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Bandyopadhyay, S. (author), Chandra Mouli, G.R. (author), Qin, Z. (author), Ramirez Elizondo, L.M. (author), Bauer, P. (author)Microgrid with integrated photo-voltaics (PV) and battery storage system (BSS) is a promising technology for future residential applications. Optimally sizing the PV system and BSS can maximise self-sufficiency, grid relief, and at the same time can be cost-effective by exploiting tariff incentives. To that end, this paper presents a...journal article 2019
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Qin, Xiaoqiong (author), Zhang, Lu (author), Yang, M. (author), Luo, Heng (author), Liao, Mingsheng (author), Ding, Xiaoli (author)Arch bridges are important transportation infrastructures widely distributed in China, but they are prone to structural defects due to aging without routine inspection and maintenance. Therefore, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of these bridges is urgently needed by civil engineers to effectively reduce the risk of bridge damage or...journal article 2018
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Qin, Xiaoqiong (author), Zhang, Lu (author), Ding, Xiaoli (author), Liao, Mingsheng (author), Yang, M. (author)Temperature variation plays a significant role in the long-term structural behaviour of civil infrastructures, but very few quantitative studies have measured and analysed the infrastructures' global thermal dilation because of their large sizes and geometric complexities. The modern Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry ...journal article 2018
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Yang, M. (author), Yang, Tianliang (author), Zhang, L. (author), Lin, Jinxin (author), Qin, Xiaoqiong (author), Liao, Mingsheng (author)Large-scale reclamation projects during the past decades have been recognized as one of the driving factors behind land subsidence in coastal areas. However, the pattern of temporal evolution in reclamation settlements has rarely been analyzed. In this work, we study the spatio-temporal evolution pattern of Linggang New City (LNC) in Shanghai...journal article 2018
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Qin, Z. (author), Shen, Yanfeng (author), Loh, Poh Chiang (author), Wang, Huai (author), Blaabjerg, Frede (author)A Dual Active Bridge (DAB) converter can achieve a wide high-efficiency range when its input and output voltages are equal, assuming a 1:1 turns ratio for its isolation transformer. If its input or output voltage is doubled, efficiency of the DAB will drop significantly, because of the introduction of hard switching and high circulating power....journal article 2018
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Narayan, N.S. (author), Papakosta, Thekla (author), Vega Garita, V.E. (author), Qin, Z. (author), Popovic, J. (author), Bauer, P. (author), Zeman, M. (author)The rapid increase in the adoption of Solar Home Systems (SHS) in recent times hopes to ameliorate the global problem of energy poverty. The battery is a vital but usually the most expensive part of an SHS; owing to the least lifetime among other SHS components, it is also the first to fail. Estimating battery lifetime is a critical task for...journal article 2018
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Shekhar, A. (author), Soeiro, Thiago B. (author), Qin, Z. (author), Ramirez Elizondo, L.M. (author), Bauer, P. (author)An important step in Voltage-Source Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) design is the selection of adequate semiconductor blocking voltage class. This paper highlights that particularly for grid connected medium voltage applications, the choice of suitable switch blocking voltage class is not so straightforward. The market available switch...conference paper 2018
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Shekhar, A. (author), Ramirez Elizondo, L.M. (author), Qin, Z. (author), Bauer, P. (author)Back-to-back Modular multilevel converters (MMC) for medium voltage dc (MVDC) distribution link applications offer exciting opportunities due to its superior harmonic performance and high efficiency. Based on the steady state equations, it is shown that under specific active and reactive power operation, an increase in dc link voltage can be...conference paper 2018
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Qin, Hongbo (author), Kuang, Tianfeng (author), Luan, Xinghe (author), Li, Wangyun (author), Xiao, Jing (author), Zhang, Ping (author), Yang, Daoguo (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The mechanical and electronic properties of two GaN crystals, wurtzite and zinc-blende GaN, under various hydrostatic pressures were investigated using first principles calculations. The results show that the lattice constants of the two GaN crystals calculated in this study are close to previous experimental results, and the two GaN crystals...journal article 2018
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Yu, Y. (author), Narayan, N.S. (author), Vega Garita, V.E. (author), Popovic, J. (author), Qin, Z. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author), Bauer, P. (author), Zeman, M. (author)The past few years have seen strong growth of solar-based off-grid energy solutions such as Solar Home Systems (SHS) as a means to ameliorate the grave problem of energy poverty. Battery storage is an essential component of SHS. An accurate battery model can play a vital role in SHS design. Knowing the dynamic behaviour of the battery is...journal article 2018
