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Xiang, Pengcheng (author), Zhang, Qianman (author), Jiang, Qiuyan (author), Liu, Z. (author)Operation risk (OR) has affected sustainable development of urban rail transit (URT) public–private partnership (PPP) projects in China. Balanced distribution of operational risks among stakeholders (the public, government, and private companies) involved in URT PPP projects can maximize overall profit. Quantitative analysis of operational...journal article 2022
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Xing, Chao (author), Liu, Bo (author), Sun, Zhiqi (author), Tan, Yiqiu (author), Liu, X. (author), Zhou, Changhong (author)Asphalt mixture is a skeleton filling system consisting of aggregate, asphalt, and mineral powder. High performance asphalt mixture design is directly affected by internal stress transmission of skeleton filling system. In this paper, the discrete element method based on digital image was employed to study the stress transmission. By...journal article 2022
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Liu, Gang (author), Du, Zhao (author), Xiao, Tian (author), Guo, Junfei (author), Lu, Liu (author), Yang, Xiaohu (author), Hooman, K. (author)Solar energy, as a kind of renewable energy, offers a large reserve to be harvested at a reasonably low cost for engineering applications. To decouple the temporal and spatial relevance of the continuous energy supply of solar energy, latent heat thermal energy storage can deal with this problem at different temperatures. Aiming to improve...journal article 2022
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Ma, C. (author), Liu, H. (author), Wolterbeek, H.T. (author), Denkova, A.G. (author), Serra Crespo, P. (author)Four different MOFs were exposed to γrays by a cobalt-60 source reaching a maximum dose of 5 MGy. The results showed that the MIL-100 (Cr) and MIL-100 (Fe) did not exhibit obvious structural damage, suggesting their excellent radiation stability. MIL-101 (Cr) showed good radiation stability up to 4 MGy, but its structure started degrading...journal article 2022
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Yi, Jinming (author), Feng, Jianlin (author), Li, Yuanyuan (author), Bai, Tao (author), Chen, Anqi (author), Gao, Y. (author), Wu, Fan (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author), Liu, Quantao (author), Li, Chuangmin (author)To meet the needs of the road industry for maintenance operations, a new cement emulsified bitumen mixture (CEBM) with early-strength, self-compacting, and room-temperature construction characteristics was designed. The strength formation mechanism of CEBM was revealed with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and the surface free energy (SFE...journal article 2022
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Yang, Dayu (author), Lai, F. (author), Liu, Songyu (author)There is currently a lack of an available design approach to estimate the earth pressure in narrow backfills behind retaining walls rotated about the top (RT). The considerations of some significant factors, primarily load transfer mechanisms (soil arching effect and horizontal shear stress in soils), failure mechanisms (shape and number of...journal article 2022
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Kosaka, Fumihiko (author), Sasayama, Tomone (author), Liu, Yanyong (author), Chen, S. (author), Mochizuki, Takehisa (author), Matsuoka, Koichi (author), Urakawa, A. (author), Kuramoto, Koji (author)Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technologies, such as CO<sub>2</sub> methanation, generally require energy-intensive CO<sub>2</sub> capture and separation processes prior to catalytic CO<sub>2</sub> conversion. In contrast, integrated CO<sub>2</sub> capture and reduction (CCR) technologies that use dual function materials (DFM) can...journal article 2022
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Lei, Xin (author), Zhang, Jiayan (author), Hong, H. (author), Yuan, Zhishan (author), Liu, Zewen (author)Nanopores have attracted widespread attention in DNA sequencing and protein or biomarker detection, owning to the single-molecule-scale detection accuracy. Despite the most use of naturally biological nanopores before, solid-state nanopores are widely developed with strong robustness, controllable sizes and geometries, a wide range of...review 2022
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Tian, Zhan (author), Yu, Ziwei (author), Li, Yifan (author), Ke, Q. (author), Liu, Junguo (author), Luo, Hongyan (author), Tang, Yingdong (author)Climate change and rapid urbanization have made it difficult to predict the risk of pollution in cities under different types of rainfall. In this study, a data-driven approach to quantify the effects of rainfall characteristics on river pollution was proposed and applied in a case study of Shiyan River, Shenzhen, China. The results indicate...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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Li, Z. (author), Liang, X. (author), Liu, C. (author), Liang, M. (author), van Breugel, K. (author), Ye, G. (author)This study investigates the deformation of free and stress of restrained alkali-activated slag concrete (AASC), respectively, under semi-adiabatic condition. The concrete shows first thermal expansion, which is compensated soon by autogenous shrinkage. The subsequent cooling down of the concrete aggravates shrinkage and development of tensile...journal article 2022
