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Artificial Intelligence for Automated Vehicle Control and Traffic Operations: Challenges and Opportunities

Abbink, D.A. (author), Hao, Peng (author), Laval, Jorge (author), Shalev-Shwartz, Shai (author), Wu, Cathy (author), Yang, Terry (author), Hamdar, Samer (author), Chen, Danjue (author), Xie, Yuanchang (author), Li, Xiaopeng (author), Haque, Mohaiminul (author)

This chapter summarizes the presentations of speakers addressing such issues during the Automated Vehicles Symposium 2020 (AVS20) held virtually on July 27–30, 2020. These speakers participated in the break-out session titled “Artificial Intelligence for Automated Vehicle Control and Traffic Operations: Challenges and Opportunities”. The...

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Bonding Process of Copper Foam-Silver Composite and Performance Characterization of the Joint

Lv, Guoping (author), Yan, Haidong (author), Yan, Haidong (author), Yang, Daoguo (author), Wu, Xinke (author), Sheng, Kuang (author), Liu, Chaohui (author), Zhang, Yakun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)

As a key heat-dissipating and electrical interconnecting component in high-temperature power modules, die-attach and substrate-attach layers play an important role in effectively reducing the thermal resistance and improving the long-term reliability. Traditional substrate-attach materials limit the high-temperature applications of packaging...

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Enhancing the charge ordering temperature in thin films of Pr0.5Ca0.5MnO3 by strain

Yang, Z.Q. (author), Zhang, Y.Q. (author), Aarts, J. (author), Wu, M.Y. (author), Zandbergen, H.W. (author)

We report the effects of biaxial strain on the charge ordering temperature Tco of the mixed-valent manganite perovskite oxide Pr0.5Ca0.5MnO3. Thin films were grown on SrTiO3, which has a 1.3% larger in-plane lattice parameter. Other substrates were used for comparison. Transport measurements combined with data from electron microscopy show that...

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Analysis of Injury Severity of Drivers Involved Different Types of Two-Vehicle Crashes Using Random-Parameters Logit Models with Heterogeneity in Means and Variances

Wu, Qiang (author), Song, Dongdong (author), Wang, Chenzhu (author), Chen, Fei (author), Cheng, Jianchuan (author), Easa, Said M. (author), Yang, Y. (author), Yang, Wenchen (author)

This study proposes random-parameters multinomial logit models, with heterogeneity in means and variances, to explore the differences in the factors influencing injury severities of drivers involved in different types of two-vehicle crashes. The models are verified using crash data from the United Kingdom (UK) over three years (2016–2018). Three...

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Safety barriers in the chemical process industries: A state-of-the-art review on their classification, assessment, and management

Yuan, S. (author), Yang, M. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Chen, C. (author), Wu, Jiansong (author)

Barriers are used in various forms to assure the safety of chemical plants. A deep understanding of the literature related to safety barriers is essential to tackle the challenges in improving their design and management. This paper first provides an overview of the history of the development of the safety barrier concept. Subsequently, this...

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Observing the impact of urban morphology and building geometry on thermal environment by high spatial resolution thermal images

Yang, Jinxin (author), Shi, Qian (author), Menenti, M. (author), Wong, Man Sing (author), Wu, Zhifeng (author), Zhao, Qunshan (author), Abbas, Sawaid (author), Xu, Yong (author)

Urban surface temperature is a very important variable in the observation and understanding of energy exchange. A comprehensive understanding of the urban thermal environment is of great significance towards the adaptability of urban areas to climate hazards. The heterogeneity of urban space increases the complexity of the urban surface...

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One-step controllable fabrication of 3D structured self-standing Al₃Ni₂/Ni electrode through molten salt electrolysis for efficient water splitting

Hua, Zhongsheng (author), Wu, Xiaobin (author), Zhu, Zengli (author), He, Jiwen (author), He, Shiwei (author), Liu, Huan (author), Xu, Liang (author), Yang, Y. (author), Zhao, Zhuo (author)

Exploring more efficient and low-cost electrocatalysts to replace platinum (Pt) is highly desired to promote the practical hydrogen production through water splitting. Herein, a facile and effective strategy is proposed to fabricate self-standing Al₃Ni₂/Ni electrode with controlled phase composition and surface...

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Numerical simulation on reflective cracking behavior of asphalt pavement

Wang, Houzhi (author), Wu, You (author), Yang, Jun (author), Wang, H. (author)

Cracks are one of the main problems that plague road workers. A correct understanding of the internal crack propagation mechanism of asphalt pavement will help road workers evaluate the road’s working status more comprehensively and make more reasonable decisions in design, construction, and maintenance work. This paper established a three...

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Examining industrial air pollution embodied in trade: implications of a hypothetical China-UK FTA

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...

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Integrating the flow regime and water quality effects into a niche-based metacommunity dynamics model for river ecosystems

Wang, Yibo (author), Liu, Pan (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author), Li, Liping (author), Wu, Chen (author), Han, Dongyang (author), Zhang, Xiaojing (author), Yang, Zhikai (author), Yang, Sheng (author)

Aquatic community dynamics are closely dominated by flow regime and water quality conditions, which are increasingly threatened by dam regulation, water diversion, and nutrition pollution. However, further understanding of the ecological impacts of flow regime and water quality conditions on aquatic multi-population dynamics has rarely been...

