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Zhang, Jing (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Ren, Shaoting (author)Glacier and snow are sensitive indicators of regional climate variability. In the early 21st century, glaciers in the West Kunlun and Pamir regions showed stable or even slightly positive mass budgets, and this is anomalous in a worldwide context of glacier recession. We studied the evolution of snow cover to understand whether it could...journal article 2021
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Li, Yuanli (author), Xiang, Pengcheng (author), You, Kairui (author), Guo, Jin (author), Liu, Z. (author), Ren, Hong (author)Mega infrastructure projects (MIPs) have become increasingly important to the realization of sustainable development in China. Sustainable development is a process of dynamic balance, and coordinating the triple bottom line (the environmental, social, and economic dimensions) will enable more sustainable development of MIPs. However, previous...journal article 2021
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Verma, Amrit Shankar (author), Jiang, Zhiyu (author), Ren, Zhengru (author), Caboni, Marco (author), Verhoef, Hans (author), van der Mijle-Meijer, Harald (author), Castro, Saullo G.P. (author), Teuwen, Julie J.E. (author)Rain-induced leading-edge erosion (LEE) of wind turbine blades (WTBs) is associated with high repair and maintenance costs. The effects of LEE can be triggered in less than 1 to 2 years for some wind turbine sites, whereas it may take several years for others. In addition, the growth of erosion may also differ for different blades and...journal article 2021
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Ren, Jie (author), Wang, Yuan (author), Feng, Di (author), Gong, J. (author)Large volumes of carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) captured from carbon emission source can be stored in deep saline aquifers as a mean of mitigating climate change. The deep saline aquifers are naturally heterogeneous at multiple scales. It is important to generate representative multiscale heterogeneous fields of various hydrogeologic...journal article 2021
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Ren, Zhengru (author), Han, Xu (author), Verma, Amrit Shankar (author), Dirdal, Johann Alexander (author), Skjetne, Roger (author)Floating structures oscillate in waves, where these wave-induced motions may be critical for various marine operations. An important consideration is thereby given to the sea states at the planning and operating stages for an offshore project. The most important information extracted from a sea state is the directional wave spectrum,...journal article 2021
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Ren, Shaoting (author), Miles, Evan S. (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Kneib, Marin (author), Buri, Pascal (author), McCarthy, Michael J. (author), Shaw, Thomas E. (author), Yang, Wei (author), Pellicciotti, Francesca (author)Glacier albedo determines the net shortwave radiation absorbed at the glacier surface and plays a crucial role in glacier energy and mass balance. Remote sensing techniques are efficient means to retrieve glacier surface albedo over large and inaccessible areas and to study its variability. However, corrections of anisotropic reflectance of...journal article 2021
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Verma, Amrit Shankar (author), Jiang, Zhiyu (author), Ren, Zhengru (author), Hu, Weifei (author), Teuwen, Julie J.E. (author)The presence of rain-induced leading edge erosion of wind turbine blades (WTBs) necessitates the development of erosion models. One of the essential parameters for erosion modeling is the relative impact velocity between rain droplets and the rotating blade. Based on this parameter, the erosion damage rate of a WTB is calculated to estimate...journal article 2021
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Ren, Mengmeng (author), Wang, Shuzhong (author), Romero-Anton, N. (author), Zhao, Junxue (author), Zou, Chong (author), Roekaerts, D.J.E.M. (author)Eddy dissipation concept (EDC) model and flamelet generated manifolds (FGM) model are developed separately to study the temperature profiles and extinction limits of non-premixed hydrothermal flames. Predictions by the two models are evaluated comparatively by experimental data in literatures. FGM model shows relatively better prediction of...journal article 2021
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Zhang, Jing (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Ren, Shaoting (author)Monitoring glacier flow is vital to understand the response of mountain glaciers to environmental forcing in the context of global climate change. Seasonal and interannual variability of surface velocity in the temperate glaciers of the Parlung Zangbo Basin (PZB) has attracted significant attention. Detailed patterns in glacier surface...journal article 2021
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Ren, Zhengru (author), Verma, Amrit Shankar (author), Ataei, Behfar (author), Halse, Karl Henning (author), Hildre, Hans Petter (author)Being one of the most commonly used offshore operations, offshore lifting operations become increasingly challenging due to the gradually growing size and weight of payloads. The research on automatic control in lifting operations, e.g., anti-swing control and heave compensation, only considers simple-shaped payloads, such as lumped-mass...journal article 2021
