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Yi**g Yong
Engineering
English
Characterization and Evaluation of Materials
Civil Engineering
Classical Mechanics
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A Bio-resourced and Superhydrophobic Dry Water Extinguishing Agent for Pool Fire Based on Phytic Acid and Silicon
A new non-toxic, clean, and effective dry water (DW) nanomaterial is synthesized, and its extinguishing performance is characterized for pool fire. The nanomaterial reaches up to 93% water content due to its s...
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Evolution and control technology of energy aggregation and dissipation of a high hard roof during breakage and destabilization
The focus of this study was prevented disasters caused by the breaking of high hard roofs (HHRs) in mines. A model of the mining load-bearing capacity of a HHR cantilever beam structure (HHRCBS) was developed ...
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Scattering Characteristics of Fire Smoke and Dust Aerosol in Aircraft Cargo Compartment
Photoelectric smoke detectors, commonly used in aircraft cargo compartments, have high false alarm rates, which may result in huge economic losses and threaten flight safety. Dust aerosols are conventionally c...
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City-Wide Fire Vulnerability Map of High-Rise Residential Buildings
One of the significant hazards in the event of a fire in high-rise residential buildings in cities is the length of time taken to completely evacuate a large number of occupants. On a city scale, it is importa...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Using Probabilistic Zone Model Simulations to Investigate the Deterministic Assumptions of UK Residential Corridor Smoke Control Design
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Open AccessUsing Probabilistic Zone Model Simulations to Investigate the Deterministic Assumptions of UK Residential Corridor Smoke Control Design
The modelling of common corridor smoke control systems in residential buildings is one of the most frequently undertaken performance-based assessments by fire engineers in the UK. However, there is limited und...
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Real-Time Prediction of Smoke Spread Affected by Multiple Factors in Subway Tunnel Using CAERES-DNN Model
High-accuracy and real-time smoke spread models are vitally important for firefighting in subway tunnels. This paper proposes a data-driven model, named CAERES-DNN, for predicting smoke spread in subway tunnel...
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Fracture characteristics of advanced high strength steels during hole expansion test
This study was performed to estimate the stretch-flangeability of two important advanced high strength steel (AHSS) sheets, i.e. DP980 and TRIP1180, using hole-expansion test (HET). Moreover, the effect of hol...
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Pool Fire Burning Characteristics of Biodiesel
The characteristics of pool fire burning of methyl esters/biodiesels of palm, soybean, coconut and their blends with diesel were compared against baseline diesel. Pool fires were established and investigated u...
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Open AccessDesign Fire Characteristics for Probabilistic Assessments of Dwellings in England
In England, there are no fixed requirements on the parameters adopted when considering residential design fires, and analyses undertaken are often deterministic with limited consideration given to probabilisti...
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Thin Filament Pyrometry Field Measurements in a Medium-Scale Pool Fire
This paper presents the development of a thin filament pyrometry method to characterize the time-varying temperature field in a medium-scale pool fire burning in a quiescent environment. A digital camera with ...
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Simulation and Assessment of Fire Evacuation Modes for Long Underwater Vehicle Tunnels
The objective of this study is to propose a new method to evaluate the performance of different evacuation modes, and to find a rational evacuation mode for long underwater vehicle tunnels. In this study, a co...
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Concurrent Flame Spread and Blow-Off Over Horizontal Thin Electrical Wires
Electrical wires with the flammable polymer insulation and the metal core are responsible for many fire accidents in buildings, nuclear power plants, aircraft, and spacecraft. For the first time, this work stu...
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A new bond failure criterion for ordinary state-based peridynamic mode II fracture analysis
Peridynamics is a nonlocal theory, and it has been applied to a series of fracture problems based on its two main bond failure criteria: the critical stretch criterion and the critical energy density criterion...
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Numerical Investigation of Back-Layering Length and Critical Velocity in Curved Subway Tunnels with Different Turning Radius
Curved tunnels are inevitable subjected to the city underground geological conditions. Due to the catastrophic consequence of tunnel fires with high population density, the related researches on fire safety of...
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Behavior of Steel–Concrete Partially Composite Beams Subjected to Fire—Part 1: Experimental Study
Partially composite steel–concrete beams are commonly used in building construction, and so the behavior of such beams in fire is an important problem. This paper presents the results of an experimental invest...
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Experimental Studies of Electromagnetic Wave Attenuation by Flame and Smoke in Structure Fire
Attenuation of electromagnetic waves in the fire scene is an important issue when the stability of wireless communication is concerned, especially in fire rescue scenarios of high-rise buildings. Therefore, it...
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Fracture of a thin power-law nonlinear material with a crack using the DCB model
A thin power-law nonlinear material with a crack is studied. For a thin cracked structure, we simulate the layer with an edge crack or a center crack as a double-cantilever beam (DCB) or a double-clamped beam,...
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Influences of Talc on Fire Performance of Low Density Polyethylene
In this paper the effects of talc on the ignition time, the burning rate and the downward flame spread rate of low density polyethylene were studied through the cone calorimeter test, the modified UL 94 vertic...
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Improved decohesion modeling with the material point method for simulating crack evolution
A combined elastoplasticity and decohesion model is used with the material point method for the crack problem as described in the Sandia National Laboratories challenge. To predict the cracking path in a compl...
