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Fan, Guangpeng (author), Nan, L. (author), Dong, Yanqi (author), Su, Xiaohui (author), Chen, Feixiang (author)Forest above-ground biomass (AGB) can be estimated based on light detection and ranging (LiDAR) point clouds. This paper introduces an accurate and detailed quantitative structure model (AdQSM), which can estimate the AGB of large tropical trees. AdQSM is based on the reconstruction of 3D tree models from terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point...journal article 2020
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Li, Yuhong (author), Su, Xiang (author), Ding, Aaron Yi (author), Lindgren, Anders (author), Liu, Xiaoli (author), Prehofer, Christian (author), Riekki, Jukka (author), Rahmani, Rahim (author), Tarkoma, Sasu (author), Hui, Pan (author)The Internet of Things (IoT) connects smart devices to enable various intelligent services. The deployment of IoT encounters several challenges, such as difficulties in controlling and managing IoT applications and networks, problems in programming existing IoT devices, long service provisioning time, underused resources, as well as...review 2020
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Muis, Sanne (author), Apecechea, Maialen Irazoqui (author), Dullaart, Job (author), de Lima Rego, Joao (author), Madsen, Kristine Skovgaard (author), Su, Jian (author), Yan, Kun (author), Verlaan, M. (author)The world’s coastal areas are increasingly at risk of coastal flooding due to sea-level rise (SLR). We present a novel global dataset of extreme sea levels, the Coastal Dataset for the Evaluation of Climate Impact (CoDEC), which can be used to accurately map the impact of climate change on coastal regions around the world. The third...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Qian (author), Su, Min (author), Yao, Peng (author), Chen, Yongping (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author)Tidal currents belong to the main driving forces shaping the bathymetry of marginal seas. A globally unique radial sand ridge field exists in the South Yellow Sea off the central Jiangsu coast, China. Its formation is related to the distinctive “radial tidal current” pattern at that location. A generally accepted hypothesis is that the ...journal article 2020
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Guo, Wenqi (author), Su, Jing (author), Lu, Wenjun (author), Liebscher, Christian H. (author), Kirchlechner, Christoph (author), Ikeda, Yuji (author), Körmann, F.H.W. (author), Liu, Xuan (author), Xue, Yunfei (author), Dehm, Gerhard (author)In conventional metallic materials, strength and ductility are mutually exclusive, referred to as strength-ductility trade-off. Here, we demonstrate an approach to improve the strength and ductility simultaneously by introducing micro-banding and the accumulation of a high density of dislocations in single-phase high-entropy alloys (HEAs). We...journal article 2020
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Yang, Yu (author), Ji, Tao (author), Yang, Zhengxian (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Su, Wenyue (author), Wu, Ronghan (author), Wu, Zehao (author)Durability of photocatalytic coatings is a major concern in engineering practice. Here, two types of novel visible light-responsive coatings, both consisting of vinyl chloride/vinyl ester/ethylene copolymer (as a binder) and graphitic carbon nitride (g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub>) but different in fabrication, are proposed and applied on the...journal article 2020
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Su, Libo (author), Wei, Yanling (author), Michiels, Wim (author), Steur, E. (author), Nijmeijer, H. (author)Networks of coupled systems may exhibit a form of incomplete synchronization called partial synchronization or cluster synchronization, which refers to the situation where only some, but not all, systems exhibit synchronous behavior. Moreover, due to perturbations or uncertainties in the network, exact partial synchronization in the sense...journal article 2020
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Zhou, Rongfu (author), Ma, Fengkai (author), Su, Fang (author), Ou, Yiyi (author), Qi, Zeming (author), Zhang, Jianhui (author), Huang, Yan (author), Dorenbos, P. (author), Liang, Hongbin (author)RbBaPO4:Eu2+ phosphors have been prepared by a high-temperature solid-state reaction method, and the structure was determined by Rietveld refinement based on powder X-ray diffraction (P-XRD) data. Their VUV-UV-vis photoluminescence properties are systematically investigated with three objectives: (1) based on low-temperature spectra, we...journal article 2020
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Su, Z. (author), Jamshidi, A. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Baldi, S. (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)We develop a multi-level decision making approach for optimal condition-based maintenance planning of a railway network divided into a large number of sections with independent stochastic deterioration dynamics. At higher level, a chance-constrained Model Predictive Control (MPC) controller determines the long-term section-wise maintenance...journal article 2019
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Guo, Leicheng (author), Su, Ni (author), Townend, Ian (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), Zhu, C. (author), Wang, Xianye (author), Zhang, Yuning (author), He, Qing (author)Many large rivers in the world delivers decreasing sediment loads to coastal oceans owing to reductions in sediment yield and disrupted sediment deliver. Understanding the sediment load regime is a prerequisite of sediment management and fluvial and deltaic ecosystem restoration. This work examines sediment load changes across the Changjiang...review 2019
