Patents by Inventor CHONGZHI TU

CHONGZHI TU has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12181397
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, device, and system for testing the static contact angle of reagent asphalt, the method includes the following steps: acquiring a side image of a stable droplet formed by a test reagent on asphalt surface, and determining the position of a baseline in the side image; cropping the side image to obtain a droplet image, and extracting droplet contour points in the droplet image; screening out effective contour points corresponding to contours of the two sides of the droplet from the droplet contour points; performing cubic polynomial fitting on the effective contour points to obtain curve function of contour curves on both sides; calculating contact angle value from the curve function and the position of the baseline. The beneficial effects of this disclosure are: this disclosure reduces the difficulty of fitting of the droplet contour and thus improves the calculation precision of the contact angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan University of Technology
    Inventors: Rong Luo, Longchang Niu, Jing Luo, Chongzhi Tu, Tingting Huang, Xiang Wang, Qiang Miao
  • Patent number: 12130226
    Abstract: Disclosed is method for evaluating influence of humidity on adhesion of asphalt-aggregate adhesion, the method includes the following steps: S1 putting multiple pull-out specimens into constant temperature and humidity phases with different relative humidity for curing, after the humidity reaches equilibrium, carrying out macroscopic mechanical pull-out test out and obtaining images of two aggregate surfaces of each broken pull-out specimen; S2 cropping the images, and then importing the cropped images into the Images Pro Plus software; S3 obtaining asphalt peeling rate according to the pixel value and calculation formula of asphalt peeling rate; S4 according to the asphalt peeling rate, asphalt cohesive energy and asphalt-aggregate binding energy, combined with calculation formula of asphalt-aggregate interface energy, obtaining asphalt-aggregate interface energy, and evaluating asphalt-aggregate adhesion according to the interface energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Rong Luo, Wei Wang, Chongzhi Tu, Longchang Niu, Xiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11982608
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for measuring surface energy of aggregates based on static drop method, comprising (1) aggregates grinding and pretreatment; (2) obtaining the surface texture index; (3) calculating the surface energy based on static drop method experiment; (4) fitting to obtain a functional relationship between the surface texture index and surface energy; (5) calculating the surface energy of the original aggregate. The method considers the influence of the grinding process on the surface texture of the aggregates when measuring the surface energy of the aggregates, which significantly improves the accuracy of the static drop method test. The static drop method can be used to replace the vapor adsorption method to test the surface energy of aggregate, and the low-cost optical contact angle instrument can replace the expensive magnetic suspension weight balance system to test the surface energy of aggregate, which greatly reduces the test cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Rong Luo, Jing Luo, Chongzhi Tu, Tingting Huang, Xiang Wang, Longchang Niu, Qiang Miao
  • Publication number: 20230026109
    Abstract: A method for predicting and calculating aggregate surface energy is provided and includes steps: (1) raw aggregate screening and treatment; (2) surface texture index acquirement of a polished aggregate and an untreated raw aggregate; (3) powdered aggregate testing by a capillary rise method; (4) polished aggregate testing by a sessile drop method; (5) function relationship formula fitting; and (6) surface energy calculation of raw aggregate. The method not only considers the influence of aggregate's own composition on the surface energy, but also considers the influence of the polishing treatment on the aggregate surface texture, analyzes actual surface texture conditions of the aggregate, and significantly improves the test accuracy by combining the sessile drop method and the capillary rise method. Moreover, it can replace vapor adsorption method to test the surface energy of aggregate, which greatly reduces the test cost and operation difficulty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Rong Luo, Longchang Niu, Angang Liu, Xuanjie Chen, Jing Luo, Chongzhi TU, Xiang Wang, Qiang Miao
  • Publication number: 20230017016
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for measuring surface energy of aggregates based on static drop method, comprising (1) aggregates grinding and pretreatment; (2) obtaining the surface texture index; (3) calculating the surface energy based on static drop method experiment; (4) fitting to obtain a functional relationship between the surface texture index and surface energy; (5) calculating the surface energy of the original aggregate. The method considers the influence of the grinding process on the surface texture of the aggregates when measuring the surface energy of the aggregates, which significantly improves the accuracy of the static drop method test. The static drop method can be used to replace the vapor adsorption method to test the surface energy of aggregate, and the low-cost optical contact angle instrument can replace the expensive magnetic suspension weight balance system to test the surface energy of aggregate, which greatly reduces the test cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: RONG LUO, JING LUO, CHONGZHI TU, TINGTING HUANG, XIANG WANG, LONGCHANG NIU, QIANG MIAO
  • Publication number: 20220357308
    Abstract: A method and system for selecting chemical reagents in measurement of asphalt surface energy are provided. The method includes: selecting different chemical reagents and obtaining contact angle values formed between the respective chemical reagents and asphalt slides; obtaining asphalt surface energy parameters corresponding to each of combinations of the chemical reagents according to the contact angle values; obtaining variation coefficients of the asphalt surface energy parameters corresponding to each of the combinations of the chemical reagents and selecting a group of combinations of the chemical reagents according to the variation coefficients; and obtaining numbers of abnormal values of asphalt surface energy components in the group of combinations of the chemical reagents and obtaining a target combination of the chemical reagents according to the numbers of the abnormal values. The combination of the chemical reagents with high stability of testing data can be selected by using the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Rong Luo, Longchang Niu, Chongzhi TU, Jing Luo, Xiang Wang, Qiang Miao
  • Publication number: 20220349802
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, device, and system for testing the static contact angle of reagent asphalt, the method includes the following steps: acquiring a side image of a stable droplet formed by a test reagent on asphalt surface, and determining the position of a baseline in the side image; cropping the side image to obtain a droplet image, and extracting droplet contour points in the droplet image; screening out effective contour points corresponding to contours of the two sides of the droplet from the droplet contour points; performing cubic polynomial fitting on the effective contour points to obtain curve function of contour curves on both sides; calculating contact angle value from the curve function and the position of the baseline. The beneficial effects of this disclosure are: this disclosure reduces the difficulty of fitting of the droplet contour and thus improves the calculation precision of the contact angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Rong Luo, Longchang Niu, Jing Luo, Chongzhi Tu, Tingting Huang, Xiang Wang, Qiang Miao
  • Publication number: 20220326143
    Abstract: Disclosed is method for evaluating influence of humidity on adhesion of asphalt-aggregate adhesion, the method includes the following steps: S1 putting multiple pull-out specimens into constant temperature and humidity phases with different relative humidity for curing, after the humidity reaches equilibrium, carrying out macroscopic mechanical pull-out test out and obtaining images of two aggregate surfaces of each broken pull-out specimen; S2 cropping the images, and then importing the cropped images into the Images Pro Plus software; S3 obtaining asphalt peeling rate according to the pixel value and calculation formula of asphalt peeling rate; S4 according to the asphalt peeling rate, asphalt cohesive energy and asphalt-aggregate binding energy, combined with calculation formula of asphalt-aggregate interface energy, obtaining asphalt-aggregate interface energy, and evaluating asphalt-aggregate adhesion according to the interface energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: RONG LUO, WEI WANG, CHONGZHI TU, LONGCHANG NIU, XIANG WANG