• Forecasting the severity of the Newfoundland iceberg season using a control systems model 

  Bigg, Grant R.; Zhao, Yifan; Hanna, Edward (Taylor and Francis, 2019-06-20)

  The iceberg hazard for the Grand Banks area to the east of Newfoundland varies dramatically from one year to the next. In some years no icebergs penetrate south of 48°N, while in others well over 1000 icebergs enter the ...
• CFD simulation of dense gas dispersion in neutral atmospheric boundary layer with OpenFOAM 

  Tran, Vu; Ng, E. Y. K; Skote, Martin (Springer, 2019-08-02)

  In this study, Monin–Obukhov similarity theory is used to specify the profiles of velocity, turbulent kinetic energy (k), and eddy dissipation rate (ϵ ϵ ) in atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) flow. The OpenFOAM standard ...
• Implications of substrate geometry and coating thickness on the cracking resistance of polymer-based protective coatings 

  Wray, Lesley-Anne; Ayre, David; Irving, Phil E.; Jackson, Paul A.; Jones, P. R.; Zhao, F. (Elsevier, 2018-12-31)

  Welded steel T-sections of different weld fillet geometries coated with water ballast tank protective coatings were subjected to thermal cycling with a temperature range from 60°C to -10°C. Cracks developed in the coatings ...
• Fatigue life prediction of z-fibre pinned composite laminate under mode I loading 

  Tang, Suchao; Lemanski, Stuart; Zhang, Xiang; Ayre, David (Elsevier, 2019-02-13)

  A hybrid method is presented combining linear elastic fracture mechanics with nonlinear damage mechanics that can predict the fatigue crack growth rate in z-fibre pinned composites under mode I loading. The strain energy ...
• Numerical investigation of the effect of rolling on the localized stress and strain induction for wire + arc additive manufactured structures 

  Abbaszadeh, M.; Hönnige, J. R.; Filomeno, Martina; Kashaev, N.; Colegrove, Paul A.; Williams, Stewart W.; Klusemann, B. (Springer Verlag, 2019-08-16)

  Cold rolling can be used in-process or post-process to improve microstructure, mechanical properties and residual stress in directed-energy-deposition techniques, such as the high deposition rate wire + arc additive ...
• A smart algorithm for multi-criteria optimization of model sequencing problem in assembly lines 

  Rauf, Mudassar; Guan, Zailin; Sarfraz, Shoaib; Mumtaz, Jabir; Shehab, Essam; Jahanzaib, Mirza; Hanif, Muhammad (Elsevier, 2019-07-31)

  Assembly Lines (ALs) are used for mass production as they offer lots of advantages over other production systems in terms of lead time and cost. The advent of mass customization has forced the manufacturing industries to ...
• Notch effect on strength and fatigue life of woven composite laminates 

  Wan, Ao-Shuang; Xu, Yi-geng; Xiong, Jun-Jiang (Elsevier, 2019-06-15)

  This paper presents an experimental and numerical study of the notch effect on strength and fatigue life of double edge notched (DEN) composite laminates made of woven glass fibre lamina 3238A/EW250F and woven carbon fibre ...
• A straightforward route to sensor selection for IoT systems 

  Jones, Paul M.; Lonne, Quentin; Talaia, Pedro; Leighton, Glenn J. T.; Botte, Gerardine G.; Mutnuri, Srikanth; Williams, Leon (Taylor and Francis, 2018-09-12)

  The Internet of Things (IoT) allows for remote management and monitoring of many aspects of everyday life at the individual and industrial levels. However, designing these systems within constraints of cost and operational ...
• Performance simulation to understand the effects of multi-fluid scaling of gas turbine components for Generation IV nuclear power plants 

  Osigwe, Emmanuel; Gad-Briggs, Arnold; Nikolaidis, Theoklis; Pilidis, Pericles; Sampath, Suresh (ASME, 2019-08-05)

  A significant hurdle in the development of performance simulation tools to analyse and evaluate nuclear power plants (NPP) is finding data relating to component performance maps. As a result, Engineers often rely on an ...
• Carbon quantum dot supported semiconductor photocatalysts for efficient degradation of organic pollutants in water: A review 

  Sharma, Sheetal; Dutta, Vishal; Singh, Pardeep; Raizada, Pankaj; Rahmani-Sani, Abolfazl; Hosseini-Bandegharaei, Ahmad; Thakur, Vijay Kumar (Elsevier, 2019-04-25)

