All Outputs (102)

Prediction of temperature dependent wave dispersion and interaction properties in composite structures (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Apalowo, R., Ampatzidis, T., Chronopoulos, D., Ichchou, M., Essa, Y., & De La Escalera, F. (2017). Prediction of temperature dependent wave dispersion and interaction properties in composite structures.

Composite structures are widely used for aerospace and automotive applications. These operate within a broad temperature range varying between -100_C to 200_C for launch vehicles and -60_C to +50_C for aircraft and automotive vehicles. Hereby, the se... Read More about Prediction of temperature dependent wave dispersion and interaction properties in composite structures.

Human behaviour in emergency situations: Comparisons between aviation and rail domains (2017)
Journal Article
Stedmon, A., Lawson, G., Lewis, L., Richards, D., & Grant, R. (2017). Human behaviour in emergency situations: Comparisons between aviation and rail domains. Security Journal, 30(3), 963-978. https://doi.org/10.1057/sj.2015.34

This article presents a comparative review of the knowledge base regarding human behaviour in emergencies for both aviation and rail domains. Generic models of human behaviour in emergency situations are introduced and specific attention is then focu... Read More about Human behaviour in emergency situations: Comparisons between aviation and rail domains.

An evaluation of the capability of data conversion of impression creep test (2017)
Journal Article
Cacciapuoti, B., Sun, W., McCartney, D., Morris, A., Lockyer, S., Ab Razak, N., …Hulance, J. (in press). An evaluation of the capability of data conversion of impression creep test. Materials at High Temperatures, 34(5-6), https://doi.org/10.1080/09603409.2017.1346747

High temperature power plant components are now working far beyond their operative designed life. Establishing their in-service material properties has become a matter of significant concern for power generation companies. Advantages for the assessme... Read More about An evaluation of the capability of data conversion of impression creep test.

Toward process control from formal models of transformable manufacturing systems (2017)
Journal Article
Bakker, O. J., Chaplin, J. C., de Silva, L., Felli, P., Sanderson, D., Logan, B., & Ratchev, S. (2018). Toward process control from formal models of transformable manufacturing systems. Procedia CIRP, 63, 521-526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.03.159

The automation and flexibility of production systems is a key step towards improved profitability and competitiveness in high labour cost areas, when producing high-complexity, low-volume products. In the Evolvable Assembly Systems (EAS) project, the... Read More about Toward process control from formal models of transformable manufacturing systems.

Variation analysis of automated wing box assembly (2017)
Journal Article
Bakker, O. J., Popov, A. A., & Ratchev, S. M. (2017). Variation analysis of automated wing box assembly. Procedia CIRP, 69, 406-411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2017.02.034

Manufacturing process variability is a major issue of concern in high value industries. Manufacturing small batches and in some cases batches of one is a very expensive process with specific requirements for manufacturing operations, tooling and fixt... Read More about Variation analysis of automated wing box assembly.

Waterjet and laser etching: the nonlinear inverse problem (2017)
Journal Article
Bilbao Guillerna, A., Axinte, D. A., Billingham, J., & Cadot, G. (2017). Waterjet and laser etching: the nonlinear inverse problem. Royal Society Open Science, 4(161031), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.161031

In waterjet and laser milling, material is removed from a solid surface in a succession of layers to create a new shape, in a depth-controlled manner. The inverse problem consists of defining the control parameters, in particular, the two-dimensional... Read More about Waterjet and laser etching: the nonlinear inverse problem.

An overview of using small punch testing for mechanical characterization of MCrAlY bond coats (2017)
Journal Article
Chen, H., Jackson, G., & Sun, W. (2017). An overview of using small punch testing for mechanical characterization of MCrAlY bond coats. Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 26(6), 1222-1238. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11666-017-0593-y

Considerable work has been carried out on overlay bond coats in the past several decades because of its excellent oxidation resistance and good adhesion between the top coat and superalloy substrate in the thermal barrier coating systems. Previous st... Read More about An overview of using small punch testing for mechanical characterization of MCrAlY bond coats.

