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Three-Phase AC-DC Converters with Passive, Active and Hybrid Current Injection Circuits - Part II (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Rivera, M., Faundez, D., Kolar, J., Wheeler, P., & Riveros, J. A. (2018). Three-Phase AC-DC Converters with Passive, Active and Hybrid Current Injection Circuits - Part II. In 2018 IEEE Biennial Congress of Argentina (ARGENCON) (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1109/ARGENCON.2018.8646106

© 2018 IEEE. AC-DC Three-phase converters are highly well known for having enhanced power quality with unity displacement power factor, low total harmonic pollution on the AC side, and controllable DC output with unidirectional or bidirectional power... Read More about Three-Phase AC-DC Converters with Passive, Active and Hybrid Current Injection Circuits - Part II.

Targeted rework of powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Dryburgh, P., Patel, R., Catchpole-Smith, S., Hirsch, M., Parry, L., Smith, R. J., …Clare, A. T. (2018). Targeted rework of powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. In Proceedings of LPM2018 - the 19th International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication (#18/030)

There is a clear industrial pull to fabricate high value components using premium high temperature aerospace materials by additive manufacturing. Inconveniently, the same materials’ properties which allow them to perform well in service render them... Read More about Targeted rework of powder bed fusion additive manufacturing.

A mathematical programming approach to railway network asset management (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Fecarotti, C., & Andrews, J. (2018). A mathematical programming approach to railway network asset management.

A main challenge in railway asset management is selecting the maintenance strategies to apply to each asset on the network in order to effectively manage the railway infrastructure given that some performance and safety targets have to be met under b... Read More about A mathematical programming approach to railway network asset management.

Hybrid RANS-LES for turbomachinery (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Jefferson-Loveday, R. J. (2018). Hybrid RANS-LES for turbomachinery.

A range of popular hybrid Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes- large eddy simulation (RANS-LES) methods are tested for cavity and labyrinth seal flows using an in-house high order computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code and a commercial CFD code. The mod... Read More about Hybrid RANS-LES for turbomachinery.

Evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri Net (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Naybour, M. T., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. J. (2018). Evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri Net. In S. Haugen, A. Barros, C. van Gulijk, T. Kongsvik, & J. E. Vinnem (Eds.), Safety and Reliability : Safe Societies in a Changing World : Proceedings of ESREL 2018, June 17-21, 2018, Trondheim, Norway (2059-2066). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781351174664-259

UK customers visited community pharmacies to receive NHS prescriptions 1.104 billion times in 2016. One study of dispensing errors found an error rate of 3.3%. Severe dispensing inaccuracies often receive a high level of media attention, however, low... Read More about Evaluation of a community pharmacy dispensing process using a coloured Petri Net.

Vulnerability assessment modelling for railway networks (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Meesit, R., & Andrews, J. (2018). Vulnerability assessment modelling for railway networks. In Proceedings of the 10th IMA International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability. https://doi.org/10.19124/ima.2018.001.16

Railway networks are prone to many different potential disruptive events such as technical failures (e.g. the failure of aging components), natural disasters (e.g. flooding) and intentional man-made disasters (e.g. trespass and suicide). Assessing th... Read More about Vulnerability assessment modelling for railway networks.

Fostering Trust and Acceptance of a Collision Avoidance System through Retrospective Feedback (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Large, D., Khan, J., & Burnett, G. (2018). Fostering Trust and Acceptance of a Collision Avoidance System through Retrospective Feedback. In Proceedings of the 6th Humanist Conference

A simulator study explored the effects of providing retrospective feedback on drivers’ acceptance of a collision avoidance system (CAS) following a false activation. Sixteen experienced drivers undertook two drives, each lasting approximately 20 minu... Read More about Fostering Trust and Acceptance of a Collision Avoidance System through Retrospective Feedback.

Adaptive real-time dual-mode filter design for seamless pedestrian navigation (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Peltola, P., Hill, C., & Moore, T. (in press). Adaptive real-time dual-mode filter design for seamless pedestrian navigation.