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van Oosterom, P.J.M. (author), van Oosterom, S.J.M. (author), Liu, Haicheng (author), Thompson, R.J. (author), Meijers, B.M. (author), Verbree, E. (author)Point clouds contain high detail and high accuracy geometry representation of the scanned Earth surface parts. To manage the huge amount of data, the point clouds are traditionally organized on location and map-scale; e.g. in an octree structure, where top-levels of the tree contain few points suitable for small scale overviews and lower...journal article 2022
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Rigotti Manesco, A.L. (author), Flór, Ian Matthias (author), Liu, C. (author), Akhmerov, A.R. (author)We simulate a hybrid superconductor-graphene device in the quantum Hall regime to identify the origin of downstream resistance oscillations in a recent experiment [Zhao et al. Nature Physics 16, (2020)]. In addition to the previously studied Mach-Zehnder interference between the valley-polarized edge states, we consider disorder-induced...journal article 2022
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Cai, Yuxin (author), Liu, Qing feng (author), Meng, Zhaozheng (author), Chen, Mengzhu (author), Li, Weihua (author), Šavija, B. (author)High-frequency vibration helps to improve the compactness of concrete, but also causes the settlement of coarse aggregates (CAs) and then affects the durability of hardened concrete. In this paper, a numerical study combining multi-phase CA settlement model and multi-component ionic transport model is performed to understand the influence of...journal article 2022
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Liu, J. (author), Draganov, D.S. (author), Ghose, R. (author)Seismic incoherent noise and waves scattered from objects in the crossline directions can cause 2D elastic full-waveform inversion (FWI) to produce artifacts in the resulting 2D models. We develop a complete workflow that can determine subsurface S-wave velocity (VS) models inverted from 2D near-surface seismic data more stably. We make use...journal article 2022
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Wang, Xiaolu (author), Jia, Q. (author), Ma, Liyi (author), Zhai, Xuejiao (author), Liu, Yuxin (author), Liao, Xianquan (author), Zhou, Jing (author)Information storage in vivo will lead to next-generation identification and security authentication. Here, an information storage method was proposed for in vivo application by using a pair of lanthanide-doped nanoprobes (NdNPs and ErNPs) with orthogonal emissions in the second near-infrared window. The information is stored in different...journal article 2022
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Tabatabaeian, A. (author), Liu, Sixin (author), Harrison, Philip (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Fotouhi, M. (author)Recently emerging mechanochromic systems are becoming highly attractive for structural health monitoring (SHM) purposes in various industries, such as civil, wind, and aerospace, to improve the safety and performance of structures. These are based on self-reporting polymer composites which provide a light-weight sensor with an easy-to-read...review 2022
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Zhou, J. (author), Liu, Xuan (author), Xiong, Xuqian (author), Jia, Li (author), Lu, Jing (author), Cui, Yilin (author)Satellite-based Earth Observation systems archived a variety of vegetation products during the last 50 years, which can reveal regional to global ecosystem dynamics across diverse spatiotemporal scales. The anomaly metrics such as Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) defined by comparing the current vegetation growth condition to historical...conference paper 2022
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Naus, Robbert (author), Dekkers, Rudi (author), Waarts, Paul (author), Apostolidis, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Liu, X. (author)In de wegenbouw is duurzaamheid een belangrijk speerpunt. Daarom wordt er gezocht naar nieuwe bindmiddelen en modificaties om duurzame oplossingen te vinden voor de alsmaar groeiende verkeersstromen. Met de introductie van asfalt met epoxygemodificeerde bitumen wordt een grote stap gezet in het realiseren van robuuste wegen met een langere...conference paper 2022
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Brandetti, L. (author), Liu, Y. (author), Mulders, S.P. (author), Ferreira, Carlos (author), Watson, S.J. (author), van Wingerden, J.W. (author)In recent years, industrial controllers for modern wind turbines have been designed as a combined wind speed estimator and tip-speed ratio (WSE-TSR) tracking control scheme. In contrast to the conventional and widely used Kω 2 torque control strategy, the WSE-TSR scheme provides flexibility in terms of controller responsiveness and...journal article 2022