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The effect of heat treatment of AlSi10Mg on the energy absorption performance of surface-based structures (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Robinson, M., Han, Q., Gu, H., Soe, S., & Setchi, R. (2021). The effect of heat treatment of AlSi10Mg on the energy absorption performance of surface-based structures. In S. Scholz, R. Howlett, & R. Setchi (Eds.), Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2020. , (395-402). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8131-1_35

Additive Manufacturing of cellular lattice structures offers opportunities to fine-tune the mechanical response by altering geometric variables. It is known that heat treatment cycles provide an effective way of altering mechanical properties while r... Read More about The effect of heat treatment of AlSi10Mg on the energy absorption performance of surface-based structures.

Cost-effective fabrication of bio-inspired nacre-like composite materials with high strength and toughness (2020)
Journal Article
Wan, H., Leung, N., Algharaibeh, S., Sui, T., Liu, Q., Peng, H., & Su, B. (2020). Cost-effective fabrication of bio-inspired nacre-like composite materials with high strength and toughness. Composites Part B: Engineering, 202, 108414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2020.108414

A cost-effective one-step densification process based on bi-directional freeze casting was investigated to produce nacre-like alumina/poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) composites with a unique micro-layered (μL) architecture. This method has the adva... Read More about Cost-effective fabrication of bio-inspired nacre-like composite materials with high strength and toughness.

The mental health effects of pet death during childhood: Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? (2020)
Journal Article
Crawford, K. M., Zhu, Y., Davis, K. A., Ernst, S., Jacobsson, K., Nishimi, K., …Dunn, E. C. (2021). The mental health effects of pet death during childhood: Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 30, 1547–1558. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01594-5

Pet ownership is common. Growing evidence suggests children form deep emotional attachments to their pets. Yet, little is known about children’s emotional reactions to a pet’s death. The goal of this study was to describe the relationship between exp... Read More about The mental health effects of pet death during childhood: Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?.

Evaluation of artificial neural network algorithms for predicting the effect of the urine flow rate on the power performance of microbial fuel cells (2020)
Journal Article
de Ramón-Fernández, A., Salar-García, M. J., Ruiz Fernández, D., Greenman, J., & Ieropoulos, I. A. (2020). Evaluation of artificial neural network algorithms for predicting the effect of the urine flow rate on the power performance of microbial fuel cells. Energy, 213, Article 118806. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2020.118806

© 2020 The Authors Microbial fuel cell (MFC) power performance strongly depends on the biofilm growth, which in turn is affected by the feed flow rate. In this work, an artificial neural network (ANN) approach has been used to simulate the effect of... Read More about Evaluation of artificial neural network algorithms for predicting the effect of the urine flow rate on the power performance of microbial fuel cells.

Flow analysis in right-angled pipes with different geometric shapes and parameters for sludge discharge in slime shield machines measured using a CFD-DEM method (2020)
Journal Article
Chen, L., Liu, K., Yao, Y., Yao, J., Su, Z., & Luo, G. (2020). Flow analysis in right-angled pipes with different geometric shapes and parameters for sludge discharge in slime shield machines measured using a CFD-DEM method. International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, 21(5), 231-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/15502287.2020.1809554

Mud and gravel deposition often occurs in circulation systems of pumps. In this paper, a liquid-solid coupling method combining CFD and DEM is proposed to study two-phase flow behavior of water, The flow characteristics of water-clay mud and the moti... Read More about Flow analysis in right-angled pipes with different geometric shapes and parameters for sludge discharge in slime shield machines measured using a CFD-DEM method.

Fragmentation studies by non-explosive cylinder expansion technique (2020)
Journal Article
Rao, P., Painter, J., Appleby-Thomas, G., Critchley, R., Wood, D., Roberts, A., & Hazael, R. (2020). Fragmentation studies by non-explosive cylinder expansion technique. International Journal of Impact Engineering, 146, Article 103714. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2020.103714

Expansion and fragmentation of metallic cylinders is an important area of study both for designing munitions and mitigation techniques against fragments as well as in the failure of pressurised pipes in industry. Most of the reported studies on fragm... Read More about Fragmentation studies by non-explosive cylinder expansion technique.

Recent advances in robot-assisted echography: Combining perception, control and cognition (2020)
Journal Article
Lu, Z., Li, M., Annamalai, A., & Yang, C. (2020). Recent advances in robot-assisted echography: Combining perception, control and cognition. Cognitive Computation and Systems, 2(3), 85-92. https://doi.org/10.1049/ccs.2020.0015

Echography imaging is an important technique frequently used in medical diagnostics due to low-cost, non-ionising characteristics, and pragmatic convenience. Due to the shortage of skilful technicians and injuries of physicians sustained from diagnos... Read More about Recent advances in robot-assisted echography: Combining perception, control and cognition.

An incremental learning framework to enhance teaching by demonstration based on multimodal sensor fusion (2020)
Journal Article
Li, J., Zhong, J., Yang, J., & Yang, C. (2020). An incremental learning framework to enhance teaching by demonstration based on multimodal sensor fusion. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 14(55), https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2020.00055

Though a robot can reproduce the demonstration trajectory from a human demonstrator by teleoperation, there is a certain error between the reproduced trajectory and the desired trajectory. To minimize this error, we propose a multimodal incremental l... Read More about An incremental learning framework to enhance teaching by demonstration based on multimodal sensor fusion.

An approach to object-level stiffness regulation of hand-arm systems subject to under-actuation constraints (2020)
Journal Article
Ruiz Garate, V., & Ajoudani, A. (2020). An approach to object-level stiffness regulation of hand-arm systems subject to under-actuation constraints. Autonomous Robots, 44(8), 1505-1517. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-020-09942-9

When using a tool with a robotic hand-arm system, the stiffness at the grasped object plays a key role in the interaction with the environment, allowing the successful execution of the task. However, the rapidly increasing use of under-actuated hands... Read More about An approach to object-level stiffness regulation of hand-arm systems subject to under-actuation constraints.

Improving the power performance of urine-fed microbial fuel cells using PEDOT-PSS modified anodes (2020)
Journal Article
Salar-Garcia, M. J., Montilla, F., Quijada, C., Morallon, E., & Ieropoulos, I. (2020). Improving the power performance of urine-fed microbial fuel cells using PEDOT-PSS modified anodes. Applied Energy, 278, Article 115528. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115528

© 2020 The Authors The need for improving the energy harvesting from Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) has boosted the design of new materials in order to increase the power performance of this technology and facilitate its practical application. According... Read More about Improving the power performance of urine-fed microbial fuel cells using PEDOT-PSS modified anodes.