All Outputs (97)

Quantifying the Social Value of the UK Construction Industry (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Since the introduction of the Social Value Act in 2012, a focus on time, cost, and quality is no longer sufficient to guarantee procurement success. However, to only communicate social value achievements as part of tender submissions may be viewed su... Read More about Quantifying the Social Value of the UK Construction Industry.

Authenticity and Negativism. Social Value in UK Construction (2024)
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Social value engagement in UK construction procurement provides contractors with a competitive edge. Arguably this serves to force contractor social value action. Whilst this is seemingly of benefit to the social value agenda and wider societal needs... Read More about Authenticity and Negativism. Social Value in UK Construction.

A Novel Fuzzy Logic Framework for Model Reliability Evaluation in Permeability Prediction Using GPR (2024)
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Permeability is a critical parameter in reservoir engineering and hydrocarbon extraction, yet its prediction remains challenging due to inherent uncertainties in subsurface data. While Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) has proven effective in predict... Read More about A Novel Fuzzy Logic Framework for Model Reliability Evaluation in Permeability Prediction Using GPR.

Model for Predicting Density and Viscosity of CO2 for Enhanced Gas Recovery and Carbon Sequestration in Depleted Gas Reservoir: A Case study of Niger-Delta Formation (2024)
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What demotivates homeowners to retrofit their houses: a systematic review (2024)
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The study identifies the factors that demotivate homeowners from
retrofitting their houses. Retrofit is defined as improving the energy performance, ventilation or reducing carbon emission of a building. According to the statistics, the progress rat... Read More about What demotivates homeowners to retrofit their houses: a systematic review.

Transforming Housing Retrofit: The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence (2024)
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80% of the housing stock by 2050 in the UK has already been built. Currently, the UK housing stock contributes 18% of the total UK emissions. Due to the legal requirement of the UK government to achieve net zero by 2050, the housing stock poses a con... Read More about Transforming Housing Retrofit: The Potential Impact of Artificial Intelligence.

Equilibrium-based Approach To Establish Hinge Locations In Single-span Back-filled Masonry Arch Bridges Under Arbitrary Surcharge (2024)
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The assessment of masonry arches has gained significant importance due to the substantial reliance of transportation infrastructure on historic structures. Over the past few decades, there has been a discernible shift in the focus towards understandi... Read More about Equilibrium-based Approach To Establish Hinge Locations In Single-span Back-filled Masonry Arch Bridges Under Arbitrary Surcharge.

Upcycling of construction materials and products (2024)
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Urbanization and population growth are driving an increase in construction activities, leading to a rise in construction and demolition waste (CDW). The construction industry is responsible for 9 Gtpa of global waste, generated at various stages in t... Read More about Upcycling of construction materials and products.

Comparing the Human Response of Unmanned Aircraft System Noise and Other Transportation Noise (2024)
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An experiment was designed to investigate the perception of noise from different Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) alongside three other vehicle types, including road traffic, conven tional aircraft, and helicopters. The aim of this experiment was to un... Read More about Comparing the Human Response of Unmanned Aircraft System Noise and Other Transportation Noise.

Flight Performance and Acoustics of Asymmetric Propellers with Uneven Blade Spacing (2024)
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Anexperimental campaign is conducted to characterise the acoustics and flight performance of asymmetric propellers with uneven blade spacing by taking field measurements of an unmanned aerial system in hover. Further, the study compares the acoustics... Read More about Flight Performance and Acoustics of Asymmetric Propellers with Uneven Blade Spacing.

Soundwalking in Salford: A Soundscape Approach to Drone Noise Assessment (2024)
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This paper introduces the method of controlled addition of drone sound sources to an existing acoustic scene in order to assess their impact using the soundwalking technique. A set of soundwalks were conducted at The Meadow, Salford to assess the per... Read More about Soundwalking in Salford: A Soundscape Approach to Drone Noise Assessment.

Towards a Taxonomy for the Assessment of the Unmanned Aerial Systems Noise Emissions (2024)
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Despite the many advantages of unconventional aerial systems, mainly for logistics and transportation applications, noise has emerged as one of the main public acceptance factors that can delay the start of commercial operations of Advanced Air Mobil... Read More about Towards a Taxonomy for the Assessment of the Unmanned Aerial Systems Noise Emissions.

How do flight operations and ambient acoustic environments influence noticeability and noise annoyance associated with unmanned aircraft systems? (2024)
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In advance of anticipated wider deployments of advanced air mobility technology, the potential effects of introducing new sound sources such as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS, aka ‘drones’) on communities are largely unknown. To support the developme... Read More about How do flight operations and ambient acoustic environments influence noticeability and noise annoyance associated with unmanned aircraft systems?.

An Optimized Field Programmable Gate Array Based Noise Reduction Techniques for Fetal Electrocardiogram Signal Processing (2024)
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Analyzing fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) signals is essential for identifying fetal cardiac disorders early on, although noise interference is still a problem. Conventional signal processing techniques can produce conflicting findings. With an emphas... Read More about An Optimized Field Programmable Gate Array Based Noise Reduction Techniques for Fetal Electrocardiogram Signal Processing.

An acoustic and psychoacoustic assessment on the noise control of propellers in distributed propulsion configuration using phase-synchronisation Session: Experimental Techniques (2024)
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Distributed electric propulsion is widely recoginised as a promising propulsion configuration for next-generation aerial vehicles, including short-to-medium-haul passenger aircraft and urban air mobility vehicles. The presence of multiple propulsors... Read More about An acoustic and psychoacoustic assessment on the noise control of propellers in distributed propulsion configuration using phase-synchronisation Session: Experimental Techniques.

Control of Independently Rotating Wheels with MR Dampers (2024)
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This paper studies the control of independently rotating wheels (IRWs) in railway vehicles with the use of magnetorheological dampers. The development of a semi-active strategy for steering/guidance control is presented. A conventional bogie vehicle... Read More about Control of Independently Rotating Wheels with MR Dampers.

A Review of the Engagement of Stakeholders in UK Urban Heritage Regeneration Projects (2024)
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Implementation of Adaptive Re-use Public Sector Urban Heritage Regeneration Projects (2024)
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Improvement of OLSRv2 massage format and message interval to reduce routing overhead in a D2D communication network (2024)
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Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) is one of the most famous and widely used proactive routing protocols in Device-to-Device (D2D) communication network. The traditional OLSR and OLSRv2 experience significantly higher routing overhead due t... Read More about Improvement of OLSRv2 massage format and message interval to reduce routing overhead in a D2D communication network.

Uncertainty-Aware Reservoir Permeability Prediction using Gaussian Processes Regression and NMR Measurements (2024)
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This study investigates the challenges of permeability prediction in reservoir engineering, focusing on addressing uncertainties inherent in the data and modelling process, and leveraging Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) log data from the Northern Se... Read More about Uncertainty-Aware Reservoir Permeability Prediction using Gaussian Processes Regression and NMR Measurements.