Continuous Photo-Oxidation in a Vortex Reactor: Efficient Operations Using Air Drawn from the Laboratory (2017)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S., Amara, Z., Clark, C. A., Xu, Z., Kakimpa, B., Morvan, H. P., …George, M. W. (2017). Continuous Photo-Oxidation in a Vortex Reactor: Efficient Operations Using Air Drawn from the Laboratory. Organic Process Research and Development, 21(7), 1042-1050. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.oprd.7b00153

© 2017 American Chemical Society. We report the construction and use of a vortex reactor which uses a rapidly rotating cylinder to generate Taylor vortices for continuous flow thermal and photochemical reactions. The reactor is designed to operate un... Read More about Continuous Photo-Oxidation in a Vortex Reactor: Efficient Operations Using Air Drawn from the Laboratory.

A coupled 1D film hydrodynamics and core gas flow model for air-oil flows in aero-engine bearing chambers (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Kakimpa, B., Morvan, H., & Hibberd, S. (2017). A coupled 1D film hydrodynamics and core gas flow model for air-oil flows in aero-engine bearing chambers.

A robust 1D film hydrodynamic model has been sequentially coupled with a 1D core gas model and used to predict the instantaneous mean core gas speed, film interface shear stress and liquid film distribution within an idealised bearing chamber. This n... Read More about A coupled 1D film hydrodynamics and core gas flow model for air-oil flows in aero-engine bearing chambers.

3D inkjet printing of tablets exploiting bespoke complex geometries for controlled and tuneable drug release (2017)
Journal Article
Kyobula, M., Adedeji, A., Alexander, M. R., Saleh, E., Wildman, R. D., Ashcroft, I., …Roberts, C. J. (2017). 3D inkjet printing of tablets exploiting bespoke complex geometries for controlled and tuneable drug release. Journal of Controlled Release, 261, 207-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconrel.2017.06.025

A hot melt 3D inkjet printing method with the potential to manufacture formulations in complex and adaptable geometries for the controlled loading and release of medicines is presented. This first use of a precisely controlled solvent free inkjet pri... Read More about 3D inkjet printing of tablets exploiting bespoke complex geometries for controlled and tuneable drug release.

The role of small specimen creep testing within a life assessment framework for high temperature power plant (2017)
Journal Article
Morris, A., Cacciapuoti, B., & Sun, W. (2018). The role of small specimen creep testing within a life assessment framework for high temperature power plant. International Materials Reviews, 63(2), 102-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/09506608.2017.1332538

The safe operation of components operating at high temperature and pressure faces numerous challenges associated with ageing materials and maintaining commercial viability whilst economies transition to a lower carbon future as part of their climate... Read More about The role of small specimen creep testing within a life assessment framework for high temperature power plant.

Detecting the signature of motion stage non-linearity for focus variation microscopy using measurement noise and surface topography repeatability (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Alburayt, A., Syam, W. P., & Leach, R. (2017). Detecting the signature of motion stage non-linearity for focus variation microscopy using measurement noise and surface topography repeatability.

Measurement noise is one of the ISO-proposed metrological characteristics of areal surface texture instruments [1, 2, 3, 4]. Measurement noise includes all of the unwanted contributions to the output signals when the instrument is used in its normal... Read More about Detecting the signature of motion stage non-linearity for focus variation microscopy using measurement noise and surface topography repeatability.

Measurement noise of a point autofocus surface topography instrument (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Feng, X., Quagliotti, D., Maculotti, G., Syam, W. P., Tosello, G., Hansen, H. N., …Leach, R. (2017). Measurement noise of a point autofocus surface topography instrument.

Optical instruments for areal topography measurement can be especially sensitive to noise when scanning is required. Such noise has different sources, including those internally generated and external sources from the environment [1].For some instrum... Read More about Measurement noise of a point autofocus surface topography instrument.

