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The role of microstructural development in the hydrothermal corrosion of cast and HIPed Stellite 6 analogues in simulated PWR conditions (2019)
Journal Article
Karimi, G., Carrington, M., Thomas, J., Shipway, P., Stewart, D., & Hussain, T. (2019). The role of microstructural development in the hydrothermal corrosion of cast and HIPed Stellite 6 analogues in simulated PWR conditions. Corrosion Science, 159, Article 108141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.corsci.2019.108141

The corrosion behaviour of cast and HIPed Stellite 6 analogue materials in PWR-simulating conditions was investigated. The cast alloy exhibited localised corrosion at the boundary between the matrix and the M7C3 carbides, with this being attributed t... Read More about The role of microstructural development in the hydrothermal corrosion of cast and HIPed Stellite 6 analogues in simulated PWR conditions.

Phase-Field Material Point Method for dynamic brittle fracture with isotropic and anisotropic surface energy (2019)
Journal Article
Kakouris, E. G., & Triantafyllou, S. P. (2019). Phase-Field Material Point Method for dynamic brittle fracture with isotropic and anisotropic surface energy. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 357, Article 112503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2019.06.014

A novel phase field material point method is introduced for robust simulation of dynamic fracture in elastic media considering the most general case of anisotropic surface energy. Anisotropy is explicitly introduced through a properly defined crack d... Read More about Phase-Field Material Point Method for dynamic brittle fracture with isotropic and anisotropic surface energy.

Moisture susceptibility of hydrated lime modified mastics using adhesion test methods and surface free energy techniques (2019)
Journal Article
Zaidi, S. B. A., Airey, G. D., Grenfell, J., Alfaqawi, R. M., Ahmed, I., Ahmad, N., & Haynes, M. (2019). Moisture susceptibility of hydrated lime modified mastics using adhesion test methods and surface free energy techniques. International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10298436.2019.1648811

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Moisture damage is one of the major factors that has been reported to affect the performance of asphalt pavements which depends mainly on the bond strength between bitumen, aggre... Read More about Moisture susceptibility of hydrated lime modified mastics using adhesion test methods and surface free energy techniques.

Dynamic column loss analysis of reinforced concrete flat slabs (2019)
Journal Article
Russell, J., Owen, J., & Hajirasouliha, I. (2019). Dynamic column loss analysis of reinforced concrete flat slabs. Engineering Structures, 198, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2019.109453

The sudden column loss idealisation is a useful design tool to assess structures for progressive collapse. As such an event is a dynamic problem, suitable account must be taken of these effects. This can either be achieved by a full dynamic analysis... Read More about Dynamic column loss analysis of reinforced concrete flat slabs.

Developing a sustainable route to environmentally relevant metal-organic frameworks: ultra-rapid synthesis of MFM-300(Al) using microwave heating (2019)
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Thomas-Hillman, I., Stevens, L. A., Lange, M., Möllmer, J., Lewis, W., Dodds, C., …Laybourn, A. (2019). Developing a sustainable route to environmentally relevant metal-organic frameworks: ultra-rapid synthesis of MFM-300(Al) using microwave heating. Green Chemistry, 21(18), 5039-5045. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9gc02375e

NO2, SO2 and CO2 are major air pollutants causing significant environmental and health problems. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), in particular [Al2(OH)2(C16O8H6)](H2O)6 (trivial names: NOTT-300/MFM-300(Al)), have shown great promise for capturing th... Read More about Developing a sustainable route to environmentally relevant metal-organic frameworks: ultra-rapid synthesis of MFM-300(Al) using microwave heating.

Performance Improvement of >10kV SiC IGBTs with Retrograde p-Well (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Tiwari, A. K., Antoniou, M., Lophitis, N., Perkins, S., Trajkovic, T., Trajkovic, T., & Udrea, F. (2019). Performance Improvement of >10kV SiC IGBTs with Retrograde p-Well. In P. M. Gammon, V. A. Shah, R. A. McMahon, M. R. Jennings, O. Vavasour, P. A. Mawby, & F. Padfield (Eds.), Proceedings of 12th European Conference on Silicon Carbide and Related Materials (ECSCRM 2018) (639-642). https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.963.639

A p-well consisting of a retrograde doping profile is investigated for performance improvement of >10kV SiC IGBTs. The retrograde p-well, which can be realized using low-energy shallow implants, effectively addresses the punch-through, a common issue... Read More about Performance Improvement of >10kV SiC IGBTs with Retrograde p-Well.

