Sustainable urban development has been receiving growing concerns from both city managers and urban residents across the world. As a yardstick of sustainability, urban carrying capacity (UCC) is an important conceptual underpinning that guides local governments in promoting sustainable urban...

This paper studied the microstructure evolution of powder in tube (PIT) Nb3Al precursor with significant variation of local Nb layer thickness, which is an ideal system for simulating the inhomogeneous element distribution effect of the long length wire during rapidly heating and quenching...