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Insights into the effect of susceptor rotational speed in CVD reactor on the quality of 4H-SiC epitaxial layer on homogeneous substrates

Tang, Zhuorui (author), Gu, Lin (author), Jin, Lei (author), Dai, Kefeng (author), Mao, Chaobin (author), Wu, Sanzhong (author), Zhang, Rongwei (author), Yang, Jinsong (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)

In this work, 4H-SiC homoepitaxial layers were grown on 4°off-axis substrates at different susceptor rotation speeds by using a hot-wall horizontal CVD reactor. The effect of different susceptor rotation speed on the quality of 4H-SiC epitaxial layers in terms of thickness, thickness uniformity, crystallinity, surface morphology and...

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Effects of GBFS content and curing methods on the working performance and microstructure of ternary geopolymers based on high-content steel slag

Yang, Xinkui (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author), Xu, S. (author), Chen, B. (author), Chen, Dongyu (author), Wang, Fusong (author), Jiang, Jian (author), Fan, Lulu (author), Tu, Liangliang (author)

Aimed to address the low utilization rate of steel slag (SS) and its challenge in resource utilization in China, this study developed ternary geopolymers made by high-content (50%) SS together with fly ash (FA) and granulated blast furnace slag (GBFS). The effects of GBFS content (0–40%) and curing methods (water curing, standard curing,...

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A bibliometric and visualized overview for the evolution of process safety and environmental protection

Xue, J. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Li, Jie (author), Yang, M. (author), Wu, Chaozhong (author), van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (author)

This paper presents a bibliometric overview of the publications in the principal international journal Process Safety and Environmental Protection (PSEP) from 1990 to 2020 retrieved in the Web of Science (WoS) database to explore the evolution in safety and environmental engineering design and practice, as well as experimental or theoretical...

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Comprehensive properties assessment of asphalt binder under aqueous solutions with different pH values and its gradient damage behaviors

Zou, Yingxue (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author), Chen, Anqi (author), Liu, Quantao (author), Amirkhanian, Serji (author), Xu, S. (author), Yang, Chao (author), Wan, Pei (author), Xu, Haiqin (author), Lu, Ziyu (author)

This study characterized the morphology, high-temperature property, rheological property, adhesion, cohesion, and chemical component of asphalt binder under aqueous solutions of different pH values. Then the physicochemical properties of asphalt binder were comprehensively evaluated by the improved radar chart. The properties of asphalt...

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Safety barrier performance assessment by integrating computational fluid dynamics and evacuation modeling for toxic gas leakage scenarios

Yuan, S. (author), Cai, Jitao (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yang, M. (author), Chen, Chao (author), Wu, Jiansong (author)

Toxic gas leakage represents a type of major process accident scenario threatening human life. Technical and non-technical safety barriers are employed to prevent toxic gas leakage accidents or mitigate the possible catastrophic consequences. Evacuation must be executed in severe toxic gas release scenarios. The performance assessment of...

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Dynamic resilience assessment and emergency strategy optimization of natural gas compartments in utility tunnels

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As a kind of critical infrastructure of energy transportation, so-called ‘utility tunnels’ have been developed around the world. Hosting a natural gas pipeline inside the natural gas compartment of a utility tunnel facilitates its maintenance but also brings potential explosion concerns due to the confined space. Although some work focuses on...

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Characterizing the thermal effects of vegetation on urban surface temperature

Yang, Jinxin (author), Shi, Qian (author), Menenti, M. (author), Xie, Yanhua (author), Wu, Zhifeng (author), Xu, Yong (author), Abbas, Sawaid (author)

Vegetation is important for urban heat mitigation. The cooling intensity of vegetation is affected by background climate and urban design. How to evaluate vegetation cooling efficiency under different climate conditions is still an issue open to discussion. In this study, a normalized indicator of urban vegetation cooling efficiency (NVCE) is...

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A reappraisal of the ink-bottle effect and pore structure of cementitious materials using intrusion-extrusion cyclic mercury porosimetry

Zhang, Y. (author), Wu, Kai (author), Yang, Zhengxian (author), Ye, G. (author)

Reliable characterization of the pore structure is essentially important for transport-related durability studies of cementitious materials. Mercury intrusion porosimetry has been commonly used for pore structure measurement while the ink-bottle effect significantly affects the trustworthiness of pore size features of cementitious materials....

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The Rationality of Four Metrics of Network Robustness: A Viewpoint of Robust Growth of Generalized Meshes

Yang, Xiaofan (author), Zhu, Yuanrui (author), Hong, Jing (author), Yang, L. (author), Wu, Yingbo (author), Tang, Yuan Yan (author)

There are quite a number of different metrics of network robustness. This paper addresses the rationality of four metrics of network robustness (the algebraic connectivity, the effective resistance, the average edge betweenness, and the efficiency) by investigating the robust growth of generalized meshes (GMs). First, a heuristic growth...

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Erosion potential of the Yangtze Delta under sediment starvation and climate change

Yang, H. F. (author), Yang, S. L. (author), Xu, K. H. (author), Wu, H. (author), Shi, B. W. (author), Zhu, Q. (author), Zhang, W. X. (author), Yang, Z. (author)

Deltas are widely threatened by sediment starvation and climate change. Erosion potential is an important indicator of delta vulnerability. Here, we investigate the erosion potential of the Yangtze Delta. We found that over the past half century the Yangtze's sediment discharge has decreased by 80% due to the construction of >50,000 dams...

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