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Zhou, J. (author), Qian, S. (author), Sierra Beltran, M.G. (author), Ye, G. (author), Van Breugel, K. (author), Li, V.C. (author)Nowadays limestone powder and blast furnace slag (BFS) are widely used in concrete as blended materials in cement. The replacement of Portland cement by limestone powder and BFS can lower the cost and enhance the greenness of concrete, since the production of these two materials needs less energy and causes less CO2 emission than Portland cement...journal article 2009
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Khaliq, J. (author), Li, C. (author), Chen, K. (author), Shi, B. (author), Ye, H. (author), Grande, A.M. (author), Yan, H. (author), Reece, M.J. (author)The effect of substitution and oxidation-reduction on the thermal conductivity of perovskite-like layered structure (PLS) ceramics was investigated in relation to mass contrast and non-stoichiometry. Sr (acceptor) was substituted on the A site, while Ta (donor) was substituted on the B site of La2Ti2O7. Substitution in PLS materials creates...journal article 2015
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Sun, B. (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Li, Lei (author), Ye, H. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)This paper studies the interaction of catastrophic failure of the driver and LED luminous flux decay for an integrated LED lamp with an electrolytic capacitor-free LED driver. Electronic thermal simulations are utilized to obtain the lamp's dynamic history of temperature and current for two distinct operation modes: constant current mode (CCM...journal article 2017
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Han, Haoya (author), Li, Li (author), Tian, Yuchuan (author), Wang, Yunwei (author), Ye, Zhishuang (author), Yang, Qingsong (author), Wang, Y. (author), Von Klitzing, Regine (author), Guo, Xuhong (author)Hollow silica nanoparticles were prepared through generating a silica layer in spherical polyelectrolyte nanogels (SPN), which consisted of a solid core of polystyrene (PS) and a shell of crosslinked poly(acrylic acid) (PAA), followed by removing the PS core via solvent dissolution. Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) in combination with TEM...journal article 2017
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Li, Z. (author), Ye, G. (author)Chemical deformation is an important material property which influences the autogenous deformation of the materials. While geopolymer is emerging as an eco-friendly alternative to ordinary Portland cement (OPC), few studies have been conducted on the chemical deformation of this material. In this paper, the chemical deformation of a metakaolin ...conference paper 2018
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Li, Z. (author), Ye, Wei (author), Marence, Miroslav (author), Bricker, J.D. (author)Climate change with extreme hydrological conditions, such as drought and flood, bring new challenges to seepage behavior and the stability of earthfill dams. Taking a drought-stricken earthfill dam of China as an example, the influence of drought-flood cycles on dam seepage behavior is analyzed. This paper includes a clay sample laboratory...journal article 2018
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Xue, Caihong (author), Li, Wengui (author), Li, Jianchun (author), Tam, Vivian W.Y. (author), Ye, G. (author)Encapsulation-based self-healing technology is an effective method for healing the crack-deteriorated cementitious material. Encapsulation-based self-healing initiates by crack occurrence and progresses by chemical reaction of released self-healing agents in the cracks, which are contained in capsules. In this paper, a review has been...journal article 2018
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Nedeljković, Marija (author), Li, Z. (author), Ye, G. (author)The engineering properties of alkali activated materials (AAMs) mainly depend on the constituent materials and their mixture proportions. Despite many studies on the characterization of AAMs, guidelines for mixture design of AAMs and their applications in engineering practice are not available. Extensive experimental studies are still necessary...journal article 2018
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Zhang, Shizhe (author), Zuo, Y. (author), Li, Z. (author), Ye, G. (author)Alkali-activated slag/fly ash (AASF) as an environmental-friendly binder system for construction materials has recently attracted great attention from both academic and industrial communities. Towards its wider engineering application, it is crucial to have a better understanding of the temperature induced effects by different curing regimes and...conference paper 2019
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Li, Z. (author), Liu, Jiahua (author), Ye, G. (author)This study investigates the drying shrinkage and the shrinkage-induced stress of alkali-activated blast furnace slag and fly ash concrete (AC) in comparison with ordinary Portland cement concrete (OC). For samples that were dried from 1 day after casting, the drying shrinkage of AC was much higher than that of OC. For samples that were stored...journal article 2019