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Zhang, Weizhao (author), Bostanabad, Ramin (author), Liang, Biao (author), Su, Xuming (author), Zeng, Danielle (author), Bessa, M.A. (author), Wang, Yanchao (author), Chen, Wei (author), Cao, Jian (author)Carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRPs) are attracting growing attention in industry because of their enhanced properties. Preforming of thermoset carbon fiber prepregs is one of the most common production techniques of CFRPs. To simulate preforming, several computational methods have been developed. Most of these methods, however, obtain...journal article 2019
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Su, Z. (author), Jamshidi, A. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Baldi, S. (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)We develop a Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach for condition-based maintenance planning under uncertainty for railway infrastructure systems composed of multiple components. Piecewise-affine models with uncertain parameters are used to capture both the nonlinearity and uncertainties in the deterioration process. To keep a balance...book chapter 2019
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Chen, Hui (author), Ni, Yan (author), Li, Yulong (author), Liu, Feng (author), Ou, Suying (author), Su, Min (author), Peng, Yisheng (author), Hu, Zhan (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author), Suzuki, T. (author)Coastal vegetation is efficient in damping incident waves even in storm events, thus providing valuable protections to coastal communities. However, large uncertainties lie in determining vegetation drag coefficients (C<sub>D</sub>), which are directly related to the wave damping capacity of a certain vegetated area. One major uncertainty is...journal article 2018
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Su, Z. (author)Maintenance is crucial for the proper functioning and lifetime extension of a railway infrastructure network, which is composed of various infrastructures with different functions. In this thesis we develop robust and tractable model-based approaches for maintenance optimization of railway infrastructure networks. In addition, we develop a...doctoral thesis 2018
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Shao, W. (author), Coenders-Gerrits, Miriam (author), Judge, Jasmeet (author), Zeng, Yijian (author), Su, Ye (author)The process of evaporation interacts with the soil, which has various comprehensive mechanisms. Multiphase flow models solve air, vapour, water, and heat transport equations to simulate non-isothermal soil moisture transport of both liquid water and vapor flow, but are only applied in non-vegetated soils. For (sparsely) vegetated soils often...journal article 2018
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Yao, P. (author), Su, M. (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), van Rijn, L.C. (author), Zhang, Changkuan (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author)In the present study a new multi-fractional, depth-averaged sediment transport module was developed and embedded into a morphodynamic model for a sand-silt mixed shallow water environment. Subsequently, the model was applied to the case of the Jiangsu coast, which features a silt enriched sedimentary environment bordered by two large-scale...journal article 2018
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Guo, Leicheng (author), Su, Ni (author), Zhu, C. (author), He, Qing (author)Streamflow and sediment loads undergo remarkable changes in worldwide rivers in response to climatic changes and human interferences. Understanding their variability and the causes is of vital importance regarding river management. With respect to the Changjiang River (CJR), one of the largest river systems on earth, we provide a...journal article 2018
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Jamshidi, A. (author), Hajizadeh, S. (author), Su, Z. (author), Naeimi, M. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Dollevoet, R.P.B.J. (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Li, Z. (author)In this paper, a decision support approach is proposed for condition-based maintenance of rails relying on expert-based systems. The methodology takes into account both the actual conditions of the rails (using axle box acceleration measurements and rail video images) and the prior knowledge of the railway track. The approach provides an...journal article 2018
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Faris, Muhammad (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Su, Z. (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)In this paper, distributed optimization approaches are developed for the planning of maintenance operations of large-scale railway infrastructure formulated as a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problem. The proposed planning problem is solved using three different distributed optimization schemes: Parallel Augmented Lagrangian...conference paper 2018
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Xu, S. (author), García, Alvaro (author), Su, Junfeng (author), Liu, Q. (author), Tabakovic, A. (author), Schlangen, E. (author)In recent decades, researchers have revealed the great healing potential of asphalt and proposed various novel methods to inspire and improve the self-healing capacity of asphalt aimed to prolong the service life of asphalt pavement. In this review, up to date research progresses in induction healing and embedded rejuvenator encapsulation are...review 2018