• Functional evaluation and testing of a newly developed Teleost's Fish Otolith derived biocomposite coating for healthcare 

  Montañe, Nerly D.; Carreño, Heider; Escobar, Patricia; Estupiñán, Hugo A.; Peña, Darío Y.; Goel, Saurav; Endrino, Jose L. (Nature Research (part of Springer Nature), 2019-01-14)

  Polymers such as polycaprolactone (PCL) possess biodegradability, biocompatibility and affinity with other organic media that makes them suitable for biomedical applications. In this work, a novel biocomposite coating was ...
• Analysis of the adhesion of titanium and carbon-diamond coatings on 3D printed textured surfaces 

  Zapata, A.; V-Niño, E.D.; Endrino, J. L.; Fernández-Martínez, I.; Díaz Lantada, A.; Martinez, M.; Pertuz, A. (IOP Publishing: Conference Series, 2019-11-29)

  The importance of coatings in engineering has been predominant throughout the development of the new industrial era. The competitiveness of the field has led to the development of better materials that achieve superior ...
• Multi-response optimisation of machining aluminium-6061 under eco-friendly electrostatic minimum quantity lubrication environment 

  Jamil, Muhammad; Khan, Aqib Mashood; He, Ning; Li, Liang; Zhao, Wei; Sarfraz, Shoaib (Inderscience, 2019-10-09)

  The emerging grave consequences of conventional coolants on health, ecology and product quality, have pushed the scientific research to explore eco-friendly lubrication technique. Electrostatic minimum quantity lubrication ...
• Construction of porous hierarchical NiCo2S4 toward high rate performance supercapacitor 

  Zhao, Fenglin; Huang, Wanxia; Sial, Muhammad Aurang Z. G.; Xie, Dong; Wu, Hongliang; Zhang, Qi; Zou, Jizhao; Zeng, Xierong (Springer, 2019-11-11)

  Developing high-performance supercapacitors is an effective way to satisfy the ever-increasing energy storage demand for emerging devices, but the inferior rate performance of battery-type supercapacitors limits their ...
• Tailoring the electrocaloric effect of Pb0.78Ba0.2La0.02ZrO3 relaxor thin film by GaN substrates 

  Peng, Biaolin; Jiang, Jintao; Tang, Silin; Zhang, Miaomiao; Liu, Laijun; Zou, Bingsuo; Leighton, Glenn J. T.; Shaw, Christopher; Luo, Nengneng; Zhang, Qi; Sun, Wenhong (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019-11-06)

  The electrocaloric (EC) effect in ferroelectric/antiferroelectric thin films has been widely investigated due to its potential applications in solid state cooling devices. It is demonstrated that the EC effect of the ...
• A set-based approach for coordination of multi-level collaborative design studies 

  Chen, Xin; Riaz, Atif; Guenov, Marin; Molina-Cristobal, Arturo (AIAA, 2020-01-05)

  Presented in this paper is a framework for design coordination of hierarchical (multi-level) design studies. The proposed framework utilizes margin management and set-based design principles for handling the challenges ...
• Progress towards a rapid method for conceptual aerodynamic design for transonic cruise 

  Prince, Simon A.; Di Pasquale, Davide; Garry, Kevin P. (AIAA, 2020-01-05)

  Results are presented from a study aimed at demonstrating the accuracy and efficiency of a lower order aerodynamic prediction method for transonic cruise flows around aircraft configurations, including conventional swept ...
• Enabling interactive safety and performance trade-offs in early airframe systems design 

  Jimeno, Sergio; Riaz, Atif; Guenov, Marin; Molina-Cristobal, Arturo (AIAA, 2020-01-05)

  Presented is a novel interactive framework for incorporating both safety and performance analyses in early systems architecture design, thus allowing the study of possible trade-offs. Traditionally, a systems architecture ...
• Predicting the effect of voids on mechanical properties of woven composites 

  Choudhry, R.S.; Sharif, Tahir; Khan, Kamran A.; Khan, Sohaib Z.; Hassan, Abid; Khan, Muhammad Ali. (IOP, 2018-09-21)

  An accurate yet easy to use methodology for determining the effective mechanical properties of woven fabric reinforced composites is presented. The approach involves generating a representative unit cell geometry based on ...
• Charting the edges of human performance 

  Kirwan, Barry; Wies, Matthias; Charles, Rebecca; Dormoy, Charles-Alban; Letouze, Theodore; Lemkadden, Alia; Maille, Nicolas; Nixon, Jim; Ruscio, Daniele; Schmidt-Moll, Carsten (EDP Sciences, 2019-12-17)

