Publications

✉️ denotes my role as the PI and corresponding author of this paper

🤝 denotes equal contribution

🗓️ 2026

1. Yingxiao Kong (🤝), Bozhou Zhuang (✉️, 🤝), Danny Smyl. Temperature Forecast for Spent Nuclear Fuels (SNFs) in Dry Storage using Time Series Decomposition and Machine Learning. Progress in Nuclear Energy (IF=3.2), 2026, 191: 106006. [Paper]

🗓️ 2025

2. Bozhou Zhuang, Adrien Gallet, Danny Smyl. Inverse structural design with generative and probabilistic autoencoders and diffusion models. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IF=8.0), 2025, 161A: 112143. [Paper]

3. Bozhou Zhuang (✉️), Sashank Rana, Brandon Jones, Danny Smyl. Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for numerical model error approximation and superresolution. Engineering Research Express (IF=1.6), 2025. [Paper]

4. Jing Zhang, Miaoying Li, Qianyi Xu, Bozhou Zhuang (✉️), Hongshuai Gao (✉️). Explainable Machine Learning for Condition Assessment of Communication Towers. Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring (IF=4.3), 2025, 15: 3135-3160. [Paper]

5. Danny Smyl, Bozhou Zhuang, Sam Rigby, Edvard Bruun, Brandon Jones, Patrick Kastner, Iris Tien, Adrien Gallet. OpenPyStruct: Open-Source Toolkit for Machine Learning Structural Optimization. Engineering Structures (IF=6.4), 2025, 343A: 120869. [Paper] [Code] [Data]

6. Anna Arcaro, Bora Gencturk, Roger Ghanem, Bozhou Zhuang. Effect of experimental noise on internal damage detection of sealed spent nuclear fuel canisters. Engineering with Computers (IF=4.9), 2025. [Paper]

7. Bozhou Zhuang, Anna Arcaro, Bora Gencturk, Assad Oberai, Ryan Meyer, Anton Sinkov, and Morris Good. Non-destructive Evaluation and Machine Learning Methods for Inspection of Spent Nuclear Fuel Canisters: a State-of-the-Art Review. Progress in Nuclear Energy (IF=3.2), 2025, 185: 105697. [Paper]

8. Xianlin Wang, Bozhou Zhuang (✉️), Danny Smyl, Haijun Zhou, M. Z. Naser. Machine Learning for Design, Optimization and Assessment of Steel-Concrete Composite Structures: A Review. Engineering Structures (IF=6.4), 2025, 328: 119652. [Paper]

🗓️ 2024

9. Bozhou Zhuang, Bora Gencturk, Assad Oberai, Harisankar Ramaswamy, Ryan Meyer, Anton Sinkov, and Morris Good. Acoustic Sensing and Auto-encoder Approach for Abnormal Gas Detection on a Spent Nuclear Fuel Canister Mock-up. Structural Health Monitoring (IF=5.7), 2024. [Paper] [Code] [Data]

10. Bozhou Zhuang, Bora Gencturk, Anton Sinkov, Morris Good, Ryan Meyer, and Assad Oberai. Non-invasive Ultrasonic Sensing of Internal Conditions on a Partial Full-scale Spent Nuclear Fuel Canister Mock-Up. NDT & E International (IF=4.5), 2024, 148: 103242. [Paper]

11. Bozhou Zhuang, Bora Gencturk, Assad Oberai, Harisankar Ramaswamy, Ryan Meyer, Anton Sinkov, and Morris Good. Impurity Gas Detection for SNF Canisters Using Probabilistic Deep Learning and Acoustic Sensing. Measurement Science and Technology (IF=3.4), 2024, 35: 126005. [Paper] [Code] [Data]

12. Anna Arcaro, Bozhou Zhuang, Bora Gencturk, Roger Ghanem. Damage Detection and Localization in Sealed Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Canisters using Multi-task Machine Learning Classifiers. Reliability Engineering & System Safety (IF=11.0), 2024, 252: 110446. [Paper]

13. Bozhou Zhuang, Anna Arcaro, Bora Gencturk, Roger Ghanem. Machine Learning-Aided Damage Identification of Mock-up Spent Nuclear Fuel Assemblies in a Sealed Dry Storage Canister. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IF=8.0), 2024, 128: 107484. [Paper]

🗓️ 2023

14. Bozhou Zhuang, Bora Gencturk, Assad Oberai, Harisankar Ramaswamy, and Ryan Meyer. Impurity Gas Monitoring Using Ultrasonic Sensing and Neural Networks: Forward and Inverse Problems. Measurement (IF=5.6), 2023, 223: 113822. [Paper] [Code] [Data]

15. Xiaoying Pan, Bora Gencturk, Hadi Aryan, Bozhou Zhuang. Self-healing performance of reinforced concrete beams using engineered aggregates. Engineering Structures (IF=6.4), 2023, 295: 116829. [Paper]

16. Bozhou Zhuang, Bora Gencturk, Iman Asareh, Assad Oberai, Harisankar Ramaswamy, Ryan Meyer, Morris Good, and Matthew Taubman. Development and Experimental Verification of an Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) Method for Non-Invasive Sensing. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (IF=8.9), 2023, 196: 110330. [Paper] [Code]

🗓️ 2020

17. Bozhou Zhuang, Yuqing Liu, Dalei Wang. Shear Mechanism of Rubber-Sleeved Stud (RSS) Connectors in the Steel-concrete Interface of Cable-Pylon Anchorage, Engineering Structures (IF=6.4), 2020, 223: 111183. [Paper]

🗓️ 2019

18. Bozhou Zhuang, Yuqing Liu. Study on the Composite Mechanism of Large Rubber-Sleeved Stud Connector, Construction and Building Materials (IF=8.0), 2019, 211: 869-884. [Paper]

