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Faucon, L.E.K. (author), Boot, T. (author), Riemslag, A.C. (author), Scott, S.P. (author), Liu, Ping (author), Popovich, V. (author)In this work, the hydrogen fatigue of pipeline steel X60, its girth welds and weld defects were investigated through in situ fatigue testing. A novel in situ gaseous hydrogen charging fatigue set-up was developed, which involves a sample geometry that mimics a small-scale pipeline with high internal hydrogen gas pressure. The effect of hydrogen...journal article 2023
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Fang, B. (author), Moultos, O. (author), Lü, Tao (author), Sun, Jiaxin (author), Liu, Z. (author), Ning, Fulong (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author)Hydrate dissociation is often accompanied by the formation of nanobubbles. Knowledge of the effects of nanobubbles on hydrate dissociation is essential for understanding the dynamic behavior of the hydrate phase change and improving the gas production efficiency. Here, molecular dynamics simulations were performed to study the methane hydrate...journal article 2023
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Geng, S. (author), Yang, M. (author), Mitici, Mihaela (author), Liu, Sifeng (author)System resilience characterizes the capability of maintaining the required functionality under disruptions, which is of great significance in evaluating the productivity and safety of complex engineered systems. Although most studies conduct resilience assessment from qualitative and quantitative perspectives, system functionality that reflects...journal article 2023
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Du, Guodong (author), Zou, Yuan (author), Zhang, Xudong (author), Li, Z. (author), Liu, Qi (author)The autonomous vehicle is widely applied in various ground operations, in which motion planning and tracking control are becoming the key technologies to achieve autonomous driving. In order to further improve the performance of motion planning and tracking control, an efficient hierarchical framework containing motion planning and tracking...journal article 2023
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Lin, P. (author), Liu, X. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Welvaarts, Bart (author), Brouns, Koen (author)Cold in-place recycling is gaining more attention worldwide because of its lower energy consumption, while the normally used asphalt emulsion and foamed asphalt cannot meet this requirement of short traffic disturbance and road performance of the surface layer. In this research, a polyurethane-modified cold binder (PMCB) was designed and...journal article 2023
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Cheng, Xiaoyang (author), Ibraim, Erdin (author), Liu, Haoyuan (author), Pisano, F. (author), Diambra, Andrea (author)This paper uses 3D numerical analyses to investigate the stress path experienced by soil elements around large diameter piles in sand subjected to monotonic drained lateral loading. Inspection of the loading-induced stresses in the soil revealed the multiaxial nature of these stress paths, which are characterised by rotation of one or more...journal article 2023
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Fang, Jiaxing (author), Dai, Zihan (author), Li, Xiaoming (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author), Savić, Dragan (author), Medema, G.J. (author), van der Meer, Walter (author), Liu, G. (author)Biofilm detachment contributes to water quality deterioration. However, the contributions of biofilm detachment from different pipes have not been quantified or compared. Following the introduction of partial reverse osmosis (RO) in drinking water production, this study analyzed particles at customers’ ends and tracked their origins to water...journal article 2023
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Wang, F. (author), Cetinay, Hale (author), He, Zhidong (author), Liu, L. (author), Van Mieghem, P.F.A. (author), Kooij, Robert (author)For this study, we investigated efficient strategies for the recovery of individual links in power grids governed by the direct current (DC) power flow model, under random link failures. Our primary objective was to explore the efficacy of recovering failed links based solely on topological network metrics. In total, we considered 13 recovery...journal article 2023
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Brandetti, L. (author), Mulders, S.P. (author), Liu, Y. (author), Watson, S.J. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)The combined wind speed estimator and tip-speed ratio (WSE–TSR) tracking wind turbine control scheme has seen recent and increased traction from the wind industry. The modern control scheme provides a flexible trade-off between power and load objectives. On the other hand, the Kω2 controller is often used based on its simplicity and steady-state...journal article 2023
