All Outputs (111)

An evaluation of the factors for a successful alliance in the United Kingdom (UK) construction industry (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Burton, M., & Gameson, R. (2017, September). An evaluation of the factors for a successful alliance in the United Kingdom (UK) construction industry. Presented at International Research Conference 2017: Shaping Tomorrow's Built Environment, University of Salford

Numerous authors have advocated that the construction industry should have advanced and moved away from being an industry beset by ‘late delivery, cost overruns and commercial friction’. As the industry examines possible solutions, there has been co... Read More about An evaluation of the factors for a successful alliance in the United Kingdom (UK) construction industry.

Evaluation of the new Design Summer Year weather data using parametrical buildings (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ji, Y., Korolija, I., & Zhang, Y. (2017, September). Evaluation of the new Design Summer Year weather data using parametrical buildings. Presented at International Research Conference 2017: Shaping Tomorrow’s Built Environment Conference Proceedings, Salford Quays, UK

The Charted Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) updated the near extreme weather (Design Summer Year – DSY) for all 14 locations in the UK in 2016. This new release attempts to address the underlying shortcomings of the previous defini... Read More about Evaluation of the new Design Summer Year weather data using parametrical buildings.

Considerations of out-of-gauge freight transportation in railway infrastructure development and maintenance projects (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Zhang, Y., An, M., Wang, L., & Lei, D. (2017, September). Considerations of out-of-gauge freight transportation in railway infrastructure development and maintenance projects. Presented at International Research Conference 2017: Shaping Tomorrow's Built Environment, University of Salford, UK

The demands of railway infrastructure development are increased to meet rail transport requirements, particularly, for those large scale equipment and oversized cargoes that are often beyond railway gauges such as vehicle/infrastructure structure gau... Read More about Considerations of out-of-gauge freight transportation in railway infrastructure development and maintenance projects.

Novel models for the extension pneumatic muscle actuator performances (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2017, September). Novel models for the extension pneumatic muscle actuator performances. Presented at The 23rd International Conference on Automation & Computing, Huddersfield, UK

This paper illustrates the design, implementation and modelling of the extensor pneumatic muscle actuator (PMA). The extensor soft actuator has a vital feature of ability to bend and extend, and that give it the flexibility to use in numerous app... Read More about Novel models for the extension pneumatic muscle actuator performances.

Cooperative project by self-bending continuum arms (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Al-Ibadi, A., Nefti-Meziani, S., & Davis, S. (2017, September). Cooperative project by self-bending continuum arms. Presented at The 23rd International Conference on Automation & Computing, Huddersfield, UK

Designing a multi-robot system provides numerous advantages for many applications such as low cost, multi-tasking and more efficient group work. However, the rigidity of the robots used in industrial and medical applications increases the probabilit... Read More about Cooperative project by self-bending continuum arms.

Co-authorship and community structure in the DAFx conference proceedings : 1998–2016 (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A. (2017, September). Co-authorship and community structure in the DAFx conference proceedings : 1998–2016. Presented at 20th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-17), Edinburgh, UK

This paper presents the co-authorship network of the DAFx conference series, from its inception in 1998 to the present, along with subsequent analysis. In total 1,281 unique authors have contributed 1,175 unique submissions to this conference series.... Read More about Co-authorship and community structure in the DAFx conference proceedings : 1998–2016.

Gender balance at DAFx (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Desvages, C., & Wilson, A. (2017, September). Gender balance at DAFx. Presented at 20th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx17), Edinburgh, UK

A morphology-based model for forecasting cooling energy demand of condominium buildings in Sri Lanka (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hemba Geekiyanage, M., Ramachandra, T., & Rotimi, J. (2017, September). A morphology-based model for forecasting cooling energy demand of condominium buildings in Sri Lanka. Presented at Association of Researchers in Construction Management, ARCOM - 33rd Annual Conference 2017, Proceeding, Cambridge, UK

Building morphology has significant influence on operational energy demand of buildings. Energy consumption for space cooling accounts for more than 75% of electricity use in typical condominium buildings. With increase in the number of condominiums... Read More about A morphology-based model for forecasting cooling energy demand of condominium buildings in Sri Lanka.

An experimental study of the cathodic polarization of the reinforcement in chloride contaminated concrete (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Oleiwi, H., Wang, Y., Curioni, M., Augusthus Nelson, L., Chen, X., & Shabalin, I. (2017, September). An experimental study of the cathodic polarization of the reinforcement in chloride contaminated concrete. Presented at 20th International Corrosion Congress & Process Safety Congress (EUROCORR 2017), Prague

This paper reports an experimental study on the influence of chloride contamination on the polarization resistance, concrete resistivity, and the potential shift of concrete reinforcement under different cathodic protection (CP) current densities. Re... Read More about An experimental study of the cathodic polarization of the reinforcement in chloride contaminated concrete.

Experimental study of cathodic protection for reinforced concrete submerged in saline water (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Oleiwi, H., Wang, Y., Curioni, M., Augusthus Nelson, L., Chen, X., & Shabalin, I. (2017, September). Experimental study of cathodic protection for reinforced concrete submerged in saline water. Presented at 20th International Corrosion Congress & Process Safety Congress (EUROCORR 2017), Prague

Cathodic protection (CP) has been approved in practice to be an effective technique to protect steel reinforcement in concrete from corrosion under severe environmental conditions. Using constant current for CP is the most popular approach in practic... Read More about Experimental study of cathodic protection for reinforced concrete submerged in saline water.

