- document
-
Pan, Tanbo (author), Zheng, Yonglai (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Luo, Wenbin (author), Xu, Xubing (author), Hou, Chenyu (author), Zhou, Yujue (author)This study presents a damage pattern recognition approach for corroded steel beams strengthened by CFRP anchorage system based on acoustic emission clustering analysis. The proposed method includes four steps: acoustic emission signal acquisition, feature extraction, clustering analysis, and damage pattern recognition. Four corroded beams...journal article 2023
- document
-
Zhou, Y. (author)Robots navigating in social environments inevitably exhibit behavior perceived as inappropriate by people, which they will repeat unless they are aware of them; hindering their social acceptance. This highlights the importance of robots detecting and adapting to the perceived appropriateness of their behavior, in line with what we found in a...conference paper 2023
- document
-
Ortiz Lizcano, J.C. (author), Villa, Simona (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Frantzi, Georgia (author), Vattis, Kyriakos (author), Calcabrini, A. (author), Yang, G. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Herein, the application of a comprehensive modeling framework that can help optimize the design of multilayered optical filters for coloring photovoltaic (PV) modules is presented based on crystalline silicon solar cells. To overcome technical issues related to the implementation of color filters (CFs) on PV modules, like glare and color...journal article 2023
- document
-
Zhou, Y. (author), Wilmink, D. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Ziar, H. (author)Integration of photovoltaics (PV) into the urban environment will play a major role in the energy transition. However, installing PV systems on building roofs can be challenging, particularly for monumental buildings with strict architectural and social value restrictions. Assessing roof surface visibility is, therefore, key to finding as...journal article 2023
- document
-
Liu, Kezhong (author), Wu, Xiaolie (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Yuan, Zhitao (author), Yang, Xing (author), Xin, Xuri (author), Zhuang, Sujie (author)During the process of collision avoidance, especially in a multi-ship encounter situation, the dynamic interactions among individual ships impose a significant impact on collision avoidance decision-making. It is imperative, therefore, that collision avoidance decisions are formulated with a comprehensive consideration of not only the current...journal article 2023
- document
-
Pan, Tanbo (author), Zheng, Yonglai (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Wu, Zhuorui (author), Zhou, Yujue (author)Externally bonded (EB) carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) is widely used in structural strengthening and retrofitting. Premature debonding of the FRP severely limits the efficiency of CFRP utilization. The application of CRRP anchorage system offers a solution to the debonding problem. However, the understanding of damage mode identification...conference paper 2023
- document
-
Zhou, Y. (author), Daamen, W. (author), Vellinga, T. (author), Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author)Currently, the research on ship behavior during encounters focuses on evasive behavior during specific situations with existing risks of collision. However, the preliminary selection of encounters to refine the presented ship behavior is biased. To obtain a full understanding of all ship behavior during different encounters in ports and...journal article 2023
- document
-
Langer, J.K.A. (author), Roosenboom-Kwee, Z. (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Ashqar, Ziad (author), Quist, J.N. (author), Praktiknjo, Aaron (author), Blok, K. (author)Geospatial analysis is useful for mapping the potential of renewables like solar PV. However, recent studies do not address PV’s bankable potential for which project financing can be secured. This paper proposes a framework that incorporates project finance into geospatial analyses to obtain the bankable potential of renewables. We demonstrate...journal article 2023
- document
-
Zhou, Y. (author), Ibrahim, Aya (author), Muttillo, M. (author), Manganiello, P. (author), Ziar, H. (author), Isabella, O. (author)This paper presents the fundamental study on the relationship between LED light sources and the performance of solar cell as receivers in visible light communication (VLC) links. Here, different colors of LEDs are modulated with a sinusoidal signal, and the bandwidth of the VLC system based on various c-Si PV architectures is characterized at...conference paper 2023
- document
-
Zhou, Y. (author)As one of the most important freight transportation modes, maritime transport has been the backbone of international trade and global economy. From the cargo flow point of view, seaports and inland shipping link the individual countries and the global waterborne transportation networks. To analyze the current ship traffic and port performance or...doctoral thesis 2022
