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Liang, X. (author)Advanced high strength steels (AHSS) have been widely employed in the automotive industry to meet the requirements of improving crash performance while reducing vehicle weight. The excellent performance of AHSS in strength and ductility comes from a dedicated design of alloy composition and microstructure. However, the addition of some alloying...doctoral thesis 2024
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Liang, M. (author)Since the introduction of cementitious materials, shrinkage-induced earlyage cracking (EAC) has emerged as a significant issue that negatively influences the function, durability, and aesthetics of concrete structures like dams, tunnels, and underground garages. This thesis aims to develop new experimental and modelling techniques that help...doctoral thesis 2024
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Xie, J. (author), Xu, Y. (author), Meng, Z. (author), Liang, M. (author), Wan, Z. (author), Šavija, B. (author)Auxetic cementitious cellular composites (ACCCs) exhibit desirable mechanical properties (e.g., high fracture resistance and energy dissipation), due to their unique deformation characteristics. In this study, a new type of cementitious auxetic material, referred to as peanut shaped ACCC, has been designed and subsequently architected using...journal article 2024
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Wan, Z. (author), Xu, Y. (author), Chang, Z. (author), Liang, M. (author), Šavija, B. (author)Vascular self-healing concrete (SHC) has great potential to mitigate the environmental impact of the construction industry by increasing the durability of structures. Designing concrete with high initial mechanical properties by searching a specific arrangement of vascular structure is of great importance. Herein, an automatic optimization...journal article 2024
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Liang, M. (author), Luzio, Giovanni Di (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Šavija, B. (author)This study presents comprehensive numerical modeling methods for simulating early-age stress (EAS) relaxation in cementitious materials, based on the autogenous deformation (AD), elastic modulus, creep, and stress continuously tested by a mini temperature stress testing machine (Mini-TSTM) and a mini AD testing machine from a very early age ...journal article 2024
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Liang, M. (author), Xie, J. (author), He, S. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Šavija, B. (author)Early-age cracking risk induced by autogenous deformation is high for cementitious materials of low water-binder ratios. The autogenous deformation, viscoelastic properties, and stress evolution are three important factors for understanding and quantifying the early-age cracking risk. This paper systematically reviewed the experimental and...review 2024
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Zhang, S. (author), Liang, Yaxin (author), Yang, Cai (author), Venema, Paul (author), Rietveld, L.C. (author), Heijman, Sebastiaan (author)A large decrease in permeability is often observed during the filtration of nano-sized colloids, while fouling is widely regarded as the main explanation for this phenomenon. The osmotic pressure or concentration polarization (CP) of colloids can also contribute to the flux decline. However, the contribution of CP to flux loss cannot be...journal article 2024
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Lei, Shunbo (author), Zhang, Yichen (author), Shahidehpour, Mohammad (author), Hou, Yunhe (author), Panteli, Mathaios (author), Chen, Xia (author), Aydin, N.Y. (author), Liang, Liang (author), Wang, Cheng (author), Wang, Chong (author), She, Buxin (author)The switch to renewable power generation is promoted aggressively by government policies, growing investments, consumer preferences, and many other factors. However, high renewable penetration can impose significant challenges to designing and employing measures that enhance power grid resilience. Resilience has been posed as a requirement of...contribution to periodical 2024
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Adwani, Dheeraj (author), Pipintakos, Georgios (author), Mirwald, Johannes (author), Wang, Yudi (author), Hajj, Ramez (author), Guo, Meng (author), Liang, Meichen (author), Jing, R. (author), Varveri, Aikaterini (author)Oxidative aging induces significant stiffening of asphalt binders that leads to a pronounced reduction in the overall durability of asphalt pavements. The strategic implementation of antioxidant additives provides a potential solution to alleviate this issue. This work presents results from the second phase of the global consortium for...journal article 2024
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Gan, Yidong (author), Liang, M. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), van Breugel, K. (author), Šavija, B. (author)This study employs a lattice fracture model to simulate static and fatigue fracture behaviour of Interfacial Transition Zone (ITZ) at microscale and mortar at mesoscale. The heterogeneous microstructure of ITZ and mesostructure of mortar are explicitly considered in the models. The initial step involves calibrating and validating the...journal article 2024