An adaptive scaled network for public transport route optimisation (2019)
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Heyken Soares, P., Mumford, C. L., Amponsah, K., & Mao, Y. (2019). An adaptive scaled network for public transport route optimisation. Public Transport, 11(2), 379-412. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12469-019-00208-x

We introduce an adaptive network for public transport route optimisation by scaling down the available street network to a level where optimisation methods such as genetic algorithms can be applied. Our scaling is adapted to preserve the characterist... Read More about An adaptive scaled network for public transport route optimisation.

Determining the continuous thermo-optic coefficients of chalcogenide glass thin films in the MIR region using FTIR transmission spectra (2019)
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Fang, Y., Furniss, D., Jayasuriya, D., Parnell, H., Tang, Z., Seddon, A. B., & Benson, T. M. (2019). Determining the continuous thermo-optic coefficients of chalcogenide glass thin films in the MIR region using FTIR transmission spectra. Optics Express, 27(16), 22275-22288. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.27.022275

A new method (FTIR continuous dn / dT method, n is refractive index and T temperature) for measuring the continuous thermo-optic coefficients of thin transparent films in the mid-infrared (MIR) spectral region is introduced. The technique is based on... Read More about Determining the continuous thermo-optic coefficients of chalcogenide glass thin films in the MIR region using FTIR transmission spectra.

Production and characterisation of novel phosphate glass fibre yarns, textiles, and textile composites for biomedical applications (2019)
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Wang, Y., Liu, X., Zhu, C., Parsons, A., Liu, J., Huang, S., …Sharmin, N. (2019). Production and characterisation of novel phosphate glass fibre yarns, textiles, and textile composites for biomedical applications. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 99, 47-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2019.07.017

This work presents manufacturing, processing and characterisation of the phosphate glass fibre (PGF) products for biomedical applications, including multifilament PGF strands, yarns and textiles, and PGF textile composites. The multifilament producti... Read More about Production and characterisation of novel phosphate glass fibre yarns, textiles, and textile composites for biomedical applications.

Physicochemical and Electrochemical Properties of 1,1,2,2-Tetrafluoroethyl-2,2,3,3-Tetrafluoropropyl Ether as a Co-Solvent for High-Voltage Lithium-Ion Electrolytes (2019)
Journal Article
Xia, L., Lee, S., Jiang, Y., Li, S., Liu, Z., Yu, L., …Chen, G. Z. (2019). Physicochemical and Electrochemical Properties of 1,1,2,2-Tetrafluoroethyl-2,2,3,3-Tetrafluoropropyl Ether as a Co-Solvent for High-Voltage Lithium-Ion Electrolytes. ChemElectroChem, 6(14), 3747-3755. https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.201900729

© 2019 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Although high-voltage positive electrode materials for high energy density lithium-ion batteries have gained a great attention, the lack of compatible electrolytes with sufficiently high oxidative s... Read More about Physicochemical and Electrochemical Properties of 1,1,2,2-Tetrafluoroethyl-2,2,3,3-Tetrafluoropropyl Ether as a Co-Solvent for High-Voltage Lithium-Ion Electrolytes.

Binder and Mixture Fatigue Performance of Plant-Produced Road Surface Course Asphalt Mixtures with High Contents of Reclaimed Asphalt (2019)
Journal Article
Subhy, A., Pires, G., Carrión, A., Lo Presti, D., & Airey, G. (2019). Binder and Mixture Fatigue Performance of Plant-Produced Road Surface Course Asphalt Mixtures with High Contents of Reclaimed Asphalt. Sustainability, 11(13), https://doi.org/10.3390/su11133752

© 2019 by the authors. The aged properties of Reclaimed Asphalt (RA) binders are one of the main factors working against their utilisation in high-RA content ( > 30%) mixes for surface courses. Fatigue cracking is the main distress of surface courses... Read More about Binder and Mixture Fatigue Performance of Plant-Produced Road Surface Course Asphalt Mixtures with High Contents of Reclaimed Asphalt.