- document
-
Tang, Yingjie (author), Mou, Junmin (author), Chen, Linying (author), Zhou, Y. (author)Through the continuous development of intellectualization, considering the lifecycle of ships, the future of a waterborne traffic system is bound to be a mixed scenario where intelligent ships of different autonomy levels co-exist, i.e., mixed waterborne traffic. According to the three modules of ships’ perception, decision-making, and execution...review 2022
- document
-
Zhou, Y. (author), Sluys, Lambertus J. (author), Esposito, R. (author)Accurate assessment of the overall mechanical behavior of masonry, composed of bricks and mortar joints, remains challenging due to its inhomogeneous and orthotropic nature. In this study, the feasibility of various mean-field homogenization schemes for the three-dimensional orthotropic elastic properties of masonry is comprehensively...journal article 2022
- document
-
Pan, Tanbo (author), Zheng, Yonglai (author), Zhou, Yujue (author), Liu, Yongcheng (author), Yu, Kunlong (author), Zhou, Y. (author)This paper presents the results of an experimental study on the flexural behavior of carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) anchorage system strengthened reinforced concrete (RC) beams under the coupled effects of corrosion damage and sustained loading. The test beams were subjected to combined accelerated corrosion in 5% NaCl solution and...journal article 2022
- document
-
Jiang, Hanjie (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Ho, H.W. (author)Urban air mobility is a relatively new concept that has been proposed in recent years as a means of transporting passengers and goods in urban areas. It encompasses a diverse range of Vertical TakeOff and Landing (VTOL) vehicles that function more like passenger-carrying drones for on-demand transportation. Among them, the car-like VTOL is...journal article 2022
- document
-
Zhou, Y. (author), Ho, H.W. (author)Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) provides an option to solve complex guidance and navigation problems with high-dimensional spaces, multiple objectives, and a large number of states and actions. The current HRL methods often use the same or similar reinforcement learning methods within one application so that multiple objectives can...journal article 2022
- document
-
Zheng, Yonglai (author), Wen, Yuan (author), Pan, Tanbo (author), Liu, Yongcheng (author), Zhou, Yujue (author), Li, Ruizhi (author), Zhou, Y. (author)This study investigated the relationship between the acoustic emission (AE) signals parameter sequence fractal characteristics and the damage evolution information of corroded reinforced concrete (RC) beams under four-point bending. Strength deterioration behavior and AE data can be obtained by coupling the four-point bending test and the AE...journal article 2022
- document
-
Zhou, Yujue (author), Zheng, Yonglai (author), Liu, Yongcheng (author), Pan, Tanbo (author), Zhou, Y. (author)Vibration-based structural damage detection (SDD) has been a subject of intense research in structural health monitoring (SHM) for large civil engineering structures over the decades. The performance of the conventional SDD approaches predominantly relies on the rational choices of the damage feature and classifier. Hand-crafted features or...journal article 2022
- document
-
Zhang, Z. (author), Duan, X. (author), Jia, Dechang (author), Zhou, Y. (author), van der Zwaag, S. (author)MAX phases are a family of ternary carbide or nitride ceramics possessing a layered crystal structure and, due to their chemical bonds having a mixed covalent-ionic-metallic nature, have unique properties combining those of metals and ceramics. In this review, the formation mechanisms of MAX phases from elemental and compound powders are...review 2021
- document
-
Zhou, Y. (author), Verkou, M.H. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Ziar, H. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Photovoltaic (PV) technology is the most promising renewable energy source to be integrated on urban building surfaces. Modeling and simulating urban PV systems pose more challenges than the conventional ones installed in open field due to rich urban morphology. Herein, a comprehensive workflow to estimate urban solar PV potential is...journal article 2021
- document
-
Meng, Xin (author), Zhou, Y. (author), Sun, Zhilin (author), Ding, Kaixuan (author), Chong, Lin (author)Flow resistance, velocity distribution, and turbulence intensity are significantly influenced by aquatic vegetations (AV) in riparian zones. Understanding the hydraulics of flow with planted floodplains is of great significance for determining the velocity distribution profile and supporting the fluvial processes management. However, the...journal article 2021