All Outputs (427)

The Tsai-Wu failure criterion rationalised in the context of UD composites (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Authors This paper is to rationalise the empirical aspect of the Tsai-Wu failure criterion in the context of UD composites associated with the determination of the interactive strength property F12 based on the analytic geometry. It reveal... Read More about The Tsai-Wu failure criterion rationalised in the context of UD composites.

Perceptions of an automotive load space in a virtual environment (2017)
Journal Article

A study was conducted to investigate the accuracy of perceptions of a car load space in a CAVE virtual environment. A total of 46 participants rated load space width, height, depth, usability and overall capacity after viewing either a virtual Range... Read More about Perceptions of an automotive load space in a virtual environment.

A kinetic study on methylation of naphthalene over Fe/ZSM-5 zeolite catalysts (2017)
Journal Article

2,6-Dimethylnaphthalene is an important dimethylnaphthalene isomer which can be used in the production of polyethylene naphthalate. The novelty of this study is to reveal Langmuir–Hinshelwood and Eley–Rideal reaction rate equations for the methylatio... Read More about A kinetic study on methylation of naphthalene over Fe/ZSM-5 zeolite catalysts.

An experimental study on the key fretting variables for flexible marine risers (2017)
Journal Article

This paper presents an experimental investigation into the effects of contact conformity, contact pressure and displacement amplitude on the gross-slip fretting behaviour grease-lubricated cylinder-on-flat contacts in the context of flexible marine r... Read More about An experimental study on the key fretting variables for flexible marine risers.

Phonon-glass electron-crystal behaviour by A site disorder in n-type thermoelectric oxides (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Royal Society of Chemistry. Phonon-glass electron-crystal (PGEC) behaviour is realised in La0.5Na0.5Ti1-xNbxO3 thermoelectric oxides. The vibrational disorder imposed by the presence of both La3+ and Na+ cations on the A site of the ABO3 p... Read More about Phonon-glass electron-crystal behaviour by A site disorder in n-type thermoelectric oxides.

Integrated GNSS attitude and position determination based on an affine constrained model (2017)
Journal Article

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) attitude determination and positioning play an important role in many navigation applications. However, the two GNSS-based problems are usually treated separately. This ignores the constraint information of t... Read More about Integrated GNSS attitude and position determination based on an affine constrained model.

Undulations on the surface of elongated bubbles in confined gas-liquid flows (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 American Physical Society. A systematic analysis is presented of the undulations appearing on the surface of long bubbles in confined gas-liquid flows. CFD simulations of the flow are performed with a self-improved version of the open-source s... Read More about Undulations on the surface of elongated bubbles in confined gas-liquid flows.

Capturing cultural differences between UK and Malaysian drivers to inform the design of in-vehicle navigation systems (2017)
Journal Article

Attending to cultural diversity is important for products and technology intended for global placement, such as automobiles, yet many products (and associated interfaces) lack genuine cultural differentiation. For example, in-vehicle navigation syste... Read More about Capturing cultural differences between UK and Malaysian drivers to inform the design of in-vehicle navigation systems.

Throughput analysis of full-duplex communication cognitive radio network (2017)
Journal Article

In this paper we deal with the throughput of full-duplex cognitive communication radio which exploits unused band of primary user (PU) network. Classical cognitive radio uses half-duplex communication spectrum sensing to perform spectrum sensing and... Read More about Throughput analysis of full-duplex communication cognitive radio network.

Hydrogen and oxygen fuel enrichment effects on a HD diesel engine (2017)
Journal Article

Implementing emission regulations in the transport sector is enforcing manufacturers to improve performance of Heavy Duty (HD) vehicles as they are accountable for 25% of CO2 emissions within EU. The currently reported research was involved with eval... Read More about Hydrogen and oxygen fuel enrichment effects on a HD diesel engine.

Modeling photocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide in bubbling twin reactor (2017)
Journal Article

The production of valued added fuels and chemicals via photocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction has attracted increasing attentions in recent years. Based on the traditional twin reactor configuration, a novel bubbling twin reactor is proposed to impr... Read More about Modeling photocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide in bubbling twin reactor.

An enhanced scaled boundary finite element method for linear elastic fracture (2017)
Journal Article

A blocked Hamiltonian Schur decomposition is herein proposed for the solution process of the Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method (SBFEM), which is demonstrated to comprise a robust simulation tool for Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics (LEFM) proble... Read More about An enhanced scaled boundary finite element method for linear elastic fracture.

Enhanced sensing and conversion of ultrasonic Rayleigh waves by elastic metasurfaces (2017)
Journal Article

Recent years have heralded the introduction of metasurfaces that advantageously combine the vision of sub-wavelength wave manipulation, with the design, fabrication and size advantages associated with surface excitation. An important topic within met... Read More about Enhanced sensing and conversion of ultrasonic Rayleigh waves by elastic metasurfaces.

Living with an autonomous spatiotemporal home heating system: exploration of the user experiences (UX) through a longitudinal technology intervention-based mixed-methods approach (2017)
Journal Article

Rising energy demands place pressure on domestic energy consumption, but savings can be delivered through home automation and engaging users with their heating and energy behaviours. The aim of this paper is to explore user experiences (UX) of living... Read More about Living with an autonomous spatiotemporal home heating system: exploration of the user experiences (UX) through a longitudinal technology intervention-based mixed-methods approach.

High-precision lateral distortion measurement and correction in coherence scanning interferometry using an arbitrary surface (2017)
Journal Article

Lateral optical distortion is present in most optical imaging systems. In coherence scanning interferometry, distortion may cause field-dependent systematic errors in the measurement of surface topography. These errors become critical when high-preci... Read More about High-precision lateral distortion measurement and correction in coherence scanning interferometry using an arbitrary surface.

Optimization of surface measurement for metal additive manufacturing using coherence scanning interferometry (2017)
Journal Article

Surface topography measurement for metal additive manufacturing (AM) is a challenging task for contact and non-contact methods. In this paper, we present an experimental investigation of the use of coherence scanning interferometry (CSI) for measurem... Read More about Optimization of surface measurement for metal additive manufacturing using coherence scanning interferometry.

Examination of acoustic insulation of composite metamaterials with negative stiffness elements inclusions (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Damping is one of the most important properties of materials, being responsible for increased durability and conmfort of the structures. In this paper the damping enhancement of materials with internal oscillators is examined. Wave Finite Element (WF... Read More about Examination of acoustic insulation of composite metamaterials with negative stiffness elements inclusions.

Parametric study of control of frequency banded behaviour of periodic pressurised composite structures (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Periodic structures are very common in engineering, such as airplane fuselages and train rails. This periodicity has been observed to be the cause of banded frequency response after mechanical excitation. This response can be engineered so that noise... Read More about Parametric study of control of frequency banded behaviour of periodic pressurised composite structures.

Community energy schemes: the role of public participation and engagement (2017)
Conference Proceeding

Faced by global challenges brought on by climate-change and over-reliance on fossil fuels, more people are looking towards developing energy systems characterised by renewables. Community energy groups have been identified as key stakeholders who cou... Read More about Community energy schemes: the role of public participation and engagement.

Multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann simulation for flow, mass transfer, and adsorption in porous media (2017)
Journal Article

In this paper, to predict the dynamics behaviors of flow and mass transfer with adsorption phenomena in porous media at the representative elementary volume (REV) scale, a multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) lattice Boltzmann (LB) model for the convection... Read More about Multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann simulation for flow, mass transfer, and adsorption in porous media.