A5032989051- Concrete and Cement Materials Research
- Concrete Corrosion and Durability
- Smart Materials for Construction
- Concrete Properties and Behavior
- Recycled Aggregate Concrete Performance
- Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials
- Innovative concrete reinforcement materials
- Magnesium Oxide Properties and Applications
- Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition
- BIM and Construction Integration
- Structural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete
- Municipal Solid Waste Management
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
- Infection Control and Ventilation
- Electromagnetic wave absorption materials
- Healthcare Operations and Scheduling Optimization
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
- Geotechnical and construction materials studies
- Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
- Asphalt Pavement Performance Evaluation
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
- Recycling and utilization of industrial and municipal waste in materials production
- Structural Load-Bearing Analysis
Beijing University of Chemical Technology
2023-2025
Brunel University of London
2019-2024
University of Wolverhampton
2017-2019
Arup Group (United Kingdom)
2010-2017
Beirut Arab University
2017
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
2011-2015
Global climate change has become a major environmental threat and development challenge facing humanity. Controllable nuclear fusion is globally recognized ideal solution for clean energy, but its required high-energy triggering conditions intense energy release prevent existing technologies from achieving safe, stable, long-term continuous operation. Here, inspired by the traditional Chinese firecrackers, we propose pulsed reaction flywheel storage multi-reactor relay operation to drive...
Abstract This paper discusses the uncertainties surrounding corrosion prompted by stray direct current (DC) and alternating (AC) interferences. The influence of railway DC interference was simulated through cyclic potentiodynamic (CP) polarization in a concrete pore solution. Steel fibres exhibit excellent resistance to perturbations up 1.0 V (vs. OCP or Open Circuit Potential) absence chloride. However, when electrolyte contains 0.6 mol/L chloride, reduced perturbation 0.4 OCP) sufficient...
The rise in early-age temperature concrete structures, driven by the exothermic reactions during cement hydration, significantly increases risk of thermal cracking. To address this issue, construction industry employs several strategies, including partial substitution with ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) due to its lower heat hydration. Accurately predicting hydration is critical for preventing This task becomes more complex, fluctuating ambient temperatures influencing kinetics...
Objectives: Serious COVID-19 nosocomial infection has demonstrated a need to design our health services in different manner. Triggered by the current crisis and interest rapid deployable hospital, this article discusses how hospital building layouts can be improved streamline patient pathways thus reduce risk of hospital-related infections. Another objective work is explore possibility develop flexible scalable through modular construction. This enables hospitals better cope with future...
China accounts for approximately half of global steel production and more than 80 Mt blast-furnace slag is generated every year as a by-product. About 80% recycled in the majority this used an additive low-grade composite cement or ‘blast-furnace cement’. This paper discusses technical feasibility using ground granulated (GGBS) structural concrete high-value applications China. The effects on compressive strengths are investigated experimentally at different curing temperatures. influence...
It is a common concern that ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) blended CEM I concrete lacks sufficient early-age strength, which may prevent its application in cast-in-place structural concrete. This has been identified the present study through GGBS activity index tests and compressive strength of specimens. Current codes for used require minimum hydraulic specific surface area. The particle size distribution (PSD) can also affect physical mechanical properties concrete, but this...
China accounts for nearly half of the global steel production. As a waste material or by-product in manufacture process, large amount blast furnace slag is generated every year. The majority recycled used as an additive low-grade blended cement (equivalent to UK CEM II III depending on content). cost using ground granulated (GGBS) such applications may not be entirely reimbursed based market research. This paper reports on-going project at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) which...
3D printing technology has been used to directly produce various actual products, ranging from engines and medicines toys, especially due its advantage in producing items of complicated, porous structures, which are inherently difficult clean. Here, we apply micro-/nano-bubble the removal oil contaminants 3D-printed polymeric products. Micro-/nano-bubbles show promise enhancement cleaning performance with or without ultrasound, is attributed their large specific surface area enhancing...
Concrete structures are popularly used to provide open space areas that often incorporated into the design of sports, social and industrial structures. One concerns with concrete structures, especially long-span is early-age thermal expansion subsequent contraction as a result exothermic cement hydration reaction. Thermal contraction, externally restrained by vertical structural elements such columns shear walls, may cause cracking if it exceeds tensile strength concrete. The loading...
Fully functioning hospitals are the backbone of society. The current design in UK and elsewhere tends to over-emphasise empirical knowledge experimental research, but limits their ability cope with new infectious diseases increasing global connectedness. For example, around one-fifth Covid-19 cases, including majority infected hospital healthcare workers, were hospitals. This paper discusses a agent-based modelling approach developing more flexible efficient layouts that better able control...
Investigations into the economics, practicalities and technicalities of using recycled demolition aggregate in concrete precast products started 2001. At that time, there were six contractors around Liverpool they mobile crushers which suited for road subbase material but not smaller sized required products. It was estimated if all worked round clock, i.e. assuming enough feed material, would still have found it difficult to maintain supplies a single factory. Investment equipment therefore...