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Suman Kumar Adhikary, Zymantas Rudzionis, Arvind Balakrishnan and Vignesh Jayakumar

This paper deals with the behavior of concrete’s self-compatibility in a fresh state and its compressive and flexural strength in a hardened state with the addition of polyolefin macro fibers. Four different amounts (3 kg/m3, 4.5 kg/m3, 6 kg/m3, and... see more

Peter G Jenkins, Liu Yang, James L Thomason, Xinyong Chen, John F Watts and Steven J Hinder

A number of analytical techniques were applied to investigate changes to the surface of unsized boron-free E-glass fibres after thermal conditioning at temperatures up to 700 °C. Novel systematic studies were carried out to investigate the fundamental str... see more

Noor Sanbhal, Xiakeer Saitaer, Mazhar Peerzada, Ali Habboush, Fujun Wang and Lu Wang

An ideal hernia mesh is one that absorbs drugs and withstands muscle forces after mesh implantation. Polypropylene (PP) mesh devices have been accepted as a standard material to repair abdominal hernia, but the hydrophobicity of PP fibers makes them unsui... see more

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Margarita Kostyanaya, Stepan Bazhenov, Ilya Borisov, Tatiana Plisko and Vladimir Vasilevsky

Olefin/paraffin separation is an important technological process. A promising alternative to conventional energy-consuming methods is employment of gas-liquid membrane contactors. In the present work, the membranes used were polysulfone (PSf) asymmetrical... see more

Mary L. Galaska, Larry D. Sqrow, J. Douglas Wolf and Alexander B. Morgan

Animal protein-based fibers used in textiles often are assumed to have uniform properties independent of source, and yet are different when considering texture, structure, and color. Differences between fibers from animal species have been studied in rega... see more

Nongyi Cheng, Kwang-Won Park and Trisha L. Andrew

A facile, solvent-minimized approach to functionalize commercial raw fabrics is described. Reactive vapor deposition of conjugated polymers followed by post-deposition functionalization transforms common, off-the-shelf textiles into distinctly hydrophobic... see more

Marek Gryta

Only nonwetted porous membranes can be used in membrane distillation. The possibility of application in this process the capillary polypropylene membranes manufactured by thermally-induced phase separation was studied. The performance of a few types of me... see more