Seamless navigation requires that the mobile device is capable of offering a position solution both indoors and outdoors. Novel seamless navigation system design was implemented and tested to achieve this aim. The design consists of general navigatio... Read More about Adaptive real-time dual-mode filter design for seamless pedestrian navigation.

Conceptual framework for ubiquitous cyber-physical assembly systems in airframe assembly (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Sanderson, D., Chaplin, J. C., & Ratchev, S. (2018). Conceptual framework for ubiquitous cyber-physical assembly systems in airframe assembly.

Current sectoral drivers for the manufacturing of complex products - such as airframe assembly -require new manufacturing system paradigms to meet them. In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework for cyber-physical systems driven by ubiquitous... Read More about Conceptual framework for ubiquitous cyber-physical assembly systems in airframe assembly.

Measurement assisted assembly for high accuracy aerospace manufacturing (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Drouot, A., Zhao, R., Irving, L., Sanderson, D., & Ratchev, S. (2018). Measurement assisted assembly for high accuracy aerospace manufacturing.

Measurement Assisted Assembly is a key concept for the modernisation of aerospace assembly processes, i.e. improving their efficiency while reducing the manufacturing costs. This concept suggests a paradigm shift in the assembly of high-complexity pr... Read More about Measurement assisted assembly for high accuracy aerospace manufacturing.

Synthesis of Polydimethylsiloxane Microspheres Using Microfluidics for Treatment of Toluene in Wastewater (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Lian, Z., Ren, Y., He, J., Chen, G. Z., & Koh, K. S. (2018). Synthesis of Polydimethylsiloxane Microspheres Using Microfluidics for Treatment of Toluene in Wastewater. . https://doi.org/10.1115/icnmm2018-7775

Copyright © 2018 ASME. Monodispersed polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microspheres are fabricated by a needle-based versatile microfluidic device with flow-focusing geometry. Microdroplets with various diameters are generated by tuning the flow rate of th... Read More about Synthesis of Polydimethylsiloxane Microspheres Using Microfluidics for Treatment of Toluene in Wastewater.

A programmable software framework for the generation of simulated surface topography (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Todhunter, L. D., Senin, N., Leach, R., Lawes, S., Blateyron, F., & Harris, P. (2018). A programmable software framework for the generation of simulated surface topography.

A flexible and programmable software framework has been developed that enables the creation of simulated, areal surface topography datasets. The framework allows the creation of surfaces through a layered approach where deterministic topographic stru... Read More about A programmable software framework for the generation of simulated surface topography.

Pile Driving Vibration Attenuation Relationships: Overview and Calibration Using Field Measurements (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Grizi, A., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., & Woods, R. D. (2018). Pile Driving Vibration Attenuation Relationships: Overview and Calibration Using Field Measurements. In Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics V: Numerical Modeling and Soil Structure Interaction. , (435-444). https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784481479.045

© 2018 American Society of Civil Engineers. Empirical equations to predict ground motions during construction operations have been suggested by various researchers. These empirical correlations were developed after measuring particle velocities on th... Read More about Pile Driving Vibration Attenuation Relationships: Overview and Calibration Using Field Measurements.

Development of an X-ray simulator: from STTL file to grey scale image (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Korner, L., Leach, R., & Lawes, S. (2018). Development of an X-ray simulator: from STTL file to grey scale image. In Proceedings of the 18th International conference of the European Society for Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology (euspen), 503-504

The effects of vibration on fringe projection systems (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bointon, P., Todhunter, L., Stavroulakis, P., Clare, A., & Leach, R. (2018). The effects of vibration on fringe projection systems.

Mechanical vibration noise is a significant source of error in precision measuring instruments. Errors due to vibration can be detected in measurement signals, and so methods to control mechanical vibration must be considered throughout the design pr... Read More about The effects of vibration on fringe projection systems.

Lateral error compensation for focus variation microscopy (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Pérez, P., Syam, W. P., Albajez, J. A., Santolaria, J., & Leach, R. (2018). Lateral error compensation for focus variation microscopy.

Focus variation microscopy measures both the areal form and areal surface texture of components. Improvements to the accuracy and precision of focus variation microscopes usually requires measurements with multiple image-fields to compensate lateral... Read More about Lateral error compensation for focus variation microscopy.