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Qiu, Xiujiao (author), Chen, J. (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)Prediction of alkali silica reaction is still difficult due to the lack of a comprehensive understanding of its chemical fundamentals. In-site experimentally revealing the fundamentals is not realistic as ASR shows over several years or even decades and is affected by many factors. In this paper, by utilizing a 3D reactive-transport...journal article 2022
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Sun, Yubo (author), Chen, Boyu (author), Zhang, Shizhe (author), Blom, Kees (author), Luković, Mladena (author), Ye, Guang (author)In recent years, the rapid industrialization and urbanization led to the explosive growth of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) bottom ashes (BA) production. However, most of them are directly landfilled, which not only brings environmental burden but also results in loss of potential resources. Present researches have proved that MSWI BA...conference paper 2021
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Qiu, Xiujiao (author), Chen, Jiayi (author), Ye, Guang (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)ASR (alkali-silica reaction) is one of the toughest durability problems in engineering. However, the damage induced by ASR is still fairly unpredictable due to the lack of microstructural information of cement-based materials affected by ASR, while the microstructure determines the global performance. In order to fill this gap, a multiscale...conference paper 2021
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Chen, Yun (author), Dolado, Jorge S. (author), Yin, Suhong (author), Yu, Qijun (author), Kostiuchenko, Albina (author), Li, Zhenming (author), Ye, Guang (author)The understanding of sodium aluminosilicate hydrate (N-A-S-H) gel is still limited due to its complex and amorphous structure. Recently, molecular dynamics simulation has provided a unique opportunity to better understand the structure of N-A-S-H gel from nanoscale. In this work, the N-A-S-H gel structure was obtained by simulating the...conference paper 2021
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Qiu, Xiujiao (author), Chen, J. (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)ASR (alkali-silica reaction) is one of the toughest durability problems in engineering. However, the damage induced by ASR is still fairly unpredictable due to the lack of microstructural information of cement-based materials affected by ASR, while the microstructure determines the global performance. In order to fill this gap, a multiscale...conference paper 2021
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Chen, Y. (author), Dolado, Jorge S. (author), Yin, Suhong (author), Yu, Qijun (author), Kostiuchenko, A. (author), Li, Z. (author), Ye, G. (author)The understanding of sodium aluminosilicate hydrate (N-A-S-H) gel is still limited due to its complex and amorphous structure. Recently, molecular dynamics simulation has provided a unique opportunity to better understand the structure of N-A-S-H gel from nanoscale. In this work, the N-A-S-H gel structure was obtained by simulating the...conference paper 2021
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Sun, Yubo (author), Chen, B. (author), Zhang, Shizhe (author), Blom, Kees (author), Lukovic, M. (author), Ye, G. (author)In recent years, the rapid industrialization and urbanization led to the explosive growth of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) bottom ashes (BA) production. However, most of them are directly landfilled, which not only brings environmental burden but also results in loss of potential resources. Present researches have proved that MSWI BA...conference paper 2021
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Li, Z. (author), Beltran, Irving Alfredo Flores (author), Chen, Y. (author), Šavija, B. (author), Ye, G. (author)In this study, glass wool waste was utilized by means of alkali-activation with blast furnace slag. Reaction kinetics, workability, mechanical properties and autogenous shrinkage of alkali-activated slag and glass wool were comprehensively studied. Results indicated an optimal modulus (SiO<sub>2</sub>/Na<sub>2</sub>O) of the activator related...journal article 2021
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Li, Z. (author), Lu, T. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Wu, B. (author), Ye, G. (author)This study aims to predict the autogenous shrinkage of alkali-activated concrete (AAC) based on slag and fly ash. A variety of analytical and numerical models are available for the prediction of autogenous shrinkage of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) concrete, but these models are found to show dramatic discrepancies when applied for AAC due...journal article 2021
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Chen, Shiyang (author), van de Ven, F.H.M. (author), Zevenbergen, C. (author), Verbeeck, Simon (author), Ye, Qinghua (author), Zhang, Weijun (author), Wei, Liang (author)Integrating sustainable urban water management into the urban planning process is essential for developing water-resilient cities. To this end, the central government of the People’s Republic of China initiated the “Sponge City” programme. However, challenges and gaps exist in current urban planning practice. The operationalizable planning...journal article 2021
