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The Influence of Nanocomposite Filler on the Lifetime Performance of Polypropylene under Voltage Polarity Reversal (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Setiawan, A., Seri, P., Cavallini, A., Suwarno, S., & Naderiallaf, H. (2019, October). The Influence of Nanocomposite Filler on the Lifetime Performance of Polypropylene under Voltage Polarity Reversal. Presented at 2019 2nd International Conference on High Voltage Engineering and Power Systems (ICHVEPS), Denpasar, Indonesia

Many researchers are investigating the feasibility of using polypropylene in HVDC cables. To understand the basic electrical properties of nanocomposite polypropylene, this work investigates the influence of nanostructuring on DC breakdown strength,... Read More about The Influence of Nanocomposite Filler on the Lifetime Performance of Polypropylene under Voltage Polarity Reversal.

Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on infield observations (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Naybour, M., Remenyte-Prescott, R., & Boyd, M. (2019, September). Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on infield observations. Presented at ESREL 2019, Hannover, Germany

he community pharmacy dispensing process is an integral part of delivering effective primary care to patients around the world. However, dispensing error rates and related patient safety issues are always a concern in the sector, where studies have f... Read More about Ant colony optimisation for community pharmacy dispensing process based on infield observations.

Surface Wave Development during Impact Pile Driving (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
GKRIZI, A., Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, A., & Woods, R. (2019, September). Surface Wave Development during Impact Pile Driving. Presented at XVII European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Iceland, Reykjavik

Pile installation by applying an impact to the top of a pile appears to be a simple construction process but analysis of that process is complicated as it involves a source of energy, the structural member (pile), and the ground into which the pile i... Read More about Surface Wave Development during Impact Pile Driving.

A novel methodology to quantify shape complexity of composite aerospace parts (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chowdhury, M. T., & Turner, T. (2019, August). A novel methodology to quantify shape complexity of composite aerospace parts. Presented at The 22nd International Conference on Composites Materials (ICCM22), Melbourne, Australia

Composite materials are increasingly being used to produce aerospace parts due to their versatility when compared to metal counterparts. The design freedom afforded by composites and their manufacturing allow design engineers the possibility to creat... Read More about A novel methodology to quantify shape complexity of composite aerospace parts.

The use of free-space microwave non-destructive techniques: simulation of damage detection in carbon fibre reinforced composites (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Munalli, D., Dimitrakis, G., Chronopoulos, D., Greedy, S., & Long, A. (2019, November). The use of free-space microwave non-destructive techniques: simulation of damage detection in carbon fibre reinforced composites. Presented at 11th Symposium on NDT in Aerospace, Paris, France

Microwave non-destructive testing (MNDT) methods represent an effective solution in detecting defects within composite structures with relatively low electrical conductivity. They offer the advantage to overcome the problems of traditional NDT techni... Read More about The use of free-space microwave non-destructive techniques: simulation of damage detection in carbon fibre reinforced composites.

Object landmark discovery through unsupervised adaptation (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sanchez, E., & Tzimiropoulos, G. (2019, December). Object landmark discovery through unsupervised adaptation. Presented at Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada

This paper proposes a method to ease the unsupervised learning of object landmark detectors. Similarly to previous methods, our approach is fully unsupervised in a sense that it does not require or make any use of annotated landmarks for the target o... Read More about Object landmark discovery through unsupervised adaptation.

Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Detect & Prevent -presymptomatic AD detection and prevention (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dong, M., Husain, M., Brooks, D., Wilson, M., Craven, M., Destrebecq, F., Georges, J., Aps, B., & Baden-Kristensen, K. (2019, September). Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Detect & Prevent -presymptomatic AD detection and prevention. Presented at International MinD Conference 2019 - Designing with and for People with Dementia: Well-being, Empowerment and Happiness, Dresden, Germany

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a major cause of the rapidly growing and crushing aging challenge that threatens to economically undermine today's healthcare system. AD prevalence will grow to over 100 million cases in 2050. AD is incurable but can be pr... Read More about Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Detect & Prevent -presymptomatic AD detection and prevention.

Comparison of transmission loss prediction using condensed equivalent plate models (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Uthayasuriyan, A., Chevillotte, F., Luc, J., Chronopoulos, D., & Gourdon, E. (2019, September). Comparison of transmission loss prediction using condensed equivalent plate models. Presented at 23rd International Congress on Acoustics, Aachen, Germany

Equivalent plate models are commonly used in order to simulate multilayer system as one single layer. This kind of approach enables for instance to reduce the mesh size and thus the number of degrees of freedom in finite element models. Usual condens... Read More about Comparison of transmission loss prediction using condensed equivalent plate models.