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Lu, T. (author), Wang, Ruizhi (author), Tang, Z. (author), Zou, Yiwei (author), Yue, X. (author), Liang, Yansong (author), Gong, Haoran (author), Liu, Shurui (author), Chen, Zhiyuan (author), Liu, Xun (author), Du, S. (author)This article presents a 10mV-startup-voltage thermoelectric energy harvesting system, assisted by a piezoelectric generator (PEG) as a cold starter. It exploits the fact that when a thermoelectric energy harvesting system is implemented in a place where kinetic energy is also present, the PEG starter can provide a clock signal to start the...journal article 2024
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Shi, Zhanchong (author), Liang, M. (author), Su, Qingtian (author), Kanstad, Terje (author), Ferrara, Liberato (author)Rebar-reinforced coarse aggregate ultra-high-performance concrete (R-CA-UHPC) has been used in the construction of new structures and strengthening of deteriorated aged infrastructures, and it inevitably sustains tension. To study the tensile behavior of R-CA-UHPC members, axial tensile tests for dog-bone-shaped specimens were designed and...journal article 2024
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Zhu, Qi (author), Guo, Huadong (author), Zhang, Lu (author), Liang, Dong (author), Wu, Zherong (author), de Roda Husman, S. (author), Du, Xiaobing (author)Surface melt plays a vital role in impacting the polar mass balance and global sea level rise. Over the past decades, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery has garnered considerable attention due to its capacity to provide high-precision and long-term information. However, the traditional SAR-based large-scale surface melt detection methods...journal article 2024
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Yu, Fuyang (author), Wang, Zhen (author), Li, Dongyuan (author), Zhu, P. (author), Liang, Xiaohui (author), Wang, Xiaochuan (author), Okumura, Manabu (author)Cross-modal retrieval, as an important emerging foundational information retrieval task, benefits from recent advances in multimodal technologies. However, current cross-modal retrieval methods mainly focus on the interaction between textual information and 2D images, lacking research on 3D data, especially point clouds at scene level,...conference paper 2024
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Zhou, Y. (author), Liang, M. (author), Yue, X. (author)Large errors can be introduced in traditional acoustic emission (AE) source localization methods using extracted signal features such as arrival time difference. This issue is obvious in the case of irregular structural geometries, complex composite structure types or presence of cracks in wave travel paths. In this study, based on a novel...journal article 2023
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Liang, M. (author), Liu, C. (author), Liang, X. (author), Chang, Z. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Šavija, B. (author)This paper investigates the influence of temperature on autogenous deformation and early-age stress (EAS) evolution in ordinary Portland cement paste using a recently developed Mini Temperature Stress Testing Machine (Mini-TSTM) and Mini Autogenous Deformation Testing Machine (Mini-ADTM). In the Mini-TSTM/ ADTM, CEM I 42.5 N paste with a...journal article 2023
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Hou, Yueqi (author), Liang, Xiaolong (author), Lv, Maolong (author), Yang, Q. (author), Li, Y. (author)Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) maneuver strategy learning remains a challenge when using Reinforcement Learning (RL) in this sparse reward task. In this paper, we propose Subtask-Masked curriculum learning for RL (SUBMAS-RL), an efficient RL paradigm that implements curriculum learning and knowledge transfer for UAV maneuver scenarios...journal article 2023
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Lattice modelling of early-age creep of 3D printed segments with the consideration of stress historyChang, Z. (author), Liang, M. (author), He, S. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Šavija, B. (author)We propose a new numerical method to analyze the early-age creep of 3D printed segments with the consideration of stress history. The integral creep strain evaluation formula is first expressed in a summation form using superposition principle. The experimentally derived creep compliance surface is then employed to calculate the creep strain...journal article 2023
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Chang, Z. (author), Liang, M. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Šavija, B. (author)Cementitious materials may exhibit significant creep at very early age. This is potentially important for concrete 3D printing, where the material is progressively loaded even before it sets. However, does creep actually affect the buildability of 3D printed concrete? Herein, the influence of early-age creep on the buildability of 3D printed...journal article 2023
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Zhu, Hangyu (author), Wang, R. (author), Jin, Yaochu (author), Liang, K. (author)Federated learning (FL) is an emerging privacy preserving machine learning protocol that allows multiple devices to collaboratively train a shared global model without revealing their private local data. Nonparametric models like gradient boosting decision trees (GBDTs) have been commonly used in FL for vertically partitioned data. However,...journal article 2023