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Identification of rural courtyards’ utilization status using deep learning and machine learning methods on unmanned aerial vehicle images in north China
The issue of unoccupied or abandoned homesteads (courtyards) in China emerges given the increasing aging population, rapid urbanization and massive rural-urban migration. From the aspect of rural vitalization,...
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Nonlinear indicial functions for modelling aeroelastic forces of bluff bodies
This study introduces a novel time-domain model of nonlinear indicial functions to capture the amplitude dependency of self-excited forces in aeroelastic instabilities, including flutter, vortex-induced vibrat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-objective Optimization Design of a Double-Sided Linear Switched Reluctance Motor Using Response Surface Method
In this paper, a double-sided linear switched reluctance motor (LSRM) is designed and optimized for the application of high thrust density and low thrust ripple. First, increasing thrust density and decreasing...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Research on the Transition Characteristics of DC Electric Field of UHV Wall Bushing Based on Saturation Current Density Method
DC wall bushing is the key equipment in the valve hall of converter station and plays an important role in improving the operational reliability of HVDC transmission system. However, under the action of long-t...
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State of health estimation for lithium-ion batteries in real-world electric vehicles
The state of health (SOH) plays a significant role in the mileage and safety of an electric vehicle (EV). In recent years, many methods based on data-driven analysis and laboratory measurements have been devel...
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Automated Full Scene Parsing for Marine ASVs Using Monocular Vision
Perceiving and parsing a maritime scene automatically and in real time is a key task for autonomous surface vehicle navigation. We propose a panoptic segmentation framework that allows end-to-end training and ...
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Influence of Loading Conditions on the Residual Flexural Capacity of Reinforced Concrete T-beams after Fire Exposure
To explore the influence of the loading conditions and fire exposure time on the residual mechanical properties of concrete T-beams, 10 concrete T-shaped beams were designed and manufactured. Three levels of l...
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Effect of Stirrup Corrosion and Fire on Shear Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams
This article presents an investigation on corrosion damage effects on the shear bearing capacity of reinforced concrete (RC) beams after a fire. Accelerated corrosion tests were conducted using four RC beams d...
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Preparation of Paste Backfill Material from Mix-Calcined Sludge Ash
Paper mill sludge ash (PMSA) and sewage sludge ash (SSA) were mixed and calcined at high temperatures to improve the hydration activity of the sludge ash. The resulting mixture was utilized as an auxiliary cem...
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Calculation of Thermal Fields of Cracked Concrete at Elevated Temperatures
This paper analyzes the effects of cracking on the thermal field of concrete at elevated temperatures. In four concrete specimens with pre-made cracks, fire tests were performed. Then finite element analysis a...
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Adsorption behaviors of gas molecules on the surface of ZnO nanocrystals under UV irradiation
A UV-activated room temperature chemiresistive gas sensor based on ZnO nanocrystals film was fabricated. Its gas sensing properties under various conditions were also investigated in detail. The results shed n...
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Relative Permeability Model Taking the Roughness and Actual Fluid Distributions into Consideration for Water Flooding Reservoirs
Reservoir relative permeability is greatly important to the development of water flooding reservoirs. Currently, most researches on relative permeability have not taken the roughness of pore surface and actual...
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Flexible organic thin-film transistors based on poly(3-hexylthiophene) films for nitrogen dioxide detection
Flexible nitrogen dioxide (NO2) gas sensors based on organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) were developed in this work, in which conductive indium tin oxide (ITO) coated polyethylene naphthalene-2,6-dicarboxylate...
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Students performance modeling based on behavior pattern
Academic performance of college students is the main concern of educational institutions. Effective and timely predicting performance is not only conducive to the school’s Ministry to improve the efficiency of...
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Multiscale simulation of major crack/minor cracks interplay with the corrected XFEM
The present work aims at saving computational cost of multiscale simulation on major crack/minor crack interaction problems. The multiscale extended finite element method (MsXFEM) used for the numerical simula...
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Polyvinylpyrrolidone/graphene oxide thin films coated on quartz crystal microbalance electrode for NH3 detection at room temperature
In this paper, composite film based on polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)/graphene oxide (GO) was fabricated by spray method on AT-cut 9.986 MHz quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) for NH3 sensing. The thin films were char...
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Numerical investigation of mixed-mode crack growth in ductile material using elastic–plastic XFEM
In the present work, the corrected extended finite element method (XFEM) is extended to conduct fatigue analysis of arbitrary crack growth in ductile materials. In corrected XFEM, the crack is modeled by addin...
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The mobility improvement of organic thin film transistors by introducing ZnO-nanrods as an zctive layer
Organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) based on poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)/Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods composite films as the active layers were prepared by spray-coating process. The OTFTs with P3HT/ZnO-nanor...
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The effect of MWCNTs on the performance of α-sexithiophene OTFT device and its gas-sensing property
In this paper, bottom contact organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) gas sensors were prepared. Silicon dioxide (SiO2) and titanium/aurum (Ti/Au) were used as the insulating layer and the electrode for the device, r...
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A carbon monoxide sensor based on single-walled carbon nanotubes doped with copper chloride
A carbon monoxide gas sensor based on single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) has been developed for detection of carbon monoxide (CO) at room temperature. Copper chloride (CuCl) was mixed with SWNT by mechanica...