Bin Huang

Changsha University of Science and Technology / University of South Australia

The building sector is the largest contributor to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Over the years, sound tools have been developed to support the life-cycle assessment of building carbon emissions performance. However, most of these tools have been primarily focused on building-scale modelling and evaluation, leaving the emissions related to...

Modern technological advances and rapid cost reduction have led to the widespread deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) units, which is a cost-effective solution to improve the energy resilience and carbon offsetting for a sustainable built environment. However, PV electricity is not a pure clean energy considering the costs and carbon emissions as...

Decarbonisation of the built environment is high on the agenda for sustainable urbanisation and is increasingly recognized as a critical path to climate neutrality. As a microcosm of modern cities, precincts are at the forefront for urban planning, development and assessment, as well as for exploring the carbon-neutral potential of the built enviro...

Photovoltaic (PV) technologies are critical for sustainable energy supply, climate change mitigation, and energy security with lower environmental impact compared to other generation alternatives. Despite the environmental benefits of PV technologies, one of these major downsides is the growing concern over the environmental impact due to risks ass...

Damage to glass fiber epoxy resin reinforced composite（GFRP），which is the main material of wind turbine blades，will lead to a reduction in blade life and even fracture，so damage detection must be carried out. The acoustic emission method can be used to analyze the damage characteristics of GFRP composite materials and realize online monitoring of b...

太阳能热发电换热管主要材料渗铝321 钢的损伤会导致换热管的寿命缩短甚至断裂,因此必须进行损伤检测。采用声发射方法对渗铝321 钢的损伤特性进行分析,实现对换热管性能的在线动态监测。通过采用声发射Ib 值特征来表征渗铝321 钢的损伤程度,并运用自组织映射(SOM)神经网络算法进行声发射特征参数聚类,以分析材料的损伤模式。结果表明,力学塑性阶段的声发射事件数量剧增,能量和振铃计数的峰值标志着试件的断裂。此外,在试件失效前, Ib 值显著降低且密度变密集,表明Ib 值的变化特征可以作为材料临界失效的预警信号。通过SOM 算法对特征参数进行聚类分析得到4 个簇及其对应的特征频率,并使用扫描电子显微镜(SEM)观察试件的断口形貌,得出4 个簇分别对应于孔洞生长与汇合、微裂纹成核、宏观裂纹扩展和纤维...

The incorporation of graphene oxide (GO) into composite materials can modulate their overall performance. To enhance the performance of acoustic emission (AE) signals, 3% GO was incorporated into glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites, resulting in the creation of GO-GFRP composite materials. The sentry function was first used to investig...

Structural components represent major contributors to embodied carbon emissions of buildings. While there have been numerous research efforts dedicated to modelling and assessing the embodied carbon impact of buildings, there is a conspicuous gap in research that concurrently examines various material options in building structural designs, account...

Uniaxial trackers are widely employed as the frame for solar photovoltaic (PV) panel installation. However, when used in sloping terrain scenarios such as mountain and hill regions, it is essential to apply a solar-tracking strategy with the sloping factors considered, to eliminate the shading effects between arrays and reduce the electricity produ...

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With the increasingly stringent requirements for carbon emissions, countries have increased the scale of clean energy use in recent years. As an important new clean energy source, the ratio of wind power in energy utilization has been increasing. The horizontal axis wind turbine is the main form of wind power generation, which is subject to random...

As essential load-bearing equipment to support the nacelle and blades, the tower is subjected to the whole wind turbine loading. This study proposes a new method of combining acoustic emission and normalized accumulation parameters to characterize wind turbine towers Q345 steel damage. First of all, tendency analysis of the acoustic emission signal...

As a renewable energy source, wind energy harvesting provides a desirable solution to address the environmental concerns associated with energy production to satisfy the increasingly global demand. Over the years, the penetration of wind turbines has experienced a rapid growth, however, the impacts of turbine noise correspondingly become a major co...

Decarbonising the urban built environment for reaching carbon neutrality is high on the agenda for many cities undergoing rapid expansion and densification. As an important urban form, precincts have been increasingly focused on as the context for urban redevelopment planning and at the forefront for trialling carbon reduction measures. However, du...

It is widely accepted that conventional boost algorithms are of low efficiency and accuracy in dealing with big data collected from wind turbine operations. To address this issue, this paper is devoted to the application of an adaptive LightGBM method for wind turbine fault detections. To this end, the realization of feature selection for fault det...

Given the prejudicial environmental effects of fossil-fuel based energy production, renewable energy sources can contribute significantly to the sustainability of human society. As a clean, cost effective and inexhaustible renewable energy source, wind energy harvesting has found a wide application to replace conventional energy productions. Howeve...

Shape rolling is widely employed in the production of long work-pieces with appropriate cross-section profiles for other industrial applications. In the development of shape rolling systems, roll pass design (RPD) plays an essential role on the quality control of products, service life of rolls, productivity of rolling systems, as well as energy co...

Fault diagnosis and forecasting contribute significantly to the reduction of operating and maintenance associated costs, as well as to improve the resilience of wind turbine systems. Different from the existing fault diagnosis approaches using monitored vibration and acoustic data from the auxiliary equipment, this research presents a novel fault d...

A major challenge with ‘decarbonising’ urban development is how life-cycle carbon signatures of different urban forms can be methodically defined, quantitatively assessed, and effectively employed for low-carbon living. This chapter presents two CRC tools which interrogate the whole-of-life carbon emissions of all built forms, distributed energy te...

Featured Application: The proposed research aims to provide an economic attractive and easier operating solution to reduce the standby energy waste of electric appliances. And the developed system could be a prototype to guide the design and manufacturing of smart sockets. Abstract: Many efforts have recently been dedicated to developing smart sock...

In the multi-pass rod rolling systems, where the final products are round bars with different sizes, oval-edging oval passes are widely employed as intermediate passes. This study attempts to present a generalized strategy to support the optimal design of oval-edging oval passes. A design system based on this strategy is developed to minimize power...

The primary purpose of this study is to develop a genetic algorithm based computer-aided roll pass optimal design (CAROD) system to support the generalized roll pass design for rod rolling, where the final products are round bars with different sizes. The system was developed to minimize the number of roll passes, decrease the trails and errors in...

Hot steel rolling is an important manufacturing process used to efficiently provide a wide range of products of high quantity and quality. In order to meet the continuously increasing demands, both an improved quality and a broader variety of products must be delivered along with improvements in efficiency, reliability and sustainability of rolling...

Models of the position and tool forces of backhoe hydraulic excavator were built based on the full analysis of kinematics, kinetic performance of working device and mathematic model of tool forces. Various restrictive factors of tool forces, which appeared in the work process, were discussed. A computation program based on VB 6.0 was compiled, whic...