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Improving generalisation and accuracy of on-line milling chatter detection via a novel hybrid deep convolutional neural network (2023)
Journal Article
Zhang, P., Gao, D., Hong, D., Lu, Y., Wu, Q., Zan, S., & Liao, Z. (2023). Improving generalisation and accuracy of on-line milling chatter detection via a novel hybrid deep convolutional neural network. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 193, 110241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2023.110241

Unstable chatter seriously reduces the quality of machined workpiece and machining efficiency. In order to improve productivity, on-line chatter detection has attracted much interest in the past decades. Nevertheless, traditional methods are inevitab... Read More about Improving generalisation and accuracy of on-line milling chatter detection via a novel hybrid deep convolutional neural network.

Inverse size effect and deformation mechanism in Ti-6Al-4V cutting process – investigation on effect of bimodal microstructure on machining (2023)
Journal Article
Zan, S., Liu, G., Liao, Z., Axinte, D., & Fang, F. (2023). Inverse size effect and deformation mechanism in Ti-6Al-4V cutting process – investigation on effect of bimodal microstructure on machining. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirp.2023.04.042

Ti-6Al-4 V finds wide applications in industrial areas due to its unique properties. Though, how its special microstructure (i.e., properties mismatch between different phases) could influence the surface/chip formation mechanism when machining (e.g.... Read More about Inverse size effect and deformation mechanism in Ti-6Al-4V cutting process – investigation on effect of bimodal microstructure on machining.

The effect of high strain rate impact in Yttria stabilized zirconia (2023)
Journal Article
Sanchez, I., Axinte, D., Liao, Z., Gavalda-Diaz, O., & Smith, R. (2023). The effect of high strain rate impact in Yttria stabilized zirconia. Materials and Design, 229, Article 111908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2023.111908

Yttria stabilized zirconia (6-8YSZ) is widely used as a top coat in Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBCs) to protect metallic substrates. These coatings are exposed to severe high strain rate fields along their life, for example during the impact of debris... Read More about The effect of high strain rate impact in Yttria stabilized zirconia.

The role of tribologically transformed structures and debris in fretting of metals (2023)
Book Chapter
Shipway, P. H. (2023). The role of tribologically transformed structures and debris in fretting of metals. In T. Liskiewicz, & D. Dini (Eds.), Fretting Wear and Fretting Fatigue: Fundamental Principles and Applications (67-85). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824096-0.00005-6

In fretting wear of metals, debris is commonly in the form of oxide. Wear occurs when such debris is expelled from the contact, the observed wear rate depending upon: (i) oxygen transport into the closed contact; (ii) oxide debris formation as a resu... Read More about The role of tribologically transformed structures and debris in fretting of metals.

Investigating the Effect of Volatiles on Sub-23 nm Particle Number Measurements for a Downsized GDI Engine with a Catalytic Stripper and Digital Filtering (2022)
Journal Article
Pfau, S. A., Haffner-Staton, E., La Rocca, A., & Cairns, A. (2022). Investigating the Effect of Volatiles on Sub-23 nm Particle Number Measurements for a Downsized GDI Engine with a Catalytic Stripper and Digital Filtering. Fuels, 3(4), 682-697. https://doi.org/10.3390/fuels3040041

Recent efforts of both researchers and regulators regarding particulate emissions have focused on the contribution and presence of sub-23 nm particulates. Despite being previously excluded from emissions legislation with the particle measurement prog... Read More about Investigating the Effect of Volatiles on Sub-23 nm Particle Number Measurements for a Downsized GDI Engine with a Catalytic Stripper and Digital Filtering.

Automated particle recognition for engine soot nanoparticles (2022)
Journal Article
Haffner-Staton, E., Avanzini, L., La Rocca, A., Pfau, S. A., & Cairns, A. (2022). Automated particle recognition for engine soot nanoparticles. Journal of Microscopy, 288(1), 28-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmi.13140

A pre-trained convolution neural network based on residual error functions (ResNet) was applied to the classification of soot and non-soot carbon nanoparticles in TEM images. Two depths of ResNet, one 18 layers deep and the other 50 layers deep, were... Read More about Automated particle recognition for engine soot nanoparticles.

Hydride-based thermal energy storage (2022)
Journal Article
Adams, M., Buckley, C. E., Busch, M., Bunzel, R., Felderhoff, M., Heo, T. W., Humphries, T., Jensen, T. R., Klug, J., Klug, K. H., Møller, K. T., Paskevicius, M., Peil, S., Peinecke, K., Sheppard, D. A., Stuart, A. D., Urbanczyk, R., Wang, F., Walker, G. S., Wood, B. C., …Grant, D. M. (2022). Hydride-based thermal energy storage. Progress in Energy, 4(3), Article 032008. https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1083/ac72ea

The potential and research surrounding metal hydride (MH) based thermal energy storage is discussed, focusing on next generation thermo-chemical energy storage (TCES) for concentrated solar power. The site availability model to represent the reaction... Read More about Hydride-based thermal energy storage.

