The purpose of this research project is to develop a framework for engineering change management (ECM) in an aircraft manufacturing company. ECM is vital for manufacturers to manage changes efficiently and effectively. ...

This thesis investigates novel intermittent fault detection and prediction techniques for complex nonlinear systems. Aerospace and defence systems are becoming progressively more complex, with greater component numbers ...

There is a high demand and interest in considering the social and environmental effects of the component’s lifespan. Aircraft are one of the most high-priced businesses that require the highest reliability and safety ...

Performance-Based Contracting (PBC), e.g. Contracting for Availability (CfA), has been extensively applied in many industry sectors such as defence, aerospace and railway. Under PBC, complex support activities (e.g. ...

Shift2Rail and In2Smart are two initiatives that will be part of the development of the necessary technologies to complete the Single European Railway Area (SERA). The target of this proposal is to accelerate the integration ...

Web robots or Web crawlers have become the main source of Web traffic. Although some bots perform well, such as search engines, other bots can perform DDoS attacks, posing a huge threat to websites. The project aims to ...