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Huang, Xinxing (author), Li, Yifan (author), Tian, Zhan (author), Ye, Qinghua (author), Ke, Q. (author), Fan, Dongli (author), Mao, Ganquan (author), Chen, Aifang (author), Liu, Junguo (author)Efficient and accurate streamflow predictions are important for urban water management. Data-driven models, especially neural network (NN) models can predict streamflow fast, while the results are uncertain in some complex river systems. Physically based models can reveal the underlying physics, but it is relatively slow and computationally...journal article 2021
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Qiu, Xiujiao (author), Chen, J. (author), Deprez, Maxim (author), Cnudde, Veerle (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)The microstructure of alkali-reactive aggregates, especially the spatial distribution of the pore and reactive silica phase, plays a significant role in the process of the alkali silica reaction (ASR) in concrete, as it determines not only the reaction front of ASR but also the localization of the produced expansive product from where the...journal article 2021
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Li, Z. (author), Liang, X. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Ye, G. (author)The high autogenous shrinkage of alkali-activated materials made from slag and fly ash is recognised as a major drawback with regard to the use as construction materials. In this study, metakaolin was introduced into the alkali-activated slag-fly ash (AASF) paste to mitigate the autogenous shrinkage. The shrinkage mitigation mechanism of...journal article 2021
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Chen, J. (author), Martin, Pablo (author), Xu, Z. (author), Manzano, Hegoi (author), Dolado, Jorge S. (author), Ye, G. (author)Portland cement is the most produced material in the world. The hydration process of cement consists of a group of complex chemical reactions. In order to investigate the mechanism of cement hydration, it is vital to study the hydration of each phase separately. An integrated model is proposed in this paper to simulate the dissolution of...journal article 2021
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Zou, Sheng (author), Xiao, Hanbin (author), Ye, Fangping (author), Li, Z. (author), Tang, Wenzhi (author), Zhu, Feng (author), Chen, Chentong (author), Zhu, Chao (author)The inevitably formed residual stress in the Selective Laser Melting (SLM) process leads to distortion, crack and even delamination of the workpiece. Single laser is commonly applied during SLM processing. However, its productivity is much lower than multiple lasers. In addition, the research of residual stress with multi-laser condition...journal article 2020
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Li, Z. (author), Yao, X. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Lu, T. (author), Ye, G. (author)Alkali-activated slag and fly ash (AASF) materials are emerging as promising alternatives to conventional Portland cement. Despite the superior mechanical properties of AASF materials, they are known to show large autogenous shrinkage, which hinders the wide application of these eco-friendly materials in infrastructure. To mitigate the...journal article 2020
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Han, Rui (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Li, Shilin (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author), Wang, Guoren (author), Tang, Jian (author), Ye, Jieping (author)The core of many large-scale machine learning (ML) applications, such as neural networks (NN), support vector machine (SVM), and convolutional neural network (CNN), is the training algorithm that iteratively updates model parameters by processing massive datasets. From a plethora of studies aiming at accelerating ML, being data...journal article 2019
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Chen, B. (author), Sun, Yubo (author), Jacquemin, Loic (author), Zhang, Shizhe (author), Blom, Kees (author), Lukovic, M. (author), Ye, G. (author)At present, most municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) bottom ash, as being disposed of as waste, is directly landfilled, raising concern about the environmental issue and potential loss of resources. Given that the natural raw materials used for cement production are being depleted, the recycling of MSWI bottom ash for the application as...conference paper 2019
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Li, Z. (author), Nedeljković, Marija (author), Chen, B. (author), Ye, G. (author)This study investigates the effectiveness of metakaolin (MK)in mitigating the autogenous shrinkage of alkali-activated slag (AAS). It is found that the autogenous shrinkage of AAS paste can be reduced by 40% and 50% when replacing 10% and 20% slag with MK, respectively. By providing additional Si and Al, and decreasing the pH of the pore...journal article 2019
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Li, Z. (author), Zhang, Shizhe (author), Zuo, Y. (author), Chen, Wei (author), Ye, G. (author)Chemical deformation (chemical shrinkage/expansion), the absolute volume change during reactions, is a key parameter influencing the volume stability, especially the autogenous deformation of a binder material. This work, for the first time, reports an in-depth investigation on the chemical deformation of metakaolin based geopolymer (MKG)....journal article 2019