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Tušar, M. (author), Poulikakos, L. D. (author), Kakar, M. R. (author), Pasquini, E. (author), Pasetto, M. (author), Porot, L. (author), Wang, D. (author), Varveri, Aikaterini (author), Jing, R. (author)RILEM TC-279 WMR task group TG 1 studied the performance of waste Polyethylene (PE) in bituminous binders and bituminous mixtures. Several laboratories participated in this study following a common protocol. Locally sources aggregates and bituminous binder and same source of waste PE were utilized. The binder experiments showed that at high...book chapter 2023
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Guo, Y. (author), Shi, Can (author), Zhao, Chunfa (author), Markine, V.L. (author), Jing, Guoqing (author)Crumb rubber (CR) has been proposed to apply in the ballast or sub-ballast layer for ballast degradation mitigation and vibration (noise) reduction. The CR can change the ballast layer stiffness, which can affect the train-track-subgrade dynamic performance and cause travel comfort and safety issues. Towards this, this study aims at...journal article 2022
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Guo, Y. (author), Wang, Shilei (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Yang, Fei (author), Liu, Guixian (author), Qiang, Weile (author), Wang, Yan (author)Ballast layer condition should be more regularly and accurately inspected to ensure safe train operation; however, traditional inspection methods cannot sufficiently fulfil this task. This paper presents a method of ground penetrating radar (GPR) application to reflect ballast layer fouling levels under diverse field conditions (annual gross...journal article 2022
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Guo, Y. (author), Liu, Guixian (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Qu, Jianjun (author), Wang, Shilei (author), Qiang, Weile (author)Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been applied for ballast layer inspection for two decades, mainly for the analysis of ballast layer fouling levels. However, some issues that affect the inspection quality remain unsolved, such as issues involving the GPR equipment quality (antenna) and the correlation between the GPR indicator and fouling...journal article 2022
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Ma, L. (author), Varveri, Aikaterini (author), Jing, R. (author), Kasbergen, C. (author), Erkens, S. (author)Moisture in bitumen and at the bitumen-aggregate interface affects the cohesive and adhesive properties of asphalt mixtures, which are critical for the service performance and durability of pavements. This paper aims to investigate the kinetics and thermodynamics of moisture transport in bitumen at various temperatures and relative humidity...journal article 2022
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Jing, R. (author), Apostolidis, P. (author), Liu, X. (author)In this study, a series of viscosity tests were performed to investigate various conditions, i.e. temperature, shear rate and dilution level, on the curing behavior of epoxy bitumen. The results show that curing rate of epoxy bitumen increased with temperature; high shear rate would interfere the formation of crosslinks in epoxy bitumen,...journal article 2022
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Guo, Y. (author), Xie, Jiale (author), Fan, Zheng (author), Markine, V.L. (author), Connolly, David P. (author), Jing, Guoqing (author)The properties of railway ballast material are affected by the local geologies and climatic environments from which the parent rock is sourced. These factors can make it challenging to select the most appropriate material for railway applications. To address this issue, this paper first reviews the means of ballast selection in complex...review 2022
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Moharekpour, Milad (author), Liu, Pengfei (author), Schmidt, Joshua (author), Oeser, Markus (author), Jing, R. (author)The Guide for Design of Pavement Structures (AASHTO 86/93) and Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) are two common methods to design continuously reinforced concrete pavement (CRCP) published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) in the USA. The AASHTO 86/93 is based on empirical...journal article 2022
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Pei, Zhongshi (author), Xu, Meng (author), Cao, Jiwei (author), Feng, Decheng (author), Hu, Wei (author), Ren, Junda (author), Jing, R. (author), Yi, Junyan (author)Asphalt aging often leads to rapid degradation of road performance, which seriously affects the service life of asphalt pavement. Exploring the influence of asphalt oil sources, asphalt grades, and filler types on asphalt microcharacteristics in the asphalt aging process can provide an essential reference to guide asphalt pavement maintenance...journal article 2022
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Wang, Shilei (author), Liu, Guixian (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Feng, Qiankuan (author), Liu, Hengbai (author), Guo, Y. (author)In the past 20 years, many studies have been performed on ballast layer inspection and condition evaluation with ground penetrating radar (GPR). GPR is a non-destructive means that can reflect the ballast layer condition (fouling, moisture) by analysing the received signal variation. Even though GPR detection/inspection for ballast layers has...review 2022
