• How and why we need to capture tacit knowledge in manufacturing: Case studies of visual inspection 

  Johnson, Teegan; Fletcher, Sarah; Baker, W; Charles, Rebecca (Elsevier, 2018-08-03)

  Human visual inspection skills remain superior for ensuring product quality and conformance to standards in the manufacturing industry. However, at present these skills cannot be formally shared with other workers or used ...
• Compressive behavior and failure mechanisms of freestanding and composite 3D graphitic foams 

  Nakanishi, Kenichi; Aria, Adrianus I.; Berwind, Matthew; Weatherup, Robert S.; Eberl, Christoph; Hofmann, Stephan; Fleck, Norman A. (Elsevier, 2018-08-09)

  Open-cell graphitic foams were fabricated by chemical vapor deposition using nickel templates and their compressive responses were measured over a range of relative densities. The mechanical response required an interpretation ...
• Chemical vapour deposition of freestanding sub-60 nm graphene gyroids 

  Cebo, Tomasz; Aria, Adrianus I.; Dolan, James A.; Weatherup, Robert S.; Nakanishi, Kenichi; Kidambi, Piran R.; Divitini, Giorgio; Ducati, Caterina; Steiner, Ullrich; Hofmann, Stephan (AIP Publishing, 2017-12-18)

  The direct chemical vapour deposition of freestanding graphene gyroids with controlled sub-60 nm unit cell sizes is demonstrated. Three-dimensional (3D) nickel templates were fabricated through electrodeposition into a ...
• Inter-fibre failure of through-thickness reinforced laminates in combined transverse compression and shear load 

  Cui, Hao; Melro, António R.; Yasaee, Mehdi (Elsevier, 2018-06-13)

  Extensive studies have been reported on the improvement of through-thickness reinforcement to inter-laminar performance of composite laminates; current understanding on the in-plane performance is relatively limited, ...
• The application of set-based concurrent engineering to enhance the design performance of surface jet pump 

  Mohd Maulana, Muhd Ikmal; Flisiak, Jakub Wiktor; Al-Ashaab, Ahmed; Araci, Zehra Canan; Lasisz, Piotr Wojciech; Beg, Najam; Rehman, Abdullah (World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS), 2016-12-31)

  Set-Based Concurrent Engineering (SBCE) is an approach that has the capability to improve the efficiencies of the product development process. SBCE provides an environment where design space is explored thoroughly which ...
• Data-based detection and diagnosis of faults in linear actuators 

  Ruiz-Carcel, Cristobal; Starr, Andrew (IEEE, 2018-03-27)

  Modern industrial facilities, as well as vehicles and many other assets, are becoming highly automated and instrumented. As a consequence, actuators are required to perform a wide variety of tasks, often for linear motion. ...
• Innovation symbol systems: Multimodal grammars and vocabularies for facilitating mutual innovation knowledge 

  Fox, Stephen; Moreno, Mariale; Vahala, Päivi (Elsevier, 2018-07-31)

  Symbol systems can provide topic-specific languages comprising multimodal grammars and vocabularies. Symbol systems can facilitate mutual knowledge for innovation when people do not already have a common language for ...
• Analyses of long term off-design performance strategy and operation of a high pressure ratio intercooled Brayton helium gas turbine cycle for generation IV nuclear power plants 

  Gad-briggs, Arnold; Pilidis, Pericles; Nikolaidis, Theoklis (ASME, 2018-05-23)

  This paper addresses questions of how extant research discourses concerning the sustainability of supply chains contribute to understanding about circularity in supply chain configurations that support restorative and ...
• A rationale for modeling hydrogen effects on plastic deformation across scales in FCC metals 

  Castelluccio, Gustavo M.; Geller, Clint B.; McDowell, David L. (Elsevier, 2018-07-11)

  Although there have been many investigations on the effects of hydrogen on the plastic deformation of metals, an intense debate continues about the physical mechanisms responsible. Most puzzling is the fact that hydrogen ...
• Control of residual stress and distortion in aluminium wire + arc additive manufacture with rolling 

  Honnige, Jan; Colegrove, Paul A.; Ganguly, Supriyo; Eimer, Eloise; Kabra, S.; Williams, Stewart (Elsevier, 2018-06-25)

  The aluminium alloy wire 2319 is commonly used for Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM). It is oversaturated with copper, like other alloys of the precipitation hardening 2### series, which are used for structural ...
• Residual stress and texture control in Ti-6Al-4V wire + arc additively manufactured intersections by stress relief and rolling 

  Honnige, Jan R.; Colegrove, Paul A.; Ahmad, B.; Fitzpatrick, M. E.; Ganguly, Supriyo; Lee, T.; Williams, Stewart (Elsevier, 2018-04-08)

