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Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Detect & Prevent -presymptomatic AD detection and prevention (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Dong, M., Husain, M., Brooks, D., Wilson, M., Craven, M., Destrebecq, F., …Baden-Kristensen, K. (2019). Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Detect & Prevent -presymptomatic AD detection and prevention. In K. Niedderrer, G. Ludden, R. Cain, & C. Wölfel (Eds.), International MinD Conference 2019 - Designing with and for People with Dementia: Well-being, Empowerment and Happiness (151-154)

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.

Latest developments on the shielding effectiveness measurements of materials and gaskets in reverberation chambers (2019)
Journal Article
Gifuni, A., Gradoni, G., Smartt, C., Greedy, S., Villalón, A. M., Bastianelli, L., …Thomas, D. (2019). Latest developments on the shielding effectiveness measurements of materials and gaskets in reverberation chambers. IET Science Measurement and Technology, 14(4), 435-445. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-smt.2019.0242

In this study, the authors present the latest developments on the measurements for the shielding effectiveness (SE) of gaskets and materials in reverberation chambers (RCs). A variant method, where the insertion loss of the fixture is achieved from t... Read More about Latest developments on the shielding effectiveness measurements of materials and gaskets in reverberation chambers.

Synergistic effects of hybrid conductive nanofillers on the performance of 3D printed highly elastic strain sensors (2019)
Journal Article
Xiang, D., Zhang, X., Harkin-Jones, E., Zhu, W., Zhou, Z., Shen, Y., …Wang, P. (2019). Synergistic effects of hybrid conductive nanofillers on the performance of 3D printed highly elastic strain sensors. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 129, Article 105730. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2019.105730

In this work, thermoplastic polyurethane based conductive polymer composites containing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and synthesized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were used to fabricate highly elastic strain sensors via fused deposition modeling. The print... Read More about Synergistic effects of hybrid conductive nanofillers on the performance of 3D printed highly elastic strain sensors.

Laser Induced Phased Arrays (LIPA) to detect nested features in additively manufactured components (2019)
Journal Article
Pieris, D., Stratoudaki, T., Javadi, Y., Lukacs, P., Catchpole-Smith, S., Wilcox, P. D., …Clark, M. (2020). Laser Induced Phased Arrays (LIPA) to detect nested features in additively manufactured components. Materials and Design, 187, Article 108412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2019.108412

© 2019 The Authors. Additive manufacturing (AM) has the capability to build complex parts with internal features, which have many advantages over conventionally manufactured parts. This makes AM an alternative for advanced manufacturing sectors. AM c... Read More about Laser Induced Phased Arrays (LIPA) to detect nested features in additively manufactured components.

Simulation of the forming process for curved composite sandwich panels (2019)
Journal Article
Chen, S., McGregor, O. L., Endruweit, A., Harper, L. T., & Warrior, N. A. (2020). Simulation of the forming process for curved composite sandwich panels. International Journal of Material Forming, 13, 967–980. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12289-019-01520-4

© 2019, The Author(s). For affordable high-volume manufacture of sandwich panels with complex curvature and varying thickness, fabric skins and a core structure are simultaneously press-formed using a set of matched tools. A finite-element-based proc... Read More about Simulation of the forming process for curved composite sandwich panels.

Defect-assisted high photoconductive UV-VIS gain in perovskite-decorated graphene transistors (2019)
Journal Article
Cottam, N. D., Zhang, C., Turyanska, L., Eaves, L., Kudrynskyi, Z., Vdovin, E. E., …Makarovsky, O. (2020). Defect-assisted high photoconductive UV-VIS gain in perovskite-decorated graphene transistors. ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 2, 147-154. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.9b00664

Recent progress in the synthesis of high stability inorganic perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) has led to their increasing use in broadband photodetectors. These NCs are of particular interest for the UV range as they have the potential to extend the wav... Read More about Defect-assisted high photoconductive UV-VIS gain in perovskite-decorated graphene transistors.

