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Mustafa, S. (author), Lantsoght, E.O.L. (author), Yang, Y. (author), Sliedrecht, Henk (author)The safety of existing slab-between-girder bridges is subject to discussion in the Netherlands. Current design codes are conservative for shear-critical girders, and nonlinear finite element analysis is considered a more accurate assessment method. This paper investigates if the Dutch guidelines for nonlinear finite element analysis, which were...journal article 2022
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Xu, Y. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yang, M. (author), Yuan, S. (author), Chen, C. (author)Data uncertainties caused by the lack of knowledge and nature variation or randomness present vital challenges to domino effects modelling. To improve the assessment of the propagation probabilities and consequences of the domino-effect accidents, the influence of various types of uncertainties on risk assessment results needs to be investigated...journal article 2022
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de Putter, Arjen (author), Hendriks, M.A.N. (author), Rots, J.G. (author), Yang, Y. (author), Engen, Morten (author), van den Bos, Ab A. (author)Nineteen 2D nonlinear finite element analysis (NLFEA) solution strategies were benchmarked against a wide variety of 101 experiments on reinforced concrete beams failing in bending, flexural shear, or shear compression. The relatively high number of solution strategies was motivated by the conviction that choices for the constitutive models,...journal article 2022
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He, G. (author), Balayn, A.M.A. (author), Buijsman, S.N.R. (author), Yang, J. (author), Gadiraju, Ujwal (author)With recent advances in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), researchers have started to pay attention to concept-level explanations, which explain model predictions with a high level of abstraction. However, such explanations may be difficult to digest for laypeople due to the potential knowledge gap and the concomitant cognitive load....conference paper 2022
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Zhu, P. (author), Wang, Z. (author), Yang, J. (author), Hauff, C. (author), Anand, A. (author)Quality control is essential for creating extractive question answering (EQA) datasets via crowdsourcing. Aggregation across answers, i.e. word spans within passages annotated, by different crowd workers is one major focus for ensuring its quality. However, crowd workers cannot reach a consensus on a considerable portion of questions. We...conference paper 2022
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Biswas, S. (author), Corti, L. (author), Buijsman, S.N.R. (author), Yang, J. (author)Explaining the behaviour of Artificial Intelligence models has become a necessity. Their opaqueness and fragility are not tolerable in high-stakes domains especially. Although considerable progress is being made in the field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence, scholars have demonstrated limits and flaws of existing approaches: explanations...conference paper 2022
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Lai, F. (author), Zhang, Ningning (author), Liu, Songyu (author), Yang, Dayu (author)Active earth pressure on retaining structures supporting a narrow column of soil cannot be properly analysed using Coulomb's theory. Finite element limit analysis (FELA) shows that the soil form multiple failure surfaces if the soil column is sufficiently narrow. This paper proposes a framework for active earth pressure estimation for narrow...journal article 2022
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Zhou, Feng (author), Yang, X. Jessie (author), de Winter, J.C.F. (author)Situation awareness (SA) is critical to improving takeover performance during the transition period from automated driving to manual driving. Although many studies measured SA during or after the driving task, few studies have attempted to predict SA in real time in automated driving. In this work, we propose to predict SA during the takeover...journal article 2022
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Yang, Zhengxian (author), Shi, Peng (author), Zhang, Yong (author), Li, Z. (author)The influences of liquid-binder ratio and mixing sequence on the performance of superabsorbent polymer (SAP)-containing alkali-activated slag (AAS) mortar are investigated in this study. It is found that the SAP absorbs much less liquid in upper supernatant of AAS than in water. Mixing SAP with liquid first induces a larger absorption...journal article 2022
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Zhang, F. (author), Yang, Y. (author), Fennis, Sonja A.A.M. (author), Hendriks, M.A.N. (author)Acoustic emission (AE) signal parameters can be used to classify the source type in concrete structures. However, signal parameters are influenced by the wave propagation from the source to the receiver, leading to wrong source classification results, especially for monitoring large concrete structures. This paper experimentally evaluates the...journal article 2022
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Kopbayev, Alibek (author), Khan, Faisal (author), Yang, M. (author), Halim, S. Zohra (author)The increased complexity of digitalized process systems requires advanced tools to detect and diagnose faults early to maintain safe operations. This study proposed a hybrid model that consists of Kernel Principal Component Analysis (kPCA) and DNNs that can be applied to detect and diagnose faults in various processes. The complex data is...journal article 2022
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McAllister, M. L. (author), Draycott, S. (author), Davey, T. (author), Yang, Y. (author), Adcock, T. A.A. (author), Liao, S. (author), van den Bremer, T.S. (author)Axisymmetric standing waves occur across a wide range of free surface flows. When these waves reach a critical height (steepness), wave breaking and jet formation occur. For travelling surface gravity waves, wave breaking is generally considered to limit wave height and reversible wave motion. In the ocean, the behaviour of directionally...journal article 2022
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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...journal article 2022
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Uncovering coal mining accident coverups: An alternative perspective on China's new safety narrativeYang, X. (author), Krul, K. (author), Sims, David (author)China has taken on a series of comprehensive institutional measures to improve the safety of its coal mining industry and workers. Official figures indicate similar reductions to both accidents and fatalities, from which a “new safety narrative” has emerged in official discourses. However, this view neglects the fact that many accidents are...journal article 2022
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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 Al<sub>3</sub>Ni<sub>2</sub>/Ni electrode with controlled phase composition and surface...journal article 2022
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Yang, F. (author), Fu, Dafang (author), Zevenbergen, C. (author), Rene, Eldon R. (author)Stormwater biofiltration systems (SBS) are a popular technology for mitigating the negative effects of urbanization on the hydrological processes and water quality in urban areas. However, little is known about SBS's long-term performance in actual field conditions. The findings of a review of the scientific literature on the long-term...review 2022
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Zhang, Chunbo (author), Hu, Mingming (author), Di Maio, F. (author), Sprecher, B. (author), Yang, Xining (author), Tukker, Arnold (author)The construction sector is the biggest driver of resource consumption and waste generation in Europe. The European Union (EU) is making efforts to move from its traditional linear resource and waste management system in the construction sector to a level of high circularity. Based on the theory of circular economy, a new paradigm called waste...review 2022
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Liu, C. (author), Yang, Lu (author), Li, Z. (author), Nie, Shuai (author), Hu, Chuanlin (author), Wang, Fazhou (author)Due to the satisfactory property and high productivity, heat-cured concretes have been widely used in engineering practice. However, heat curing process also brings some drawbacks that are detrimental to the long-term property of this material. To address this issue, lightweight fine aggregate (LWFA) was employed to provide internal curing ...journal article 2022
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Han, C. (author), Santbergen, R. (author), van Duffelen, Max (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Yang, G. (author), Zhang, Xiaodan (author), Zeman, M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Reducing indium consumption, which is related to the transparent conductive oxide (TCO) use, is a key challenge for scaling up silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell technology to terawatt level. In this work, we developed bifacial SHJ solar cells with reduced TCO thickness. We present three types of In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>-based TCOs,...journal article 2022
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Liang, Peijie (author), Pan, Zhiliang (author), Tang, Liang (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Yang, Daoguo (author), He, Siliang (author), Yan, Haidong (author)Based on molecular dynamics (MD), in this study, a model was established to simulate the initial coating morphology of silver paste by using a random algorithm, and the effects of different sizes of particles on sintering porosity were also analyzed. The MD result reveals that compared with the sintering process using large-scale silver...journal article 2022