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Deng, Feilian (author), Zuo, Chenjia (author), Liu, Yanbo (author), Liu, Xianpeng (author)The incorporation of macro fibers have been an effective method to improve the mechanical and durability properties of concrete. As the mechanical properties of Macro fiber reinforced concrete are mostly tested at room temperatures, the effect of ambient temperature on the mechanical properties have been rarely reported. In this investigation,...conference paper 2021
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Wang, Haochuan (author), Feng, Pan (author), Geng, Zifan (author), Liu, Qi (author)The deterioration of organic coatings on concrete is closely linked to the efficiency in the protection process of reinforced structures. In the present work, polyurea resin and epoxy resin, which are widely used engineering coatings, were selected to measure and compare the performance under artificial aging. Fourier Transform infrared...conference paper 2021
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Zuo, Chenjia (author), Liu, Yu (author), Liu, Yanbo (author)Transport of chlorides is one of the most critical factors determining the service life of concrete structures under ocean environments, and diffusion is usually regarded as the major mechanism for the transport of chloride ions into concrete. As chloride diffusivity is affected by temperature, most existing service life prediction models use...conference paper 2021
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Zuo, Chenjia (author), Zhang, Yixiang (author), Tong, Yudong (author), Liu, Yanbo (author)Synthetic fibers have been widely studied as reinforcing materials to increase the mechanical and durability properties of concrete. According to its diameter, fibers can be categorized as micro and macro (or coarse) fibers. As most research focuses on the mechanical properties of fiber reinforced concrete, its chloride permeability properties...conference paper 2021
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Ye, Shaoxiong (author), Feng, Pan (author), Liu, Yao (author), Liu, Jiaping (author)The nanoscale dissolution flux of tricalcium aluminate (C3A) in flowing water is characterized in situ by Digital Holographic Microscopy (DHM). The pure dissolution of C3A in flowing water with a flow rate of 34 ml·min-1 before the precipitation of hydrated phases only lasted about one quarter of a second, and the pure dissolution rate mostly...conference paper 2021
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Liu, Qing-feng (author), Mao, Li-xuan (author), Hu, Zhi (author)Existing reinforced concrete structures experience severe durability degradation when subjected to alkali–silica reaction (ASR) and chloride attack. A special electrochemical rehabilitation treatment, containing lithium compound anolyte, has been developed to drive lithium ions into concrete as well as remove chlorides simultaneously, for...conference paper 2021
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Wu, Xintong (author), Huang, Haoliang (author), Liu, Hao (author), Hu, Jie (author), Wei, Jiangxiong (author), Yu, Qijun (author)In this study, a new concept on self healing of cracks that the ingressive ions in the crack is chemically bound to improve the self-healing efficiency was proposed for cracked cementitious materials in a marine environment. Thermodynamic modeling was performed to determine the appropriate masses and ratio of Ca2+ and Al3+ provided by chemical...conference paper 2021
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Gu, Chunping (author), Ji, Yongjie (author), Yang, Yang (author), Liu, Jintao (author), Ni, Tongyuan (author)Sewage sludge ash (SSA) is the combustion residue of the sewage sludge obtained from wastewater treatment plants. In China, SSA normally contains high content of SO3, which may cause detrimental effect on the volume stability of cement-based materials. This study investigated the effect of sulfate-rich SSA (SR-SSA) on the volume deformation and...conference paper 2021
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Pang, Min (author), Sun, Zhenping (author), Ji, Yanliang (author), Yang, Jingbin (author), Wang, Peiming (author), Xu, Yaling (author), Li, Huanhuan (author), Liu, Jiaying (author), Li, Fei (author)Characteristics of fly ash(FA) blended mortars (50%, 70% and 90%) at different curing ages (28 days and 180 days) under ammonium chloride solution(ACS) leaching were investigated. Mass loss under leaching, initial CaO content, Ca(OH)2 content(CH), content of chemical bonded water, and hydration degree of blended pastes were tested by XRF and DSC...conference paper 2021
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Geng, Xin (author), Hu, Tianxiang (author), Liu, Peiqing (author), Sinnige, T. (author), Eitelberg, G. (author)The increasing demand for short-range passenger air transport and the strong push for aircraft with electric propulsion has renewed research interest in propellers. Despite the unmatched aerodynamic efficiency of propellers, their relatively high noise emissions limit widespread application on aircraft. Previous research has not systematically...conference paper 2021