  Semiconductor photocatalyst mediated advanced oxidation processes are regarded as one of the most efficient technologies to mitigate organic pollutants in water. However, poor activity under visible light and the recombination ...
• The effect of operational policies on production systems robustness: an aerospace case study 

  Pagone, Emanuele; Efthymiou, Konstantinos; Mahoney, Brandon; Salonitis, Konstantinos (Elsevier, 2019-06-24)

  This study aims to evaluate the robustness of a low volume mixed model production line under different operating conditions. A real production line that builds six different aircraft heat exchangers is modelled, simulated ...
• Development of a lean principles framework for ERP implementation process 

  Alturkistani, Adnan Qurban A. (2018)

  The aim of this research is to develop a novel framework based on lean principles and tools to be exploited in managing ERP implementation processes in order to enhance the overall success rate of the implementation ...
• Concurrent real-time estimation of state of health and maximum available power in lithium-sulfur batteries 

  Knap, Vaclav; Auger, Daniel J.; Propp, Karsten; Fotouhi, Abbas; Stroe, Daniel-Ioan (MDPI, 2018-08-16)

  Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries are an emerging energy storage technology with higher performance than lithium-ion batteries in terms of specific capacity and energy density. However, several scientific and technological ...
• Spatially resolved acoustic spectroscopy for integrity assessment in wire-arc additive manufacturing 

  Dryburgh, Paul; Pieris, Don; Martina, Filomeno; Patel, Rikesh; Sharples, Steve; Li, Wenqi; Clare, Adam T.; Williams, Stewart; Smith, Richard J. (Elsevier, 2019-05-15)

  Wire–arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) is an emergent method for the production and repair of high value components. Introduction of plastic strain by inter-pass rolling has been shown to produce grain refinement and improve ...
• Contact stiffness effects on nanoscale high-speed grinding: A molecular dynamics approach 

  Papanikolaou, Michail (Elsevier, 2019-07-04)

  One of the most important grinding parameters is the real depth of cut which is always lower than its programmed value. This is because in reality abrasive grains of the grinding wheel are not fixed but attached to a bonding ...
• A critical review of airport privatisation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Case study of Medina Airport 

  Chaouk, Mohammed; Pagliari, Romano I.; Miyoshi, Chikage (Elsevier, 2019-02-08)

  Saudi Arabia is one of the few Middle-Eastern states to have undertaken an airport privatisation programme. Medina was one of several airports that have been privatised in Saudi Arabia when it was awarded to Tibah Airports ...
• An exploratory analysis of the effects of ownership change on airport competition 

  Pagliari, Romano; Graham, Anne B. (Elsevier, 2019-04-09)

  Common or group ownership of airports poses a particular challenge for policy-makers, in that consumers (airlines and passengers) may not have access to benefits that stem from a more competitive system (e.g. lower prices, ...
• The spatial resolution enhancement for a thermogram enabled by controlled sub-pixel movements 

  Du, Weixiang; Addepalli, Sri; Zhao, Yifan (IEEE, 2019-08-05)

  The measurement accuracy and reliability of thermography is largely limited by a relatively low spatial resolution of the thermal imager. Using a high-end camera to achieve high spatial resolution can be costly or infeasible ...
• Retinal vascular network topology reconstruction and artery/vein classification via dominant set clustering 

  Zhao, Yitian; Xie, Jianyang; Zhang, Huaizhong; Zheng, Yalin; Zhao, Yifan; Qi, Hong; Zhao, Yangchun; Su, Pan; Liu, Jiang; Liu, Yonghuai (IEEE, 2019-07-03)

  The estimation of vascular network topology in complex networks is important in understanding the relationship between vascular changes and a wide spectrum of diseases. Automatic classification of the retinal vascular trees ...
• Performance modelling and analysis of a single-shaft closed-cycle gas turbine using different operational control strategy 

  Osigwe, Emmanuel; Gad-Briggs, Arnold; Igbong, Dodeye; Nikolaidis, Theoklis; Pilidis, Pericles (ASME, 2019-07-18)

  In the last few years, one considerable factor for the viability and interest in closed-cycle gas turbine systems for nuclear or conventional power plant application is its potential to maintain high cycle performance at ...

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