m/s. …”
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Evaluation of structures for cracks due to dynamic loads by Zaw, Hein Lin

“…The experiments were performed on laboratory sized aluminium specimens, including 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D as well as on the real-life structure (a steel frame). The effects of various dynamic parameters such as changing the drop-weight, drop-height, angle of free swing, walking and jumping were investigated. …”
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Study of crack problems in water-main pipe lines by Boon, Kok Eng

“…It has included the studies of the effect of stress and displacement of buried pipe line under static loads. 1500mm diameter with 20mm thickness of Steel pipe is used. (Outer diameter is 1524mm inclusive of cement lining) The depth of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 m of buried pipe from ground surface is chosen in the experiment. …”
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Thermal Conductivity Augmentation of Epoxy Injection Moulds for Cooling Time Reduction by Altaf, Khurram, Rani, Ahmad Majdi Abdul

“…Polymer injection moulds are generally manufactured with tool steels which give reliable functioning of moulds with long service life. …”
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Additive manufacturing of electrochemical interfaces : simultaneous detection of biomarkers by Ho, Eugene Hong Zhuang, Ambrosi, Adriano, Pumera, Martin

“…3D-printed stainless steel helical shaped electrodes with or without surface modification with a gold (Au) film are tested as novel electrode materials for the electrochemical detection of ascorbic acid and uric acid in aqueous solutions. …”
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Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy for malaria diagnosis and intradermal measurements by Yuen, Clement, Liu, Quan, Chen, Keren, Ju, Jian, Xiong, Aoli, Preiser, Peter

“…To eliminate the need of drawing blood, we will also report a stainless-steel microneedle based probe for direct intradermal SERS measurements. …”
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Thermal conductivity of titanium aluminum silicon nitride coatings deposited by lateral rotating cathode arc by Ding, X. Z., Cheong, J. Y., Samani, M. K., Amini, Shahrouz, Khosravian, Narjes, Tay, Beng Kang, Chen, Gang

“…A series of physical vapour deposition titanium aluminum silicon nitride nanocomposite coating with a different (Al + Si)/Ti atomic ratio, with a thickness of around 2.5 μm were deposited on stainless steel substrate by a lateral rotating cathode arc process in a flowing nitrogen atmosphere. …”
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Coupled acoustic resonator systems with novel acoustic properties by Yang, Yahui

“…Similar to a gapped graphene, gapless topological valley edge states are shown at a zigzag domain wall separating different domains with opposite valley Chern numbers, while an armchair domain wall hosts no gapless edge states. …”
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Electronic structures of twisted two-dimensional materials studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy by Pei, D

“…Chiral semimetals the PtGa family (PtGa, PtAl,PdGa) are expected to host topologically non-trivial electronic structure, such as the multi-fold band crossings with large Chern number at high symmetry points connected by long Fermi-arc surface states. …”

Low-Cost Masonry for the Design of Barrel-Vaulted Flooring Systems by Haile, Nebyu Samuel

“…This structurally inefficient system heavily depends on imported cement and steel for many locations. Compounding this issue, in LEDCs, the construction sector contributes significantly to their annual carbon emissions, sometimes doubling the global average and exacerbating the climate crisis (Yokoo et al., 2016). …”
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Effect of air bubbling on atrazine adsorption in water by powdered activated carbons : competitive adsorption of impurities by Wang, Rong, Krantz, William B., Jia, Yue, Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…In contrast, when stainless steel tubing was used for air injection, no reversal phenomenon was observed in the bubbling batch kinetic adsorption tests. …”
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Wireless measurement of elastic and plastic deformation by a metamaterial-based sensor by Ozbey, Burak, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Kurc, Ozgur, Erturk, Vakur, Altintas, Ayhan

“…The NSRR probe is fixed on a standard steel reinforcing bar (rebar), and its frequency response is monitored telemetrically by a network analyzer connected to the antenna across the whole stress-strain curve. …”
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Robust multifunctional microcapsules with antibacterial and anticorrosion features by Chong, Yong Bing, Sun, Dawei, Zhang, Xin, Yue, Chee Yoon, Yang, Jinglei

“…Manually scratched microcapsules-based multifunctional coatings possess anticorrosion properties, due to the formation of corrosion inhibition layer resulted from the reaction between the released 8-HQ compound and the mild steel substrate. Additionally, after 30 days of immersion in the salt water, the microcapsules-based coatings still possess anticorrosion properties by forming corrosion inhibition layer at the scratched region.…”
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