Sensitivity Analysis of Machine Components Thermal Properties Effects on Winding Temperature (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Zhang, F., Gerada, D., Xu, Z., Zhang, H., & Gerada, C. (2019). Sensitivity Analysis of Machine Components Thermal Properties Effects on Winding Temperature. In 2019 22nd International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEMS.2019.8922095

This paper investigates the sensitivity analysis of winding temperature to key parameters in electrical machine thermal design. With a validated 3D thermal model based on an existing 75kW traction machine for an electric vehicle, the methodology of t... Read More about Sensitivity Analysis of Machine Components Thermal Properties Effects on Winding Temperature.

Partial safety factors for prestressed concrete girders strengthened with CFRP laminates (2019)
Journal Article
Dias-da-Costa, D., Neves, L. A. C., Gomes, S., Graça-e-Costa, R., Hadigheh, S. A., & Fernandes, P. (2020). Partial safety factors for prestressed concrete girders strengthened with CFRP laminates. Journal of Composites for Construction, 24(1), Article 04019060. https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29CC.1943-5614.0000993

This paper provides a framework for the calibration of partial safety factors in prestressed concrete (PC) girders strengthened in flexure with carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminates. A hybrid approach was proposed to take advantage of comp... Read More about Partial safety factors for prestressed concrete girders strengthened with CFRP laminates.

Investigating the impact of copper leaching on combustion characteristics and particulate emissions in HPCR diesel engines (2019)
Journal Article
La Rocca, A., Ferrante, A., Haffner-Staton, E., Cairns, A., Weilhard, A., Sans, V., …Laforgia, D. (2020). Investigating the impact of copper leaching on combustion characteristics and particulate emissions in HPCR diesel engines. Fuel, 263, Article 116719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2019.116719

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Copper leaching in diesel fuel and its impact on combustion and emission characteristics of a Direct Injection High Pressure Common Rail (DI HPCR) diesel engine was investigated. This work was performed using a single cylinder Ric... Read More about Investigating the impact of copper leaching on combustion characteristics and particulate emissions in HPCR diesel engines.

SiC Nanowire Sponges as Electropressure Sensors (2019)
Journal Article
Chen, Y., Ola, O., Chen, H., Wang, N., Xia, Y., & Zhu, Y. (2019). SiC Nanowire Sponges as Electropressure Sensors. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2(12), 7540-7548. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.9b01590

Lightweight, flexible, and highly porous ceramics are very attractive to engineering applications due to their good inertness, stability, and excellent mechanical properties. We here report such SiC nanowire (SiCNW) sponges and demonstrate their mult... Read More about SiC Nanowire Sponges as Electropressure Sensors.

Effects of rotation angle and metal foam on natural convection of nanofluids in a cavity under an adjustable magnetic field (2019)
Journal Article
Qi, C., Tang, J., Ding, Z., Yan, Y., Guo, L., & Ma, Y. (2019). Effects of rotation angle and metal foam on natural convection of nanofluids in a cavity under an adjustable magnetic field. International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icheatmasstransfer.2019.104349

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd To investigate the natural convection heat transfer of Fe3O4-water nanofluids in a rectangular cavity under an adjustable magnetic field, two experimental systems are established. Meanwhile, several factors, such as nanoparticle m... Read More about Effects of rotation angle and metal foam on natural convection of nanofluids in a cavity under an adjustable magnetic field.

Clinical Scene Segmentation with Tiny Datasets (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Smith, T. J., Sharkey, D., Crowe, J., & Valstar, M. (2019). Clinical Scene Segmentation with Tiny Datasets. In 2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW) (1637-1645). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCVW.2019.00203

Many clinical procedures could benefit from automatic scene segmentation and subsequent action recognition. Using Convolutional Neural Networks to semantically segment meaningful parts of an image or video is still an unsolved problem. This becomes e... Read More about Clinical Scene Segmentation with Tiny Datasets.

