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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 ...
Calcification microstructure reflects breast tissue microenvironment

Gosling, Sarah; Scott, Robert; Greenwood, Charlene; Bouzy, Pascaline; Nallala, Jayakrupakar; Lyburn, Iain D.; Stone, Nicholas; Rogers, Keith (Springer, 2019-12-05)

Microcalcifications are important diagnostic indicators of disease in breast tissue. Tissue microenvironments differ in many aspects between normal and cancerous cells, notably extracellular pH and glycolytic respiration. ...
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 ...
The effect of breast size and bra type on comfort for UK female police officers wearing body armour

Malbon, Chris; Knock, Clare; Critchley, Richard; Carr, Debra J. (Elsevier, 2019-12-05)

Within the Police service of England and Wales the wearing of ballistic and stab resistant body armour is common, with most police forces mandating its usage when away from the police station. Of all the serving police ...
The use of μCT and fractal dimension for fracture prediction in osteoporotic individuals

Arnold, Emily L.; Clement, John; Rogers, Keith D.; Garcia-Castro, Fabio; Greenwood, Charlene (Elsevier, 2019-12-11)

Osteoporosis (OP) is a widespread condition with commonly associated fracture sites at the hip, vertebra and wrist. This study examines the effects of age and osteoporosis on bone quality by comparing the efficacy of using ...
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 ...
Understanding the biochemical characteristics of struvite bio-mineralising microorganisms and their future in nutrient recovery

Leng, Yirong; Colston, Robert; Soares, Ana (Elsevier, 2020-01-08)

The biochemical properties of selected microorganisms (Bacillus pumilus, Brevibacterium antiquum, Myxococcus xanthus, Halobacterium salinarum and Idiomarina loihiensis), known for their ability to produce struvite through ...
Slope-based shape cluster method for smart metering load profiles

Xiang, Yue; Hong, Juhua; Yang, Zhiyu; Wang, Yang; Huang, Yuan; Zhang, Xin; Chai, Yanxin; Yao, Haotian (IEEE, 2020-01-10)

Cluster analysis is used to study the group of load profiles from smart meters to improve the operability in distribution network. The traditional K-means clustering analysis method employs Euclidean distance as similarity ...
Characterization of solid char produced from pyrolysis of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste, high volatile coal and their blends

Tokmurzin, Diyar; Kuspangaliyeva, Botagoz; Aimbetov, Berik; Abylkhani, Bexultan; Inglezakis, Vassilis; Anthony, Ben; Sarbassov, Yerbol (Elsevier, 2019-11-22)

In this study, the organic fraction of municipal solid waste (Org-MSW) was blended with high-volatile coal (HVC) in proportions of 25/75%, 50/50%, 75/25% by weight. Pyrolysis of these mixtures was then investigated in a ...
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 ...
Histomorphological analysis of the variability of the human skeleton: forensic implications

Cummaudo, Marco; Cappella, Annalisa; Biraghi, Miranda; Raffone, Caterina; Màrquez-Grant, Nicholas; Cattaneo, Cristina (Springer Verlag, 2018-01-20)

One of the fundamental questions in forensic medicine and anthropology is whether or not a bone or bone fragment is human. Surprisingly at times for the extreme degradation of the bone (charred, old), DNA cannot be ...
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 ...

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