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Comparing experts and novices in Martian surface feature change detection and identification (2017)
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Change detection in satellite images is a key concern of the Earth Observation field for environmental and climate change monitoring. Satellite images also provide important clues to both the past and present surface conditions of other planets, whic... Read More about Comparing experts and novices in Martian surface feature change detection and identification.

Transition induced by linear and nonlinear perturbation growth in flow past a compressor blade (2017)
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Flow past a NACA 65 blade at chord-based Reynolds number 138;500 is studied using stability analysis, generalised (spatially weighted) transient growth analysis and direct numerical simulations (DNS). The mechanisms of transition on various sections... Read More about Transition induced by linear and nonlinear perturbation growth in flow past a compressor blade.

Calorimetric study and microstructure analysis of the order-disorder phase transformation in silicon steel built by SLM (2017)
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Innovative Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies like Selective Laser Melting (SLM) could prove to be efficient for the processing of brittle silicon steel (Fe-Si) with high silicon content. This research elucidates the effects of heat-treatment o... Read More about Calorimetric study and microstructure analysis of the order-disorder phase transformation in silicon steel built by SLM.

An autonomous organic reaction search engine for chemical reactivity (2017)
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The exploration of chemical space for new reactivity, reactions and molecules is limited by the need for separate work-up-separation steps searching for molecules rather than reactivity. Herein we present a system that can autonomously evaluate chemi... Read More about An autonomous organic reaction search engine for chemical reactivity.

Hydraulic and biotic impacts on neutralisation of high-pH waters (2017)
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The management of alkaline (pH 11–12.5) leachate is an important issue associated with the conditioning, afteruse or disposal of steel slags. Passive in-gassing of atmospheric CO2 is a low cost option for reducing Ca(OH)2 alkalinity, as Ca(OH)2 is ne... Read More about Hydraulic and biotic impacts on neutralisation of high-pH waters.

Application of Kalman filter to determination of coal liquefaction mechanisms using discrete time models (2017)
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Seven different liquefaction mechanisms that consist of reversible and irreversible steps are suggested for a Turkish lignite (Tunçbilek) in tetralin with the use of microwave heating. Compliance of the proposed mechanisms are determined by forming f... Read More about Application of Kalman filter to determination of coal liquefaction mechanisms using discrete time models.

Informing additive manufacturing technology adoption: total cost and the impact of capacity utilisation (2017)
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Informing Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology adoption decisions, this paper investigates the relationship between build volume capacity utilisation and efficient technology operation in an inter-process comparison of the costs of manufacturing a... Read More about Informing additive manufacturing technology adoption: total cost and the impact of capacity utilisation.

Geometric modeling of 3D woven preforms in composite T-joints (2017)
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A common method to fabricate net-shaped three-dimensional (3D) woven preforms for composite T-joints is to weave flat 3D preforms via a standard weaving machine with variation in binder yarn path and then separate the preform in the form of a bifurca... Read More about Geometric modeling of 3D woven preforms in composite T-joints.

Orbital Filter Aiding of a High Sensitivity GPS Receiver for Lunar Missions (2017)
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Recent studies have shown that weak global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals could potentially be used to navigate from Earth to the Moon. This would increase autonomy, robustness, and flexibility of the navigation architectures for future l... Read More about Orbital Filter Aiding of a High Sensitivity GPS Receiver for Lunar Missions.

The effect of coating architecture and defects on the corrosion behaviour of a PVD multilayer Inconel 625/Cr coating (2017)
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This paper investigates the effect of substrate surface finish and deposition conditions of PVD multilayer Inconel 625/Cr coatings on their ability to act as a corrosion-barrier. The corrosion-barrier performance of the coatings was characterized by... Read More about The effect of coating architecture and defects on the corrosion behaviour of a PVD multilayer Inconel 625/Cr coating.

Determining the refractive index dispersion and thickness of hot-pressed chalcogenide thin films from an improved Swanepoel method (2017)
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The well-known method presented by Swanepoel can be used to determine the refractive index dispersion of thin films in the near-infrared region from wavelength values at maxima and minima, only, of the transmission interference fringes. In order to e... Read More about Determining the refractive index dispersion and thickness of hot-pressed chalcogenide thin films from an improved Swanepoel method.

Wave sensitivity analysis for periodic and arbitrarily complex composite structures (2017)
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Purpose: This paper presents the development of a numerical continuum-discrete approach for computing the sensitivity of the waves propagating in periodic composite structures. The work can be directly employed for evaluating the sensitivity of the s... Read More about Wave sensitivity analysis for periodic and arbitrarily complex composite structures.

HfB2-SiC-MoSi2 oxidation resistance coating fabricated through in-situ synthesis for SiC coated C/C composites (2017)
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A brand new HfB2-SiC-MoSi2 coating was fabricated to protect carbon/carbon (C/C) composites with inner SiC coating from oxidation, which was prepared by in-situ synthesis. In this paper, the C/C substrate with the protection of the HfB2-SiC-MoSi2/SiC... Read More about HfB2-SiC-MoSi2 oxidation resistance coating fabricated through in-situ synthesis for SiC coated C/C composites.

An experimental study of the carbonation of serpentinite and partially serpentinised peridotites (2017)
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In situ sequestration of CO2 in mantle peridotites has been proposed as a method to alleviate the amount of anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere. This study presents the results of 8-month long laboratory fluid-rock experiments on representative mantl... Read More about An experimental study of the carbonation of serpentinite and partially serpentinised peridotites.

A new algorithm for prognostics using subset simulation (2017)
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This work presents an efficient computational framework for prognostics by combining the particle filter-based prognostics principles with the technique of Subset Simulation, first developed in S.K. Au and J.L. Beck [Probabilistic Engrg. Mech., 16 (2... Read More about A new algorithm for prognostics using subset simulation.

Terahertz Kerr nonlinearity analysis of a microribbon graphene array using the harmonic balance method (2017)
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Transmission spectra of microribbon graphene arrays are investigated with a circuit model based on the transmission line method. The accuracy of the proposed method is comparable with full-wave electromagnetic simulation results versus chemical poten... Read More about Terahertz Kerr nonlinearity analysis of a microribbon graphene array using the harmonic balance method.

Human factors considerations in designing for infection prevention and control in neonatal care – findings from a pre-design inquiry (2017)
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Qualitative data collection methods drawn from the early stages of human-centred design frameworks combined with thematic analysis were used to develop an understanding of infection prevention practice within an existing neonatal intensive care unit.... Read More about Human factors considerations in designing for infection prevention and control in neonatal care – findings from a pre-design inquiry.

Further Improvement of Fluidized Bed Models by Incorporating Zone Method with Aspen Plus Interface (2017)
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While providing a fast and accurate tool of simulating fluidized beds, the major limitation of classical zero-dimensional ideal reactor models used in process simulators, such as models built into commercial software (e.g. Aspen Plus®), has been the... Read More about Further Improvement of Fluidized Bed Models by Incorporating Zone Method with Aspen Plus Interface.

Power Loss and Thermal Analysis of a MW High-Speed Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (2017)
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© 1986-2012 IEEE. High-speed permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) have attracted much attention due to their high power density, high efficiency, and compact size for direct-drive applications. However, the consequent power loss density is h... Read More about Power Loss and Thermal Analysis of a MW High-Speed Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine.

User-centred design of a portable fire extinguisher (2017)
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This case study documents the process followed to produce an alternative design of fire extinguisher. The work focuses on how informative data can be gathered for an ethically challenging product scenario through the use of a range of user-centred re... Read More about User-centred design of a portable fire extinguisher.