Surrogate Thermal Model for Power Electronic Modules using Artificial Neural Network (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Xu, Z., Gao, Y., Wang, X., Tao, X., & Xu, Q. (2019). Surrogate Thermal Model for Power Electronic Modules using Artificial Neural Network. In IECON 2019 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2019.8927494

Virtual prototyping of power electronic modules aims to allow rapid evaluation of potential designs without building and testing physical prototypes. Among the interests in thermal models of the virtual modules, process of compact thermal models need... Read More about Surrogate Thermal Model for Power Electronic Modules using Artificial Neural Network.

An Intelligent Toolkit for Benchmarking Data-Driven Aerospace Prognostics (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Rengasamy, D., Mase, J. M., Rothwell, B., & Figueredo, G. P. (2019). An Intelligent Toolkit for Benchmarking Data-Driven Aerospace Prognostics. In 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC) (4210-4215). https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2019.8917115

© 2019 IEEE. Machine Learning (ML) has been largely employed to sensor data for predicting the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of aircraft components with promising results. A review of the literature, however, has revealed a lack of consensus regarding... Read More about An Intelligent Toolkit for Benchmarking Data-Driven Aerospace Prognostics.

Interdependence of slurry erosion wear performance and residual stress in WC-12wt%Co and WC-10wt%VC-12wt%Co HVOF coatings (2019)
Journal Article
Venter, A. M., Luzin, V., Marais, D., Sacks, N., Ogunmuyiwa, E. N., & Shipway, P. H. (2020). Interdependence of slurry erosion wear performance and residual stress in WC-12wt%Co and WC-10wt%VC-12wt%Co HVOF coatings. International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials, 87, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrmhm.2019.105101

© 2019 High-velocity-oxygen-fuel deposited WC-12wt%Co and WC-10wt%VC-12wt%Co hardmetal coatings are well anchored to the mild steel substrates, giving good mechanical integrity, as well as low porosity. The mechanical integrity has been investigated... Read More about Interdependence of slurry erosion wear performance and residual stress in WC-12wt%Co and WC-10wt%VC-12wt%Co HVOF coatings.

Ventilation performance of single zone occupied space in ancient Myanmar multistage roof buildings (2019)
Journal Article
Zune, M., Pantua, C., Rodrigues, L., & Gillott, M. (2019). Ventilation performance of single zone occupied space in ancient Myanmar multistage roof buildings. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 609(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/609/3/032011

© 2019 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. Roof ventilation gives passive cooling effect in removing hot air from tropical climate buildings. However, little is known about the impacts of building parameters on the passive cooling effect i... Read More about Ventilation performance of single zone occupied space in ancient Myanmar multistage roof buildings.

Refined assessment and comparison of airtightness measurement of an indoor chamber using the blower door and Pulse methods (2019)
Conference Proceeding
ZHENG, X., Smith, L., Moring, A., & Wood, C. (2019). Refined assessment and comparison of airtightness measurement of an indoor chamber using the blower door and Pulse methods. In The Proceedings of the 40th AIVC - 8th TightVent - 6th venticool Conference: "From energy crisis to sustainable indoor climate - 40 years of AIVC"

Previous studies have compared the airtightness measurement of test enclosures utilising both the novel Pulse technique and the conventional blower door method. Discrepancies between results of the two test methods were observed and it was concluded... Read More about Refined assessment and comparison of airtightness measurement of an indoor chamber using the blower door and Pulse methods.

Impact of Serum Source on Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Osteogenic Differentiation in Culture (2019)
Journal Article
Popov, A., Scotchford, C., Grant, D., & Sottile, V. (2019). Impact of Serum Source on Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Osteogenic Differentiation in Culture. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 20(20), https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20205051

Human mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) show promise for musculoskeletal repair applications. Animal-derived serum is extensively used for MSC culture as a source of nutrients, extracellular matrix proteins and growth factors. However, the routine use of... Read More about Impact of Serum Source on Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Osteogenic Differentiation in Culture.