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Intrinsic dependence of ice adhesion strength on surface roughness (2020)
Journal Article

The roles of surface roughness on icephobicity including ice adhesion strength have been long debated in icephobicity studies. However, the direct/systematic influence of surface roughness on ice adhesion strength while keeping other surface characte... Read More about Intrinsic dependence of ice adhesion strength on surface roughness.

Influence of scour depth and type on p–y curves for monopiles in sand under monotonic lateral loading in a geotechnical centrifuge (2020)
Journal Article

The influence of scour on the lateral response of monopile foundations for offshore wind turbines is investigated in this paper. Application of lateral load-displacement (p-y) curves to predict the lateral pile behaviour is subject to uncertainty as... Read More about Influence of scour depth and type on p–y curves for monopiles in sand under monotonic lateral loading in a geotechnical centrifuge.

Integration of information modelling and computational simulation in mechanized tunnelling (2020)
Presentation / Conference

A Novel Approach for the Determination of the Height of the Tropopause from Ground-Based GNSS Observations (2020)
Journal Article

In this paper, we present a new method to calculate the height of the second lapse-rate tropopause (LRT2) using GNSS high-precision data. The use of GNSS data for monitoring the atmosphere is possible because as the radio signals propagate through th... Read More about A Novel Approach for the Determination of the Height of the Tropopause from Ground-Based GNSS Observations.

Electrochemical study of different membrane materials for the fabrication of stable, reproducible and reusable reference electrode (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Fabrication of stable, reproducible and reusable reference electrodes for low energy and high-temperature steam splitting is of great interest for hydrogen fuel production without anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emission. This study has bee... Read More about Electrochemical study of different membrane materials for the fabrication of stable, reproducible and reusable reference electrode.

Predictive Control Based DC Microgrid Stabilization With the Dual Active Bridge Converter (2020)
Journal Article

Dual-active-bridge (DAB) enabled dc microgrids stabilization is investigated in this article. DAB has two control objectives: load current regulation and the dc-bus voltage stabilization. In multiobjective control applications, the conventional propo... Read More about Predictive Control Based DC Microgrid Stabilization With the Dual Active Bridge Converter.

Cold spray deposition of solution heat treated, artificially aged and naturally aged Al 7075 powder (2020)
Journal Article

The deformation behaviour of particles and substrate in cold spray is dictated by the intrinsic properties of both materials, and their bonding directly affects the resulting properties of the deposited coating. The processing through heat treatment... Read More about Cold spray deposition of solution heat treated, artificially aged and naturally aged Al 7075 powder.

Mitigation of ionospheric scintillation effects on GNSS precise point positioning (PPP) at low latitudes (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, The Author(s). Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) underpin a number of modern life activities, including applications demanding positioning accuracy at the level of centimetres, such as precision agriculture, offshore operations and m... Read More about Mitigation of ionospheric scintillation effects on GNSS precise point positioning (PPP) at low latitudes.

Intelligent Resource Use to Deliver Waste Valorisation and Process Resilience in Manufacturing Environments (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Johnson Matthey Circular economy (CE) thinking has emerged as a route to sustainable manufacture, with related cradle-to-cradle implications requiring implementation from the design stage. The challenge lies in moving manufacturing environment... Read More about Intelligent Resource Use to Deliver Waste Valorisation and Process Resilience in Manufacturing Environments.

Application of TG technique to determine spontaneous heating propensity of coals (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary. The TG method is applied to eleven coal samples of varying rank collected from across the Jharia coalfield, India, to determine spontaneous heating susceptibility. Previous literature does not agree as to t... Read More about Application of TG technique to determine spontaneous heating propensity of coals.

Play&Tune: User Feedback in the Development of a Serious Game for Optimizing Hearing Aid Orientation (2020)
Journal Article

Many hearing aid (HA) users are dissatisfied with HA performance in social situations. One way to improve HA outcomes is training the users to understand how HAs work. Play&Tune was designed to provide this training and to foster autonomy in hearing... Read More about Play&Tune: User Feedback in the Development of a Serious Game for Optimizing Hearing Aid Orientation.

Centrifuge modeling of the impact of local and global scour erosion on the monotonic lateral response of a monopile in sand (2020)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2020 by ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, PO Box C700, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959. The majority of offshore wind turbines are founded on large-diameter, open-ended steel monopiles. Monopiles must resist lateral loads and ov... Read More about Centrifuge modeling of the impact of local and global scour erosion on the monotonic lateral response of a monopile in sand.

Quantitative PA tomography of high resolution 3-D images: Experimental validation in a tissue phantom (2020)
Journal Article

© 2019 The Author(s) Quantitative photoacoustic tomography aims to recover the spatial distribution of absolute chromophore concentrations and their ratios from deep tissue, high-resolution images. In this study, a model-based inversion scheme based... Read More about Quantitative PA tomography of high resolution 3-D images: Experimental validation in a tissue phantom.

A multiscale virtual element method for the analysis of heterogeneous media (2020)
Journal Article

We introduce a novel heterogeneous multiscale method for the elastic analysis of two-dimensional domains with a complex microstructure. To this end, the multiscale finite element method is revisited and originally upgraded by introducing virtual elem... Read More about A multiscale virtual element method for the analysis of heterogeneous media.

Combining EPS geofoam with geocell to reduce buried pipe loads and trench surface rutting (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd This paper reports full scale experiments, under simulated heavy traffic, of geocell and EPS (expanded polystyrene) geofoam block inclusions to mitigate the pressure on, and deformation of, shallow buried, high density polyethylen... Read More about Combining EPS geofoam with geocell to reduce buried pipe loads and trench surface rutting.

Microstructure and mechanical properties of fibre reinforced asphalt mixtures (2020)
Journal Article

Conventional asphalt mixtures can perform satisfactorily in most flexible pavement and airfield applications. However, during recent years the trend has been towards traffic growth, severe climate conditions, and heavier loads. This allied to durabil... Read More about Microstructure and mechanical properties of fibre reinforced asphalt mixtures.

Strategic planning and place branding in a World Heritage cultural landscape: a case study of the English Lake District, UK (2020)
Journal Article

What roles do strategic planning and place branding play in the context of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS)? Here it is theorized that the processes associated with the nomination and management of WHS cultural landscapes involve an integration of p... Read More about Strategic planning and place branding in a World Heritage cultural landscape: a case study of the English Lake District, UK.

Grain Reynolds number scale effects in dry granular slides (2020)
Journal Article

©2020. The Authors. Scale effects are differences in physical behavior that manifest between a large event and a geometrically scaled laboratory model and may cause misleading predictions. This study focuses on scale effects in granular slides, impor... Read More about Grain Reynolds number scale effects in dry granular slides.

Performance optimization of the dehumidifier with parallel-plate membrane modules (2020)
Journal Article

A numerical model of a dehumidifier with parallel-plate membranes is established and validated, and the orthogonal optimization method is adopted to investigate the dehumidifier performance. The impact order of the main operating parameters, includin... Read More about Performance optimization of the dehumidifier with parallel-plate membrane modules.

Speed Ripple Reduction of Direct-Drive PMSM Servo System at Low-Speed Operation Using Virtual Cogging Torque Control Method (2020)
Journal Article

This paper presents a virtual cogging torque (VCT) control method to reduce the speed ripple of direct-drive permanent magnet synchronous machine (DD-PMSM) servo system under low-speed conditions. Compared with other factors, at low speeds, the coggi... Read More about Speed Ripple Reduction of Direct-Drive PMSM Servo System at Low-Speed Operation Using Virtual Cogging Torque Control Method.