Condition-based maintenance strategies need to be adopted as distance-to-shore and water depth increase in the offshore wind industry. The aim of the research presented herein is to develop advance structural health ...

In today’s world there are 2.6 billion people that lack basic sanitation (37% of world inhabitants). In August of 2012, Cranfield University was awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with $810,000 to produce a ...

Wind power, especially offshore, is considered to be one of the most promising sources of ‘clean’ energy towards meeting the EU targets for 2020 and 2050. However, its popularity has always fluctuated with the price of ...

This study investigates the viability of localising job roles in the oil and gas industry and whether job role localisation can reduce staffing costs. The principal barrier to job role localisation is high standards required ...

As a consequence of the gradually expanding aviation network, civil aircrafts are occupying an increasingly high proportion of the transport industry. Air transport now dominates the intercity rapid transit, long-distance ...

The geotechnical conditions of the soil can fluctuate greatly across the wind farm. This is an issue since geotechnical modelling is the base of the structural design of an offshore wind farm, and the efficient installation ...

This work investigates the spatio-temporal patterns of EV and PV adoption, attending to the need of informing the management of the distribution network with spatially explicit estimations of the EV and PV adoption rates. ...