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Li, Xinyu (author), He, Yuan (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Jing, Xiaojun (author)Human activity recognition (HAR) plays a vital role in many applications, such as surveillance, in-home monitoring, and health care. Portable radar sensor has been increasingly used in HAR systems in combination with deep learning (DL). However, it is both difficult and time-consuming to obtain a large-scale radar dataset with reliable labels...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Y. (author), Liu, X. (author), Ren, S. (author), Jing, R. (author), Lin, P. (author), Apostolidis, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Wang, Xuancang (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author)Lignin, one of the most abundant natural polymers, has been extensively studied as an additive in bituminous binders. Even though the lignin improves the overall resistance against oxidative aging of bitumen, it could lead to high thermal cracking sensitivity. In this study, a bio-oil (i.e., rapeseed oil) is implemented in lignin-modified...journal article 2022
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Jing, R. (author), Erkens, S. (author)This study aimed to explore the long-term aging influence on chemo rheological properties and develop novel consecutive models for the long-term aging reaction kinetics of bitumen. The results revealed that the aging index was significantly dependent on the types of selected parameters. The Zero-order model was suitable to describe the long-term...journal article 2022
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Liu, Guixian (author), Peng, Zhan (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Wang, Shilei (author), Li, Yaonan (author), Guo, Y. (author)Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a popular technology for inspecting railway ballast layer, mainly on the ballast fouling level. However, different GPR antennas with different frequencies are suitable for different inspection emphasis and diverse railway lines (weather and sub-structure). In addition, the full-scale track model (with...journal article 2022
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Niu, D. (author), Zhang, Zhao (author), Meng, Jiandang (author), Yang, Zhengxian (author), Jing, R. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Sheng, Yanping (author)The proper disposal of steel slag has always been a great challenge for the metallurgical industry in China and around the world. In this work, the steel slag aggregate (SSA) was surface pretreated (PSSA) and applied into asphalt mixture. The adhesive behavior between the bitumen and five different types of aggregates (i.e., limestone, diorite,...journal article 2022
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Jing, Guoqing (author), Aela, Peyman (author), Zhou, Qiang (author), Jia, W. (author)The use of recycled materials is a new tendency in the field of railway engineering. Steel slag aggregates (SSA) are one of the recycled materials derived from the steel industry. The application of SSA in ballasted railway tracks requires mechanical examination. In the present paper, the shear behavior of the ballast layer constructed by SSA...conference paper 2022
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Jing, R. (author), Apostolidis, P. (author), Liu, X. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author)Pavement materials containing epoxy-asphalt are mainly used to enhance the fatigue cracking resistance of surfacing layers on bridges. These materials have also been proposed for roadways, but limited field data are available. In this research, a fully instrumented epoxy-modified asphalt surfacing layer was applied to measure strain responses in...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Zhao (author), Liu, Kai (author), Chong, Dan (author), Niu, D. (author), Lin, P. (author), Liu, X. (author), Niu, Yanhui (author), Jing, R. (author)To purify severe air pollution in traffic-intensive urban areas and tunnels, an innovative type of photocatalytic micro-surfacing mixture (PMM) was designed, which was enhanced by polypropylene (PP) fiber and nano-TiO<sub>2</sub>. In this work, the road performance of sixteen PMMs with the different contents of PP and nano-TiO<sub>2</sub>...journal article 2022
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Guo, Y. (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Markine, V.L. (author)Railway ballast is normally made of crushed rocks with grading (particle size distributions). Ballast is inevitably suffering from more rapid degradation. Because ballast keeps undergoing and dissipating most of the train loadings, furthermore, the train speed and freight weight are increasing, causing more intensive loadings to ballast. To...book chapter 2022
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Guo, Y. (author), Wang, Xinyu (author), Lian, Dong (author), Wan, Hongyu (author), Jing, Guoqing (author)The Sichuan−Tibet railway is built under some difficult situations, including limited ballast bed profile, frequent earthquakes and large diurnal temperature variation. These difficulties cause insufficient lateral resistance of ballasted track, which is an urgent problem for the stability and resilience of the continuously welded rail (CWR)....journal article 2022