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The preconsolidation pressure shows an increasing trend with the increase of depth, and it was judged to be under-consolidated soil based on the corresponding self-weight stress.

The results show that: (1) the microstructural characteristics of soils with different buried depths have directivity, to a certain extent; (2) as the consolidation load increases, the average unit area and average form factor of the soil microstructure generally decrease, the structural arrangement of the unit gradually tends to be orderly, and the average pore area, apparent void ratio and the number of pores generally show a decreasing trend; (3) under the action of a consolidation load, when the microstructure at a relatively large scale is basically stable, the microstructure at a smaller scale will continue to adjust; (4) the apparent void ratio has a good linear regression relationship with the conventional void ratio, and the apparent void ratio has a good exponential growth relationship with the compressibility.

After the plasma treatment application, the contact angle follows an increasing trend that stabilizes to a constant value (50–60% of the initial contact angle value of the material) after about 24 h.

Though the estimated amplitudes p* ημ and p* ημξ are small, they are not negligible and their effect may be significant for the detailed analysis of the AO device characteristics. 6.

In terms of compressive strength, as shown in Figure 9 , with the decrease in the steel fiber content, the compressive strength of the concrete at each CG replacement ratio showed a decreasing trend.

For temperatures ranging from 50 °C to 90 °C, after a decreasing trend beyond time t c , the trapped charge preserves its negative sign and tries to reach a negative steady state (saturation).

Hence, leakage current will have also an increasing trend as we will see in the next paragraph.

The results of the statistical analysis described above demonstrated that the local inflammatory response and the necrotic areas generated in response to all the biomaterials gradually decreased, suggested an overall trend towards no aggravation and even alleviation of the inflammatory responses elicited by these three endodontic biomaterials. 3.4. iRoot SP and HiFlow Promoted M2-like Macrophage Polarization The inflammatory response elicited by the biocompatible implant model in vivo mainly involved macrophage infiltration, and this response is also known as the foreign body reaction.

Due to the influence of the side heat flow, the gap at position 1 shows a decreasing trend within 20 s.

It can be seen from Figure 10 and Table 11 that the maximum dry density of improved high liquid limit soil showed an increasing trend with the tunnel slag content.

The cohesion of improved high liquid limit soils presented a decreasing trend as the tunnel slag content increased, but the internal friction angle increased with the content.

The peak strength reduction rates of the specimens with different moisture contents (from small to large) were 18.22%, 23.38%, 23.84%, 26.13% and 30.83%, respectively, showing an increasing trend with the increase of moisture content.

The experimental results indicate that the effects of deformation temperature, strain rate and strain magnitude on the peak dissipation efficiency factor and instability range were highly significant.

It can be seen from Figure 2 that when the red mud content increased from 0% to 20%, the wet density showed an increasing trend, and the wet density was more than 700 kg/m 3 , higher than the designed wet density.

As can be seen from Figure 8 , the turbidity removal ratio with the increase in power and a decreasing trend, microwave power is 80 W suitable for the highest turbidity removal ratio.

A clear trend can be seen in the rapid increase in the absolute values of the minor strains in the root of the specimen.

Nevertheless, a decreasing trend in average aspect ratio (see Figure 5 d) was noted, when the temperature was higher than 160 °C.

Additionally, they discovered an increasing trend in WA as the level of cement replaced by FA increased by more than 10%.

A notable trend can easily be observed, the 3D models employed range from digital to physical ones.

Results indicated that the ultrasonic effect was not significant for ore samples with larger particle sizes, and the appropriate increase in ultrasonic action time was beneficial to the improvement of desulfurization rate, but the effect showed a decreasing trend when it exceeded 50 min, and the best desulfurization effect was achieved when the power was 300 W.

The difference is quite significant considering that the admixture is only 0.25% by weight of cement and replaces lime in the amount of 50% by weight of cement.

Although those changes would be caused by chemical pressure effects, which is the shrinkage of unit cells and/or bonds by the decrease in the average ionic size at the M site, we found an interesting trend in the isotropic displacement parameter ( U iso ) at the M site.

It can be seen in Figure 3 a, that under different SCR and ADR conditions, internal porosity shows an increasing trend with the increase in WCR.

The experiment results showed that the uniaxial compressive strength showed a decreasing trend with the increase in WCR, while the porosity showed a gradual increase.

The fractal dimension also showed a trend of decline.