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A practitioner’s introduction to LCA databases: EPiC and ICE (2024)
Digital Artefact

This short comparative review of two construction material databases explains their potential use for assessing embodied carbon to designers and practitioners not yet expert in the field. It introduces and examines the Australian Environmental Perfor... Read More about A practitioner’s introduction to LCA databases: EPiC and ICE.

Evaluation and future perspectives on "Anthro-Hand" (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Inspired by nature's evolutionary marvels, this study explores the development of a novel bio-mimetic prosthetic hand, emphasizing a soft robotic approach. Through a meticulous review of various prosthetic designs, focusing on actuation and construct... Read More about Evaluation and future perspectives on "Anthro-Hand".

I can do anything with my AV data (but I won't do that): Public attitudes towards data recorders in self-driving cars (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This article reports results from a public survey designed to evaluate public attitudes and perceptions towards data recorders in Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). Our study indicated that road users are willing to make compromises about their privacy in an... Read More about I can do anything with my AV data (but I won't do that): Public attitudes towards data recorders in self-driving cars.

What's missing from this picture? Ethical, legal, and practical challenges for autonomous-vehicle data-recorders (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Many sources propose that Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) could offer societal benefits in the future. Although such claims frequently relate to safety, AVs will undoubtedly also create new types of incidents and accidents. Data related to failure or accid... Read More about What's missing from this picture? Ethical, legal, and practical challenges for autonomous-vehicle data-recorders.

Video gaming and sleep in adults: A systematic review (2024)
Journal Article

Video games (VGs) are one of the most common forms of entertainment and their diffusion is constantly increasing. Although largely studied in the framework of their relationship with mental and physical health, the relationship of VGs with sleep are... Read More about Video gaming and sleep in adults: A systematic review.

Can a student-led Repair Café develop a sense of belonging and provide hands-on experiences for engineering students? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Repair Cafés offer an effective challenge to the “throwaway society” providing a space where communities can work together to repair. Meanwhile, it has been shown that for engineering students from under-represented backgrounds, hands-on environments... Read More about Can a student-led Repair Café develop a sense of belonging and provide hands-on experiences for engineering students?.

Embedding sustainability in built environment curricula: Opportunities and challenges (2024)
Book Chapter

In the face of climate emergency, the built environment professional is required to engage meaningfully with a range of emotive topics across pollution, tackling inequalities, resource scarcity, acute weather events, ecological damage and financial c... Read More about Embedding sustainability in built environment curricula: Opportunities and challenges.

Exploring inner-outer sustainability competencies with young people: The TAKE ACTION report (2024)
Report

This report explores green career aspirations and how they relate to competency development and learning approaches. 669 young people were engaged during this project, exposed to various engagement approaches. The report finds that empowering approac... Read More about Exploring inner-outer sustainability competencies with young people: The TAKE ACTION report.

Flood susceptibility assessment for improving the resilience capacity of railway infrastructure networks (2024)
Journal Article

Floods often cause significant damage to transportation infrastructure such as roads, railways, and bridges. This study identifies several topographic, environmental, and hydrological factors (slope, elevation, rainfall, land use and cover, distance... Read More about Flood susceptibility assessment for improving the resilience capacity of railway infrastructure networks.

U-control – a universal platform for control system design with inversion/cancellation of nonlinearity, dynamic and coupling through model-based to model-free procedures (2024)
Journal Article

This paper presents the key components in the Universal(U)-control framework for designing dynamic control systems from model-based to model-free paradigms, in which the pillars include U-control system configuration, open-loop dynamic inversion, clo... Read More about U-control – a universal platform for control system design with inversion/cancellation of nonlinearity, dynamic and coupling through model-based to model-free procedures.

The design and validation of a decision support system (DSS) for the preliminary risk assessment of brownfield sites (PRABS) (2024)
Journal Article

Purpose
This study aims to design and validate a decision support system (DSS), named preliminary risk assessment of brownfield sites (PRABS). It is intended that the proposed DSS will aid the identification of potential hazards and, in doing so, hi... Read More about The design and validation of a decision support system (DSS) for the preliminary risk assessment of brownfield sites (PRABS).

Technology transfer and absorptive capacity: Case study of the PEEPOWER technology (2024)
Thesis

A technology is more than the hardware or system used to deliver a service. In its broad sense, it also encompasses skills, knowledge and expertise on how the technology works and how to manufacture and operate it. Literature on technology transfer h... Read More about Technology transfer and absorptive capacity: Case study of the PEEPOWER technology.

Socially assistive walker for daily living assistance in older adults (2024)
Journal Article

Introduction: This paper addresses the growing healthcare needs of an ageing population and the lack of advanced technologies with social capabilities that are cost effective, user friendly, and readily adopted. In response to this motivation, a soci... Read More about Socially assistive walker for daily living assistance in older adults.

Properties of textured piezoceramics measured with miniature samples (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background, Motivation and Objective: Piezoelectric materials carry intrinsic elastic-piezoelectric-dielectric (EPD) properties, typically represented in matrix form, which make them crucial for various technological fields. They are usually employed... Read More about Properties of textured piezoceramics measured with miniature samples.

Drag reduction of lift-type vertical axis wind turbine with slit modified gurney flap (2024)
Journal Article

This study examines aerodynamic performance enhancement of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) blades with Gurney flap (GF) modified by slits. A quasi-3D computational fluid dynamics solution based on Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes model is employed t... Read More about Drag reduction of lift-type vertical axis wind turbine with slit modified gurney flap.

SPGNet: A shape-prior guided network for medical image segmentation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Given the intricacy and variability of anatomical structures in medical images, some methods employ shape priors to constrain segmentation. However, limited by the representational capability of these priors, existing approaches often struggle to cap... Read More about SPGNet: A shape-prior guided network for medical image segmentation.

Development of a polymeric optical fiber sensor for stress estimation: A comparative analysis between physiological sensors (2024)
Journal Article

The global prevalence of stress and its far-reaching impact on well-being has spurred the pursuit of innovative solutions for physiological and stress monitoring. Existing methods, whereas informative, often lack cost-efficiency, daily usefulness, re... Read More about Development of a polymeric optical fiber sensor for stress estimation: A comparative analysis between physiological sensors.

Development of a learner model tool for predicting strength and embodied carbon for lightweight concrete production (2024)
Journal Article

The demand for sustainable concrete in meeting the net zero carbon target places a burden in optimizing concrete response to structural strength that satisfy acceptable embodied carbon. In most cases, a low carbon concrete is deficient in structural... Read More about Development of a learner model tool for predicting strength and embodied carbon for lightweight concrete production.

A review on the modelling of aligned discontinuous fibre composites (2024)
Journal Article

Aligned discontinuous fibre-reinforced composites are becoming more popular because they have the potential to offer stiffness and strength comparable to their continuous counterparts along with better manufacturability. However, the modelling of hig... Read More about A review on the modelling of aligned discontinuous fibre composites.

Aerodynamic performance optimisation of an aerofoil with combined leading-edge and trailing-edge morphing transformations (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The long-term strategy for aviation sustainability poses the need for more efficient aerodynamic designs. Many researchers have investigated innovative solutions offered by biologically inspired morphing wing concepts, with the leading- or trailing-e... Read More about Aerodynamic performance optimisation of an aerofoil with combined leading-edge and trailing-edge morphing transformations.