Outputs (68)

Holistic Approach To Understanding Battery Degradation (2021)
Journal Article
Stocker, R., Mumtaz, A., & Lophitis, N. (2021). Holistic Approach To Understanding Battery Degradation. Engineering Integrity Journal, 51, 20-28

Li-ion cell degradation has a strong impact on electric vehicle performance both directly, through performance reduction, and indirectly through deviating behavior away from initial control system calibration. This necessitates a process for evaluati... Read More about Holistic Approach To Understanding Battery Degradation.

Fault Tolerant Control Strategy Based On Model Predictive Control And Unscented Kalman Filter For Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aboelhassan, A., El Sayed, W., Hebala, A., Galea, M., & Bozhko, S. (2021, August). Fault Tolerant Control Strategy Based On Model Predictive Control And Unscented Kalman Filter For Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor. Presented at 16th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2021), Chengdu, China

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSMs) are now extensively used in many critical applications. There is an increasing need for the motor and control system to have fault tolerant capabilities. This paper presents a fault tolerant control strateg... Read More about Fault Tolerant Control Strategy Based On Model Predictive Control And Unscented Kalman Filter For Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor.

Public health messaging by political leaders: a corpus linguistic analysis of COVID-19 speeches delivered by Boris Johnson (2021)
Report
McClaughlin, E., Nichele, E., Adolphs, S., Barnard, P., Clos, J., Knight, D., McAuley, D., & Lang, A. (2021). Public health messaging by political leaders: a corpus linguistic analysis of COVID-19 speeches delivered by Boris Johnson. Nottingham: UKRI/AHRC

This study analyses the language of speeches about COVID-19 delivered by Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 3rd March 2020 and 5th April 2021.

We use transcribed speeches to construct a digitised body of texts called a... Read More about Public health messaging by political leaders: a corpus linguistic analysis of COVID-19 speeches delivered by Boris Johnson.

A new time-delayed periodic boundary condition for discrete element modelling of railway track under moving wheel loads (2021)
Journal Article
Li, H., McDowell, G., & De Bono, J. (2021). A new time-delayed periodic boundary condition for discrete element modelling of railway track under moving wheel loads. Granular Matter, 23(4), Article 75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10035-021-01123-4

A new time-delayed periodic boundary condition (PBC) has been proposed for discrete element modelling (DEM) of periodic structures subject to moving loads such as railway track based on a box test which is normally used as an element testing model. T... Read More about A new time-delayed periodic boundary condition for discrete element modelling of railway track under moving wheel loads.

Efficient radiative cooling coating with biomimetic human skin wrinkle structure (2021)
Journal Article
Cheng, Z., Han, H., Wang, F., Yan, Y., Shi, X., Liang, H., Zhang, X., & Shuai, Y. (2021). Efficient radiative cooling coating with biomimetic human skin wrinkle structure. Nano Energy, 89, Part A, Article 106377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.106377

Daytime radiative cooling is an energy-free pathway to achieve cooling performance. Current radiative cooling materials with periodic photonic structures are facing a huge challenge in terms of scale expansion owing to complex preparation technology... Read More about Efficient radiative cooling coating with biomimetic human skin wrinkle structure.

Room temperature mid-infrared fiber lasing beyond 5  µm in chalcogenide glass small-core step index fiber (2021)
Journal Article
Nunes, J. J., Sojka, Ł., Crane, R. W., Furniss, D., Tang, Z. Q., Mabwa, D., Xiao, B., Benson, T. M., Farries, M., Kalfagiannis, N., Barney, E., Phang, S., Seddon, A. B., & Sujecki, S. (2021). Room temperature mid-infrared fiber lasing beyond 5  µm in chalcogenide glass small-core step index fiber. Optics Letters, 46(15), 3504-3507. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.430891

We report mid-infrared fiber lasing for the first time above 5 µm in a room temperature, Ce 3+ doped, chalcogenide glass, step index fiber using in-band pumping with a 4.15 µm quantum cascade laser. The lasing fiber is 64 mm long, with a calculated n... Read More about Room temperature mid-infrared fiber lasing beyond 5  µm in chalcogenide glass small-core step index fiber.

Coupling the biochemical and thermochemical biorefinery platforms to enhance energy and product recovery from Agave tequilana bagasse (2021)
Journal Article
Rios-Del Toro, E. E., Chi, H., González-Álvarez, V., Méndez-Acosta, H. O., Arreola-Vargas, J., & Liu, H. (2021). Coupling the biochemical and thermochemical biorefinery platforms to enhance energy and product recovery from Agave tequilana bagasse. Applied Energy, 299, Article 117293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117293

The tequila industry is one of the pillar industries in many regions of Mexico, bringing wealth and economic development to rural areas. However, appropriate disposal and management of the tequila manufacturing residues such as the Agave tequilana ba... Read More about Coupling the biochemical and thermochemical biorefinery platforms to enhance energy and product recovery from Agave tequilana bagasse.

A glacier–ocean interaction model for tsunami genesis due to iceberg calving (2021)
Journal Article
Wolper, J., Gao, M., Lüthi, M. P., Heller, V., Vieli, A., Jiang, C., & Gaume, J. (2021). A glacier–ocean interaction model for tsunami genesis due to iceberg calving. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(1), Article 130. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00179-7

Glaciers calving icebergs into the ocean significantly contribute to sea-level rise and can trigger tsunamis, posing severe hazards for coastal regions. Computational modeling of such multiphase processes is a great challenge involving complex solid–... Read More about A glacier–ocean interaction model for tsunami genesis due to iceberg calving.

Towards understanding the thermal history of microstructural surface deformation when cutting a next generation powder metallurgy nickel-base superalloy (2021)
Journal Article
la Monaca, A., Axinte, D. A., Liao, Z., M’Saoubi, R., & Hardy, M. C. (2021). Towards understanding the thermal history of microstructural surface deformation when cutting a next generation powder metallurgy nickel-base superalloy. International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 168(Part B), Article 103765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmachtools.2021.103765

Despite the ongoing progress in metallurgical characterisation of machined surfaces, knowledge of the thermal conditions under which they originate during the workpiece-flank interaction is still lacking. When cutting advanced superalloys, little is... Read More about Towards understanding the thermal history of microstructural surface deformation when cutting a next generation powder metallurgy nickel-base superalloy.

Modelling the influence of UV curing strategies for optimisation of inkjet based 3D printing (2021)
Journal Article
Zhao, P., He, Y., Trindade, G. F., Baumers, M., Irvine, D., Hague, R., Ashcroft, I., & Wildman Conceptualisation, R. (2021). Modelling the influence of UV curing strategies for optimisation of inkjet based 3D printing. Materials and Design, 208, Article 109889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2021.109889

A predictive model is developed to assist in the design and manufacture of structures by inkjet based 3D printing (IJ3DP)/additive manufacturing. IJ3DP often exploits photopolymerisation to rapidly convert a photoreactive liquid ink into a solid prod... Read More about Modelling the influence of UV curing strategies for optimisation of inkjet based 3D printing.