document

Effects of particle size distribution and blast velocity on furnace raceway transport behaviors and dynamic characteristics using DEM-CFD

Li, Meng (author), Li, Chao (author), Wu, Guanyin (author), An, Xizhong (author), Zhang, Hao (author), Fu, Haitao (author), Yang, Xiaohong (author), Zou, Qingchuan (author), Wu, Yongli (author), Dong, Kejun (author)

An in-depth exploration of the reaction kinetics and thermo-chemical behaviors of the raceway can offer practical insights for optimizing the operations of blast furnace (BF), thus achieving a more effective iron and steel production process. In this study, the dynamic characteristics and the flow, heat and mass transfer behaviors in the BF...

journal article 2024

document

Real-time pipeline leak detection and localization using an attention-based LSTM approach

Zhang, Xinqi (author), Shi, Jihao (author), Yang, M. (author), Huang, Xinyan (author), Usmani, Asif Sohail (author), Chen, Guoming (author), Fu, Jianmin (author), Huang, Jiawei (author), Li, Junjie (author)

Long short-term memory (LSTM) has been widely applied to real-time automated natural gas leak detection and localization. However, LSTM approach could not provide the interpretation that this leak position is localized instead of other positions. This study proposes a leakage detection and localization approach by integrating the attention...

journal article 2023

document

A Numerical Study of Moisture and Ionic Transport in Unsaturated Concrete by Considering Multi-ions Coupling Effect

Meng, Z. (author), Zhang, Yufei (author), Chen, Wei kang (author), Fu, Chuan qing (author), Xiong, Qing Xiang (author), Zhang, Cheng lin (author), Liu, Qing feng (author)

Understanding the transport mechanisms within unsaturated porous media is essential to the durability problems associated with cement-based materials. However, the involvement of multi-ions electrochemical coupling effect, especially under unsaturated condition makes the transport mechanisms even more complex. In this study, the moisture and...

journal article 2023

document

Optical Switching of Hole Transfer in Double-Perovskite/Graphene Heterostructure

Zhang, Heng (author), Debroye, Elke (author), Fu, Shuai (author), González, Miriam C.Rodriguez (author), du Fossé, I. (author), Geuchies, Jaco J. (author), Gao, Lei (author), Yu, Xiaoqing (author), Houtepen, A.J. (author)

Synergically combining their respective ultrahigh charge mobility and strong light absorption, graphene (Gr)/semiconductor heterostructures are promising building blocks for efficient optoelectronics, particularly photodetectors. Charge transfer (CT) across the heterostructure interface crucially determines device efficiency and functionality...

journal article 2023

document

Data-driven corrosion inhibition efficiency prediction model incorporating 2D–3D molecular graphs and inhibitor concentration

Ma, Jinbo (author), Dai, Jiaxin (author), Guo, Xin (author), Fu, Dongmei (author), Ma, Lingwei (author), Keil, Patrick (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Zhang, Dawei (author)

Following the construction of a dataset of cross-category corrosion inhibitors at different concentrations based on 1241 data from 184 research papers, a performance prediction model incorporating 2D–3D molecular graph representation and corrosion inhibitor concentration information was established. This model was shown to effectively predict...

journal article 2023

document

Subwavelength spinning of particles in vector cosine-Gaussian field with radial polarization

Zhao, Rui (author), Jiang, M. (author), Zhang, Shuoshuo (author), Man, Zhongsheng (author), Wang, Benyi (author), Ge, Xiaolu (author), Zhang, Wenfei (author), Zhang, Yuquan (author), Fu, Shenggui (author)

A new type of radially polarized (RP) cosine-Gaussian (CG) field is proposed. Through the analytical model, it is found that such RP CG beam exhibits completely different focusing properties from the reported RP plane waves. More importantly, a stable three-dimensional trap of Rayleigh particle accompanied by a subwavelength spin motion can...

journal article 2022

document

Resilience assessment of asphalt pavement rutting under climate change

Zhang, Chao (author), Tan, Yiqiu (author), Gao, Y. (author), Fu, Yongkang (author), Li, Jilu (author), Li, Shuai (author), Zhou, Xingye (author)