  Additively manufactured intersections have the theoretical risk to contain hydrostatic tensile residual stresses, which eventually cannot be thermally stress relieved. The stresses in Ti-6Al-4V wire + arc additively ...
• Loading and planform shape influence on the wing structural layout through topology optimization 

  Crescenti, Fabio; Kipouros, Timoleon; Savill, Mark (AIAA, 2018-07-31)

  Topology optimization is a technique used to identify the optimal layout of a structure for a given objective and assigned boundary conditions. The progress it has experienced over the last three decades made it ready for ...
• Efficient method for variance-based sensitivity analysis 

  Chen, Xin; Molina-Cristóbal, Arturo; Guenov, Marin D.; Riaz, Atif (Elsevier, 2018-07-05)

  Presented is an efficient method for variance-based sensitivity analysis. It provides a general approach to transforming a sensitivity problem into one uncertainty propagation process, so that various existing approximation ...
• Thermal strain induced large electrocaloric effect of relaxor thin film on LaNiO3/Pt composite electrode with the coexistence of nanoscale antiferroelectric and ferroelectric phases in a broad temperature range 

  Peng, Biaolin; Zhang, Qi; Lyu, Yinong; Liu, Laijun; Lou, Xiaojie; Shaw, Christopher; Huang, Haitao; Wang, Zhonglin (Elsevier, 2018-03-08)

  Ferroelectric/antiferroelectric thin/thick films with large electrocaloric (EC) effect in a broad operational temperature range are very attractive in solid-state cooling devices. We demonstrated that a large positive ...
• Form measurement of a 0.1 mm diameter wire with a chromatic confocal sensor, with associated uncertainty evaluation 

  Sanz, Claude; Giusca, Claudiu; Morantz, Paul; Marin, Antonio; Chérif, Ahmed; Schneider, Jürgen; Mainaud-Durand, Hélène; Shore, Paul; Steffens, Norbert (IOP Publishing, 2018-06-07)

  The accurate characterisation of a copper–beryllium wire with a diameter of 0.1 mm is one of the steps to increase the precision of future accelerators' pre-alignment. Novelties in measuring the wire properties were found ...
• Realisation of multi-sensor framework for process monitoring of the wire arc additive manufacturing in producing Ti-6Al-4V parts 

  Xu, Fangda; Dhokia, Vimal; Colegrove, Paul; McAndrew, Anthony; Williams, Stewart; Henstridge, Andrew; Newman, Stephen T. (Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-30)

  Wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) is arc welding-based additive manufacture which is providing a major opportunity for the aerospace industry to reduce buy-to-fly ratios from 20:1 with forging and machining to 5:1 ...
• Retinal vascular segmentation using superpixel-based line operator and its application to vascular topology estimation 

  Na, Tong; Xie, Jianyang; Zhao, Yitian; Zhao, Yifan; Liu, Yue; Wang, Yongtian; Liu, Jiang (2018-05-09)

  Purpose: Automatic methods of analyzing of retinal vascular networks, such as retinal blood vessel detection, vascular network topology estimation, and arteries / veins classi cation are of great assistance to the ...
• A pilot study investigating a novel non-linear measure of eyes open versus eyes closed EEG synchronization in people with Alzheimer's disease and healthy controls 

  Blackburn, Daniel J.; Zhao, Yifan; De Marco, Matteo; Bell, Simon M.; He, Fei; Wei, Hua-Liang; Lawrence, Sarah; Unwin, Zoe C.; Blyth, Michelle; Angel, Jenna; Baster, Kathleen; Farrow, Thomas F. D.; Wilkinson, Iain D.; Billings, Stephen A.; Venneri, Annalena; Sarrigiannis, Ptolemaios G. (MDPI, 2018-07-17)

  Background: The incidence of Alzheimer disease (AD) is increasing with the ageing population. The development of low cost non-invasive diagnostic aids for AD is a research priority. This pilot study investigated whether ...
• Automation of train cab front cleaning with a robot manipulator 

  Moura, João; McColl, William; Taykaldiranian, Gerard; Tomiyama, Tetsuo; Erden, Mustafa Suphi (IEEE, 2018-06-21)

  In this letter we present a control and trajectory tracking approach for wiping the train cab front panels, using a velocity controlled robotic manipulator and a force/torque sensor attached to its end effector, without ...
• How much is too much on monitoring tasks? Visual scan patterns of single air traffic controller performing multiple remote tower operations 

  Li, Wen-Chin; Kearney, Peter; Braithwaite, Graham; Lin, John J. H. (Elsevier, 2018-05-26)

  The innovative concept of multiple remote tower operation (MRTO) is where a single air traffic controller (ATCO) provides air traffic services to two or more different airports from a geographically separated virtual Tower. ...

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