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Towards a Reliable Design of Geopolymer Concrete for Green Landscapes: A Comparative Study of Tree-Based and Regression-Based Models

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....

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Condition assessment of underground corroded pipelines subject to hydrogen damage and combined internal pressure and axial compression

Qin, Guojin (author), Zhang, Zhenwei (author), Hou, Xiangqin (author), Lu, Hongfang (author), Huang, Y. (author), Wang, Yihuan (author)

In this work, a 3D finite element (FE) based model was developed to assess the condition of an underground hydrogen transmission pipeline containing a corrosion defect under combined internal pressure and soil movement-induced axial compression. The use of mechanical properties of X100 pipeline steel under different hydrogen charging time...

journal article 2023

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Investigation on the technical performance and workability of hot-melting road marking materials using for the high-altitude area

Lu, Jing (author), Zhang, Min (author), Feng, Jianlin (author), Gao, Y. (author), Yang, Ye (author), Li, Yuanyuan (author), Li, Linglin (author)

The special environment conditions in high altitude areas leads to serious cracking and peeling of road hot-melt marking coatings. In order to improve the durability of marking paint, a durable hot-melt marking paint was designed by modifying the paint with toughening-agent, rheological agent, and anti-aging agent. The modification mechanism...

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Polyacrylamide-Poly(vinyl alcohol)-Sodium Alginate-Reduced Graphene Oxide/Nylon Fabrics with Multistimuli Responses

Chen, Yuanyuan (author), Dai, Hanqing (author), Yan, Yukun (author), Piao, Zhiyan (author), Lu, Hanxu (author), Hu, Zhe (author), Wei, Wei (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Zhang, Wanlu (author), Guo, Ruiqian (author)

In recent years, various functional fabrics capable of responding to multistimuli have been widely recognized as promising wearable devices. However, the obtained composite functional fabrics have only been applied in a few scenarios, rendering the achievement of multifunctional wearable application scenarios a difficult goal. Therefore,...

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Chloride penetration resistance of engineered cementitious composite (ECC) subjected to sustained flexural loading

Wang, Chuan (author), Sun, Renjuan (author), Hu, Xinlei (author), Guan, Yanhua (author), Yang, Yingzi (author), Lu, Wei (author), Tian, Jun (author), Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Ge, Zhi (author), Šavija, B. (author)

This paper presents a research on the chloride penetration behavior of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) under sustained flexural loads. Three load levels, i.e. 30 %, 60 % and 75 % of the ultimate flexural load were used. Chloride diffusion depth and concentration profile were measured 30, 60 and 150 days after the specimen was exposed...

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Spatial–temporal short-term traffic flow prediction model based on dynamical-learning graph convolution mechanism

Chen, Zhijun (author), Lu, Zhe (author), Chen, Qiushi (author), Zhong, Hongliang (author), Zhang, Yishi (author), Xue, J. (author), Wu, Chaozhong (author)

Short-term traffic flow prediction is a core branch of intelligent traffic systems (ITS) and plays an important role in traffic management. The graph convolution network (GCN) is widely used in traffic prediction models to efficiently handle the graphical structural data of road networks. However, the influence weights among different road...

journal article 2022

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Carriage interior noise-based inspection for rail corrugation on high-speed railway track

Wei, Zilong (author), Sun, Xianfu (author), Yang, Fei (author), Ke, Zaitian (author), Lu, Tao (author), Zhang, P. (author), Shen, C. (author)

The presence of rail corrugation enlarges the wheel-rail impact and exacerbates the failure of track components, and the situation becomes even worse under high train speed, which promotes the urgent need for an efficient and easily accessible inspection method. Conventional diagnosis approaches such as axle box acceleration (ABA) and image...

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Interactions between Diffuse Light and Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Canopy Structure, Simulations of Light Interception in Virtual Canopies

Zhang, Yingyu (author), Yang, Juan (author), van Haaften, M.A. (author), Li, Linyi (author), Lu, Shenglian (author), Wen, Weiliang (author), Zheng, Xiuguo (author), Pan, Jian (author), Qian, Tingting (author)

Plant photosynthesis and biomass production are associated with the amount of intercepted light, especially the light distribution inside the canopy. Three virtual canopies (n = 80, 3.25 plants/m2) were constructed based on average leaf size of the digitized plant structures: ‘small leaf’ (98.1 cm2), ‘medium leaf’ (163.0 cm2) and ‘big leaf’ (241...

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Effect of crack width and wet-dry cycles on the chloride penetration resistance of engineered cementitious composite (ECC)

Sun, Renjuan (author), Lu, Wei (author), Tawfek, Abdullah M. (author), Guan, Yanhua (author), Hu, Xinlei (author), Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Ling, Yifeng (author), Šavija, B. (author)

The resistance of cracked ECC against chloride ingress is mainly governed by the accumulated crack width of all the cracks rather than the maximum width of multiple cracks. However, most studies focus on the influence of a single fine crack

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Wireless, implantable catheter-type oximeter designed for cardiac oxygen saturation

Lu, Wei (author), Bai, Wubin (author), Zhang, Hao (author), Xu, Chenkai (author), Chiarelli, Antonio M. (author), Vázquez-Guardado, Abraham (author), Xie, Zhaoqian (author), Shen, Haixu (author), Rwei, A.Y. (author)

Accurate, real-time monitoring of intravascular oxygen levels is important in tracking the cardiopulmonary health of patients after cardiothoracic surgery. Existing technologies use intravascular placement of glass fiber-optic catheters that pose risks of blood vessel damage, thrombosis, and infection. In addition, physical tethers to power...

journal article 2021

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The hydro-mechanical interaction in novel polyurethane-bound pervious pavement by considering the saturation states in unbound granular base course