A perceptually-weighted deep neural network for monaural speech enhancement in various background noise conditions (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Liu, Q., Wang, W., Jackson, P. J., & Tang, Y. (2017, August). A perceptually-weighted deep neural network for monaural speech enhancement in various background noise conditions. Presented at EUSIPCO 2017, the 25th European Signal Processing Conference, Kos Island, Greece

Deep neural networks (DNN) have recently been shown to give state-of-the-art performance in monaural speech enhancement. However in the DNN training process, the perceptual difference between different components of the DNN output is not fully ex... Read More about A perceptually-weighted deep neural network for monaural speech enhancement in various background noise conditions.

Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Sudarsono, A., Lam, Y., & Davies, W. (2017, August). Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment. Presented at INTER-NOISE 2017, Hong Kong

Previous studies have shown relationships between sound objects by grouping general sound objects according to how people perceive them (i.e. positively or negatively), but not according to how specific sound objects and their interaction affect so... Read More about Soundscape simulator as a tool to predict the perception of acoustic environment.

The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Shirley, B., Tang, Y., & Davies, W. (2017, August). The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise. Presented at INTERSPEECH 2017, 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Stockholm, Sweden

In everyday life, speech is often accompanied by a situation-specific acoustic cue; a hungry bark as you ask ‘Has anyone fed the dog?’. This paper investigates the effect such cues have on speech intelligibility in noise and evaluates their interactio... Read More about The effect of situation-specific non-speech acoustic cues on the intelligibility of speech in noise.

A parametric study on strength and stiffness of hybrid scarf joints (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Shankar, S., Ammasai Sengodan, G., & Idapalpati, S. (2017, August). A parametric study on strength and stiffness of hybrid scarf joints. Presented at ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials, Xi'an, China

This work presents a parametric study of adhesively bonded scarf joints enriched with mechanical fasteners. Tensile tests of two different fastener positions along the load path were carried out and compared with bonded scarf joint. It was found that... Read More about A parametric study on strength and stiffness of hybrid scarf joints.

Thermo-mechanical de-bonding of composite-titanium single-lap adhesive joints (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ammasai Sengodan, G. (2017, August). Thermo-mechanical de-bonding of composite-titanium single-lap adhesive joints. Presented at 21st International Conference on Composite Materials, Xi'an, China

The aim of this work is to isolate the constituent adherends of the adhesively bonded single lap joints with minimal or no damage to them and prepare the debonded surfaces for re-bonding. Thermo-mechanical separation of carbon fiber reinforced plasti... Read More about Thermo-mechanical de-bonding of composite-titanium single-lap adhesive joints.

Mitigating wind noise in outdoor microphone signals using a singular spectral subspace method (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Eldwaik, O., & Li, F. (2017, August). Mitigating wind noise in outdoor microphone signals using a singular spectral subspace method. Presented at IEEE, Seventh International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2107), Luton, UK

Wind noise is one of the major concerns of outdoor microphone signal acquisition. Filtering and removal of wind noise are known to be difficult due to its broadband and time varying nature. This paper proposes the use of singular spectrum analysis to... Read More about Mitigating wind noise in outdoor microphone signals using a singular spectral subspace method.

Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Yousif, K., & Li, F. (2017, August). Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach. Presented at 7th International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2017), Luton, UK

Speaker recognition has been developed into a relatively mature state over the past few decades through continuous research and development work. Existing methods typically use the robust features extracted from noise and reverberation free speech si... Read More about Robust speaker verification in reverberant conditions using estimated acoustic parameters : a maximum likelihood estimation and training on the fly approach.

Media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Francombe, J., Mason, R., Jackson, P., Brookes, T., Hughes, R., Woodcock, J., …Pike, C. (2017, August). Media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction. Presented at AM '17: Audio Mostly 2017, London, United Kingdom

Whilst it is possible to create exciting, immersive listening experiences with current spatial audio technology, the required systems are generally difficult to install in a standard living room. However, in any living room there is likely to already... Read More about Media device orchestration for immersive spatial audio reproduction.

Impacts of climate change on agrarian infrastructure and cascading effects on human and economic sustainability in Nigeria (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Goyol, S., & Pathirage, C. (2017, July). Impacts of climate change on agrarian infrastructure and cascading effects on human and economic sustainability in Nigeria. Presented at International Conference on Climate Change & Sustainable Development in Africa (ICCCSDA), Sunyani, Ghana

Nigeria, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa has agriculture as a critical sector of the economy contributing significantly to the country’s GDP, supporting livelihoods of agrarian communities and employing over 70% of active population.... Read More about Impacts of climate change on agrarian infrastructure and cascading effects on human and economic sustainability in Nigeria.

Constant-size threshold attribute based SignCryption for cloud applications (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Belguith, S., Kaaniche, N., Laurent, M., Jemai, A., & Attia, R. (2017, July). Constant-size threshold attribute based SignCryption for cloud applications. Presented at SECRYPT 2017 : 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, Madrid, Spain

In this paper, we propose a novel constant-size threshold attribute-based signcryption scheme for securely sharing data through public clouds. Our proposal has several advantages. First, it provides flexible cryptographic access control, while prese... Read More about Constant-size threshold attribute based SignCryption for cloud applications.