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Chen, Jiaqi (author), Dan, Hancheng (author), Ding, Yongjie (author), Gao, Y. (author), Guo, Meng (author), Guo, Shuaicheng (author), Han, Bingye (author), Hong, Bin (author), Hou, Yue (author), Hu, Chichun (author), Hu, Jing (author), Huyan, Ju (author), Jiang, Jiwang (author), Jiang, Wei (author), Li, Cheng (author), Liu, Pengfei (author), Liu, Yu (author), Liu, Zhuangzhuang (author), Lu, Guoyang (author), Ouyang, Jian (author), Qu, Xin (author), Ren, Dongya (author), Wang, Chao (author), Wang, Chaohui (author), Wang, Dawei (author), Wang, Di (author), Wang, Hainian (author), Wang, Haopeng (author), Xiao, Yue (author), Xing, Chao (author), Xu, Huining (author), Yan, Yu (author), Yang, Xu (author), You, Lingyun (author), You, Zhanping (author), Yu, Bin (author), Yu, Huayang (author), Yu, Huanan (author), Zhang, Henglong (author), Zhang, Jizhe (author), Zhou, Changhong (author), Zhou, Changjun (author), Zhu, Xingyi (author)Sustainable and resilient pavement infrastructure is critical for current economic and environmental challenges. In the past 10 years, the pavement infrastructure strongly supports the rapid development of the global social economy. New theories, new methods, new technologies and new materials related to pavement engineering are emerging....review 2021
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Burdyny, T.E. (author), Sassenburg, M. (author), de Rooij, R. (author), Nessbit, Nathan (author), Kas, R. (author), Chandrashekar, S. (author), Firet, N.J. (author), Yang, K. (author), Liu, K. (author), Blommaert, M.A. (author), Kolen, M. (author), Ripepi, D. (author), Smith, W.A. (author)Continued advancements in the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 (CO 2RR) have emphasized that reactivity,selectivity, and stability are not explicit material properties butcombined effects of the catalyst, double-layer, reaction environ-<br/>ment, and system configuration. These realizations have steadily built upon the foundational work...journal article 2022
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Yang, Yapin (author), Sun, Ying (author), Chen, Mingsi (author), Zhou, Yuekuan (author), Wang, Ran (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author)Fire at a construction site usually results in serious accidents. Therefore, fire management at the construction site is critical to decreasing possible accidents. However, conventional fire safety management can be problematic in many aspects, such as visualization, multi-stage alarm systems, and dynamic escape route optimization. To solve...journal article 2022
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Yang, Zhe (author), Liu, Zhou (author), Zhang, Qi (author), Chen, Zhe (author), de Jesus Chavez, Jose (author), Popov, M. (author)The traditional fault control strategy of converter-interfaced renewable energy sources (CIRESs) may bring about a lower sensitivity level or misoperation of fault component-based directional elements. To overcome this problem, a new control scheme is proposed to adjust sequence impedance angles of CIRESs by computing suitable current...journal article 2023
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Zhong, Junping (author), Liu, Zhigang (author), Wang, H. (author), Liu, Wenqiang (author), Yang, Cheng (author), Han, Zhiwei (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author)Brace sleeve (BS) fasteners, i.e., nut and bolt, are small components but play essential roles in fixing BS and cantilever in railway catenary system. They are commonly inspected by onboard cameras using computer vision to ensure the safety of railway operation. However, most BS fasteners cannot be directly localized because they are too...journal article 2021
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Geng, S. (author), Yang, M. (author), Mitici, Mihaela (author), Liu, Sifeng (author)System resilience characterizes the capability of maintaining the required functionality under disruptions, which is of great significance in evaluating the productivity and safety of complex engineered systems. Although most studies conduct resilience assessment from qualitative and quantitative perspectives, system functionality that reflects...journal article 2023
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Guo, Z. (author), Qiu, Jingping (author), Kirichek, Alex (author), Zhou, Hao (author), Liu, C. (author), Yang, Lei (author)The increasing amount of solid waste, e.g., waste tyres from car industry and tailings from mine operations, causes substantial environmental and societal issues. The recycled tyre polymer fibre (RTPF) reinforced cemented tailings backfill (CTB) is a kind of composite that can treat waste tyres and tailings simultaneously and realize green...journal article 2023
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Lai, F. (author), Zhang, Ningning (author), Liu, Songyu (author), Yang, Dayu (author)Active earth pressure on retaining structures supporting a narrow column of soil cannot be properly analysed using Coulomb's theory. Finite element limit analysis (FELA) shows that the soil form multiple failure surfaces if the soil column is sufficiently narrow. This paper proposes a framework for active earth pressure estimation for narrow...journal article 2022
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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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Yang, F. (author), Veljkovic, M. (author), Liu, Yuqing (author)Numerical analyses incorporating appropriate damage models provide an opportunity to predict the strength and deformation capacity of steel structures. This paper presents a practical calibration for the ductile damage model of S355 and high-strength steel S690Q, S700MC, S960Q based on tensile coupon test results. A combined linear and power...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Yuquan W. (author), Geng, Yong (author), Zhang, Bin (author), Yang, Shaohua (author), Izikowitz, David V. (author), Yin, Haitao (author), Wu, F. (author), Yu, Haishan (author), Liu, Huiwen (author), Zhou, Weiduo (author)Very few developed economies have a full free trade agreement (FTA) with China. This study employs one GTAP model and builds an extended environmental multi-region input–output model to investigate a hypothetical China-UK FTA, concerning embodied industrial emissions of SO2, PM2.5, NOX, and NH3. The economic sectors are also classified based on...journal article 2022
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Liu, Gang (author), Du, Zhao (author), Xiao, Tian (author), Guo, Junfei (author), Lu, Liu (author), Yang, Xiaohu (author), Hooman, K. (author)Solar energy, as a kind of renewable energy, offers a large reserve to be harvested at a reasonably low cost for engineering applications. To decouple the temporal and spatial relevance of the continuous energy supply of solar energy, latent heat thermal energy storage can deal with this problem at different temperatures. Aiming to improve...journal article 2022
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Yang, Dayu (author), Lai, F. (author), Liu, Songyu (author)There is currently a lack of an available design approach to estimate the earth pressure in narrow backfills behind retaining walls rotated about the top (RT). The considerations of some significant factors, primarily load transfer mechanisms (soil arching effect and horizontal shear stress in soils), failure mechanisms (shape and number of...journal article 2022
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Tan, C. (author), Wang, S. (author), Yang, Huiru (author), Huang, Qianming (author), Li, Shizhen (author), Liu, X. (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Short-wave ultraviolet (also called UVC) irradiation is a well-adopted method of viral inactivation due to its ability to damage genetic material. A fundamental problem with the UVC inactivation method is that its mechanism of action on viruses is still unknown at the molecular level. To address this problem, herein we investigate the...journal article 2023
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Xin, Haohui (author), Liu, Jielin (author), Correia, Jose A.F. (author), Berto, Filippo (author), Veljkovic, M. (author), Yang, Fei (author)Strengthening fatigue damage of orthotropic steel decks (OSDs) needs to comprehensively consider the strengthening effect and the dead weight introduced during the strengthening process, especially for OSDs in super large-span bridges or old renovated bridges, where the dead weight cannot be significantly increased during repair and...journal article 2023