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Yuan, S. (author), Yang, M. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Chen, C. (author), Wu, Jiansong (author)Barriers are used in various forms to assure the safety of chemical plants. A deep understanding of the literature related to safety barriers is essential to tackle the challenges in improving their design and management. This paper first provides an overview of the history of the development of the safety barrier concept. Subsequently, this...journal article 2022
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Hou, Miaomiao (author), Hu, Xiaofeng (author), Cai, Jitao (author), Han, Xinge (author), Yuan, S. (author)Crime issues have been attracting widespread attention from citizens and managers of cities due to their unexpected and massive consequences. As an effective technique to prevent and control urban crimes, the data-driven spatial–temporal crime prediction can provide reasonable estimations associated with the crime hotspot. It thus contributes to...journal article 2022
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Yuan, S. (author), Yang, M. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Chen, C. (author)Chemical process industries are threatened with accidental and intentional adverse events because of the storage and operation of large quantities of hazardous substances. Safety and security barriers play important roles in protecting the chemical plants from safety and security-related undesired events and mitigating the potentially...journal article 2022
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Yuan, S. (author), Cai, Jitao (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yang, M. (author), Chen, Chao (author), Wu, Jiansong (author)Toxic gas leakage represents a type of major process accident scenario threatening human life. Technical and non-technical safety barriers are employed to prevent toxic gas leakage accidents or mitigate the possible catastrophic consequences. Evacuation must be executed in severe toxic gas release scenarios. The performance assessment of...journal article 2022
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Bai, Y. (author), Wu, Jiansong (author), Yuan, S. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yang, M. (author), Cai, Jitao (author)As a kind of critical infrastructure of energy transportation, so-called ‘utility tunnels’ have been developed around the world. Hosting a natural gas pipeline inside the natural gas compartment of a utility tunnel facilitates its maintenance but also brings potential explosion concerns due to the confined space. Although some work focuses on...journal article 2022
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Yuan, S. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yang, M. (author)Safety and security barriers are implemented in various forms to protect chemical plants from undesired accidents and mitigate the disastrous consequences. However, the necessity and rationality of integrating safety and security barriers need to be investigated, and the difficulty in integrated management of safety and security barriers is...journal article 2022
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Cai, Jitao (author), Wu, Jiansong (author), Yuan, S. (author), Kong, Desheng (author), Zhang, Xiaole (author)Natural gas compartment accommodated in utility tunnels is beneficial in meeting the pressing demand of energy supply and sustainable urban environment. However, the leaking gas characterized by flammable and explosive can pose a huge threat to the safe operation of the utility tunnel. When an unexpected gas leakage accident happens in the...journal article 2022
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Yuan, S. (author), Aubry, P.J. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The ambiguity problem of targets in Doppler beam sharpening (DBS) with forward-looking radar is considered. While DBS is proposed earlier to improve the angular resolution of the radar while keeping the antenna aperture size limited, such a solution suffers from ambiguities in the case of targets positioned symmetrically with respect to the...journal article 2022
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Wu, Jiansong (author), Xing, Yuxuan (author), Bai, Yiping (author), Hu, Xiaofeng (author), Yuan, S. (author)Accidents induced by natural disasters at sports sites may cause catastrophic loss of great concern. However, previous studies on risk assessments of sports sites have only focused on operational risk and equipment failure. With the frequent occurrence of extreme disasters, the risk of domino chains caused by natural disasters at large-scale...review 2022
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Yuan, S. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)A method exploiting the movement of the vehicle to boost the cross-range resolution of automotive radar by forming a larger virtual array is proposed. Initial simulated results show that the proposed method with the traditional Digital beamforming (DBF) algorithm can separate targets that cannot be otherwise recognized by the traditional MIMO...conference paper 2022
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Yang, Fuqiang (author), Guo, Yong (author), Lai, Yong (author), Hong, Yidu (author), Yuan, S. (author)This study aims to characterize the whole reaction process of (i) emulsion explosive matrix and sulfide ores, and (ii) ammonium nitrate and pyrite by the thermodynamics analysis method. A series of experiments were carried out at atmospheric pressure from 25 °C to 350 °C at four heating rates (3, 5, 10, and 15 K/min) and the Coats–Redfern method...journal article 2022
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Yuan, S. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)A direction-finding approach for arrays with a limited number of antenna elements has been investigated. A method based on the harmonic analysis of the received signal has been proposed to solve it. The angle estimation accuracy has been improved by angle searching and peak detection. The proposed method is theoretically described and...conference paper 2022
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van Nunen, K.L.L. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yang, M. (author), Chen, C. (author), Yuan, S. (author)Kenmerkend voor bedrijven die in een cluster gelegen zijn, zijn de onderlinge risico’s waarbij de risico’s van één bedrijf aanleiding kunnen geven tot nieuwe risico’s bij een aangrenzend of een nabijgelegen bedrijf. Daarbij gaat het om de mogelijkheid op domino-effecten, keteneffecten, of nadelige effecten (letsel/schade). Voor (petro)chemische...report 2021
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Yuan, S. (author), Lv, Maolong (author), Baldi, S. (author), Zhang, Lixian (author)This article investigates the stability of continuous-time switched linear systems with dwell-time constraints. A fresh insight into this established problem is provided via novel stability conditions that require the solution to a family of differential Lyapunov equations and algebraic Lyapunov equations. The proposed analysis, which leads...journal article 2021
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Cai, Jitao (author), Wu, Jiansong (author), Yuan, S. (author), Liu, Zhe (author), Kong, Desheng (author)Gas drainage system is a critical technique to prevent gas outbursts in the underground coal mine. The leakage of gas drainage pipelines can pose serious threats to the safety production of underground mining. In this paper, a multi-factors gas drainage pipeline leakage and diffusion (GDPLD) model is proposed based on the OpenFOAM platform,...journal article 2021
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Wu, Jiansong (author), Cai, Jitao (author), Yuan, S. (author), Zhang, Xiaole (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)As a kind of clean fuel, increasing quantities of natural gas have been transported as liquefied natural gas (LNG) worldwide. The safety of LNG storage has gained the concerns from the public due to the potential severe consequences that may arise from LNG leakage. In this paper, a three-dimensional model with the combination of computational...journal article 2021
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Yuan, S. (author), Zhang, Lixian (author), Baldi, S. (author)In the presence of discontinuous time-varying delays, neither Krasovskii nor Razumikhin techniques can be successfully applied to adaptive stabilization of uncertain switched time-delay systems. This paper develops a new adaptive control scheme for switched time-delay systems that can handle impulsive behavior in both states and time-varying...journal article 2019
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Yuan, S. (author)As a special class of hybrid systems, switched systems have attracted a lot of attention in the last decade due to theoretical and practical interests. When controlling switched systems, a ubiquitous problem is the presence of large parametric uncertainties and external disturbances. However, the state of the art on adaptive and robust control...doctoral thesis 2018
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Yuan, S. (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Baldi, S. (author)In this paper, robust adaptive tracking control schemes for uncertain switched linear systems subject to disturbances are investigated. The robust adaptive control problem requires the design of both adaptive and switching laws. A novel adaptive law is proposed based on an extended leakage approach, which does not require knowledge of the bounds...journal article 2018
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Moustakis, N. (author), Yuan, S. (author), Baldi, S. (author)This paper establishes an adaptive tracking approach for linear systems with parametric uncertainties, when input measurements are quantized due to the presence of a communication network closing the control loop. In order to address the tracking problem, a novel dynamic quantizer with dynamic offset is introduced and embedded into an...conference paper 2018