The service performances of asphalt pavement, especially rutting, will be inevitably affected by climate change. However, existing studies have generally focused on the rutting depth and rutting life, and thus became insufficient for comprehensively evaluating the influence of climate change on rutting over the service life. A resilience...

journal article 2022

document

Composition regulation of composite materials in laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing

Yao, Dengzhi (author), Wang, Ju (author), Cai, Yao (author), Zhao, Tingting (author), An, Xizhong (author), Zhang, Hao (author), Fu, Haitao (author), Yang, Xiaohong (author), Zou, Qingchuan (author), Wang, L. (author)

Understanding and controlling the composition segregation during powder spreading is of key importance in the additive manufacturing (AM) of composite materials. Under this circumstance, the segregation behavior of WC/316 L composite powders during spreading in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) AM was numerically investigated by the discrete...

journal article 2022

document

Cross-category prediction of corrosion inhibitor performance based on molecular graph structures via a three-level message passing neural network model

Dai, Jiaxin (author), Fu, Dongmei (author), Song, Guangxuan (author), Ma, Lingwei (author), Guo, Xin (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Cole, Ivan (author), Zhang, Dawei (author)

Current experimental verification, computational modeling, and machine learning methods for predicting corrosion inhibition efficiency (IE) are limited to specific inhibitor categories with high cost and poor generalization. In this study, a cross-category corrosion inhibitor dataset is constructed and a three-level direct message passing...

journal article 2022

document

Systematic decomposition of sequence determinants governing CRISPR/Cas9 specificity

Fu, Rongjie (author), He, Wei (author), Dou, Jinzhuang (author), Villarreal, Oscar D. (author), Bedford, Ella (author), Wang, Helen (author), Hou, Connie (author), Zhang, Liang (author), Depken, S.M. (author)

The specificity of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing is largely determined by the sequences of guide RNA (gRNA) and the targeted DNA, yet the sequence-dependent rules underlying off-target effects are not fully understood. To systematically explore the sequence determinants governing CRISPR/Cas9 specificity, here we describe a dual-target system to...

journal article 2022

document

Random forest incorporating ab-initio calculations for corrosion rate prediction with small sample Al alloys data

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

document

Long-lived charge separation following pump-wavelength–dependent ultrafast charge transfer in graphene/WS₂ heterostructures

Fu, Shuai (author), du Fossé, I. (author), Jia, Xiaoyu (author), Xu, Jingyin (author), Yu, Xiaoqing (author), Zhang, Heng (author), Zheng, Wenhao (author), Krasel, Sven (author), Houtepen, A.J. (author)

Van der Waals heterostructures consisting of graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides have shown great promise for optoelectronic applications. However, an in-depth understanding of the critical processes for device operation, namely, interfacial charge transfer (CT) and recombination, has so far remained elusive. Here, we investigate...

journal article 2021

document

Nonlinearity-modulated single molecule trapping and Raman scattering analysis

Zhang, Shuoshuo (author), Zhang, Yuquan (author), Fu, Yanan (author), Zhu, Z. (author), Man, Zhongsheng (author), Bu, Jing (author), Fang, Hui (author), Min, Changjun (author), Yuan, Xiaocong (author)

Single molecule detection and analysis play important roles in many current biomedical researches. The deep-nanoscale hotspots, being excited and confined in a plasmonic nanocavity, make it possible to simultaneously enhance the nonlinear light-matter interactions and molecular Raman scattering for label-free detections. Here, we...

journal article 2021

document

Precipitation of supersaturated solute in H ion irradiated Fe-Au and Fe-Au-W alloys studied by positron annihilation spectroscopy

Zhang, Z. (author), Zhang, S. (author), Yao, Z. (author), Tao, X. (author), Cao, X. (author), Zhang, P. (author), Kuang, P. (author), Fu, Y. (author), van Dijk, N.H. (author), van der Zwaag, S. (author)