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Nedeljković, Marija (author), Ghiassi, B. (author), van der Laan, Sieger (author), Li, Z. (author), Ye, G. (author)The effect of curing conditions (sealed and unsealed) on the pore solution composition and carbonation resistance of different binary alkali-activated fly ash (FA) and ground granulated blast furnace slag (GBFS) pastes is investigated in this study. The studied mixtures were with FA/GBFS ratios of 100:0, 70:30; 50:50, 30:70, 0:100. Ordinary...journal article 2019
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Wu, Dequan (author), Zhang, D. (author), Ye, Yuwei (author), Ma, Lingwei (author), Minhas, Badar (author), Liu, Bei (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Li, Xiaogang (author)Recently, lubricant-infused surfaces (LIS) have emerged as a prominent class of surface technology for antifouling, anti-icing and anticorrosion applications. However, long-term corrosion exposure and mechanical damages may deteriorate the practical performance of LIS during application. In this study, a robust LIS was fabricated by the...journal article 2019
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Li, Z. (author), Nedeljković, Marija (author), Chen, B. (author), Ye, G. (author)This study investigates the effectiveness of metakaolin (MK)in mitigating the autogenous shrinkage of alkali-activated slag (AAS). It is found that the autogenous shrinkage of AAS paste can be reduced by 40% and 50% when replacing 10% and 20% slag with MK, respectively. By providing additional Si and Al, and decreasing the pH of the pore...journal article 2019
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Li, Z. (author), Zhang, Shizhe (author), Zuo, Y. (author), Chen, Wei (author), Ye, G. (author)Chemical deformation (chemical shrinkage/expansion), the absolute volume change during reactions, is a key parameter influencing the volume stability, especially the autogenous deformation of a binder material. This work, for the first time, reports an in-depth investigation on the chemical deformation of metakaolin based geopolymer (MKG)....journal article 2019
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Qu, Zuopeng (author), Wang, Lei (author), Tang, H. (author), Ye, H. (author), Li, Meicheng (author)In this paper, four composite coatings of nano-SnS/polyvinylbutyral (PVB), nano-MoS<sub>2</sub>/PVB, nano-SnS-Zn/PVB, and nano-MoS<sub>2</sub>-Zn/PVB were prepared, and their anti-corrosion mechanism was analyzed by experimental and theoretical calculations. The results of the electrochemical experiments show that the effect of nano-MoS<sub>2...journal article 2019
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Han, Rui (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Li, Shilin (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author), Wang, Guoren (author), Tang, Jian (author), Ye, Jieping (author)The core of many large-scale machine learning (ML) applications, such as neural networks (NN), support vector machine (SVM), and convolutional neural network (CNN), is the training algorithm that iteratively updates model parameters by processing massive datasets. From a plethora of studies aiming at accelerating ML, being data...journal article 2019
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Zou, Sheng (author), Xiao, Hanbin (author), Ye, Fangping (author), Li, Z. (author), Tang, Wenzhi (author), Zhu, Feng (author), Chen, Chentong (author), Zhu, Chao (author)The inevitably formed residual stress in the Selective Laser Melting (SLM) process leads to distortion, crack and even delamination of the workpiece. Single laser is commonly applied during SLM processing. However, its productivity is much lower than multiple lasers. In addition, the research of residual stress with multi-laser condition...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Shizhe (author), Li, Victor C. (author), Ye, G. (author)Strain-hardening geopolymer composite (SHGC) lately emerged as a promising alternative to traditional strain-hardening cementitious composite with added advantages of industrial by-product utilization and enhanced sustainability. However, as the design of SHGC requires multi-factor optimization, the application of traditional trial-and-error...journal article 2020
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Li, Z. (author), Lu, T. (author), Liang, X. (author), Dong, H. (author), Ye, G. (author)This study aims to provide a better understanding of the autogenous shrinkage of slag and fly ash-based alkali-activated materials (AAMs) cured at ambient temperature. The main reaction products in AAMs pastes are C-A-S-H type gel and the reaction rate decreases when slag is partially replaced by fly ash. Due to the chemical shrinkage and the...journal article 2020