Switchable ETFE cushion: designing and building a model for experimental testing (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flor, J.-F., Sun, Y., Beccarelli, P., Wu, Y., & Chilton, J. (2019, October). Switchable ETFE cushion: designing and building a model for experimental testing. Presented at IASS Annual Symposium 2019 – Structural Membranes 2019, Form and Force, Barcelona, Spain

Adaptive façade systems have the potential for saving energy and enhancing comfort conditions in buildings. Creating working models with materials, components and functions which embody the design idea of a responsive building envelope is an importan... Read More about Switchable ETFE cushion: designing and building a model for experimental testing.

Petri Nets and Pseudo-Bond Graphs for a Nuclear Reactor Primary Coolant System (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wootton, M. J., Andrews, J., Lloyd, A. L., Smith, R., Arul, A. J., Vinod, G., Prasad, S. H., & Garg, V. (2019, September). Petri Nets and Pseudo-Bond Graphs for a Nuclear Reactor Primary Coolant System. Presented at 29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL 2019), Hannover, Germany

In this paper we demonstrate the application of timed Petri Net methodology to the frequency of initiating faults in the coolant circulation system of a fictional nuclear reactor design. A second model is presented where the Petri Net is coupled with... Read More about Petri Nets and Pseudo-Bond Graphs for a Nuclear Reactor Primary Coolant System.

Material standards design for minimum zone fitting of freeform optics (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Arezki, Y., Lepretre, F., Psota, P., Su, R., Heikkinen, V., Zhang, X., Cai, N., Bitou, Y., Leach, R., Lédl, V., Anwer, N., Mehdi-Souzani, C., & Nouira, H. (2019, June). Material standards design for minimum zone fitting of freeform optics. Presented at euspen’s 19th International Conference & Exhibition, Bilbao, Spain

In most cases, ultra-high-precision coordinate measuring machines (CMMs) are used to measure manufactured parts especially in the presence of freeform surfaces. The obtained data should be then processed to determine a quality measure of the surface.... Read More about Material standards design for minimum zone fitting of freeform optics.

Aerospace Assembly Gap Measurement Using Low Cost Smart Tools with Machine Vision (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crossley, R., & Ratchev, S. (2018, January). Aerospace Assembly Gap Measurement Using Low Cost Smart Tools with Machine Vision. Presented at 8th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2018, Chamonix, France

This paper details the conversion of mature machine vision technology from a fixed position automation line based device to a handheld technology and addresses the problems associated with maintaining a consistent camera distance and light source by... Read More about Aerospace Assembly Gap Measurement Using Low Cost Smart Tools with Machine Vision.

A probabilistic approach for trade-off analysis of composite wing structures at the conceptual phase of design (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bacharoudis, K., Turner, T., Popov, A., & Ratchev, S. (2019, January). A probabilistic approach for trade-off analysis of composite wing structures at the conceptual phase of design. Presented at 8th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2018, Chamonix, France

One of the major elements when performing a design for manufacturing and assembly methodology is the cost modelling method. A probabilistic cost approach is introduced herein for the series production of a composite wing structure. The proposed metho... Read More about A probabilistic approach for trade-off analysis of composite wing structures at the conceptual phase of design.

Exploring How Component Factors and Their Uncertainty Affect Judgements of Risk in Cyber-Security (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ellerby, Z., McCulloch, J., Wilson, M., & Wagner, C. (2019, September). Exploring How Component Factors and Their Uncertainty Affect Judgements of Risk in Cyber-Security. Presented at CRITIS 2019 : 14th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security, Linköping, Sweden

Subjective judgements from experts provide essential information when assessing and modelling threats in respect to cyber-physical systems. For example, the vulnerability of individual system components can be described using multiple factors, such a... Read More about Exploring How Component Factors and Their Uncertainty Affect Judgements of Risk in Cyber-Security.

Healing runes (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jesch, J., & Lee, C. (2017, August). Healing runes. Presented at 18th Viking Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark

Invariance and identifiability issues for word embeddings (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Carrington, R., Bharath, K., & Preston, S. (2019, December). Invariance and identifiability issues for word embeddings. Presented at NeurIPS 2019, Vancouver, Canada

Word embeddings are commonly obtained as optimisers of a criterion function f of 1 a text corpus, but assessed on word-task performance using a different evaluation 2 function g of the test data. We contend that a possible source of disparity in 3 pe... Read More about Invariance and identifiability issues for word embeddings.