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It was seen that the fatigue life had an increasing trend with the surface residual stress S 33 increasing at feed rates of f = 0.10 mm/rev and f = 0.15 mm/rev.

Statistical testing has indicated that there is a highly significant difference between platelet surface coverage on bare and MEG-OH-modified steel.

Clearly, the parameters G′ and G′′ show a decreasing trend with increasing temperature.

Similarly, the rising concentration of PPA also leads to an increasing trend of G*/sinδ.

As can be seen in Figure 3 and Table 3 , there is a clear trend in martensitic transformation temperatures when going from A1 to A4.

At a slightly larger temperature (20 °C), the MFISs of A1, A2, and A4 show just a slightly increasing trend.

Hence, the resistance of the MFISs also shows a decreasing trend for the alloy samples in the present study.

Moreover, the magnetic field-induced strain shows an increasing trend, which is caused by the driving force of the twin martensite re-arrangement strengthening.

Tensile Strength With the increase in rotational speed of the extruder screw in the studied range of variability, it was observed that the values of tensile strength of the film in longitudinal direction show an increasing trend in the case of polyethylene, polylactide and plastic based on potato starch, while for the material based on corn starch it decreases ( Figure 14 ).

The size distribution graphs showed a decreasing trend in the mean diameter of composite nanofibers with the increase in GO-COOH content, from 141.40 nm for CS/PG 0.1% to 119.88 nm for CS/PG 0.5%.

The observations from 7 days showed a significant increase in the energy absorption capacity of the pastes containing the P/C ratios from 0 to 10%, then a decreasing trend was observed for that of the pastes containing the P/C ratios from 10 to 20%.

Then, keeping the continued incorporation of Gr would not be quite significant to the TS reduction and high-temperature properties improvement of asphalt binders.

All of the obtained values were in the range between 2187 ± 2 kg/m 3 (BM) and 2378 ± 3 kg/m 3 (25FNSW), and, after analyzing them, an overall trend can be noted as: The higher the FNSWA amount, the higher the density of concrete, see Figure 4 .

An increasing trend was also reported for BS concretes tested by Sun et al.

The total porosity showed a trend of declining continuously.

Furthermore, uniaxial tension samples showed a trend of higher toughness values with time for CMOD < 2 mm which decreased at the end of the tail (i.e., at CMOD = 4 mm), see Figure 7 d; however, this was the case mostly for samples cracked at 0.15 mm.

However, it may be significant, especially for cracks of longer lengths.

For the interleaved laminates, both of the G IC and G IR values exhibit an increasing trend followed by decreasing with the rising of areal densities of TPPI veils.

The compressive strength and the flexural strength have a decreasing trend with the increase of the wet-dry cycles in the acid rain solution or in water.

Under the same fiber length, the fiber content corresponding to the position where the maximum stiffness appeared basically showed a decreasing trend.

The corrosion rate is almost insignificant (×10 −5 ) since its measure is grams over mm 2 and week.

Bulk Density and Thermal Conductivity From a comparison of the results of the bulk densities and thermal conductivity coefficients of fiber-cement mortars after 28 days of hardening composites ( Figure 7 , Figure 8 , Figure 9 and Figure 10 ), it is clear that as the content of cellulose fibers in the mixture increased (C/WPF ratio decreased), the bulk density and conductivity of the mortars had a decreasing trend.

It can be seen that the unconfined compressive strength showed an increasing trend of the S/L ratio until the S/L ratio of 1.5, then the result of compressive strength gradually dropped with the increase in the S/L ratio.

Various alternative POME treatment technologies have been carried out, although these technologies show a positive trend in dealing with POME waste.

For frequencies in the range from 0.1 kHz to 10 kHz, an increase in the plastic deformation degree was accompanied by a rise in the value of ωL/ωL 0 , while for the frequency of 100 kHz, ωL/ωL 0 first increased until the plastic deformation degree reached the level of about 15% to show a decreasing trend later on.