General method for assessing the proportion of recycled material content in energy-related products

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fawaz Kaseer ◽  
Fan Yin ◽  
Edith Arámbula-Mercado ◽  
Amy Epps Martin

Economic and environmental considerations have prompted the use of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) and recycled asphalt shingles (RAS) in asphalt mixtures. However, given the concerns about long-term pavement performance, state departments of transportation (DOTs) tend to limit the quantities of these recycled materials unless certain mixture modifications are made [e.g., use of a softer virgin binder performance grade (PG) and warm-mix asphalt technology, the addition of a recycling agent (RA), or any combination of these modifications]. This study focused on the stiffness characterization of recycled asphalt mixtures with combinations of virgin binder PG, RAP, RAS, and RA. Materials were collected from two field projects in Texas and Indiana, and laboratory specimens were prepared and tested for resilient modulus, and dynamic modulus (| E*|) after short-term oven aging (STOA) and long-term oven aging (LTOA). An RA effectiveness parameter was proposed to quantify the rejuvenating effect of RA, which was defined as the percentage reduction in mixture stiffness for the recycled mixture with RA versus the corresponding control mixture without RA. Furthermore, the | E*| test results were analyzed with a Black Space diagram to discriminate asphalt mixtures with different stiffness and relaxation characteristics. The test results indicated that the incorporation of RA was effective in reducing the stiffness of asphalt mixtures with high recycled material content, but the effectiveness diminished with aging. Moreover, recycled mixtures with a softer and less brittle virgin binder and an RA at a higher dosage showed desirable stiffness and relaxation properties after STOA and LTOA.


Author(s):  
J. R. Fields

The energy analysis of electrons scattered by a specimen in a scanning transmission electron microscope can improve contrast as well as aid in chemical identification. In so far as energy analysis is useful, one would like to be able to design a spectrometer which is tailored to his particular needs. In our own case, we require a spectrometer which will accept a parallel incident beam and which will focus the electrons in both the median and perpendicular planes. In addition, since we intend to follow the spectrometer by a detector array rather than a single energy selecting slit, we need as great a dispersion as possible. Therefore, we would like to follow our spectrometer by a magnifying lens. Consequently, the line along which electrons of varying energy are dispersed must be normal to the direction of the central ray at the spectrometer exit.


Author(s):  
E. Naranjo

Equilibrium vesicles, those which are the stable form of aggregation and form spontaneously on mixing surfactant with water, have never been demonstrated in single component bilayers and only rarely in lipid or surfactant mixtures. Designing a simple and general method for producing spontaneous and stable vesicles depends on a better understanding of the thermodynamics of aggregation, the interplay of intermolecular forces in surfactants, and an efficient way of doing structural characterization in dynamic systems.


2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Dawel ◽  
Tsz Ying Wong ◽  
Jodie McMorrow ◽  
Callin Ivanovici ◽  
Xuming He ◽  
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1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 30-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Dujols ◽  
P. Aubas ◽  
C. Baylon ◽  
F. Grémy
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This paper describes an automatic procedure for morphosemantic analysis and translation of compound medical terms. This analysis is of interest for the automatic indexation of medical discharge reports and summaries. Since words with the suffix -osis may have many different semantic interpretations, such -osis forms are taken as examples for a general method that avoids the difficulties in interpreting medical terms as reported in other studies.


2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-427
Author(s):  
Ernst Biener ◽  
Harald Bethke ◽  
Torsten Sasse ◽  
Thomas Wemhoff
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