Coherence scanning interferometry for additive manufacture (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Gomez, C., Thompson, A., DiSciacca, J., Lawes, S., & Leach, R. (2017). Coherence scanning interferometry for additive manufacture.

Additive manufacture (AM) of metal components is a rapidly maturing technology; but given the large number of interrelated process parameters, it remains difficult to control to high precision. It has been observed that processing conditions may be a... Read More about Coherence scanning interferometry for additive manufacture.

Focus variation measurement of electron beam melted surfaces (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Newton, L., Senin, N., & Leach, R. (2017). Focus variation measurement of electron beam melted surfaces.

Electron beam melting (EBM) is a promising additive manufacturing process which is seeing increasing use in high value manufacturing sectors such as aerospace [1]. With its layer-by-layer approach, EBM can allow the creation of parts of complex shape... Read More about Focus variation measurement of electron beam melted surfaces.

X-ray computed tomography of additively manufactured metal parts: the effect of magnification and reconstruction sampling on surface topography measurement (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Thompson, A., Körner, L., Senin, N., Lawes, S., Leach, R., & Maskery, I. (2017). X-ray computed tomography of additively manufactured metal parts: the effect of magnification and reconstruction sampling on surface topography measurement.

X-ray computed tomography (XCT) has recently become recognised as a viable method of surface topography measurement for additively manufactured (AM) metal parts [1–5]. AM is capable of producing internal features that are inaccessible to other surfac... Read More about X-ray computed tomography of additively manufactured metal parts: the effect of magnification and reconstruction sampling on surface topography measurement.

An industrial survey on the use of surface texture parameters (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Todhunter, L. D., Leach, R., & Lawes, S. D. (2017). An industrial survey on the use of surface texture parameters.

In 1999, CIRP conducted an industrial survey of the use of surface texture parameters [1]. In the seventeen years since, much has changed, with the most important advancement being the introduction of areal surface texture parameters as described in... Read More about An industrial survey on the use of surface texture parameters.

A design of experiments (DoE) approach to identify the influencing parameters that determine poly-D,L-lactic acid (PDLLA) electrospun scaffold morphologies (2017)
Journal Article
Ruiter, F. A. A., Alexander, C., Rose, F. R., & Segal, J. (2017). A design of experiments (DoE) approach to identify the influencing parameters that determine poly-D,L-lactic acid (PDLLA) electrospun scaffold morphologies. Biomedical Materials, 12(5), Article 055009. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-605X/aa7b54

Electrospun fibrous materials have increasing applications in regenerative medicine due to the similarity of fibre constructs to the morphology of certain extracellular matrices. Although experimentally the electrospinning method is relatively simple... Read More about A design of experiments (DoE) approach to identify the influencing parameters that determine poly-D,L-lactic acid (PDLLA) electrospun scaffold morphologies.

Size and thermal effects on sedimentation behaviors of two spheres (2017)
Journal Article
Yang, B., Chen, S., Xiong, Y., Zhang, R., & Zheng, C. (2017). Size and thermal effects on sedimentation behaviors of two spheres. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 114, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2017.06.046

Gas-solid flows are commonly found in nature, as well as in industries. In such flows the size of the solid particles generally is not uniform. In addition, usually there is heat transfer between solid particles and gas flows. The hydrodynamics and h... Read More about Size and thermal effects on sedimentation behaviors of two spheres.

CFD optimisation of the thermal design for a vented electrical machine (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Bersch, K., Connor, P. H., Eastwick, C. N., Galea, M., & Rolston, R. (2017). CFD optimisation of the thermal design for a vented electrical machine. In 2017 IEEE Workshop on Electrical Machines Design, Control and Diagnosis (WEMDCD) (39-44). https://doi.org/10.1109/WEMDCD.2017.7947721

Optimisation algorithms hold the potential to dramatically reduce computational time whilst ensuring the optimal solution is found. Within this paper, the feasibility of using this novel approach on complex 3-D Computational Fluid Dynamics models, wh... Read More about CFD optimisation of the thermal design for a vented electrical machine.