High Throughput Fabrication of Microdroplets Using Needle Based Microfluidic System (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Lian, Z., Ren, Y., Koh, K. S., He, J., Chen, G. Z., & Yang, X. (2019). High Throughput Fabrication of Microdroplets Using Needle Based Microfluidic System. In ASME 2019 6th International Conference on Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer. https://doi.org/10.1115/MNHMT2019-4263

Copyright © 2019 ASME Needle-based microfluidic system that comprised of needle-based microfluidic devices (NBMD) in parallel connection was employed to generate polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microdroplets using oil-in-water (O/W) single emulsion templ... Read More about High Throughput Fabrication of Microdroplets Using Needle Based Microfluidic System.

Towards a streamlined stacking sequence optimisation methodology for blended composite aircraft structures (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Ntourmas, G., Özcan, E., Chronopoulos, D., Glock, F., & Daoud, F. (2019). Towards a streamlined stacking sequence optimisation methodology for blended composite aircraft structures. In Proceedings of 8th European Conference for Aeronautics and Aerospace Sciences (EUCASS)

In order to fully exploit the benefits provided by using composite materials in large scale aerospace structures, more efficient detailed design optimisation techniques need to be developed. In the present work, the optimisation procedure is split up... Read More about Towards a streamlined stacking sequence optimisation methodology for blended composite aircraft structures.

New Reduced Asymmetric Basic Module Multilevel Converters for Cascaded Configurations (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Hosseinzadeh, M. A., Sarbanzadeh, M., Rivera, M., & Wheeler, P. (2019). New Reduced Asymmetric Basic Module Multilevel Converters for Cascaded Configurations. In Proceedings 2019 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (2653-2658). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIE.2019.8781382

Requiring a high number of power switches and their rating are the main limitations of multilevel converters in medium-voltage applications. The main objective of this paper is, introduce a reduced asymmetric basic module (RABM) for cascaded multilev... Read More about New Reduced Asymmetric Basic Module Multilevel Converters for Cascaded Configurations.

Uncertainty quantification in ultrasonic guided-waves based damage localization (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Cantero-Chinchilla, S., Chiachío, J., Chiachío, M., Chronopoulos, D., Jones, A., Essa, Y., & Martín De La Escalera, F. (2019). Uncertainty quantification in ultrasonic guided-waves based damage localization.

Bayesian methods for inverse problems offer higher robustness to noise and uncertainty than deterministic, yet accurate, inference methods. Both types of techniques typically focus on finding optimal model parameters that minimize an objective functi... Read More about Uncertainty quantification in ultrasonic guided-waves based damage localization.

Prediction of Film Thickness of an Aero-Engine Bearing Chamber using Coupled VOF and Thin Film Model (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Singh, K., Sharabi, M., Ambrose, S., Eastwick, C., & Jefferson-Loveday, R. J. (2019). Prediction of Film Thickness of an Aero-Engine Bearing Chamber using Coupled VOF and Thin Film Model. In Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2019 Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition

In the present work, a coupled volume-of-fluid (VOF) model with Eulerian thin-film model (ETFM) approach is used to predict the film thickness in an aero-engine bearing chamber. Numerical studies are conducted for a wide range of shaft speeds with lu... Read More about Prediction of Film Thickness of an Aero-Engine Bearing Chamber using Coupled VOF and Thin Film Model.

Assessment of an Enhanced Thin Film Model to Capture Wetting and Drying Behavior in an Aero-Engine Bearing Chamber (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Singh, K., Sharabi, M., Ambrose, S., Eastwick, C., Jefferson-Loveday, R., Cao, J., & Jacobs, A. (2019). Assessment of an Enhanced Thin Film Model to Capture Wetting and Drying Behavior in an Aero-Engine Bearing Chamber. In Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2019 Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition

In the present work, a wetting and drying model is coupled with Eulerian Thin-Film model (ETFM) to analyze the wetting and drying behavior inside the bearing chamber. In the enhanced model, an additional source term is included to account for the con... Read More about Assessment of an Enhanced Thin Film Model to Capture Wetting and Drying Behavior in an Aero-Engine Bearing Chamber.