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Wang, Sheng (author), Huang, Weidong (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author)Asphalt pavements are prone to aging in construction and during service, which can affect the properties of the asphalt. The aging behaviors of high content crumb rubber modified asphalt (HCRMA) were investigated in this paper. The binders were aged in the laboratory and the performances before and after aging were tested using the attenuated...journal article 2022
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Tang, Ruifan (author), De Donato, Lorenzo (author), Bešinović, Nikola (author), Flammini, Francesco (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author), Lin, Zhiyuan (author), Liu, Ronghui (author), Tang, Tianli (author), Vittorini, Valeria (author), Wang, Z. (author)Nowadays it is widely accepted that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is significantly influencing a large number of domains, including railways. In this paper, we present a systematic literature review of the current state-of-the-art of AI in railway transport. In particular, we analysed and discussed papers from a holistic railway perspective,...review 2022
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Li, Mingliang (author), Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Wu, Zhe (author), Zhang, Haopeng (author), Fan, Weiyu (author), Lin, P. (author), Xu, Jian (author)This study aims to comprehensively investigate the rejuvenation efficiency of various self-developed compound rejuvenators on the physical, mechanical, and aging properties of aged bitumen, asphalt mortar, and mixture. The results revealed that the restoration capacity of vacuum distilled-oil rejuvenators on high-and-low temperature performance...journal article 2022
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Gao, Y. (author), Erkens, S. (author)The compatibility potential of rejuvenators plays an important role in improving the blending degree of rejuvenated bitumen. This study aims at estimating the efficiency of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation in predicting the compatibility between rejuvenators and aged bitumen, and exploring the influence of rejuvenator type, aging degree of...journal article 2022
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author)This study investigated the effects of swelling-degradation degree on the rheological properties and thermal pyrolysis behaviors of crumb rubber modified bitumen (CRMB). The equilibrium viscosity of CRMB in 160 ◦Cswelling process is 10.5 Pa·s at 8 h. During the 200℃-degradation procedure, the viscosity increased to a maximum value of 20.58 Pa·s...journal article 2022
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Lin, P. (author), Gao, Y. (author)The molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method is proved as an efficient tool to explore the intermolecular interaction between rejuvenators and aged bitumen, but the simple “singlemolecule” model of rejuvenator would bring the inaccuracy to simulation outputs due to a huge difference with its realistic multi-component chrematistic. This study...journal article 2022
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Gao, Y. (author)Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is an advanced tool to explore the interaction mechanism between aged bitumen and rejuvenators at the nanoscale. However, the general MD molecular structures of rejuvenators led to the lower quantify and inaccuracy of the simulation outputs. This study aims at developing more realistic molecular models to...journal article 2022
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Niu, D. (author), Zhang, Zhao (author), Meng, Jiandang (author), Yang, Zhengxian (author), Jing, R. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Sheng, Yanping (author)The proper disposal of steel slag has always been a great challenge for the metallurgical industry in China and around the world. In this work, the steel slag aggregate (SSA) was surface pretreated (PSSA) and applied into asphalt mixture. The adhesive behavior between the bitumen and five different types of aggregates (i.e., limestone, diorite,...journal article 2022
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Chen, Z. (author), Lin, Zhongwei (author), Zhai, Xiaoya (author), Liu, Jizhen (author)A challenging topic arising in dynamic wind turbine wake is modeling, especially the low-order approximation. The central problem is the fact that it has high-dimensional and nonlinear wake characteristics. In this paper, a Koopman-linear flow estimator is designed according to the Koopman operator theory. Different from the conventional flow...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Y. (author), Liu, X. (author), Ren, S. (author), Jing, R. (author), Lin, P. (author), Apostolidis, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Wang, Xuancang (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author)Lignin, one of the most abundant natural polymers, has been extensively studied as an additive in bituminous binders. Even though the lignin improves the overall resistance against oxidative aging of bitumen, it could lead to high thermal cracking sensitivity. In this study, a bio-oil (i.e., rapeseed oil) is implemented in lignin-modified...journal article 2022
