• A marine turbocharger retrofitting platform 

  Ntonas, Konstantinos; Aretakis, Nikolaos; Roumeliotis, Ioannis; Mathioudakis, Kostas (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020-10-02)

  A turbocharger retrofitting platform utilizing 1D models for calculating turbomachinery components maps and a fully coupled process for integration with the turbomachinery components and the diesel engine, is presented. ...
• System requirements analysis for JAXA's contribution to Comet Interceptor mission: autonomous navigation, guidance and attitude control for a hyperbolic comet fly-by 

  Machuca, Pablo; Ozaki, Naoya; Sánchez, Joan Pau; Felicetti, Leonard; Funase, Ryu (IAC, 2020-10-14)

  Comet Interceptor, to be launched in 2028, is a recently-selected ESA/JAXA mission aimed to perform the first fly-by of a pristine long-period comet. As part of the mission’s Phases A/B (feasibility analysis and preliminary ...
• Modified tisserand map exploration for preliminary multiple gravity assist trajectory design 

  Bellome, Andrea; Cuartielles, Joan-Pau Sanchez; Felicetti, Leonard; Kemble, Stephen (IAFASTRO, 2020-10-14)

  Multiple-gravity assist (MGA) trajectories are used in interplanetary missions to change the spacecraft orbital energy by exploiting the gravity of celestial bodies. This allows the spacecraft to reach regions in the Solar ...
• The development of a smart health awareness message framework based on the use of social media: quantitative study 

  Alsisi, Elaf Ali; Al-Ashaab, Ahmed; Abualfaraa, Wadhah Ahmed (JMIR Publications, 2020-07-23)

  Background: Social media has recently provided a remarkable means of delivering health information broadly and in a cost-effective way. Despite its benefits, some difficulties are encountered in attempting to influence the ...
• Effects of dilution on the hardness and residual stresses in multipass steel weldments 

  Sun, Yongle L.; Hamelin, Cory J.; Vasileiou, Anastasia N.; Xiong, Q.; Flint, Thomas F.; Obasi, Gideon C.; Francis, John A.; Smith, Mathew C. (Elsevier, 2020-07-18)

  A thermal-metallurgical-mechanical model was developed to study the effects of dilution in each weld pass for multipass gas tungsten arc and submerged arc welding in low alloy steel (i.e. SA508) plates. Hardness distributions ...
• Real time uncertainty estimation in filling stage of resin transfer molding process 

  Tifkitsis, K. I.; Skordos, Alex A. (Wiley, 2020-09-24)

  This paper addresses the development of a digital twin, based on an inversion procedure, integrating process monitoring with simulation of composites manufacturing to provide a real time probabilistic estimation of process ...
• High-dimensional metric combining for non-coherent molecular signal detection 

  Wei, Zhuangkun; Guo, Weisi; Li, Bin; Charmet, Jérôme; Zhao, Chenglin (IEEE, 2019-12-13)

  In emerging Internet-of-Nano-Thing (IoNT), information will be embedded and conveyed in the form of molecules through complex and diffusive medias. One main challenge lies in the long-tail nature of the channel response ...
• Tunable conjugated polymers for bacterial differentiation 

  Golabi, Mohsen; Turner, Anthony P. F.; Jager, Edwin W. H. (Elsevier, 2015-09-08)

  A novel rapid method for bacterial differentiation is explored based on the specific adhesion pattern of bacterial strains to tunable polymer surfaces. Different types of counter ions were used to electrochemically fabricate ...
• Modulating Electrode Kinetics for Discrimination of Dopamine by a PEDOT:COOH Interface Doped with Negatively Charged Tricarboxylate 

  Meng, Lingyin; Turner, Anthony P. F.; Mak, Wing Cheung (American Chemical Society, 2019-08-26)

  The rapidly developing field of conducting polymers in organic electronics has many implications for bioelectronics. For biosensing applications, tailoring the functionalities of the conducting polymer’s surface is an ...
• Surface roughness evolution to identify incubation time for hot corrosion of nickel-base superalloys: CMSX-4, CM247LC DS and IN6203DS at 550 °C 

  Chapman, Neil; Gray, Simon; Sumner, Joy; Nicholls, John (Springer, 2020-09-24)

  In the absence of protective scales, nickel-base superalloys have an extremely limited hot corrosion incubation period before increased rates of attack are experienced. This paper reports on the nickel-base superalloys: ...
• Nano- and micro-scale impact testing of zirconia, alumina and zirconia-alumina duplex optical coatings on glass 

