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Anchorage of reinforcement in concrete corners: Experiments and refined measurements

Aurelio Muttoni, Enrique Corres Sojo, Xianlin Wang

The anchorage of reinforcement in concrete is a complex phenomenon typically governed by several failure modes, including: pull-out failure, splitting, side spalling, edge wedge spalling, and corner spalling, depending on multiple factors. Extensive resear ...

2025

Bond deterioration of corroded reinforcements in SFRC: Experiments and 3D laser scanning

Xianlin Wang

The bond deterioration behavior of reinforcements in steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) subjected to chloride-induced corrosion has not yet been fully elucidated. This study investigates the corrosion character-ization, resistivity, corrosion-induced c ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Reinforcement bond performance in 3D concrete printing: Explainable ensemble learning augmented by deep generative adversarial networks

Xianlin Wang

Integrating various reinforcements into 3D concrete printing (3DCP) is an efficient method to satisfy critical requirements for structural applications. This paper explores an explainable ensemble machine learning (EML) method to predict the bond failure m ...

Elsevier2023

Auto-tuning deep forest for shear stiffness prediction of headed stud connectors

Xianlin Wang, Yuqing Liu

The shear stiffness of headed stud connector is a critical parameter for the calculation of deflection and inter-facial shear force for steel-concrete composite structure. Thus, this study presented a promising data-driven model auto-tuning Deep Forest (AT ...

2022

Explainable ensemble learning model for predicting steel section-concrete bond strength

Xianlin Wang

This study evaluates the efficiency of an explainable ensemble learning framework in precisely predicting the bond strength between steel sections with different surface treatments and various concrete types. Besides seven numerical features, two categoric ...

2022

Auto-tuning ensemble models for estimating shear resistance of headed studs in concrete

Xianlin Wang, Yuqing Liu

The shear resistance of headed studs is of paramount importance for the design of steel-concrete composite structures and an accurate predictive model is highly needed. Ensemble learning is expected to be a powerful solution while it relies on laborious se ...

2022

Systematic Method for the Energy-Saving Potential Calculation of Air Conditioning Systems via Data Mining. Part II: A Detailed Case Study

Shen Yang, Xianlin Wang

Increased data monitoring enables the energy-efficient operation of air-conditioning systems via data-mining. The latter is projected to have lesser consumption but more comprehensive diagnosis than traditional methods. Following the companion paper that p ...

2021

Systematic Method for the Energy-Saving Potential Calculation of Air-Conditioning Systems via Data Mining. Part I: Methodology

Shen Yang, Xianlin Wang

Air-conditioning systems contribute the most to energy consumption among building equipment. Hence, energy saving for air-conditioning systems would be the essence of reducing building energy consumption. The conventional energy-saving diagnosis method thr ...

2021