Minfei Liang

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 862 citations indexed

About

Minfei Liang is a scholar working on Civil and Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Minfei Liang has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 862 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering, 10 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 8 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Minfei Liang's work include Concrete and Cement Materials Research (11 papers), Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (9 papers) and Concrete Properties and Behavior (9 papers). Minfei Liang is often cited by papers focused on Concrete and Cement Materials Research (11 papers), Innovative concrete reinforcement materials (9 papers) and Concrete Properties and Behavior (9 papers). Minfei Liang collaborates with scholars based in China, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Minfei Liang's co-authors include Erik Schlangen, Branko Šavija, J.P. Li, Fengnian Xia, Zhong Yang, Yidong Gan, Ze Chang, Ya-Fang Guo, Zhi Wan and Feng He and has published in prestigious journals such as ACS Nano, Cement and Concrete Research and Construction and Building Materials.

In The Last Decade

Minfei Liang

29 papers receiving 852 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Interpretable Ensemble-Machine-Learning models for predicting creep behavior of concrete

2021 206 citations Minfei Liang, Ze Chang et al. Cement and Concrete Composites profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Minfei Liang China	14	439	325	279	260	192	31	862
HU Shi-sheng China	16	386 0.9×	312 1.0×	77 0.3×	513 2.0×	375 2.0×	57	970
Yue Yin China	17	602 1.4×	229 0.7×	52 0.2×	143 0.6×	328 1.7×	62	905
Yuliang Lin China	18	409 0.9×	508 1.6×	37 0.1×	455 1.8×	345 1.8×	64	1.0k
Jia Fu China	10	181 0.4×	148 0.5×	67 0.2×	134 0.5×	53 0.3×	21	391
Rui Fan China	15	510 1.2×	67 0.2×	63 0.2×	161 0.6×	127 0.7×	49	785
Bing Ma China	14	713 1.6×	129 0.4×	324 1.2×	257 1.0×	79 0.4×	36	929
Xudong Chen China	19	459 1.0×	246 0.8×	28 0.1×	102 0.4×	146 0.8×	61	764
Yanping Zhu United States	22	219 0.5×	1.8k 5.7×	176 0.6×	142 0.5×	116 0.6×	71	2.1k
Jiagui Liu China	17	437 1.0×	407 1.3×	24 0.1×	222 0.9×	178 0.9×	28	870

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Minfei Liang

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Liang, Minfei, Kun Feng, Shan He, et al.. (2025). Generation of cement paste microstructure using machine learning models. Developments in the Built Environment. 21. 100624–100624. 4 indexed citations

He, Shan, et al.. (2025). Characterization of the transitional zone between fully carbonated and non‑carbonated areas in slag-rich cement paste after long-term natural exposure. Cement and Concrete Research. 198. 107986–107986.

Lan, Chuntao, et al.. (2025). Humidity-Responsive Actuator-Based Smart Personal Thermal Management Fabrics Achieved by Solar Thermal Heating and Sweat-Evaporation Cooling. ACS Nano. 19(8). 8294–8302. 13 indexed citations

Li, Zhuangzhuang, Minfei Liang, Bin Han, & Thomas Wu. (2025). Flexible and low-carbon retrofit planning for wind-solar-thermal system: a distributionally robust Lipschitz dynamic programming approach. Energy. 336. 138438–138438.

Liang, Minfei, et al.. (2025). Conditional generative AI for high-fidelity synthesis of hydrating cementitious microstructures. Materials & Design. 256. 114251–114251. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Hao & Minfei Liang. (2024). Real-time monitoring of static elastic modulus evolution in hardening concrete through longitudinal-wave velocity changes retrieved by the stretching technique. Construction and Building Materials. 453. 139086–139086. 2 indexed citations

Liang, Minfei, et al.. (2024). Tensile behavior of rebar-reinforced coarse aggregate ultra-high performance concrete (R-CA-UHPC) members: Experiments and restrained shrinkage creep effect. Cement and Concrete Composites. 151. 105574–105574. 4 indexed citations

Liang, Minfei, et al.. (2024). Autogenous deformation-induced stress evolution in cementitious materials considering viscoelastic properties: A review of experiments and models. Developments in the Built Environment. 17. 100356–100356. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Yubao, et al.. (2023). Deep residual learning for acoustic emission source localization in A steel-concrete composite slab. Construction and Building Materials. 411. 134220–134220. 18 indexed citations

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Liang, Minfei, Yidong Gan, Ze Chang, et al.. (2021). Microstructure-informed deep convolutional neural network for predicting short-term creep modulus of cement paste. Cement and Concrete Research. 152. 106681–106681. 39 indexed citations

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Gan, Yidong, Hongzhi Zhang, Minfei Liang, et al.. (2021). A numerical study of fatigue of hardened cement paste at the microscale. International Journal of Fatigue. 151. 106401–106401. 12 indexed citations

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Xia, Feng, et al.. (2020). Effect of thermal exposure on microstructure and high-temperature fatigue life of Al-Si piston alloys. Journal of Materials Research and Technology. 9(6). 12926–12935. 21 indexed citations

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Liang, Minfei, Kun Feng, Chuan He, et al.. (2020). A meso-scale model toward concrete water permeability regarding aggregate permeability. Construction and Building Materials. 261. 120547–120547. 17 indexed citations

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Zhang, Rui, et al.. (2019). Cyclic response of RC composite bridge columns with precast PP-ECC jackets in the region of plastic hinges. Composite Structures. 221. 110844–110844. 48 indexed citations

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Gao, Peihu, et al.. (2017). Experimental assessment of interfacial contact thermal conductance between graphite and matrix in cast iron. International Journal of Cast Metals Research. 1–7. 5 indexed citations

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Ma, Zhijun, Dong Tao, Zhong Yang, et al.. (2016). The effect of vermicularity on the thermal conductivity of vermicular graphite cast iron. Materials & Design. 93. 418–422. 31 indexed citations

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Qiu, Yu, et al.. (2016). Influence of thermal exposure on microstructure evolution and tensile fracture behaviors of compacted graphite iron. Materials Science and Engineering A. 664. 75–85. 46 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhiyong, et al.. (2009). Effect of homogenization on the hot-deformation ability and dynamic recrystallization of Mg–9Gd–3Y–0.5Zr alloy. Materials Science and Engineering A. 515(1-2). 102–107. 25 indexed citations

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Yang, Zhong, et al.. (2006). Precipitation process and effect on mechanical properties of Mg–9Gd–3Y–0.6Zn–0.5Zr alloy. Materials Science and Engineering A. 454-455. 274–280. 143 indexed citations

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Wu, Xiaolei, P. Luo, Jann‐Tay Wang, et al.. (2005). Severe plastic deformation of magnesium alloy AZ31 at low temperatures. 29. 1 indexed citations

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