Linking operating conditions of a GDI engine to the nature and nanostructure of ultrafine soot particles (2022)
Journal Article
Pfau, S. A., Rocca, A. L., Haffner-Staton, E., Fay, M. W., & Cairns, A. (2022). Linking operating conditions of a GDI engine to the nature and nanostructure of ultrafine soot particles. Combustion and Flame, 245, 112315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112315

Sub-23 nm particulate emissions from internal combustion engines have become a topic of interest for research and legislative regulations in recent years. Many studies focused on electrical mobility measurements of soot particles, but few works emplo... Read More about Linking operating conditions of a GDI engine to the nature and nanostructure of ultrafine soot particles.

Study of the Resilience of Nuclear Power Plants in Response to Climate Change (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yan, R., & Dunnett, S. (2021, September). Study of the Resilience of Nuclear Power Plants in Response to Climate Change. Presented at Proceedings of the 31st European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2021, Angers, France

In recent years, it has become even more challenging to ensure the safety of nuclear power plants due to accelerated climate change. This is because some existing safety systems in the plants are not able to cope with new issues introduced or aggrava... Read More about Study of the Resilience of Nuclear Power Plants in Response to Climate Change.

A multiscale optimisation method for bone growth scaffolds based on triply periodic minimal surfaces (2021)
Journal Article
Lehder, E. F., Ashcroft, I. A., Wildman, R. D., Ruiz-Cantu, L. A., & Maskery, I. (2021). A multiscale optimisation method for bone growth scaffolds based on triply periodic minimal surfaces. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 20, 2085-2096. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-021-01496-8

Tissue engineered bone scaffolds are potential alternatives to bone allografts and autografts. Porous scaffolds based on triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) are good candidates for tissue growth because they offer high surface-to-volume ratio, ha... Read More about A multiscale optimisation method for bone growth scaffolds based on triply periodic minimal surfaces.

Plasma electrolytic oxidation thermal barrier coating for reduced heat losses in IC engines (2021)
Journal Article
Hegab, A., Dahuwa, K., Islam, R., Cairns, A., Khurana, A., Shrestha, S., & Francis, R. (2021). Plasma electrolytic oxidation thermal barrier coating for reduced heat losses in IC engines. Applied Thermal Engineering, 196, Article 117316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.117316

The work involved the development and on-engine testing of a new “thermo-swing” barrier coating for reduced wall heat transfer and increased thermal efficiency in future diesel engines utilizing aluminium alloy pistons. Such swing coatings, of low th... Read More about Plasma electrolytic oxidation thermal barrier coating for reduced heat losses in IC engines.

Combinational design of heterogeneous lattices with hybrid region stiffness tuning for additive manufacturing (2021)
Journal Article
Yang, N., Song, Y., Huang, J., Chen, Y., & Maskery, I. (2021). Combinational design of heterogeneous lattices with hybrid region stiffness tuning for additive manufacturing. Materials and Design, 209, Article 109955. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2021.109955

Lattices with engineered properties are significant for engineering applications in the energy, aerospace, optics and medical sectors. Current additive manufacturing (AM) combined with computer-aided design (CAD) methods are not flexible enough to cr... Read More about Combinational design of heterogeneous lattices with hybrid region stiffness tuning for additive manufacturing.

Corrigendum to “Rainbow metamaterials for broadband multi-frequency vibration attenuation: Numerical analysis and experimental validation” [J. Sound Vib. (2020) 115005] (Journal of Sound and Vibration (2020) 465, (S0022460X19305681), (10.1016/j.jsv.2019.115005)) (2020)
Journal Article
Meng, H., Chronopoulos, D., Fabro, A. T., Elmadih, W., & Maskery, I. (2020). Corrigendum to “Rainbow metamaterials for broadband multi-frequency vibration attenuation: Numerical analysis and experimental validation” [J. Sound Vib. (2020) 115005] (Journal of Sound and Vibration (2020) 465, (S0022460X19305681), (10.1016/j.jsv.2019.115005)). Journal of Sound and Vibration, 486, Article 115577. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2020.115577

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd The authors regret that Fig. 18 were inadvertently replaced by Fig. 12 during the reviewing process. Fig. 18 should be: [Figure presented] Fig. 18 Equivalent wavenumbers of metamaterial beams with non-symmetric sinusoidally varyin... Read More about Corrigendum to “Rainbow metamaterials for broadband multi-frequency vibration attenuation: Numerical analysis and experimental validation” [J. Sound Vib. (2020) 115005] (Journal of Sound and Vibration (2020) 465, (S0022460X19305681), (10.1016/j.jsv.2019.115005)).