🗓️ 2018

19. Bozhou Zhuang, Yuqing Liu, Fei Yang. Experimental and Numerical Study on Deformation Performance of Rubber-Sleeved Stud Connector Under Cyclic Load, Construction and Building Materials (IF=8.0), 2018, 192: 179-193. [Paper]

🗓️ 2025

Under review:

1. Masoomeh Mirrashid, Nader M. Okasha, Bozhou Zhuang, Danny Smyl, Haleh Rasekh. Adaptability in Smart Structures: An Integrated Type-2 Fuzzy Logic and Ensemble Learning Approach. Journal of Building Engineering (IF=7.4), 2025. (Under Review)

2. Bozhou Zhuang, Bora Gencturk, Assad Oberai, Ryan Meyer, Anton Sinkov, and Morris Good. Surrogate Fission Gas Detection on a Horizontal Canister Mock-up Considering Temperature Effects. Nuclear Engineering and Design (IF=2.1), 2025. (Under Review) [Preprint]

* denotes the presenter

🗓️ 2025

1. Yingxiao Kong, Danny Smyl, Bozhou Zhuang*. A Temperature Forecast Framework for Spent Nuclear Fuel Using Real Measurement Data and Time-Series Decomposition, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2025 (EMI 2025), Anaheim, USA, 2025.

🗓️ 2024

2. Bozhou Zhuang*, Bora Gencturk. Non-Invasive Sensing of Internal Abnormalities in Sealed SNF Canisters, 2024 SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Washington, USA, 2024. (Michael Sutton International Student Paper Competition Finalist)

3. Bozhou Zhuang*, Bora Gencturk, Assad Oberai, Harisankar Ramaswamy, Ryan Meyer, Anton Sinkov, Morris Good. Impurity gas monitoring for spent nuclear fuel canisters using a variational autoencoder (VAE), Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference (EMI/PMC 2024), Illinois, USA, 2024. (EMI Structural Health Monitoring and Control Student Paper Competition: Third Place) [Abstract]

4. Anna Arcaro*, Bozhou Zhuang, Bora Gencturk, Roger Ghanem. Detection and localization of internal damage in sealed spent nuclear fuel canisters using a multi-task convolutional neural network (CNN), Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference (EMI/PMC 2024), Illinois, USA, 2024. (EMI Dynamics Student Competition: Second Place) [Abstract]

5. Bozhou Zhuang*, Anton Sinkov, Morris Good, Ryan Meyer, Bora Gencturk, Assad Oberai. Optimizing Transmission of Acoustic Signals to Monitor Internal Conditions of Canisters for Dry Storage of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel, SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation 2024, Long Beach, USA, 2024. [Paper+Recording]

🗓️ 2023

6. Bozhou Zhuang*, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-aided Gas Monitoring for the Spent-Nuclear Fuel Canisters, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Intern Symposium, Online, July 27, 2023. [Recording]

🗓️ 2022

7. Bozhou Zhuang*, Bora Gencturk, Iman Asareh, Assad Oberai, Ryan Meyer. Experimental Study of Ultrasonic Crosstalk Cancellation on SNF Canister Mock-up, 2022 International High Level Radioactive Waste Management Conference, Arizona, USA, 2022. [Paper]

8. Bozhou Zhuang*, Bora Gencturk, Iman Asareh, Assad Oberai, Ryan Meyer. An Active Noise Cancellation Method for Ultrasonic Signals on Metal Cylindrical Container, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2022), Maryland, USA, 2022. [Abstract]

🗓️ 2021 and earlier

9. Teeba A. Jassim, Bozhou Zhuang, Amer M. Ibrahim, Ibrahim A. Ali. Using Wasted Rubber Material for Reducing Loads and Energy Dispersal in Building Industries: State of the Art, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2021, 1076: 012114. 

10. Bozhou Zhuang*, Shuangjie Zheng, Xiaoqing Xu and Yuqing Liu. Application Study on the Rubber-Sleeved Stud Connectors in the Cable-tower Composite Anchorage, 32nd KKHTCNN Symposium on Civil Engineering, Korea, 2019.(Best Presenter)  [Abstract]

11. Bozhou Zhuang*, Yuqing Liu. Experimental and Applicable Research on Stud-Rubber Composite Connector, 5th Joint Workshop on Building / Civil Engineering between Tongji & Tokyo Tech, Japan, 2018.(Best Presentation)

12. Bozhou Zhuang, Yuqing Liu, Han Yuan. Applied research on stiffness-controllable connector in cable-pylon composite anchorage zone, 11th Annual Conference of Bridge Steel Structure Branch Association of China Steel Construction Society, China, 2018.

13. Yuqing Liu, Bozhou Zhuang, Haijun Xu, et al. Research on Force Mechanism of Steel Anchor Box-Concrete Walls Composite Anchorage Zone, 16th Annual Conference of Steel-Concrete Composite Structure Branch Association of China Steel Construction Society, China, 2017.

1. Bora Gencturk, Anna Arcaro, Bozhou Zhuang. A System for Non-destructive Inspection of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Canisters, United States Patent. (Provisional Application Filed, Equal Share)

2. Quansheng Sun, Hongshuai Gao, Haiyan Yu, Bozhou Zhuang, Jiantong Mo. An anti-overturn device for piers. Patent for Utility Model. ZL 201420843690.2  [Google Patent]

3. Quansheng Sun, Hongshuai Gao, Bozhou Zhuang. Bridge reinforcing apparatus based on polyurethane cement and prestressed wire rope. Patent for Utility Model. ZL 201520679517.8 [Google Patent]