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Xiao, Yue (author)To further explore the long-term aging behaviors of bitumen from the multiscale perspectives, the experimental characterization and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation methods were performed. Series of chemical properties for the virgin and various aged bitumen were evaluated using the TCL-FID, ATR-FTIR, Elemental analysis and GPC tests. The...journal article 2021
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Wang, H. (author), Fan, W. (author), Erkens, S. (author)The chemo-rheological properties of crumb rubber modified bitumen are always unstable due to the mutable and uncontrollable swelling-degradation degree of crumb rubber in bitumen matrix. The study aimed at exploring the continuous swelling and degradation behaviors of crumb rubber modified bitumen (CRMB) considering the influence of rubber size...journal article 2021
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Xu, Jian (author), Lin, P. (author)Porous asphalt pavement is widely used due to its adequate water permeability, noise reduction and skid resistance. The study aims at exploring the potential of using the crumb rubber/styrene–butadienestyrene (CR/SBS) modified bitumen as high-viscosity binder for porous asphalt mixture, and investigating the effect of swelling and degradation...journal article 2021
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Lin, P. (author), Liu, X. (author), Apostolidis, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Ren, S. (author)Observing the microstructure of bituminous binders with an environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) can contribute significantly to reveal the underlying rejuvenation mechanism. In this study, three rejuvenators were selected to regenerate the aged SBS modified binders at five dosages, and their rheology was evaluated using a dynamic...journal article 2021
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Lin, P. (author), Apostolidis, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Li, Mingliang (author), Xu, Jian (author)Lignin, as a major waste from biofuel and paper industries, could be utilized as a modifier to enhance the relevant performance of bitumen. However, the effects of lignin on the thermodynamics properties and molecular structure of bitumen are rarely studied. Meanwhile, the potential modification mechanism of lignin modified bitumen is still...journal article 2021
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Ren, Jie (author), Sun, Hongfang (author), Li, Qun (author), Li, Z. (author), Ling, Li (author), Zhang, Xiaogang (author), Wang, Yanshuai (author), Xing, Feng (author)One-part alkali-activated slag (AAS) binders are more promising in large-scale constructions because one-part mixing procedure is safer and easier to handle compared to normal two-part method. Thus, this study aims at investigating different properties of one-part AAS binders and control samples prepared using the two-part method. Experimental...journal article 2021
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Ren, Wuwei (author), Jiang, Jingjing (author), Di Costanzo Mata, Aldo (author), Kalyanov, Alexander (author), Ripoll, Jorge (author), Lindner, S.A. (author), Charbon-Iwasaki-Charbon, E. (author), Zhang, C. (author), Rudin, Markus (author), Wolf, Martin (author)Fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT) emerges as a powerful non-invasive imaging tool with the ability to resolve fluorescence signals from sources located deep in living tissues. Yet, the accuracy of FMT reconstruction depends on the deviation of the assumed optical properties from the actual values. In this work, we improved the accuracy...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Gangqiang (author), Zheng, Ganlin (author), Ren, Tianhui (author), Zeng, Xiangqiong (author), van der Heide, E. (author)In order to reduce the damage to tissue and fill the interstices between fibers, multifilament sutures are frequently treated with certain coating materials. The objective of this study was to create and characterize dopamine hydrochloride (DA) and carboxymethyl chitosan (CMCS) coatings on surgical sutures and investigate their effects on the...journal article 2020
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Ren, D. (author), Houben, L.J.M. (author)Unlike the notched specimens for conventional concrete fracture tests, this paper introduces a deformation-controlled uniaxial tensile test on an un-notched specimen. The surface of the dog bone-shaped specimen is a second order parabolic curve, and the gradual change in the specimen shape does not lead to extreme stress concentrations....journal article 2020
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Ren, Shaoting (author), Menenti, M. (author), Jia, Li (author), Zhang, Jing (author), Zhang, Jingxiao (author), Li, Xin (author)Mountain glaciers are excellent indicators of climate change and have an important role in the terrestrial water cycle and food security in many parts of the world. Glaciers are the major water source of rivers and lakes in the Nyainqentanglha Mountains (NM) region, where the glacier area has the second largest extent on the Tibetan Plateau....journal article 2020