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Zhang, Chunbo (author), Hu, Mingming (author), van der Meide, Marc (author), Di Maio, F. (author), Yang, Xining (author), Gao, Xiaofeng (author), Li, Kai (author), Zhao, Hailong (author), Li, Chen (author)Meeting the current demand for concrete requires not only mining tons of gravel and sand, but also burning large amounts of fossil fuel resources in cement kilning. Consequently, concrete recycling is crucial to achieving a material-efficient society, especially with the application of various categories of concrete and the goal of phasing...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Qunli (author), Zhao, Wenqiang (author), Sun, Donghan (author), Meng, Xiangzhao (author), Hooman, K. (author), Yang, Xiaohu (author)NO<sub>x</sub> emission reduction from gas boilers has become a key issue in improving air quality. Combustion air humidification technology is gradually being used to reduce NO<sub>x</sub> emissions. However, the NO<sub>x</sub> emission reduction effect of gas boilers at a higher combustion air humidity has been studied less. A flue gas with...journal article 2023
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Niu, D. (author), Zhang, Zhao (author), Gao, Y. (author), Li, Yuanxiao (author), Yang, Zhengxian (author), Niu, Yanhui (author)Cow dung waste has caused severe environmental pollution and public health issues in China. In this study, the cow dung residues were used as a cheap renewable fiber to modify asphalt binder, providing a new solution for the proper disposal of cow dung waste. Three cow dung fibers with two lengths were prepared using different treatments,...journal article 2023
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Yang, Zhe (author), Liu, Zhou (author), Zhang, Qi (author), Chen, Zhe (author), de Jesus Chavez, Jose (author), Popov, M. (author)The traditional fault control strategy of converter-interfaced renewable energy sources (CIRESs) may bring about a lower sensitivity level or misoperation of fault component-based directional elements. To overcome this problem, a new control scheme is proposed to adjust sequence impedance angles of CIRESs by computing suitable current...journal article 2023
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Tan, C. (author), Wang, S. (author), Yang, Huiru (author), Huang, Qianming (author), Li, Shizhen (author), Liu, X. (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Short-wave ultraviolet (also called UVC) irradiation is a well-adopted method of viral inactivation due to its ability to damage genetic material. A fundamental problem with the UVC inactivation method is that its mechanism of action on viruses is still unknown at the molecular level. To address this problem, herein we investigate the...journal article 2023
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Xiao, Tian (author), Zhang, Qiaoling (author), Yang, Xiaohu (author), Hooman, K. (author), Li, Guodong (author)It is indicated that the solder joint of the metal fibrous materials is a critical factor impacting the heat conduction. To reveal the mechanism by which solder joint sizes, solder joint skips, solder flux materials, and filling media affect the thermal conductivity of fibres, pore-scale numerical simulation is employed to study the thermal...journal article 2023
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Wang, S. (author), Yang, Huiru (author), Zong, Qihang (author), Huang, Qianming (author), Tan, C. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Li, Shizhen (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), French, P.J. (author)In recent years, metal crack-based stretchable flexible strain sensors have attracted significant attention in wearable device applications due to their extremely high sensitivity. However, the tradeoff between sensitivity and detection range has been an intractable dilemma, severely limiting their practical applications. Herein, we propose a...journal article 2023
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Lu, Jing (author), Zhang, Min (author), Feng, Jianlin (author), Gao, Y. (author), Yang, Ye (author), Li, Yuanyuan (author), Li, Linglin (author)The special environment conditions in high altitude areas leads to serious cracking and peeling of road hot-melt marking coatings. In order to improve the durability of marking paint, a durable hot-melt marking paint was designed by modifying the paint with toughening-agent, rheological agent, and anti-aging agent. The modification mechanism...journal article 2023
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Niu, Liubin (author), Yang, Fei (author), Deng, Xiangyun (author), Zhang, P. (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Qiang, Weile (author), Guo, Y. (author)In practice, the assessment and treatment of rail corrugation are quantitatively based on the corrugation depth. Wheel–rail vertical forces (WRVF), as a direct reflection of wheel–rail interaction, can give expression to the corrugation depth and thus serve as a key parameter for assessing the corrugation. In this paper, we propose an...journal article 2023
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Wang, Chuan (author), Sun, Renjuan (author), Hu, Xinlei (author), Guan, Yanhua (author), Yang, Yingzi (author), Lu, Wei (author), Tian, Jun (author), Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Ge, Zhi (author), Šavija, B. (author)This paper presents a research on the chloride penetration behavior of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) under sustained flexural loads. Three load levels, i.e. 30 %, 60 % and 75 % of the ultimate flexural load were used. Chloride diffusion depth and concentration profile were measured 30, 60 and 150 days after the specimen was exposed...journal article 2023