Structural changes of thermal sprayed graphene nano platelets film into amorphous carbon under sliding wear (2020)
Journal Article
Derelizade, K., Venturi, F., Wellman, R. G., Khlobystov, A., & Hussain, T. (2020). Structural changes of thermal sprayed graphene nano platelets film into amorphous carbon under sliding wear. Applied Surface Science, 528, Article 146315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.146315

© 2020 The Authors Graphene has become a promising candidate to protect surfaces against friction due to its strength and lubricating ability. In this study, graphene nano platelets (GNP) thin films have been deposited onto stainless steel substrates... Read More about Structural changes of thermal sprayed graphene nano platelets film into amorphous carbon under sliding wear.

Ceria-coated replicated aluminium sponges as catalysts for the CO-water gas shift process (2020)
Journal Article
Palma, V., Goodall, R., Thompson, A., Ruocco, C., Renda, S., Leach, R., & Martino, M. (2021). Ceria-coated replicated aluminium sponges as catalysts for the CO-water gas shift process. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 46(22), 12158-12168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.04.065

A study on the use of chemical conversion coating as a preparative technique for foam-based structured catalysts, in the water gas shift reaction, is presented. The results showed a significant correlation between the textural properties of the struc... Read More about Ceria-coated replicated aluminium sponges as catalysts for the CO-water gas shift process.

Modeling and Experimental Validation of a Compliant Underactuated Parallel Kinematic Manipulator (2020)
Journal Article
Ma, N., Dong, X., & Axinte, D. (2020). Modeling and Experimental Validation of a Compliant Underactuated Parallel Kinematic Manipulator. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 25(3), 1409-1421. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2020.2976140

© 1996-2012 IEEE. Parallel kinematic manipulators (PKMs) are increasingly used in a wide range of industrial applications due to the characteristics of high accuracy and compact structure. However, most of the existing PKMs are structured with heavy... Read More about Modeling and Experimental Validation of a Compliant Underactuated Parallel Kinematic Manipulator.

A macroscale finite element approach for simulating the bending behaviour of biaxial fabrics (2020)
Journal Article
Yu, F., Chen, S., Viisainen, J., Sutcliffe, M., Harper, L., & Warrior, N. (2020). A macroscale finite element approach for simulating the bending behaviour of biaxial fabrics. Composites Science and Technology, 191, Article 108078. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2020.108078

A macroscale finite element (FE) model was developed to simulate the forming behaviour of biaxial fabrics, incorporating the effects of bending stiffness to predict fabric wrinkling. The dependency of the bending stiffness on the fibre orientation wa... Read More about A macroscale finite element approach for simulating the bending behaviour of biaxial fabrics.

Modelling Knudsen number effects in suspension high velocity oxy fuel thermal spray (2020)
Journal Article
Chadha, S., Jefferson-Loveday, R., & Hussain, T. (2020). Modelling Knudsen number effects in suspension high velocity oxy fuel thermal spray. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 152, Article 119454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2020.119454

Suspension high velocity oxy fuel thermal spray is a system characterized by supersonic velocities and length scales of particles of the order of nm – µm. As the effects of rarefication become significant the assumptions within the continuum models b... Read More about Modelling Knudsen number effects in suspension high velocity oxy fuel thermal spray.

Materials for hydrogen-based energy storage – past, recent progress and future outlook (2019)
Journal Article
Hirscher, M., Yartys, V. A., Baricco, M., Bellosta von Colbe, J., Blanchard, D., Bowman, R. C., Broom, D. P., Buckley, C. E., Chang, F., Chen, P., Cho, Y. W., Crivello, J. C., Cuevas, F., David, W. I., de Jongh, P. E., Denys, R. V., Dornheim, M., Felderhoff, M., Filinchuk, Y., Froudakis, G. E., …Zlotea, C. (2020). Materials for hydrogen-based energy storage – past, recent progress and future outlook. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 827, Article 153548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2019.153548

Globally, the accelerating use of renewable energy sources, enabled by increased efficiencies and reduced costs, and driven by the need to mitigate the effects of climate change, has significantly increased research in the areas of renewable energy p... Read More about Materials for hydrogen-based energy storage – past, recent progress and future outlook.