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Liu, Y. (author), Xu, M. (author), Portela, L. (author), Garbin, V. (author)Emulsions stabilized by nanoparticles, known as Pickering emulsions, exhibit remarkable stability, which enables applications ranging from encapsulation, to advanced materials, to chemical conversion. The layer of nanoparticles at the interface of Pickering droplets is a semi-permeable barrier between the two liquid phases, which can affect the...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Peng (author), Liu, Wei (author), Liu, Siming (author), Tian, Xu (author), Li, Yimiao (author), Huang, Y. (author)Corrosion poses a significant risk to the safety of energy pipelines, while landslide disasters emerge as the primary threat responsible for triggering pipeline failures across mountainous areas. To date, there is limited research focused on the safety of energy pipelines considering the synergistic effect of corrosion and landslides. The...journal article 2023
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Hong, H. (author), Wei, Jiangtao (author), Lei, Xin (author), Chen, Haiyun (author), Sarro, Pasqualina M (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Liu, Zewen (author)Correction to: Microsystems & Nanoengineering published online 16 May 2023 Correction Following publication of the original article<sup>1</sup>, it was noticed that the phrase ‘DNA sequencing’ is incorrect, which should be replaced by ‘biosensing’. The original paper has been updated.journal article 2023
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Liu, Chengen (author), Leus, G.J.T. (author), Isufi, E. (author)The edge flow reconstruction task consists of retreiving edge flow signals from corrupted or incomplete measurements. This is typically solved by a regularized optimization problem on higher-order networks such as simplicial complexes and the corresponding regularizers are chosen based on prior knowledge. Tailoring this prior to the setting...journal article 2023
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Liu, Minghui (author), Wang, Ju (author), Peng, Z. (author)To investigate energy-saving approaches in wastewater treatment plants and decrease aeration energy consumption, this study successfully established a floc-granule coexistence system in a sequencing batch airlift reactor (SBAR) employing micro-bubble aeration. The analysis focused on granule formation and pollutant removal under various...journal article 2023
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Guo, Z. (author), Qiu, Jingping (author), Kirichek, Alex (author), Zhou, Hao (author), Liu, C. (author), Yang, Lei (author)The increasing amount of solid waste, e.g., waste tyres from car industry and tailings from mine operations, causes substantial environmental and societal issues. The recycled tyre polymer fibre (RTPF) reinforced cemented tailings backfill (CTB) is a kind of composite that can treat waste tyres and tailings simultaneously and realize green...journal article 2023
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Shetgaonkar, A.D. (author), Liu, L. (author), Lekić, A. (author), Popov, M. (author), Palensky, P. (author)Meshed offshore grids (MOGs) present a viable option for a reliable bulk power transmission topology. The station-level control of MOGs requires faster dynamics along with multiple objective functions, which is realized by the model predictive control (MPC). This paper provides control, and protection design for the Modular Multilevel...journal article 2023
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Liu, Z. (author), Baluchová, S. (author), Frota Sartori, A. (author), Li, Z. (author), Gonzalez Garcia, Y. (author), Schreck, Matthias (author), Buijnsters, J.G. (author)In this work, three distinct heteroepitaxial single-crystal boron-doped diamond (SC-BDD) electrodes were fabricated and subjected to detailed surface analysis and electrochemical characterization. Specifically, the heteroepitaxy approach allowed to synthesize large-area (1 cm<sup>2</sup>) and heavily-doped (100)-oriented SC-BDD electrodes....journal article 2023
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Tan, C. (author), Wang, S. (author), Yang, Huiru (author), Huang, Qianming (author), Li, Shizhen (author), Liu, X. (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Short-wave ultraviolet (also called UVC) irradiation is a well-adopted method of viral inactivation due to its ability to damage genetic material. A fundamental problem with the UVC inactivation method is that its mechanism of action on viruses is still unknown at the molecular level. To address this problem, herein we investigate the...journal article 2023
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Han, Fei (author), Zhang, Mengru (author), Li, Zhe (author), Liu, Zhe (author), Han, Yufei (author), Li, L. (author), Zhou, Weizhi (author)Marine microorganisms have an inherent advantage in the treatment of saline wastewater due to their halophilic properties. Ammonium assimilation is the most important and common nitrogen conversion pathway in the ocean, which means that it may be a suitable nitrogen removal strategy under high salinity conditions. However, the targeted...journal article 2023
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Wang, J. (author), Yan, Xin ping (author), Boersma, B.J. (author), Lu, Ming jian (author), Liu, Xiaohua (author)Printed circuit heat exchangers (PCHE) are designed to improve heat recovery and energy saving in supercritical CO<sub>2</sub> (S-CO<sub>2</sub>) power cycles. In the current study, a modified channel PCHE is proposed based on the regular straight channel and a zigzag channel. The thermal–hydraulic performance of four different types of PCHE...journal article 2023