The effect of thermal aging of homogenized Fe-Au and Fe-Au-W alloys, irradiated at room temperature with hydrogen ions, was studied for an aging treatment at 300 °C for aging times up to 100 h. The aging behavior of the Fe-based alloys is compared to the results for pure Fe. The precipitation behavior of Au-rich and W-rich precipitates and...

journal article 2021

document

Spatial-temporal potential exposure risk analytics and urban sustainability impacts related to COVID-19 mitigation: A perspective from car mobility behaviour

Jiang, Peng (author), Fu, Xiuju (author), Fan, Yee Van (author), Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír (author), Chen, P. (author), Ma, Stefan (author), Zhang, Wanbing (author)

Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) poses a significant threat to the population and urban sustainability worldwide. The surge mitigation is complicated and associates many factors, including the pandemic status, policy, socioeconomics and resident behaviours. Modelling and analytics with spatial-temporal big urban data are required to assist...

journal article 2021

document

Early dengue outbreak detection modeling based on dengue incidences in Singapore during 2012 to 2017

Chen, P. (author), Fu, Xiuju (author), Ma, Stefan (author), Xu, Hai Yan (author), Zhang, Wanbing (author), Xiao, Gaoxi (author), Siow Mong Goh, Rick (author), Xu, George (author), Ching Ng, Lee (author)

Dengue has been as an endemic with year-round presence in Singapore. In the recent years 2013, 2014, and 2016, there were several severe dengue outbreaks, posing serious threat to the public health. To proactively control and mitigate the disease spread, early warnings of dengue outbreaks, at which there are rapid and large-scale spread of...

journal article 2020

document

Parameterization and Application of Stanghellini Model for Estimating Greenhouse Cucumber Transpiration

Yan, H. (author), Huang, Song (author), Zhang, C. (author), Coenders-Gerrits, Miriam (author), Wang, Guoqing (author), Zhang, Jianyun (author), Zhao, Baoshan (author), Acquah, Samuel Joe (author), Wu, Haimei (author), Fu, Hanwen (author)

Accurate estimation of transpiration (Tr) is important in the development of precise irrigation scheduling and to enhance water-use efficiency in agricultural production. In this study, the air temperature (Ta) and relative humidity (RH) were measured at three different heights (0.5, 1.0, and 1.8 m above the ground near the plant canopy)...

journal article 2020

document

Micro-Doppler Period Estimation Based on Concentration Statistics of Ambiguity Function

Zhang, Wenpeng (author), Fu, Yaowen (author), Yin, J. (author)

Radar micro-Doppler (m-D) signature, which reflects the micromotion dynamic and structural characteristics of radar target with micromotion, has received increasing attention. Most of the existing m-D signature-extraction methods operate in the time domain or the time-frequency domain. Different from these methods, in this paper, an m-D...

journal article 2020

document

Towards understanding and prediction of atmospheric corrosion of an Fe/Cu corrosion sensor via machine learning

Pei, Zibo (author), Zhang, D. (author), Zhi, Yuanjie (author), Yang, Tao (author), Jin, Lulu (author), Fu, Dongmei (author), Cheng, Xuequn (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Li, Xiaogang (author)

The atmospheric corrosion of carbon steel was monitored by a Fe/Cu type galvanic corrosion sensor for 34 days. Using a random forest (RF)-based machine learning approach, the impacts of relative humidity, temperature and rainfall were identified to be higher than those of airborne particles, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide...

journal article 2020

document

Fully controlled photonic spin in highly confined optical field

Zhang, Shuoshuo (author), Fu, Shenggui (author), Zhang, Huanian (author), Ge, Xiaolu (author), Bai, Zhidong (author), Lyu, Yudong (author), Zhao, Rui (author), Man, Z. (author)

As an intrinsic attribute of light, the spin angular momentum (SAM) of photons has aroused considerable attention because of the fascinating properties emerging from light–matter interactions. We show that a diffraction-limited focal field with a steerable photonic spin structure in three dimensions can be produced under a 4π microscopic...

journal article 2019