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Warsaw University of Technology
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About: Warsaw University of Technology is a education organization based out in Warsaw, Poland. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Microstructure & Optical fiber. The organization has 14293 authors who have published 34362 publications receiving 492211 citations. The organization is also known as: Warsaw Polytechnic & Politechnika Warszawska.
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Ghent University1, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven2, University of Cambridge3, Polytechnic University of Turin4, Riga Technical University5, Institut national des sciences appliquées de Rennes6, Cardiff University7, Polytechnic University of Milan8, University of Novi Sad9, Lodz University of Technology10, University of Bath11, Warsaw University of Technology12, Polytechnic University of Valencia13, Delft University of Technology14
TL;DR: In this paper, the state-of-the-art of self-healing concrete is provided, covering autogenous or intrinsic healing of traditional concrete followed by stimulated autogenous healing via use of mineral additives, crystalline admixtures or (superabsorbent) polymers.
Abstract: The increasing concern for safety and sustainability of structures is calling for the development of smart self-healing materials and preventive repair methods. The appearance of small cracks (<300 µm in width) in concrete is almost unavoidable, not necessarily causing a risk of collapse for the structure, but surely impairing its functionality, accelerating its degradation, and diminishing its service life and sustainability. This review provides the state-of-the-art of recent developments of self-healing concrete, covering autogenous or intrinsic healing of traditional concrete followed by stimulated autogenous healing via use of mineral additives, crystalline admixtures or (superabsorbent) polymers, and subsequently autonomous self-healing mechanisms, i.e. via, application of micro-, macro-, or vascular encapsulated polymers, minerals, or bacteria. The (stimulated) autogenous mechanisms are generally limited to healing crack widths of about 100–150 µm. In contrast, most autonomous self-healing mechanisms can heal cracks of 300 µm, even sometimes up to more than 1 mm, and usually act faster. After explaining the basic concept for each self-healing technique, the most recent advances are collected, explaining the progress and current limitations, to provide insights toward the future developments. This review addresses the research needs required to remove hindrances that limit market penetration of self-healing concrete technologies.
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11 Mar 2012-Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research Section A-accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment
TL;DR: The Advanced GAmma Tracking Array (AGATA) as discussed by the authors is a European project to develop and operate the next generation gamma-ray spectrometer, which is based on the technique of energy tracking in electrically segmented high-purity germanium crystals.
Abstract: The Advanced GAmma Tracking Array (AGATA) is a European project to develop and operate the next generation gamma-ray spectrometer. AGATA is based on the technique of gamma-ray energy tracking in electrically segmented high-purity germanium crystals. This technique requires the accurate determination of the energy, time and position of every interaction as a gamma ray deposits its energy within the detector volume. Reconstruction of the full interaction path results in a detector with very high efficiency and excellent spectral response. The realisation of gamma-ray tracking and AGATA is a result of many technical advances. These include the development of encapsulated highly segmented germanium detectors assembled in a triple cluster detector cryostat, an electronics system with fast digital sampling and a data acquisition system to process the data at a high rate. The full characterisation of the crystals was measured and compared with detector-response simulations. This enabled pulse-shape analysis algorithms, to extract energy, time and position, to be employed. In addition, tracking algorithms for event reconstruction were developed. The first phase of AGATA is now complete and operational in its first physics campaign. In the future AGATA will be moved between laboratories in Europe and operated in a series of campaigns to take advantage of the different beams and facilities available to maximise its science output. The paper reviews all the achievements made in the AGATA project including all the necessary infrastructure to operate and support the spectrometer.
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TL;DR: In this article, a comparison between the properties of composite polymeric electrolytes containing inorganic and organic fillers is made based on conductivity data obtained from impedance spectroscopy and structural characteristics based on FT-IR, NMR, DSC and EDX.
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TL;DR: The forecast results indicate that the coupled wavelet neural network (WA-ANN) models were better than all the other models in this study for forecasting SPI 12 and SPI 24 values over lead times of 6 and 12 months in the Awash River Basin.
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TL;DR: An algorithm for estimating the mixing matrix that can be viewed as an extension of the DUET and the TIFROM methods is first developed and a necessary and sufficient condition for recoverability of a source vector is obtained.
Abstract: This paper discusses underdetermined (i.e., with more sources than sensors) blind source separation (BSS) using a two-stage sparse representation approach. The first challenging task of this approach is to estimate precisely the unknown mixing matrix. In this paper, an algorithm for estimating the mixing matrix that can be viewed as an extension of the DUET and the TIFROM methods is first developed. Standard clustering algorithms (e.g., K-means method) also can be used for estimating the mixing matrix if the sources are sufficiently sparse. Compared with the DUET, the TIFROM methods, and standard clustering algorithms, with the authors' proposed method, a broader class of problems can be solved, because the required key condition on sparsity of the sources can be considerably relaxed. The second task of the two-stage approach is to estimate the source matrix using a standard linear programming algorithm. Another main contribution of the work described in this paper is the development of a recoverability analysis. After extending the results in , a necessary and sufficient condition for recoverability of a source vector is obtained. Based on this condition and various types of source sparsity, several probability inequalities and probability estimates for the recoverability issue are established. Finally, simulation results that illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results are presented.
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Stefano Colafranceschi | 129 | 1103 | 79174 |
Dezso Horvath | 128 | 1283 | 88111 |
Valentina Dutta | 125 | 1179 | 76231 |
Viktor Matveev | 123 | 1212 | 73939 |
Anna Zanetti | 120 | 1488 | 71375 |
Harold A. Scheraga | 120 | 1152 | 66461 |
J. Pluta | 120 | 659 | 52025 |
Adam Ryszard Kisiel | 118 | 691 | 50546 |
Terence G. Langdon | 117 | 1158 | 61603 |
Andrei Starodumov | 114 | 697 | 57900 |
T. Pawlak | 111 | 379 | 42455 |
John D. Pickard | 107 | 628 | 42479 |
W. Peryt | 107 | 376 | 40524 |
William G. Stevenson | 101 | 585 | 57798 |
Anil Kumar | 99 | 2124 | 64825 |