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Using climate information drawn from historical weather records and future climate projections, existing deterioration models were refined to include climate data into modeling runs in order to analyze changes to deterioration rates of different materials when impacted by a change in climate variables.
To address this deficiency, numerical models involving simultaneous transient diffusion and long term deterioration reactions for various construction materials are being developed.
Different port structures consist of a range of construction materials; predominantly concrete, steel and timber.
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Acknowledgements This work was partially supported by Key Project (B) of Beijing Natural Science Foundation and Key Project of Beijing Education Committee Science & Technology Plan (KZ201211232040), State High Technology Research and Development Plan (863 Plan) of Ministry of Science and Technology of CHINA (2011AA050527), State Key Laboratory of Advanced technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing of Wuhan University of Technology (2012-KF-6).
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RTM process has the advantages of high forming efficiency, raw materials and energy consumption, small investment of equipment and mold, user-friendly computer-aided design molds and product design process and the volatile materials are few in favour of health and environmental protection, so it is widely applicable to aerospace, cars, electrical, architecture, fitness equipment field and so on, and is also been developing rapidly in recent years.
Experimental Materials.
Using different constant flow rates and different volume fractions of reinforcement materials to the experiment, as the size of mould cavity is fixed, we change the layer number of fiber plaids to adjust the volume fractions of fiber.
Acknowledgement The authors acknowledge the support from National Science Foundation of P.R.
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High moisture content (MC) fluctuation with surrounding change can greatly influence the wood materials dimensional stability, which is a biggest problem in wood and wood-based materials industry.
Chemical modification for reducing the amount of hydrogen bonding between wood cell wall hydroxyl groups and moisture has been proved an effective way to weaken the disadvantages of wood materials in use.
Chemical modification of wood materials: old chemistry, new approaches.
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An Empirical Method for Estimating the Degree of Crystallinity of Native Cellulose Using the X-Ray Diffractometer.Textile Research Journal. 1959, 29, 10, 786-794 [6]IS0 4860:1982.

Influence of Aluminum Contents on Phase Behavior and Properties of TiN-Sialon-Corundum Composites by Aluminothermic Reduction Nitridation Ling Zhua, Kai Chen, Zhaohui Huangb, Minghao Fang, Yan-gai Liu 1School of Materials Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China azhuling1991@126.com, bhuang118@cugb.edu.cn Keywords: Aluminum contents; TiN-Sialon-Corundum; flexural strength Abstract.
However, β-Sialon-corundum composites are always prepared with expensive synthetic materials.
The raw materials were mixed according to Table 1.
Journal of the European Ceramic Society 28 (2008) 953–957
Effect of TiN on the corrosion behavior of Y-(α + β)-sialon/TiN materials in hot hydrochloric acidic solutions.

Springer, "A Model of Embedded Fiber Optic Fabry-Perot Temperature and Strain Sensors," Journal of Composite Materials, Vol. 27, pp 1618 - 1662, 1993.
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S .Kim, "An economical and multiple fibre grating system with a rapid response using code division multiple access," Measurement Science and Technology (Institute of Physics) Vol. 12, pp 906 - 908, 2001.

Fig. 2 describes the geometry and material properties of a patch test for the plane stress state [8].
Fig. 3 shows the detailed geometry and material properties of this model.
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Qin: Dual variational formulation for Trefftz finite element method of elastic materials.
Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology, 36, 11(2004), pp.1547-1549

Materials and Methods Experimental materials.
Acknowledgment Founding support for this research: No. 2009BADB1B0204 from the National Science and Technology Support Program in China.
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Conversely, cement is the most expensive component and, typically, is responsible for about 60 percent of the total cost of materials.
Various tests on raw materials were conducted which includes cement tests, aggregate and strength of the concrete is determined in terms of compressive strength and flexural strength at various proportions of Flakiness and Elongation Indices.
P, Adisheshu, S, “Influence of Coarse Aggregate Shape Factors on Bituminous Mixtures” International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) Vol. 1, Issue 4, pp. 2013-2024 (2010)
American Journal of Civil Engineering & Architecture vol.1.5 pp:103-106 (2013)
[8] Murat Ozen “Investigation of relationship between aggregate shape parameters and concrete strength using imaging techniques” submitted thesis to the graduate school of natural and applied sciences at Middle East technical university (2007)

A numerical Analysis for Cracks Emanating from a Quarter- Spherical Cavity on the edge of an Elastic Body Longhai Yan1, a, Baoliang Liu 2,b Heilongjiang Institute of Science and Technology, Harbin, China aylhqth2004@163.com, bbaoliangliu2008@163.com Keywords: Quarter-spherical cavity, Corner crack, Stress intensity factor, Finite element.
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[7] Yan, X., An effective method of stress intensity factor calculation for cracks emanating form a triangular or square hole under biaxial loads, Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, 2003,26(12), 1127-1133
Journal of Testing and Evaluation. 2007; 35(5):557-562