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- Luo, Bixiong (author), Zhang, Li (author), Peng, Kaijun (author), Ren, Zongdong (author), Li, Xiaoyu (author), Sun, Yanqian (author), Cai, Yanfeng (author), Tu, Jin (author) conference paper 2024
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Feng, Lichao (author), Yi, Shengjie (author), Zhao, Shuyuan (author), Zhong, Qiucheng (author), Ren, Feirong (author), Liu, C. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Wang, Wenshou (author), Li, Zhenming (author)Recycling aluminosilicate-based solid wastes is imperative to realize the sustainable development of constructions. By using alkali activation technology, aluminosilicate-based solid wastes, such as furnace slag, fly ash, red mud, and most of the bio-ashes, can be turned into alternative binder materials to Portland cement to reduce the carbon...review 2024
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Wang, Ranran (author), Zhang, Jun (author), Lu, Yijun (author), Ren, S. (author), Huang, Jiandong (author)The design of geopolymer concrete must meet more stringent requirements for the landscape, so understanding and designing geopolymer concrete with a higher compressive strength challenging. In the performance prediction of geopolymer concrete compressive strength, machine learning models have the advantage of being more accurate and faster....journal article 2024
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Gao, Y. (author), Liu, X. (author), Ren, S. (author), Assaf Martinez-Streignard, E.I. (author), Liu, Pengfei (author), Zhang, Yuqing (author)Bitumen fatigue resistance is critical to determine the overall fatigue performance and service life of asphalt pavements. However, the mechanisms responsible for fatigue damage of bitumen have previously not been well understood. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has recently emerged as a powerful computer-aided numerical technique to model...journal article 2024
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Zhang, F. (author), Miao, Xuefei (author), van Dijk, N.H. (author), Brück, E.H. (author), Ren, Yang (author)Solid-state caloric effects as intrinsic thermal responses to different physical external stimuli (magnetic-, uniaxial stress-, pressure-, and electric-fields) can achieve a higher energy efficiency compared with traditional gas compression techniques. Among these effects, magnetocaloric energy conversion is regarded as the best available...review 2024
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Yao, Mingchen (author), Zhang, Yue (author), Dai, Zihan (author), Ren, Anran (author), Fang, Jiaxing (author), Li, Xiaoming (author), van der Meer, Walter (author), Medema, G.J. (author), Rose, Joan B. (author), Liu, Gang (author)Premise plumbing plays an essential role in determining the final quality of drinking water consumed by customers. However, little is known about the influences of plumbing configuration on water quality changes. This study selected parallel premise plumbing in the same building with different configurations, i.e., laboratory and toilet...journal article 2023
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Ren, Shaoting (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zhang, Jing (author)Glacier surface albedo dominates glacier energy balance, thus strongly affecting the glacier mass balance. Glaciers in the Western Nyainqentanglha Mountains (WNM) experienced large mass losses in the past two decades, but long-term changes of glacier albedo and its drivers are less understood. In this study, we retrieved glacier albedo with...journal article 2023
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Gao, Y. (author), Liu, X. (author), Ren, S. (author), Li, Yuanyuan (author), Zhang, Yuqing (author)Surface energy is a key material property and can work as a crucial parameter in various mechanical models to predict the moisture sensitivity and fatigue damage of asphalt mixtures. The calculated surface energy values of the aggregate minerals strongly depend on their surface roughness. Therefore, it is very relevant for accurate...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Yi (author), Si, Chundi (author), Fan, Taotao (author), Zhu, Yuefeng (author), Li, Song (author), Ren, S. (author), Lin, P. (author)With the increasing awareness of environmental protection and attention to resource reuse, the development of high-performance and degradable green biomass pavement materials attracts a lot of interest. Lignin and bio-oil effectively combined to play a synergistic role can improve various properties of asphalt and partially replace petroleum...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Haopeng (author), Ren, S. (author), Qiu, Yanjun (author)The ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) polymers are always doped into waxy bitumen to inhibit network of wax crystals in bitumen. However, the compatibility improvement behaviors between wax-based warm mix (WWM) additives and bitumen by EVA are not clear, and the sustainable components of EVA for corresponding WWM additives to achieve better...journal article 2023
