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  • Selection of the most suitable life extension strategy for ageing offshore assets using a life-cycle cost-benefit analysis approach 
    Animah, Isaac; Shafiee, Mahmood; Simms, Nigel; Erkoyuncu, John Ahmet; Maiti, Jhareswar (2018-08-13)
    Purpose A substantial number of production assets in the offshore oil and gas industry are facing operation beyond their anticipated design life, thus necessitating a service life extension program in the future. ...
  • The selective bleed variable cycle engine 
    Nascimento, M. A. R. (Cranfield University, 1992-07)
    A new concept in aircraft propulsion is described in this work. In particular, variable jet engine is investigated for supersonic ASTOVL aircraft. This engine is a Selective Bleed Variable Cycle, twin shaft turbofan. At ...
  • Selective laser sintering induced residual stresses: precision measurement and prediction 
    Impey, Susan A.; Saxena, Prateek; Salonitis, Konstantinos (MDPI, 2021-09-18)
    Additive Manufacturing presents unique advantages over traditional manufacturing processes and has the potential to accelerate technical advancement across multiple sectors, permitting far greater freedom in design than ...
  • Selective vancomycin detection using optical fibre long period gratings functionalised with molecularly imprinted polymer nanoparticles 
    Korposh, Sergiy; Chianella, Iva; Guerreiro, Antonio R.; Caygill, J. S.; Piletsky, Sergey A.; James, Stephen W.; Tatam, Ralph P. (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2014-02-25)
    An optical fibre long period grating (LPG) sensor modified with molecularly imprinted polymer nanoparticles (nanoMIPs) for the specific detection of antibiotics is presented. The operation of the sensor is based on the ...
  • Selective-exhaust gas recirculation for CO2 capture using membrane technology 
    Russo, Giuseppe; Prpich, George; Anthony, Edward J.; Montagnaro, Fabio; Jurado Pontes, Nelia; Di Lorenzo, Giuseppina; Darabkhani, Hamidreza Gohari (Elsevier, 2017-11-10)
    Membranes can potentially offer low-cost CO2 capture from post-combustion flue gas. However, the low partial pressure of CO2 in flue gases can inhibit their effectiveness unless methods are employed to increase their partial ...
  • Self localization and mapping using optical and thermal imagery 
    Magnabosco, Marina (Cranfield University, 2011-02)
    Given a mobile robot starting from an unknown position in an unknown environment, with the task of explores the surroundings, it has to be able to build an environmental map and localize itself inside that map. Achieving ...
  • Self play with parameter sharing in n-player mixed competitive-cooperative games 
    Skaltsis, George Marios; Shin, Hyo-Sang; Tsourdos, Antonios (AIAA, 2021-12-29)
    We introduce some parameter sharing multi-agent reinforcement learning schemes, combined with self-play for n-players mixed competitive-cooperative games. Except for the pure self-play scheme, an another one using the best ...
  • Self- or rule-based governance: Analysis of choice-making behaviour 
    Mostovicz, E. Issac; Kakabadse, Nada K.; Kakabadse, Andrew P. (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2010-08-31)
    Purpose - This study seeks to propose self-governance in organisations based on choice-making behaviour. Design/methodology/approach - The paper examines selected literature on the behaviour of choice, moving from the ...
  • Self-activated, Nanostructured Composite for Improved CaL-CLC technology 
    Chen, Jian; Duan, Lunbo; Donat, Felix; Müller, Christoph R.; Anthony, Edward J.; Fan, Maohong (Elsevier, 2018-06-28)
    The development of bifunctional CaO/CuO matrix composites with both high and stable reactivity is a research priority and key for the development of calcium looping integrated with chemical looping combustion (CaL-CLC), a ...
  • Self-assembled films for molecular rectification 
    Tyrrell, Wayne David. (Cranfield University, 2004-10)
    The original model for molecular rectification was proposed by Aviram and Ratner (Chemical Physics Letters, 1974, 29, 277-284.), who suggested that donor-electron bridge-acceptor molecules could be organic counterparts ...
