How best can Agricultural Innovation be structured to ensure adequate uptake and farmers adoption?

Technology adoption rates amongst small-scale farmers in the Global South (e.g. Africa) remain low, even when scientific evidence shows that a particular technology is beneficial.

28 December 2020 4,786 23 View

Please, is there suitable solvent to fractionate fatty esters into medium molecular weight fatty esters and high molecular weight fatty esters?

I want to separate a complex mixture of esters into medium and high molecular weight esters using solvent extraction.

11 October 2020 9,891 2 View

Can You Recommend good tutorial materials and literature on grid forming and grid following converter models?

Can anyone recommend good tutorial materials and literature on 'grid forming and grid following converter models'?. I will appreciate your recommendations and suggestions. Thanks.

02 July 2020 9,374 3 View

Orthogonal collocation on finite elements ?

Can anyone help to review a matlab codes for orthogonal collocation on finite element as the solution i'm getting does not seem to be unique and not the required

08 June 2020 1,584 3 View

Is there any open source software available to model the microstructure of cementitious composites?

I will like to model the microstructure of concrete/mortar, is there any software to model the resulting products? Thanks

20 January 2019 1,099 2 View

How to get percentage contribution of factors in design expert?

I'm using design expert software for the design of the influence of different factors in my experiment. However, I couldn't get any section that shows the percentage contribution of each factor on...

29 November 2018 6,125 3 View

Is there any non destructive test that can be improvised in the lab to estimate the strength and permeability properties of concrete?

Non destructive tests equipment for concrete are quite expensive and not readily available. Is there any non destructive test that can be improvised or built with commonly available materials to...

27 November 2018 5,552 3 View

What are the emerging supplementary cementatious materials that can be used to replace cement?

The use of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) is increasing rapidly as they can be used to partially or totally replace OPC in concrete. The most common types of SCMs are fly ash, slag,...

25 November 2018 9,400 12 View

Why is high volume slag associated with high shrinkage in cementitious composites?

I will like to know why there is always high shrinkage when slag is used at larger percentage replacement of cement. The reasons in terms of its chemical reactions with OPC and the physical and...

22 November 2018 9,609 3 View

Can you suggest a PhD research topic in Renewable/Sustainable energy?

Fellow Researcher can you please suggest a relevant PhD research topic in Renewable/Sustainable energy Systems? I'll appreciate if you can help me identify a clear problem and an incline to the...

21 November 2018 8,162 17 View

Looking for Materials with high thermal expansion coefficient and high temperature resistance?

03 March 2021 8,272 1 View

Does the pressure(-600 mmHg) affects pH?

When I conducted the degassing experiment using decompression under anaerobic condition(and I used ferrous based chelating agent), the oxidized ferric were observerd. So, could you tell me the...

03 March 2021 4,892 5 View

How the parameters (such as Mw, Chemical bonds, polymer bland and so on) affect the mechanic property of polymer (such as storage, loss modulus) ?

Anyone can recommend any books on such topics? Thanks in advance.

02 March 2021 8,457 2 View

What is the procedure to determine the permeability of concrete?

can anyone help me in this, it will help me with my research work

01 March 2021 834 3 View

How can you bring two structures together to create an adhesive bond in LAMMPS?

I have created an Ice 1h crystalline structure and an Aluminium substrate structure and equilibrated both at 250K. Now I need to bring them together in a way that an adhesive bond is created....

01 March 2021 3,325 2 View

Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS?

I need to model masonry and reinforced concrete minarets for my MSc thesis. Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS? (Or any other program for just...

01 March 2021 736 3 View

Glass fiber content in a gypsum board ?

Any idea on how to get the volumic ratio of glass fiber in a gypsum board ? Thank you for your help !

01 March 2021 2,501 3 View

Apart from Nanosilica and CNT's what are the other nanomaterials readily available to use in concrete mixture?

Nanotechnology in concrete materials

01 March 2021 3,379 3 View

Concrete compressive strength databases?

I am looking for datasets similar to this one: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Concrete+Compressive+Strength I am looking for concretes with different types of aggregates (Recycled,...

27 February 2021 6,801 3 View

How the wettability of rock sample can be changed by ageing in pure hydrocarbon oils only?

I want to do wettability analysis of hydrocarbon oil (octane)/rock/surfactant solution system. but to do the analysis first I have to make rock surface oil-wet. Since hydrocarbon oil does not have...

27 February 2021 5,383 3 View