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Gómez Pérez, P. (author), Liu, Y. (author), Cowan, K.J. (author)In this work, we propose a new method to approximate the cost function of Low-Thrust, Multiple-Gravity-Assist interplanetary trajectories using a Machine Learning surrogate. We identified the computation time required to obtain training data as the main limitation when using Machine Learning methods for this purpose so we present a strategy to...conference paper 2021
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Liu, Zhenyu (author), Fu, Runnan (author), Wang, Linjun (author), Jin, Yuzhen (author), Papakostas, Theodoros (author), Mainelli, Xenia Una (author), Voûte, R.L. (author), Verbree, E. (author)Because unknown interior layouts can have serious consequences in time-sensitive situations, crisis response teams request many potential solutions for visualizing indoor environments in crisis scenarios. This research uses a game engine to directly visualize point cloud data input of indoor environments for generating clear interaction between...conference paper 2021
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Draws, T.A. (author), Liu, Jody (author), Tintarev, N. (author)Support or opposition concerning a debated claim such as abortion should be legal can have different underlying reasons, which we call perspectives. This paper explores how opinion mining can be enhanced with joint topic modeling, to identify distinct perspectives within the topic, providing an informative overview from unstructured text. We...conference paper 2021
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Ma, Bingtao (author), Liu, Hongsen (author), Nan, L. (author), Tang, Xu (author), Fan, Huijie (author), Cong, Yang (author)The 3D mesh is an important representation of geometric data. It is widely used in computer graphics and has attracted more attention in computer vision community recently. However, in the generation of mesh data, geometric deficiencies (e.g., duplicate elements, degenerate faces, isolated vertices, self-intersection, and inner faces) are...conference paper 2021
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Liu, Y. (author), Pamososuryo, A.K. (author), Ferrari, Riccardo M.G. (author), Hovgaard, Tobias Gybel (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)Modern wind turbine control algorithms typically utilize rotor effective wind speed measured from an anemometer on the turbine’s nacelle. Unfortunately, the measured wind speed from such a single measurement point does not give a good representation of the effective wind speed over the blades, as it does not take the varying wind condition...conference paper 2021
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Arcondoulis, Elias J. G. (author), Liu, Yu (author), Yang, Yannian (author), Ragni, D. (author), Rubio Carpio, A. (author), Avallone, F. (author)View Video Presentation: https://doi-org.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/10.2514/6.2021-2226.vid<br/><br/>The mechanisms responsible for vortex shedding reduction, due to the application of a porous coating to a smooth cylinder placed in uniform flow, are still uncertain despite several numerical and experimental studies. To help understand these...conference paper 2021
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author)This study elaborates the influence of blends formulated by waste oil (WO) and styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) on thermo-mechanical and chemical compositional characteristics of rejuvenated bitumen. The results show that both WEO (waste engine oil) and WCO (waste cooking oil) can compensate viscous component for reclaimed bitumen, and the effect...conference paper 2021
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Liu, Y. (author), Semertzis, I. (author), Stefanov, Alexandru (author), Palensky, P. (author)The security issues of Cyber-Physical power Systems (CPS) have attracted widespread attention from scholars. Vulnerability assessment emerges as an effective method to identify the critical components and thus increase the system resilience. While efforts have been made to study the vulnerability features of power systems under the occurrence...conference paper 2021
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Zhang, Y. (author), Liu, X. (author), Ren, S. (author), Jing, R. (author), Gard, W.F. (author), Apostolidis, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author)Lignin, one of the most abundant natural polymers, has been extensively studied as liquid or solid additive in bituminous binders. Despite the fact the organosolv lignin in bitumen improves the overall resistance against oxidative aging, lignin could lead to binders of high thermal cracking sensitivity. In this study, a bio-based oil is...conference paper 2021
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Liu, Hexin (author), Perera, Leibny Paola Garcia (author), Zhang, Xinyi (author), Dauwels, J.H.G. (author), Khong, Andy W.H. (author), Khudanpur, Sanjeev (author), Styles, Suzy J. (author)We propose two end-to-end neural configurations for language diarization on bilingual code-switching speech. The first, a BLSTM-E2E architecture, includes a set of stacked bidirectional LSTMs to compute embeddings and incorporates the deep clustering loss to enforce grouping of languages belonging to the same class. The second, an XSA-E2E...conference paper 2021