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Wang, Jinke (author), Tan, Weimin (author), Yang, Hao (author), Rao, Xingxing (author), Luo, Xinliang (author), Ma, Lingwei (author), Ren, Chenhao (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Zhang, Dawei (author)In this work, an active protective epoxy coating with weathering resistant, corrosion-warning, and self-healing properties was developed by incorporating tannic acid (TA) loaded mesoporous silica (MSN-TA) nanocontainers. The introduction of MSN-TA nanocontainers could alleviate the coating degradation via scavenging the radicals generated...journal article 2023
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Ren, Jie (author), Zhang, Lihai (author), Zhu, Yingcan (author), Li, Z. (author), San Nicolas, Rackel (author)This study compares the degradation behavior of the alkali-activated slag/fly ash (AASF) and ordinary Portland cement (OPC) mortars exposed to phosphoric acid with different pH values. The experimental results show that AASF mortars exhibit better resistance than OPC mortars against surface damage, although both systems get white deposits on the...journal article 2022
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Lin, Yan (author), Qian, Chengduo (author), Shi, Jingtao (author), Zhang, Yuzhen (author), Ren, S. (author), Nan, Guozhi (author), Kong, Xiangjun (author), Fan, Weiyu (author)Compared with traditional asphalt, emulsified asphalt occurs to be a better low-temperature usability and environmental adaptability, which can reduce environmental pollution and energy consuming during road construction. The low-temperature ductility is a very important indicator to evaluate the environmental adaptability of emulsified asphalt....journal article 2022
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Ji, Y. (author), Li, Ni (author), Cheng, Zhanming (author), Fu, Xiaoqian (author), Sun, Xiaoguang (author), Chowwanonthapunya, Thee (author), Zhang, Dawei (author), Ren, Jingli (author), Dey, P. (author), Dong, Chaofang (author)Corrosion jeopardizes the materials longevity and engineering safety, hence the corrosion rate needs to be forecasted so as to better guide materials selection. Although field exposure experiments are dependable, the prohibitive cost and their time-consuming nature make it difficult to obtain large dataset for machine learning. Here, we...journal article 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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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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Wang, Ye (author), Ren, Genkuan (author), Jiang, Bing (author), Yang, Lin (author), Zhang, Zhiye (author), Wang, Xinlong (author), Zhong, Yanjun (author), Chen, Z. (author), Yang, Xiushan (author), Morita, Kazuki (author), Ma, Wenhui (author)Nanometer-sized hematite was prepared via a two-step process. In the first step, FeSO<sub>4</sub>·7H<sub>2</sub>O was oxidized to Fe<sub>2</sub>(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub> by oxygen in an acidic solution. In the second step, the Fe<sub>2</sub>(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub> was reduced to nanosize hematite with sulfur vapor at 550 °C. The...journal article 2022
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Ren, Jie (author), Sun, Hongfang (author), Li, Qun (author), Li, Z. (author), Zhang, Xiaogang (author), Wang, Yanshuai (author), Li, Linfei (author), Xing, Feng (author)In this research, the effects of natural seawater (SW) on the properties of alkali-activated slag/fly ash (AASF) are studied. AASF prepared with deionized water is set as the reference mixture. The results showed that the use of natural SW resulted in a prolonged setting time and lower heat release, but no obvious impact on the flowability of...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Jing (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Ren, Shaoting (author)Glacier and snow are sensitive indicators of regional climate variability. In the early 21st century, glaciers in the West Kunlun and Pamir regions showed stable or even slightly positive mass budgets, and this is anomalous in a worldwide context of glacier recession. We studied the evolution of snow cover to understand whether it could...journal article 2021
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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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