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An ICT-enhanced methodology for the characterization of vernacular built heritage at a regional scale (2024)
Journal Article

The characterization of vernacular buildings is crucial for understanding the historical, social, and cultural significance of a community. These buildings reflect a collective memory and result from a long adaptation process to the local environment... Read More about An ICT-enhanced methodology for the characterization of vernacular built heritage at a regional scale.

U-model-based dynamic inversion control for quadrotor UAV systems (2024)
Book Chapter

A Model-Independent Design approach (U-Model) is studied with the example of Quadrotor UAV. A Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) dynamic model of a quadrotor UAV is derived, and U-Model-based Dynamic Inverse control approach is used to design a co... Read More about U-model-based dynamic inversion control for quadrotor UAV systems.

Multibody simulations of distributed flight arrays for Industry 4.0 applications (2024)
Book Chapter

Distributed Flight Arrays (DFAs) are an experimental type of aerial, multi-rotor, vehicle capable of land-based navigation and cooperative aerial flight involving physically docking with N-number of other agents forming a larger structure with some d... Read More about Multibody simulations of distributed flight arrays for Industry 4.0 applications.

Factory digital twinning with model driven engineering methodology (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the contemporary landscape of industrial manufacturing, the concept of a digital twin has emerged as a tool bridging the gap between physical systems and their virtual counterparts. The main aim of this project was to delve into the concept, givin... Read More about Factory digital twinning with model driven engineering methodology.

An iterative numerical approach to evaluate the variable friction coefficient of steel AMS5643 using ring compression tests (2023)
Journal Article

The coefficient of friction is an important variable that must be defined to allow the accurate prediction of the forming geometry and stresses involved in metal forming processes. Literature reports have shown that the coefficient of friction does n... Read More about An iterative numerical approach to evaluate the variable friction coefficient of steel AMS5643 using ring compression tests.

Current advances on the assessment and mitigation of fire risk in buildings and urban areas - First Edition (2023)
Journal Article

Numerical analysis of the performance of a composite marine propeller blade subject to structural blade oscillations (2023)
Journal Article

High-fidelity Large Eddy Simulations (LES) are conducted over the oscillating marine propeller blades to investigate the effects of blade oscillation on the unsteady flow behaviour as well as to analyse the performance of the composite marine propell... Read More about Numerical analysis of the performance of a composite marine propeller blade subject to structural blade oscillations.

A methodology to support robotic polishing of moulds integrated with CAD/CAM (2023)
Journal Article

Typically, the final process in the manufacture of molds is mechanical polishing, a process predominantly conducted manually. This is an important process step to improve the surface quality of the mold without affecting the geometry of the cavity. C... Read More about A methodology to support robotic polishing of moulds integrated with CAD/CAM.

Adaptive sliding mode attitude control of 2-degrees-of-freedom helicopter system with actuator saturation and disturbances (2023)
Journal Article

The modelling uncertainties, external disturbance and actuator saturation issues will degrade the performance and even the safety of flight. To improve control performance, this study proposes an adaptive U-model based double sliding control (UDSMC)... Read More about Adaptive sliding mode attitude control of 2-degrees-of-freedom helicopter system with actuator saturation and disturbances.

Assessing the spatiotemporal impact of users’ exposure and vulnerability to flood risk in urban built environments (2023)
Journal Article

Flood risk in an urban built environment depends on the combination of the hazard, the vulnerability of the built environment itself and its infrastructure (referred to as physical vulnerability), and the exposure and vulnerability... Read More about Assessing the spatiotemporal impact of users’ exposure and vulnerability to flood risk in urban built environments.

Non-contact characterisation of piezoelectric materials (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Piezoelectric materials play a key role in various technological applications owing to their unique elastic-piezoelectric-dielectric (EPD) properties, often represented in matrix form. Traditional methods for obtaining these properties, as defined by... Read More about Non-contact characterisation of piezoelectric materials.

Model-free robust decentralised control of multi-input-multi-output nonlinear interconnected dynamic systems (2023)
Journal Article

This study presents a generalised framework for model-free robust decentralised control (MFRDC) of interconnected MIMO dynamic systems, with the goal of significantly reducing complexity in model-based design. A model-free robust sliding mode control... Read More about Model-free robust decentralised control of multi-input-multi-output nonlinear interconnected dynamic systems.

Quantifying the microstructural and biomechanical changes in the porcine ventricles during growth and remodelling (2023)
Journal Article

Cardiac tissue growth and remodelling (G & R) occur in response to the changing physiological demands of the heart after birth. The early shift to pulmonary circulation produces an immediate increase in ventricular workload, causing microstructural a... Read More about Quantifying the microstructural and biomechanical changes in the porcine ventricles during growth and remodelling.

The design of specific flat mechanical test specimen and grips for use in a cryogenic selfreacting environmental chamber (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The presentation was aimed at proposing a novel design of specific flat mechanical test specimen and grips for use in a cryogenic selfreacting environmental chamber. The development is motivated by Airbus to innovate environmentally friendly aircraf... Read More about The design of specific flat mechanical test specimen and grips for use in a cryogenic selfreacting environmental chamber.

Wake and power prediction of horizontal-axis wind farm under yaw-controlled conditions with machine learning (2023)
Journal Article

The main objective of this study is to employ the Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) machine learning algorithm to predict the power, wake, and turbulent characteristics of horizontal-axis wind farms under yaw-controlled conditions. For this purpose... Read More about Wake and power prediction of horizontal-axis wind farm under yaw-controlled conditions with machine learning.

A simplified approach to estimate seismic vulnerability and damage scenarios including site effects. Application to the historical centre of Horta, Azores, Portugal (2023)
Journal Article

The research attempts to provide a method for evaluating the susceptibility of heritage buildings and potential damage considering local site effects, using as a case study an urban sector situated in Horta, Faial, Azores, Portugal. The physical vuln... Read More about A simplified approach to estimate seismic vulnerability and damage scenarios including site effects. Application to the historical centre of Horta, Azores, Portugal.

Investigation of the strain rate sensitivity of CoCrFeMnNiTix(x = 0, 0.3) high-entropy alloys using the shear punch test (2023)
Journal Article

High entropy alloys (HEAs) are a novel class of metallic materials that exhibit a unique blend of properties due to their chemical composition and atomic arrangement. This research aims to investigate the strain rate sensitivity (SRS) of two HEA CoCr... Read More about Investigation of the strain rate sensitivity of CoCrFeMnNiTix(x = 0, 0.3) high-entropy alloys using the shear punch test.

Optimisation of an elastomeric pre-buckled honeycomb helmet liner for advanced impact mitigation (2023)
Journal Article

Advances in computational modelling now offer an efficient route to developing novel helmet liners that could exceed contemporary materials’ performance. Furthermore, the rise of accessible additive manufacturing presents a viable route to achieving... Read More about Optimisation of an elastomeric pre-buckled honeycomb helmet liner for advanced impact mitigation.

Performance analysis of frictional inerter-based vibration isolators (2023)
Journal Article

Purpose: This study aims to gain an in-depth understanding of the effect of the inherent dry friction of inerter devices on the performance of non-linear frictional inerter-based vibration isolation system (NFI-VIS). Methods: The power flow analysis... Read More about Performance analysis of frictional inerter-based vibration isolators.

Event-triggered tracking control for switched nonlinear systems (2023)
Journal Article

In this paper, we study the output tracking control problem based on the event-triggered mechanism for cascade switched nonlinear systems. Firstly, an integral controller based on event-triggered conditions is designed, and the output tracking error... Read More about Event-triggered tracking control for switched nonlinear systems.