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Li, Z. (author), Liang, X. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Ye, G. (author)The high autogenous shrinkage of alkali-activated materials made from slag and fly ash is recognised as a major drawback with regard to the use as construction materials. In this study, metakaolin was introduced into the alkali-activated slag-fly ash (AASF) paste to mitigate the autogenous shrinkage. The shrinkage mitigation mechanism of...journal article 2021
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Li, Z. (author), Beltran, Irving Alfredo Flores (author), Chen, Y. (author), Šavija, B. (author), Ye, G. (author)In this study, glass wool waste was utilized by means of alkali-activation with blast furnace slag. Reaction kinetics, workability, mechanical properties and autogenous shrinkage of alkali-activated slag and glass wool were comprehensively studied. Results indicated an optimal modulus (SiO<sub>2</sub>/Na<sub>2</sub>O) of the activator related...journal article 2021
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Li, Z. (author), Delsaute, Brice (author), Lu, Tianshi (author), Kostiuchenko, A. (author), Staquet, Stéphanie (author), Ye, G. (author)This study aims to compare the developments of mechanical properties and autogenous shrinkage related properties of alkali-activated materials-based concrete (AC) and ordinary Portland cement-based concrete (OC) against curing age and degree of reaction. Temperature Stress Testing Machines are utilized to monitor the evolution of the internal...journal article 2021
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Huang, Xinxing (author), Li, Yifan (author), Tian, Zhan (author), Ye, Qinghua (author), Ke, Q. (author), Fan, Dongli (author), Mao, Ganquan (author), Chen, Aifang (author), Liu, Junguo (author)Efficient and accurate streamflow predictions are important for urban water management. Data-driven models, especially neural network (NN) models can predict streamflow fast, while the results are uncertain in some complex river systems. Physically based models can reveal the underlying physics, but it is relatively slow and computationally...journal article 2021
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Hong, H. (author), Ye, Li (author), Li, Ke (author), Sarro, Pasqualina M (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Liu, Zewen (author)In this paper, we report a modified three step anisotropic wet etching (TSWE) method to fabricate solid-state silicon nanoslits. The slit-opening process is performed by <111> crystal plane etching. The etching rate of the <111> crystal plane is reasonably slow as it is only 1/45 of the <100> etching rate, thus allowing and...conference paper 2021
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Li, Z. (author), Zhang, Shizhe (author), Liang, X. (author), Kostiuchenko, A. (author), Ye, G. (author)Alkali activated concrete (AAC) has not received broader industry acceptance, one reason of which lies in the uncertainties in the durability against shrinkage and potential cracking. Many studies reported that AAC exhibit larger autogenous shrinkage than OPC concrete. However, it is unable to deduce that AAC should show higher cracking...book chapter 2021
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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
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Li, Z. (author), Wyrzykowski, Mateusz (author), Dong, H. (author), Granja, José (author), Azenha, Miguel (author), Lura, Pietro (author), Ye, G. (author)In this study, internal curing by superabsorbent polymers (SAP) is utilized to mitigate self-desiccation and autogenous shrinkage of alkali-activated slag (AAS) pastes. Absorption and desorption kinetics of SAP incorporated in AAS pastes were studied with X-ray tomography. Internal curing delayed the peak of the rate of heat liberation but...journal article 2020
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Li, Z. (author), Zhang, Shizhe (author), Liang, X. (author), Ye, G. (author)This study aims to investigate the cracking potential of alkali-activated slag (AAS) and alkali-activated slag-fly ash (AASF) concrete subjected to restrained autogenous shrinkage. Temperature Stress Testing Machine (TSTM) is utilized, for the first time, to monitor the stress evolution and to measure the cracking time of alkali-activated...journal article 2020
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Li, Z. (author), Yao, X. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Lu, T. (author), Ye, G. (author)Alkali-activated slag and fly ash (AASF) materials are emerging as promising alternatives to conventional Portland cement. Despite the superior mechanical properties of AASF materials, they are known to show large autogenous shrinkage, which hinders the wide application of these eco-friendly materials in infrastructure. To mitigate the...journal article 2020
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Li, Z. (author), Zhang, Shizhe (author), Liang, X. (author), Granja, José (author), Azenha, Miguel (author), Ye, G. (author)This study investigates the influences of internal curing on reducing the autogenous shrinkage of alkali-activated slag/fly ash (AASF) paste. The influences of internal curing with superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) on the reactions and microstructure of AASF paste are investigated. It is found that the SAPs absorb liquid mainly before the...journal article 2020
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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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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