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Bittner, M. (author), Yang, W. (author), Zhang, X. (author), Seth, A. (author), van Gemert, J.C. (author), van der Helm, F.C.T. (author)Markerless estimation of 3D Kinematics has the great potential to clinically diagnose and monitor movement disorders without referrals to expensive motion capture labs; however, current approaches are limited by performing multiple de-coupled steps to estimate the kinematics of a person from videos. Most current techniques work in a multi-step...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Lianying (author), Zhang, Qingzeng (author), Yang, Xiaohu (author), Hooman, K. (author)Insulation performance and buried depth of heating pipelines are the vital factors affecting the energy loss of directly buried heating pipelines. This study considers the thermo-economic assessment of insulation of directly buried heating pipelines for district heating. The optimal insulation thickness, energy-saving effect, and payback...journal article 2022
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Tan, C. (author), Wang, S. (author), Yang, Huiru (author), Huang, Qianming (author), Li, Shizhen (author), Liu, X. (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Recent reports focus on the hydrogenation engineering of monolayer boron phosphide and simultaneously explore its promising applications in nanoelectronics. Coupling density functional theory and finite element method, we investigate the bowtie triangle ring microstructure composed of boron phosphide with hydrogenation based on structural and...journal article 2022
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Yun, Minghui (author), Cai, Miao (author), Yang, Daoguo (author), Yang, Yiren (author), Xiao, Jing (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Bond wire damage is one of the most common failure modes of metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) power devices in wire-welded packaging. This paper proposes a novel bond wire damage detection approach based on two-port network measurement by identifying the MOSFET source parasitic inductance (LS). Numerical calculation...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Y. (author), Wu, Kai (author), Yang, Zhengxian (author), Ye, G. (author)Reliable characterization of the pore structure is essentially important for transport-related durability studies of cementitious materials. Mercury intrusion porosimetry has been commonly used for pore structure measurement while the ink-bottle effect significantly affects the trustworthiness of pore size features of cementitious materials....journal article 2022
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Yang, Zhengxian (author), Shi, Peng (author), Zhang, Yong (author), Li, Z. (author)Internal curing by superabsorbent polymer (SAP) has been applied in alkali-activated slag (AAS) systems by a few previous studies with the purpose to mitigate the autogenous shrinkage. However, the effects of SAP on other properties of AAS have been rarely studied. In this paper, the workability, strength, permeability, and frost resistance...journal article 2022
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Yang, Z. (author), Zhang, P. (author), Moraal, J. (author), Li, Z. (author)By modifying friction to the desired level, the application of friction modifiers (FMs) has been considered as a promising emerging tool in the railway engineering for increasing braking/traction force in poor adhesion conditions and mitigating wheel/rail interface deterioration, energy consumption, vibration and noise. Understanding the...journal article 2022
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Wang, Zhen (author), Shan, X. (author), Zhang, Xiangxie (author), Yang, J. (author)Current news datasets merely focus on text features on the news and rarely leverage the feature of images, excluding numerous essential features for news classification. In this paper, we propose a new dataset, N24News, which is generated from New York Times with 24 categories and contains both text and image information in each news. We use...conference paper 2022
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Yun, Minghui (author), Yang, Daoguo (author), He, Siliang (author), Cai, Miao (author), Xiao, Jing (author), Zhang, Kailin (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)With the emerging wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor development, the increasing power density and efficiency of power electronic converters may cause more switching oscillation, electromagnetic interference noise, and additional power loss, further increasing the probability of device failure. Therefore, determining and quantifying the failure...journal article 2022
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Gu, Guanjie (author), Yang, Changgui (author), Li, Zhuhao (author), Feng, Xiangdong (author), Chang, Ziyi (author), Wang, Ting-Hsun (author), Zhang, Yunshan (author), Luo, Yuxuan (author), Zhang, Hong (author), Wang, Ping (author), Du, S. (author), Chen, Yong (author), Zhao, Bo (author)Body Channel Communication (BCC) offers a low-loss signal transmission medium for ultra-low-power wearable devices on human body [1]. However, the effective communication range on human body is limited to less than 1m in the state-of-the-art BCC transceivers [2], where the signal loss at the interface of body surface and BCC receiver remains to...conference paper 2022