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Beloqui Larumbe, L. (author), Qin, Z. (author), Bauer, P. (author)Several efforts are being done nowadays to improve the modelling of Wind Turbine Systems (WTSs) for harmonic analysis in Offshore Wind Power Plants (OWPPs). Due to the high influence of the different control structures in the Power Electronic Converters (PECs) on the dynamic response of a WTS, each structure needs to be modelled specifically....conference paper 2018
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Qin, Xiaoqiong (author), Yang, M. (author), Zhang, L. (author), Yang, Tianliang (author), Liao, Mingsheng (author)Since the Persistent Scatterer Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Interferometry (PSI) technology allows the detection of ground subsidence with millimeter accuracy, it is becoming one of the most powerful and economical means for health diagnosis of major transportation infrastructures. However, structures of different types may suffer from...journal article 2017
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Qin, Xiaoqiong (author), Liao, Mingsheng (author), Zhang, L (author), Yang, M. (author)Thermal dilation is a vital component of deformation along the extensive railway network infrastructure. To monitor subtle deformation, the synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) technique has been adopted as a space-borne geodetic tool. However, InSAR applications in railway stability surveillance have been largely limited by the...journal article 2017
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Qin, Hongbo (author), Luan, Xinghe (author), Feng, Chuang (author), Yang, Daoguo (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)For the limitation of experimental methods in crystal characterization, in this study, the mechanical, thermodynamic and electronic properties of wurtzite and zinc-blende GaN crystals were investigated by first-principles calculations based on density functional theory. Firstly, bulk moduli, shear moduli, elastic moduli and Poisson's ratios...journal article 2017
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Fast ℓ1-regularized space-Time adaptive processing using alternating direction method of multipliersQin, Lilong (author), Wu, Manqing (author), Wang, X. (author), Dong, Zhen (author)Motivated by the sparsity of filter coefficients in full-dimension space-Time adaptive processing (STAP) algorithms, this paper proposes a fast ℓ1-regularized STAP algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers to accelerate the convergence and reduce the calculations. The proposed algorithm uses a splitting variable to...journal article 2017
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Kooiman, Klazina (author), van Rooij, Tom (author), Qin, Bin (author), Mastik, Frits (author), Vos, H.J. (author), Versluis, Michel (author), Klibanov, Alexander L. (author), de Jong, N. (author), Villanueva, Flordeliza S. (author), Chen, Xucai (author)Acoustic behavior of lipid-coated microbubbles has been widely studied, which has led to several numerical microbubble dynamics models that incorporate lipid coating behavior, such as buckling and rupture. In this study we investigated the relationship between micro-bubble acoustic and lipid coating behavior on a nanosecond scale by using...journal article 2017
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Qin, Caiyan (author), Zhang, Chaoning (author), Lu, H. (author)Due to its simple mechanical structure and high motion stability, the H-shaped platform has been increasingly widely used in precision measuring, numerical control machining and semiconductor packaging equipment, etc. The H-shaped platform is normally driven by multiple (three) permanent magnet synchronous linear motors. The main challenges for...journal article 2017
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Liu, M. (author), Li, D. (author), Qin, P. (author), Liu, C. (author), Wang, H. (author), Wang, F. (author)Networks can be used to describe the interconnections among individuals, which play an important role in the spread of disease. Although the small-world effect has been found to have a significant impact on epidemics in single networks, the small-world effect on epidemics in interconnected networks has rarely been considered. Here, we study the...journal article 2015
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Zhang, C. (author), Qin, C. (author)This research is conducted to explore the growing trend of private vehicles in Beijing, China, in the coming 25 years using the system dynamics (SD) method. The vensim software is used to build the SD model and do simulations. First, the paper introduces the background of the private vehicles in Beijing and analyzes the issues of traffic...conference paper 2014
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- Afanasyev, M. (author), Kip, N. (author), Qin, C. (author), Heimovaara, T.J. (author), van Veen, H. (author), Hassanizadeh, M. (author) conference paper 2013