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Interestingly, for given anodization voltages, the effect of water content in electrolytes on registered current density is highly significant ( Figure 2 ).

The benefits resulting from the analysis may be significant both for the fleet operator and the vehicle manufacturer, due to the possibility of determining the costs generated by not using the real durability of the tested component (taking preventive actions too early) as well as losses due to damage and downtime resulting from the repair (no preventive measures are taken).

As can be seen from Figure 7 , with the increase in cement ratio, the splitting strength of the specimen showed an increasing trend.

An interesting trend occurred: the smaller lift was observed for darker printouts, while for the brighter ones it got larger.

It has also been reported that has been an increasing trend in palm oil product demand, consequently increasing waste materials [ 176 ].

On the other hand, a decreasing trend of the intensity of this band with the increase in the metakaolin dosage is observed as well.

Overall, material Q showed a trend towards a multimodal distribution with the larger variation resulting from selective grain growth. 3.3.2.

Conventional and Recycled Concrete Batching Concrete batching calls for a detailed study of the characteristics of the components, given the highly significant effect of their inter-relationships on mix behaviour.

The stress-strain factor, which appears to be quite significant for the ratio and distribution of these phases, was not considered here.

In addition, it can be seen that the frequency parameters show an increasing trend with the increase of the structural aspect ratio, but it is not a linear trend.

In this case, a clear trend of changes in thermostability was observed.

As a result of the research performed, two practically significant conclusions were drawn.

The fitting relation between the last stress level and axial steady creep rate shows an increasing trend with homogeneity index m , indicating that the deformation is more significant for more homogeneous rock material, which further impacts the formation of a damage zone at the accelerating creep stage.

Also from the FEA result and based on the approach used in this study, the dynamic load applied to the crown surface increased the stresses by 30–60% compared to unrealistic (static) loading ( Table 4 , Table 5 and Table 6 ) which is highly significant.

The following conclusions can be drawn: (1) There was a clear trend of increasing intensity in the UCS of FCCR during the first seven cycles and then the intensity decreased.

Thus, the conductivity between soil particles is reduced, and the resistivity shows an increasing trend.

Secondly, there is an increasing trend of using supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) [ 2 ] and organic and inorganic admixtures [ 3 ].

[ 20 ] also observed a decreasing trend in the value of the compressive strength of clay–tuff samples manufactured by extrusion at temperatures up to 1050 °C, obtaining compressive strengths up to 23MPa.

Even though the energy used for brick production has been reduced since 1990 [ 2 ], the role of industry in transitioning to climate neutrality [ 3 ] may be significant.

The lowest nanoindentation force is used for CAD/CAM PMMA-organically-modified ceramics dental material (Vipiblock-PMMA block), the maximum penetration depth is reached at a load of ~1 mN, then, the applied force has an increasing trend with the maximum load applied on restorative CAD/CAM material based on hybrid ceramic, Cerasmart 270 (~3.5 mN), followed by the CAD/CAM material based on multilayered PMMA Huge with ~2.3 mN. 3.2.

They noted a decreasing trend of the concentrations of 238 U and 232 Th from the most recent to the oldest phosphogypsum, respectively ( Table 2 ).

A highly significant statistical correlations (R 2 > 0.96) among the compaction parameters and the increasing amount of silica fume, as shown in Figure 13 .

In Figure 13 a, two linear significant regression models can be seen, thus indicating an increasing trend in the maximum dry density and a decreasing trend in the OMC with the increased amount of SF content.

For example, system O-SSA50 showed an increasing trend in corrosion rate by 1.57 times compared to control.

There has been an increasing trend, recently, towards research on solid particle erosion wear; one of the types of surface damage, where eroding particles, of different dimensional sizes under various impact velocities and impingement angles, strike and affect the top surfaces of materials, thereby leading to material losses and functional variations [ 12 ].