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Gasification reactor engineering approach to understanding the formation of biochar properties (2016)
Journal Article
Rollinson, A. (in press). Gasification reactor engineering approach to understanding the formation of biochar properties. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 472(2192), https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2015.0841

Operational reactor temperatures (spanning the reduction zone), pressure, and product gas composition measurements from a downdraft gasifier were compared against subsequent biochar elemental composition, surface morphology and PAH content. Pine feed... Read More about Gasification reactor engineering approach to understanding the formation of biochar properties.

Understanding the buckling behaviour of steered tows in automated dry fibre placement (ADFP) (2016)
Journal Article
Matveev, M. Y., Schubel, P. J., Long, A. C., & Jones, I. (2016). Understanding the buckling behaviour of steered tows in automated dry fibre placement (ADFP). Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 90, 451-456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2016.08.014

Technologies for automated fibre lay-up have proven their usefulness in composites manufacturing. Further development of the technologies, such as Automated Dry Fibre Placement (ADFP), allow further reduction of waste and increase of the design space... Read More about Understanding the buckling behaviour of steered tows in automated dry fibre placement (ADFP).

Development, printability and post-curing studies of formulations of materials resistant to microbial attachment for use in inkjet based 3D printing (2016)
Journal Article
Begines, B., Hook, A. L., Alexander, M. R., Tuck, C. J., & Wildman, R. D. (2016). Development, printability and post-curing studies of formulations of materials resistant to microbial attachment for use in inkjet based 3D printing. Rapid Prototyping Journal, 22(5), 835-841. https://doi.org/10.1108/RPJ-11-2015-0175

Purpose: This paper aims to print 3D structures from polymers that resist bacterial attachment by reactive jetting of acrylate monomers.
Design/methodology/approach: The first step towards printing was ink development. Inks were characterised to car... Read More about Development, printability and post-curing studies of formulations of materials resistant to microbial attachment for use in inkjet based 3D printing.

Exact solution for free vibrations of spinning nanotube based on nonlocal first order shear deformation shell theory (2016)
Journal Article
Hosseini-Hashemi, S., & Ilkhani, M. (2016). Exact solution for free vibrations of spinning nanotube based on nonlocal first order shear deformation shell theory. Composite Structures, 157, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2016.08.019

Spinning nanotubes are the main part of power transmission units in nano-machines. So, having proper information about the dynamic behavior of them are very important. So, as the basis of each dynamics problem free vibration of spinning nanotube is a... Read More about Exact solution for free vibrations of spinning nanotube based on nonlocal first order shear deformation shell theory.

Impact and mitigation of space weather effects on GNSS receiver performance (2016)
Journal Article
Sreeja, V. (2016). Impact and mitigation of space weather effects on GNSS receiver performance. Geoscience Letters, 3(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40562-016-0057-0

It is well known that Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals suffer from a number of vulnerabilities, out of which a potential severe vulnerability is the effect of space weather. Space weather effects on the signals transmitted by GNSS in... Read More about Impact and mitigation of space weather effects on GNSS receiver performance.

Steam-treated wood pellets: Environmental and financial implications relative to fossil fuels and conventional pellets for electricity generation (2016)
Journal Article
McKechnie, J., Saville, B., & MacLean, H. L. (2016). Steam-treated wood pellets: Environmental and financial implications relative to fossil fuels and conventional pellets for electricity generation. Applied Energy, 180, 637-649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.08.024

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Steam-treated pellets can help to address technical barriers that limit the uptake of pellets as a fuel for electricity generation, but there is limited understanding of the cost and environmental impacts of their production and u... Read More about Steam-treated wood pellets: Environmental and financial implications relative to fossil fuels and conventional pellets for electricity generation.

Multi-level characterization of steel reinforced mortars for strengthening of masonry structures (2016)
Journal Article
Ghiassi, B., Oliveira, D. V., Marques, V., Soares, E., & Maljaee, H. (2016). Multi-level characterization of steel reinforced mortars for strengthening of masonry structures. Materials and Design, 110, 903-913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2016.08.034

Textile Reinforced Mortars (TRMs) have received extensive attention for externally bonded reinforcement of historical and masonry structures. Despite this recent attention, the available information on the test methods and mechanical performance of T... Read More about Multi-level characterization of steel reinforced mortars for strengthening of masonry structures.

A hybrid Boundary Element Unstructured Transmission-line (BEUT) method for accurate 2D electromagnetic simulation (2016)
Journal Article
Simmons, D., Cools, K., & Sewell, P. (in press). A hybrid Boundary Element Unstructured Transmission-line (BEUT) method for accurate 2D electromagnetic simulation. Journal of Computational Physics, 324, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2016.08.002

Time domain electromagnetic simulation tools have the ability to model transient, wide-band applications, and non-linear problems. The Boundary Element Method (BEM) and the Transmission Line Modeling (TLM) method are both well established numerical t... Read More about A hybrid Boundary Element Unstructured Transmission-line (BEUT) method for accurate 2D electromagnetic simulation.

Complex functional surface design for additive manufacturing (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Morris, S., Dudman, J., Körner, L., Melo, P., Newton, L., & Clare, A. T. Complex functional surface design for additive manufacturing. Presented at 2016 Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium : An Additive Manufacturing Conference

This paper presents a new methodology for the creation of advanced surfaces which can be produced by Additive Manufacturing (AM) methods. Since there is no cost for enhanced complexity, AM allows for new capabilities in surface design. Micro-scale su... Read More about Complex functional surface design for additive manufacturing.

Particle filter for context sensitive indoor pedestrian navigation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Peltola, P., Hill, C., & Moore, T. (2016, June). Particle filter for context sensitive indoor pedestrian navigation. Presented at 2016 International Conference on Localization and GNSS, ICL-GNSS 2016, Barcelona, Spain

Novel particle filter design combines foot mounted inertial (IMU), bluetooth low energy (BLE) and ultra-wideband (UWB) technologies along with map matching into a seamless integrated navigation system for indoors. The system was evaluated by 10 test... Read More about Particle filter for context sensitive indoor pedestrian navigation.