  Beake, Ben D.; Isern, Luis; Bhattacharyya, Debabrata; Endrino, Jose L.; Lawson, Ken; Walker, Trevor (Elsevier, 2020-10-06)

  Optimising the mechanical properties of optical coatings to improve their durability will be critical if they are to be used successfully in harsh environments where they may be subject to degradation by mechanical contact. ...
• Backstepping control with fixed-time prescribed performance for fixed wing UAV under model uncertainties and external disturbances 

  Tan, Jian; Guo, Shijun (Taylor and Francis, 2020-10-15)

  In this paper, a novel backstepping control scheme with fixed-time prescribed performance is proposed for the longitudinal model of fixed wing UAV subject to model uncertainties and external disturbances. The novel performance ...
• The duality between particle methods and artificial neural networks 

  Alexiadis, A.; Simmons, M. J. H.; Stamatopoulos, K.; Batchelor, H. K.; Moulitsas, Irene (Nature Publishing Group / Nature Research, 2020-10-01)

  The algorithm behind particle methods is extremely versatile and used in a variety of applications that range from molecular dynamics to astrophysics. For continuum mechanics applications, the concept of ‘particle’ can be ...
• A miniaturised active thermography system to inspect composite laminates 

  Du, Weixiang; Liu, Haochen; Zhao, Yitian; Sirikham, Adisorn; Addepalli, Sri; Zhao, Yifan (IEEE, 2020-10-13)

  With the rapid increase of the integration and complexity of industrial components, the inaccessibility and inapplicability of existing Non-destructive testing devices have become a bottleneck for in-situ inspection of ...
• Sample greedy gossip distributed Kalman filter 

  Shin, Hyo-Sang; He, Shaoming; Tsourdos, Antonios (Elsevier, 2020-08-08)

  This paper investigates the problem of distributed state estimation over a low-cost sensor network and proposes a new sample greedy gossip distributed Kalman filter. The proposed algorithm leverages the information weighted ...
• Detectability evaluation of attributes anomaly for electronic components using pulsed thermography 

  Liu, Haochen; Tinsley, Lawrence; Addepalli, Sri; Liu, Xiaochen; Starr, Andrew; Zhao, Yifan (Elsevier, 2020-09-16)

  Counterfeit Electronic Components (CECs) pose a serious threat to all intellectual properties and bring fatal failure to the key industrial systems. This paper initiates the exploration of the prospect of CEC detection ...
• Ultrasound image filtering and reconstruction using DCT/IDCT filter structure 

  Honarvar Shakibaei Asli, Barmak; Flusser, Jan; Zhao, Yifan; Erkoyuncu, John Ahmet; Krishnan, Kajoli Banerjee; Farrokhi, Yasin; Roy, Rajkumar (IEEE, 2020-07-27)

  In this paper, a new recursive structure based on the convolution model of discrete cosine transform (DCT) for designing of a finite impulse response (FIR) digital filter is proposed. In our derivation, we start with the ...
• Thermal management system for more electric aircraft avionics using evaporative spray cooling 

  Thuraganur Venkategowda, Yogesh; Jafari, Soheil; Nikolaidis, Theoklis (Global Power and Propulsion Society, 2020-09-09)

  The aerospace industry is performing in today’s market at a narrow margin in achieving system performance and operating costs. The avionics is consuming a decent amount of energy for electronic equipment which heats up and ...
• Distributed multiple model joint probabilistic data association with Gibbs sampling-aided implementation 

  He, Shaoming; Shin, Hyo-Sang; Tsourdos, Antonios (Elsevier, 2020-05-15)

  This paper proposes a new distributed multiple model multiple manoeuvring target tracking algorithm. The proposed tracker is derived by combining joint probabilistic data association (JPDA) with consensus-based distributed ...
• Assessment of the performance boundaries of very low specific thrust direct-drive turbofan engines at aircraft level for EIS 2025 

  Kissoon, Sajal; Zhang, Fan; Mourouzidis, Christos; Roumeliotis, Ioannis; Pachidis, Vassilios (GPPS Chania20, 2020-09-07)

  Within the past decade, concerns over the environmental impact of civil aviation have pushed the research community towards the development of more efficient propulsion technology, which delivers a lower carbon and NOx ...

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