Lu, Guoyang (author), Wang, H. (author), Zhang, Yuqing (author), Liu, Pengfei (author), Wang, Dawei (author), Oeser, Markus (author), Grabe, Jürgen (author)

The pore-water pressure generated by intermittent dynamic vehicle loading under various saturation states is recognized as a critical factor influencing the behaviour of permeable pavement structures, especially the behaviour of UGB layer. However, the underlying mechanisms of hydro-mechanical interaction in the UGB layer and the influence on...

journal article 2021

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In-situ and numerical investigation on the dynamic response of unbounded granular material in permeable pavement

Lu, Guoyang (author), Wang, H. (author), Törzs, Tom (author), Liu, Pengfei (author), Zhang, Yuqing (author), Wang, Dawei (author), Oeser, Markus (author), Grabe, Jürgen (author)

Permeable pavements have been widely used as an effective means to improve hydrological characteristics and the ecology of the urban environment. This study aims to investigate the response of fully permeable pavement (FPP) subjected to dynamic loading under dry and saturated conditions. A full-scale test track topped with polyurethane bound...

journal article 2020

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Constructing dataset of classified drainage areas based on surface water-supply patterns in High Mountain Asia

Lu, Jieyu (author), Qiu, Yubao (author), Wang, Xingxing (author), Liang, Wenshan (author), Xie, Pengfei (author), Shi, Lijuan (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zhang, Dongshui (author)

The High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, ranging from the Hindu Kush and Tien Shan in the west to the Himalaya in the south with an altitude between 2000 and 8844 m, holds the largest reservoir of glaciers and snow outside Earth Polar Regions. In the last decades, numerous glaciers and lake areas there have undergone tremendous changes with water...

journal article 2020

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The microscopic origin of magnon-photon level attraction by traveling waves: Theory and experiment

Yao, Bimu (author), Yu, T. (author), Zhang, Xiang (author), Lu, Wei (author), Gui, Yongsheng (author), Hu, Can Ming (author), Blanter, Y.M. (author)

The dissipative light-matter coupling can cause the attraction of two energy levels, i.e., level attraction, when competing with the coherent coupling that induces usual Rabi-level splitting. The level attraction shows attractive potential for topological information processing. However, the underlying microscopic quantum mechanism of...

journal article 2019

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Influence of surface pretreatment on phosphate conversion coating on AZ91 Mg alloy

Zhang, Chunyan (author), Liu, Bin (author), Yu, Baoxing (author), Lu, Xiaopeng (author), Wei, Yong (author), Zhang, Tao (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Wang, Fuhui (author)

Surface pretreatment is generally applied before application of protective coatings on Mg alloys, which influences surface microstructure and electrochemical activity of the substrate and has an effect on the coating properties. The effect of various pretreatment processes (sand-blasting, grinding and polishing) on the microstructure and...

journal article 2019

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Laboratory and numerical investigation of microwave heating properties of asphalt mixture

Wang, H. (author), Zhang, Yue (author), Zhang, Yi (author), Feng, Shuyin (author), Lu, Guoyang (author), Cao, Lintao (author)

Microwave heating is an encouraging heating technology for the maintenance, recycling, and deicing of asphalt pavement. To investigate the microwave heating properties of asphalt mixture, laboratory tests and numerical simulations were done and compared. Two types of Stone Mastic Asphalt (SMA) mixture samples (with basalt aggregates and steel...

journal article 2019

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Beyond mere take-over requests: The effects of monitoring requests on driver attention, take-over performance, and acceptance

Lu, Z. (author), Zhang, B. (author), Feldhütter, A. (author), Happee, R. (author), Martens, M. (author), de Winter, J.C.F. (author)

In conditionally automated driving, drivers do not have to monitor the road, whereas in partially automated driving, drivers have to monitor the road permanently. We evaluated a dynamic allocation of monitoring tasks to human and automation by providing a monitoring request (MR) before a possible take-over request (TOR), with the aim to...

journal article 2019

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The dynamic behavior of gas hydrate dissociation by heating in tight sandy reservoirs: A molecular dynamics simulation study

Fang, Bin (author), Ning, Fulong (author), Ou, Wenjia (author), Wang, Dongdong (author), Zhang, Zhun (author), Yu, Yanjiang (author), Lu, Hongfeng (author), Wu, Jianyang (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author)

Knowledge on the kinetics of gas hydrate dissociation in microporous sediments is very important for developing safe and efficient approaches to gas recovery from natural gas hydrate (NGH) deposits. Herein, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are used to study the dissociation kinetics in microporous sediments. The hydrate phase occupies a...

journal article 2019

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Multi-omics integrative analysis with genome-scale metabolic model simulation reveals global cellular adaptation of Aspergillus niger under industrial enzyme production condition

Lu, Hongzhong (author), Cao, Weiqiang (author), Liu, X. (author), Sui, Yufei (author), Ouyang, Liming (author), Xia, Jianye (author), Huang, Mingzhi (author), Zhuang, Yingping (author), Zhang, Siliang (author), Noorman, H.J. (author), Chu, Ju (author)

Oxygen limitation is regarded as a useful strategy to improve enzyme production by mycelial fungus like Aspergillus niger. However, the intracellular metabolic response of A. niger to oxygen limitation is still obscure. To address this, the metabolism of A. niger was studied using multi-omics integrated analysis based on the latest GEMs ...

journal article 2018

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Resilience of epidemics for SIS model on networks

Lu, Dan (author), Yang, Shunkun (author), Zhang, Jiaquan (author), Wang, H. (author), Li, Daqing (author)

Epidemic propagation on complex networks has been widely investigated, mostly with invariant parameters. However, the process of epidemic propagation is not always constant. Epidemics can be affected by various perturbations and may bounce back to its original state, which is considered resilient. Here, we study the resilience of epidemics on...

journal article 2017