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    Coal tailings as a soil conditioner: evaluation of tailing properties and effect on tomato plants

    The global coal industry yields a vast amount of tailings waste, and the utilisation of these tailings necessitates innovative efforts contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. One of s...

    Miing-Tiem Yong, Mohammad Babla, Shawan Karan, Utsab Katwal… in Plant Growth Regulation (2022)

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    High temperature resistance of fly ash/GGBFS-based geopolymer mortar with load-induced damage

    This study investigated the effect of elevated temperatures on the residual mechanical behaviors of geopolymer mortars with initial damage induced by mechanical load. Geopolymer mortar was prepared using diffe...

    Fulin Qu, Wengui Li, Zhong Tao, Arnaud Castel, Ke** Wang in Materials and Structures (2020)

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    Measurement and prediction of thermal properties of alkali-activated fly ash/slag binders at elevated temperatures

    This paper presents a comprehensive experimental study of thermal properties of various alkali-activated binders at ambient and elevated temperatures. The binders were prepared using alkali-activated low calci...

    Zhu Pan, Zhong Tao, Yi-Fang Cao, Richard Wuhrer in Materials and Structures (2018)

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    Tests on the Steel–Concrete Bond Strength in Steel Reinforced Concrete (SRC) Columns After Fire Exposure

    Bond behaviour between the steel and concrete is important in ensuring the interaction of different components in steel reinforced concrete (SRC) columns under various working conditions, and sufficient bond s...

    Wei-Hua Wang, Lin-Hai Han, Qing-Hua Tan, Zhong Tao in Fire Technology (2017)

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    Effect of different types of aggregates on the performance of concrete-filled steel tubular stub columns

    This paper presents a series of tests on concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) stub columns under axial compression. Five different concrete mixes with the same cement content and water/cement ratio were design...

    **n Yu, Zhong Tao, Tian-Yi Song in Materials and Structures (2016)

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    Mechanical properties of prestressing steel after fire exposure

    Prestressed concrete structures have been widely used all over the world, and there is a growing need to study the postfire repairability that is relevant whenever a fire occurs and no collapse happens after c...

    Zhong Tao in Materials and Structures (2015)

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    Effect of blend ratio and pH on the physical properties of edible composite films prepared from silver carp surimi and skin gelatin

    The effect of blend ratio and pH on the physical properties of surimi-gelatin composite films was investigated. Tensile strength (TS), film water solubility and soluble proteins of composite films increased wi...

    Zhong Tao, Wu-Yin Weng, Min-Jie Cao… in Journal of Food Science and Technology (2015)

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    Behaviour of recycled aggregate concrete filled stainless steel stub columns

    Past research indicates that recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) could be successfully used in concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) columns. Their yielded performance is almost as good as that of the traditional...

    Vivian W. Y. Tam, Zhi-Bin Wang, Zhong Tao in Materials and Structures (2014)

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    Chapter and Conference Paper

    Tunneling Descent Level Set Segmentation of Ultrasound Images

    The presence of speckle in ultrasound images causes many spurious local minima in the energy function of active contours. These minima trap the segmentation prematurely under gradient descent and cause the alg...

    Zhong Tao, Hemant D. Tagare in Information Processing in Medical Imaging (2005)

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    Tunnelling Descent: A New Algorithm for Active Contour Segmentation of Ultrasound Images

    The presence of speckle in ultrasound images makes it hard to segment them using active contours. Speckle causes the energy function of the active contours to have many local minima, and the gradient descent p...

    Zhong Tao, C. Carl Jaffe, Hemant D. Tagare in Information Processing in Medical Imaging (2003)