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Jing, R. (author), Erkens, S. (author)This study aimed to explore the long-term aging influence on chemo rheological properties and develop novel consecutive models for the long-term aging reaction kinetics of bitumen. The results revealed that the aging index was significantly dependent on the types of selected parameters. The Zero-order model was suitable to describe the long-term...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Zhao (author), Liu, Kai (author), Chong, Dan (author), Niu, D. (author), Lin, P. (author), Liu, X. (author), Niu, Yanhui (author), Jing, R. (author)To purify severe air pollution in traffic-intensive urban areas and tunnels, an innovative type of photocatalytic micro-surfacing mixture (PMM) was designed, which was enhanced by polypropylene (PP) fiber and nano-TiO<sub>2</sub>. In this work, the road performance of sixteen PMMs with the different contents of PP and nano-TiO<sub>2</sub>...journal article 2022
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Wang, Sheng (author), Huang, Weidong (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Ren, S. (author), Li, Yi (author)High content rubber modified bitumen (HCRMB) prepared from the high content of waste tire rubber and bitumen has good performance while allowing greater use of the waste tires. However, HCRMB is subject to aging during use, which can affect its performance. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effect of high content of waste tire...journal article 2022
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Li, Z. (author), Lin, Yunlong (author), Cheng, Gong (author), Wang, X. (author), Liu, Qi (author), Gong, Jianwei (author), Lu, Chao (author)Precisely modeling interactions and accurately predicting trajectories of surrounding vehicles are essential to the decision-making and path-planning of intelligent vehicles. This paper proposes a novel framework based on ensemble learning to improve the performance of trajectory predictions in interactive scenarios. The framework is termed...conference paper 2022
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Wang, S. (author), Huang, Weidong (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author)The chemical and rheological properties of terminal blend hybrid asphalt (TBHA) contributing to the consumption of waste tires before and after aging were studied. Styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) polymer, sulphur, crumb rubber (CR), and neat asphalt were chosen to prepare the TBHA. The short-term aging (STA) and long-term aging (LTA) of TBHA...journal article 2022
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Xu, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Tabakovic, A. (author), Lin, P. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Nahar, S. (author), Lommerts, B. J. (author), Schlangen, E. (author)Rejuvenator encapsulation technique showed great potential for extrinsic asphalt pavement damage healing. Once the capsules are embedded within asphalt pavement, the healing is activated on-demand via progressing microcrack. When the microcrack encounters the capsule, the fracture energy at the tip opens the capsule and releases the...journal article 2021
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Wang, H. (author), Fan, W. (author), Erkens, S. (author)The chemo-rheological properties of crumb rubber modified bitumen are always unstable due to the mutable and uncontrollable swelling-degradation degree of crumb rubber in bitumen matrix. The study aimed at exploring the continuous swelling and degradation behaviors of crumb rubber modified bitumen (CRMB) considering the influence of rubber size...journal article 2021
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author)This study elaborates the influence of blends formulated by waste oil (WO) and styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) on thermo-mechanical and chemical compositional characteristics of rejuvenated bitumen. The results show that both WEO (waste engine oil) and WCO (waste cooking oil) can compensate viscous component for reclaimed bitumen, and the effect...conference paper 2021
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Li, Chenchen (author), Yang, Fan (author), Liu, Pengfei (author), Fu, Chaoliang (author), Liu, Quan (author), Zhao, Hongduo (author), Lin, P. (author)To improve the energy harvesting efficiency of the piezoelectric device, a stack units-based structure was developed and verified. Factors such as stress distribution, load resistance, loads, and loading times influencing the piezoelectric properties were investigated using theoretical analysis and experimental tests. The results show that the...journal article 2021
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Liu, M. (author), Wang, C. (author), Zhao, C. (author), van der Maas, E.L. (author), Lin, Kui (author), Arszelewska, Violetta (author), Li, Baohua (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)A key challenge for solid-state-batteries development is to design electrode-electrolyte interfaces that combine (electro)chemical and mechanical stability with facile Li-ion transport. However, while the solid-electrolyte/electrode interfacial area should be maximized to facilitate the transport of high electrical currents on the one hand,...journal article 2021