  In the Horizon 2020 funded Future Sky Safety programme, the Human Performance Envelope project pushed airline pilots to the edges of their performance in real-time cockpit simulations, by increasing stress and workload, ...
• Aircraft cost modelling, integrated in a multidisciplinary design context 

  Di Pasquale, Davide; Gore, David; Savill, Mark A.; Kipouros, Timoleon; Holden, Carren (Science Publishing Group, 2019-12-17)

  Most of the current cost models focus on a particular manufacturing process or a specific maintenance aspect, therefore not providing the whole picture. The main challenge in modelling the manufacturing cost, associated ...
• Using requirement-functional-logical-physical models to support early assembly process planning for complex aircraft systems integration 

  Li, Tao; Lockett, Helen; Lawson, Craig (Elsevier, 2020-01-10)

  The assembly line process planning connects product design and manufacturing through translating design information to assembly integration sequence. The assembly integration sequence defines the aircraft system components ...
• Concurrent learning adaptive control with directional forgetting 

  Lee, Hae-In; Shin, Hyo-Sang; Tsourdos, Antonios (IEEE, 2019-04-17)

  This paper proposes a new concurrent learning-based adaptive control algorithm. The main objective behind our proposition is to relax the persistent excitation requirement for the stability guarantee, while providing the ...
• Pragmatic science? Reflections on the academic - industry interactions in a European aviation research programme 

  Nixon, Jim; Pilbeam, Colin; Kirwan, Barry (EDP Sciences, 2019-12-17)

  In this article we explore the types of science produced and disseminated in human factors research in the cognitive domain. We reflect on the methods and techniques used in the European, Horizon 2020 Future Sky Safety ...
• The role of Green Marketing: Insights from three airline case studies 

  Mayer, Robert; Ryley, Tim; Gillingwater, David (Greenleaf, 2014-11-01)

  The purpose of this paper is to show how airlines incorporate green elements in their marketing mix and how these changes are communicated to the public. Based on an examination of airlines' websites and publications as ...
• Effects of the homopolymer molecular weight on a diblock copolymer in a 3D spherical confinement 

  Ly, Dung Q.; Makatsoris, Charalampos (BMC, 2019-02-14)

  The morphologies of a diblock copolymer spherically confined within a homopolymer were investigated by using the static self-consistent field theory method. A homogeneous A-B diblock copolymer sphere was surrounded by a ...
• Enhancing mechanical properties of wire + arc additively manufactured INCONEL 718 superalloy through in-process thermomechanical processing 

  Xu, Xiangfang; Ganguly, Supriyo; Ding, Jialuo; Seow, Cui Er; Williams, Stewart (Elsevier, 2018-10-27)

  Wire + arc additive manufacture (WAAM) was applied to produce INCONEL 718 superalloy (IN718) components in a layer by layer manner; further, interpass cold rolling was introduced to generate in-process thermomechanical ...
• Wire + Arc Additively Manufactured Inconel 718: Effect of post-deposition heat treatments on microstructure and tensile properties 

  Seow, Cui E.; Coules, Harry E.; Wu, Guiyi; Khan, Raja H.U.; Xu, Xiangfang; Williams, Stewart (Elsevier, 2019-08-24)

  Wire + Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) can be used to create large free-form components out of specialist materials such as nickel-base superalloys. Inconel (IN) 718 is well suited for the WAAM process due to its excellent ...
• Recycling marble wastes and Jarosite wastes into sustainable hybrid composite materials and validation through Response Surface Methodology 

  Pappu, Asokan; Thakur, Vijay Kumar; Patidar, Ravi; Asolekar, Shyam R.; Saxena, Mohini (Elsevier, 2019-09-01)

  During marble processing such as cutting, polishing and grinding, a considerable amount of fine residues refereed as marble processing rejects (MPRs) are produced and have become a serious environmental issue. So the current ...
• Experimental and numerical study of the effect of silica filler on the tensile strength of a 3D-printed particulate nanocomposite 

  Asif, Muhammad Usman; Ramezani, Maziar; Khan, Kamran Ahmed; Khan, Muhammad Ali; Aw, Kean Chin (Elsevier, 2019-09-03)

  Polymers are commonly found to have low mechanical properties, e.g., low stiffness and low strength. To improve the mechanical properties of polymers, various types of fillers have been added. These fillers can be either ...

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