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Investigating the fatigue behaviour of quasi-isotropic pseudo-ductile thin-ply carbon/glass epoxy hybrid composites (2022)
Journal Article

This paper investigates the fatigue behaviour of pseudo-ductile Quasi-Isotropic (QI) interlayer hybrids with un-notched and open-hole configurations. Two different types of QI pseudo-ductile hybrids were evaluated; HighC, with carbon to glass thickne... Read More about Investigating the fatigue behaviour of quasi-isotropic pseudo-ductile thin-ply carbon/glass epoxy hybrid composites.

Structural and spatial minimal requirement efficacy of emergency shelters for different emergencies (2022)
Journal Article

Natural and human-induced disasters have become more frequent in recent years, and this has increased the need for effective, high-quality, quick, easy-to-assemble, and affordable emergency housing solutions. The purpose of this study is to create a... Read More about Structural and spatial minimal requirement efficacy of emergency shelters for different emergencies.

Evaluating different soil amendments as bioremediation strategy for wetland soil contaminated by crude oil (2022)
Journal Article

This study evaluated the efficacy of using Tween 80 surfactant (TW80) and food-waste anaerobic digestate fibre (FWAD) as soil amendments for the remediation of wetlands contaminated by crude oil. A 112-day mesocosms experiment was carried out to simu... Read More about Evaluating different soil amendments as bioremediation strategy for wetland soil contaminated by crude oil.

Computational and experimental investigation of the strain rate sensitivity of small punch testing of the high-entropy alloy CoCrFeMnNi (2022)
Journal Article

The suitability of determining the strain rate sensitivity (SRS) of the CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloy (HEA) by small punch (SP) testing has been assessed at displacement rates ranging from 0.2 to 2 mm∙min−1. The stress was found to increase as the di... Read More about Computational and experimental investigation of the strain rate sensitivity of small punch testing of the high-entropy alloy CoCrFeMnNi.

Integration of origami and deployable concept in volumetric modular units (2022)
Journal Article

Modular building systems (MBS) and Origami are two emerging methods used in current construction practice. Origami is directly associated with the principles of the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, characterised by high morphological possibilit... Read More about Integration of origami and deployable concept in volumetric modular units.

Numerical investigation on fire performance of LSF and steel modular floor panels (2022)
Journal Article

The steel Modular Building Systems (MBSs) that have been influenced by the Light-gauge Steel Frame (LSF) techniques have become a prominent culture in the industry. However, the detrimental behaviour of steel structural components at high temperature... Read More about Numerical investigation on fire performance of LSF and steel modular floor panels.

Usability of an immersive control system for a humanoid robot surrogate (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Social isolation is an issue that effects many people, especially those from ethic minorities, LGBTQIA+ communities, the elderly, those in long-term healthcare, and those living with life-limiting illnesses. It has become increasingly evident during... Read More about Usability of an immersive control system for a humanoid robot surrogate.

Numerical investigation of aeroelasticity of wind turbines using a nonlinear frequency domain solution method (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An extensive numerical investigation of the aeroelasticity of wind turbines is presented in the present paper. A highly efficient nonlinear frequency domain solution method is employed for this analysis. A complete wind turbine model including a towe... Read More about Numerical investigation of aeroelasticity of wind turbines using a nonlinear frequency domain solution method.

An investigation into the role of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in minimising design changes (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Conceptually, Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been in existence for decades. However, BIM has only recently gained widespread application in the construction industry. There are mandates in place for BIM use in many countries. With this incr... Read More about An investigation into the role of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in minimising design changes.

Development and control of an upper limb rehabilitation robot via ant colony optimization -PID and Fuzzy-PID controllers (2022)
Journal Article

The control of movement rehabilitation robots is necessary for the recovery of physically disabled patients and is an interesting open problem. This paper presents a mathematical model of the upper limb rehabilitation robot using Euler-Lagrange appro... Read More about Development and control of an upper limb rehabilitation robot via ant colony optimization -PID and Fuzzy-PID controllers.

Understanding pedestrian red light violation: Exploration of the impact of traffic engineering and traffic conditions (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The design of the geometry and traffic controls at signalised junctions is often focused on the level of service offered to drivers and rarely takes into consideration the level of service offered to pedestrians. This results in pedestrian adopting i... Read More about Understanding pedestrian red light violation: Exploration of the impact of traffic engineering and traffic conditions.

Embedding soft synergies into soft materials for intrinsic compliant robotic hand grasping (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This manuscript covers the development workflow for the prototype of a novel synergy driven soft robotic hand. By embedding the main human grasping synergy to individual soft silicone fingers, we are able to produce a functional under-actuated hand w... Read More about Embedding soft synergies into soft materials for intrinsic compliant robotic hand grasping.

Ground vibration testing of a flexible wing: A benchmark and case study (2022)
Journal Article

Beam-like flexible structures are of interest in many fields of engineering, particularly aeronautics, where wings are frequently modelled and represented as such. Experimental modal analysis is commonly used to characterise the wing’s dynamical resp... Read More about Ground vibration testing of a flexible wing: A benchmark and case study.

An improvement in data interpretation to estimate residual stresses and mechanical properties using instrumented indentation: A comparison between machine learning and Kriging model (2022)
Journal Article

The instrumented indentation method has been introduced as an effective means of estimating surface residual stresses. This technique has also been widely utilized to measure mechanical properties of the materials. Most studies in recent years have b... Read More about An improvement in data interpretation to estimate residual stresses and mechanical properties using instrumented indentation: A comparison between machine learning and Kriging model.

Assessment of river water quality for irrigation using multiple indices (2022)
Journal Article

The use of a single irrigation water index in the characterization of irrigation water quality may not suffice because of the combined and individual impact of several primary water physiochemical parameters on the overall water quality. Therefore, t... Read More about Assessment of river water quality for irrigation using multiple indices.

Do the collaboration dimensions pay in manufacturing reverse supply chain? An empirical approach (2022)
Book Chapter

The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the enablers and practices of collaboration in relation to reverse supply chain. The research method used in this research was a quantitative method using a survey approach to empirically test if th... Read More about Do the collaboration dimensions pay in manufacturing reverse supply chain? An empirical approach.

Behavioural parameters for CAVs (2022)
Report

This document was created as part of the Levitate project. The purpose of this document is to define the Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) parameter sets for driving logics that are used in the Levitate project. The behaviour parameter sets are... Read More about Behavioural parameters for CAVs.

Safety impact of dedicated lanes for connected and autonomous vehicles - A traffic microsimulation study (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility (CCAM) enabled by Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) has potential tochange future transport systems. The findings from previous studies suggest that these technologies will improve traffic flow, re... Read More about Safety impact of dedicated lanes for connected and autonomous vehicles - A traffic microsimulation study.

Climate change and North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index: Can entropy reveal a non-natural variability trend in NAO index? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Fire performance analyses of modular wall panel designs with loadbearing SHS columns (2022)
Journal Article

Modular Building Systems (MBS) are still in the phase of developing its popularity in the industry, with emerging novel designs. Initially, MBS walls and floors had been highly influenced by the Light-gauge Steel Frame (LSF) designs made of Cold-Form... Read More about Fire performance analyses of modular wall panel designs with loadbearing SHS columns.