  • Self-assembled microfiber-like biohydrogel for ultrasensitive whole-cell electrochemical biosensing in microdroplets 
    Ma, Xiao-Meng; Wang, Jian-Wei; Zhao, Li-Ting; Zhang, Yafei; Liu, Jun-Ying; Wang, Songmei; Zhu, Daochen; Yang, Zhugen; Yong, Yang-Chun (American Chemical Society, 2023-01-27)
    A novel microfiber-like biohydrogel was fabricated by a facile approach relying on electroactive bacteria-induced graphene oxide reduction and confined self-assembly in a capillary tube. The microfiber-like biohydrogel (d ...
  • The self-assembling growth of copper nanowires for transparent electrodes 
    Wu, Junqing; Guo, Le; Wen, Min; Bu, Tongle; Zhou, Peng; Zhong, Jie; Huang, Fuzhi; Zhang, Qi (Springer, 2019-02-18)
    Long (15 - 40 μm), thin (diameter of 20 ± 5 nm), and well-dispersed CuNWs Cu nanowires were prepared. The high-resolution TEM and selected area electron diffraction showed that the CuNWs were single-crystalline. To investigate ...
  • Self-balancing feature of Lithium-Sulfur batteries 
    Knap, Vaclav; Stroe, Daniel-Ioan; Christensen, Andreas E.; Propp, Karsten; Fotouhi, Abbas; Auger, Daniel J.; Schaltz, Erik; Teodorescu, Remus (Elsevier, 2017-11-05)
    The Li-S batteries are a prospective battery technology, which despite to its currently remaining drawbacks offers useable performance and interesting features. The polysulfide shuttle mechanism, a characteristic phenomenon ...
  • Self-discharge effects in lithium-sulfur equivalent circuit networks for state estimation 
    Yousif, S. E. A.; Fotouhi, Abbas; Auger, Daniel J.; Propp, Karsten (Electrochemical Society, 2017-11-30)
    This study considers application-oriented models of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) cells. Existing ECN models often neglect self-discharge, but this can be important in applications. After describing the context in which control-oriented ...
  • A self-discharge model of Lithium-Sulfur batteries based on direct shuttle current measurement 
    Knap, Vaclav; Stroe, Daniel-Ioan; Swierczynski, Maciej; Purkayastha, Rajlakshmi; Propp, Karsten; Teodorescu, Remus; Schaltz, Erik (Elsevier, 2016-10-29)
    In the group of post Lithium-ion batteries, Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) batteries attract a high interest due to their high theoretical limits of the specific capacity of 1672 Ah kg−1 and specific energy of around 2600 Wh kg−1. ...
  • A self-enforced, connected cooperative traffic framework 
    Stryszowski, Marcin (2019-11)
    This doctoral thesis proposes a novel approach to road traffic de-conflicting. It comes as a framework consisting of a user-tailored, multi-objective cost function and a negotiation algorithm, in which traffic conflicts ...
  • Self-enhancing model-based control for active transient protection and thrust response improvement of gas turbine aero-engines 
    Wei, Zhiyuan; Zhang, Shuguang; Jafari, Soheil; Nikolaidis, Theoklis (Elsevier, 2021-12-29)
    A self-enhancing active transient protection (SeATP) control approach using model-based strategies is proposed for gas turbine aero-engines, which aims at pro-actively handling surge margin limit and turbine entry temperature ...
  • Self-healing in epoxy thermoset polymer films triggered by UV light 
    Moniruzzaman, Monir; Christogianni, Paraskevi; Kister, Guillaume (2016-07-26)
    Self-healing of damaged structures can occur in three processes: capsule-based healing, vascular healing and intrinsic healing of polymers. The latest concept has a tremendous potential to repair damaged polymers and ...
  • Self-healing materials: a pathway to immortal products or a risk to circular economy systems? 
    Haines-Gadd, Merryn; Charnley, Fiona; Encinas-Oropesa, Adriana (Elsevier, 2021-07-01)
    Product lifetime extension is key strategy for a functioning Circular Economy. Yet, the role of material innovation and how this might contribute to longer product and material lifetimes has not been widely discussed. ...
  • Self-healing mechanisms for 3D-printed polymeric structures: from lab to reality 
    Almutairi, Mohammed Dukhi; Aria, Adrianus Indrat; Thakur, Vijay Kumar; Khan, Muhammad A. (MDPI, 2020-07-11)
    Existing self-healing mechanisms are still very far from full-scale implementation, and most published work has only demonstrated damage cure at the laboratory level. Their rheological nature makes the mechanisms for damage ...