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Effect of confinement on the bearing capacity and settlement of spread foundations (2018)
Journal Article
settlement of spread foundations. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2021831

Allowable-bearing capacity is the competency of soil to safely carries the pressure from the superstructure without experiencing a shear failure with accompanying excessive settlements. Ensuring a safe bearing pressure with respect to failure does no... Read More about Effect of confinement on the bearing capacity and settlement of spread foundations.

Using eulerlets to model steady uniform flow past a circular cylinder (2018)
Journal Article
Chadwick, E., Christian, J., & Chalasani, K. (2018). Using eulerlets to model steady uniform flow past a circular cylinder. European Journal of Computational Mechanics, 27(5-6), 469-478. https://doi.org/10.1080/17797179.2018.1550960

Consider uniform, steady flow past a circular cylinder at Reynolds numbers 26, 36 and 40 before the flow becomes unsteady. Model the flow by using eulerlets, new Green’s functions for Euler flow. This is the first time this eulerlet model has been us... Read More about Using eulerlets to model steady uniform flow past a circular cylinder.

A Sarrus-like overconstrained eight-bar linkage and its associated Fulleroid-like platonic deployable mechanisms (2018)
Journal Article
Xiu, H., Wang, K., Wei, G., Ren, L., & Dai, J. (2020). A Sarrus-like overconstrained eight-bar linkage and its associated Fulleroid-like platonic deployable mechanisms. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 234(1), 241-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954406218816343

This paper, for the first time, presents an overconstrained spatial eight-bar linkage and its application to the synthesis of a group of Fulleroid-like deployable platonic mechanisms. Structure of the proposed eight-bar linkage is introduced, and con... Read More about A Sarrus-like overconstrained eight-bar linkage and its associated Fulleroid-like platonic deployable mechanisms.

Detection of osteoporosis from percussion responses using an electronic stethoscope and machine learning (2018)
Journal Article
Scanlan, J., Li, F., Umnova, O., Rakoczy, G., Lövey, N., & Scanlan, P. (2018). Detection of osteoporosis from percussion responses using an electronic stethoscope and machine learning. Bioengineering, 5(4), 107. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering5040107

Osteoporosis is an asymptomatic bone condition that affects a large proportion of the elderly population around the world, resulting in increased bone fragility and increased risk of fracture. Previous studies had shown that the vibroacoustic respons... Read More about Detection of osteoporosis from percussion responses using an electronic stethoscope and machine learning.

A comprehensive review on natural convection flow and heat transfer : the most practical geometries for engineering applications (2018)
Journal Article
Rahimi, A., Dehghan Saee, A., Kasaeipoor, A., & Hasani Malekshah, E. (2018). A comprehensive review on natural convection flow and heat transfer : the most practical geometries for engineering applications. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 29(3), 834-877. https://doi.org/10.1108/hff-06-2018-0272

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to carry out a comprehensive review of some latest studies devoted to natural convection phenomenon in the enclosures because of its significant industrial applications.

Design/methodology/approach: Geometri... Read More about A comprehensive review on natural convection flow and heat transfer : the most practical geometries for engineering applications.

An FCM-based dynamic modelling of integrated project delivery implementation challenges in construction projects (2018)
Journal Article
Kahvandi, Z., Saghatforoush, E., Ravasan, A., & Mansouri, T. (2018). An FCM-based dynamic modelling of integrated project delivery implementation challenges in construction projects. Lean construction journal, 2018, 63-87

Question: What are the Integrated Project Delivery Implementation challenges in
construction projects, their interrelationships and their effects on the project time,
cost and quality?
Purpose: The Purpose of this study is applying an efficient me... Read More about An FCM-based dynamic modelling of integrated project delivery implementation challenges in construction projects.

An adaptable and personalised e-learning system applied to computer science programmes design (2018)
Journal Article
Aeiad, E., & Meziane, F. (2019). An adaptable and personalised e-learning system applied to computer science programmes design. Education and Information Technologies, 24(2), 1485-1509. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-018-9836-x

With the rapid advances in E-learning systems, personalisation and adaptability have now become important features in the education technology. In this paper, we describe the development of an architecture for A Personalised and Adaptable E-Learning... Read More about An adaptable and personalised e-learning system applied to computer science programmes design.

Analytical modeling of dissipative silencers (2018)
Journal Article
Venegas, R., Arenas, J., & Boutin, C. (2018). Analytical modeling of dissipative silencers. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 144(5), 2998-3009. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5078607

This paper applies ideas originally developed in the field of acoustics of multiscale porous media to
the analytical modeling of dissipative silencers. Analytical models for the long-wavelength acoustical
properties of different types of dissipativ... Read More about Analytical modeling of dissipative silencers.

Stratified slopes, numerical and empirical stability analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Sauffisseau, R., & Ahangar Asr, A. (2018). Stratified slopes, numerical and empirical stability analysis. Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering and Computational Mechanics, 171(4), 174-185. https://doi.org/10.1680/jencm.18.00017

Urbanisation means that many natural slopes in and around cities are often subjected to cuts
resulting in dramatic changes in the geometry of slope faces mostly by increasing slope angle
which could lead to failures with catastrophic consequences.... Read More about Stratified slopes, numerical and empirical stability analysis.

Learning causality for Arabic - proclitics (2018)
Journal Article
Sadek, J., & Meziane, F. (2018). Learning causality for Arabic - proclitics. Procedia Computer Science, 142, 141-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2018.10.469

The use of prefixed particles is a prevalent linguistic form to express causation in Arabic Language. However, such particles are complicated and highly ambiguous as they imply different meanings according to their position in the text. This ambiguit... Read More about Learning causality for Arabic - proclitics.

An evolutionary modelling approach to predicting stress-strain behaviour of saturated granular soils (2018)
Journal Article
Ahangar Asr, A., Faramarzi, A., & Javadi, A. (2018). An evolutionary modelling approach to predicting stress-strain behaviour of saturated granular soils. Engineering Computations, 35(8), 2931-2952. https://doi.org/10.1108/EC-01-2018-0025

Purpose: To develop a unified framework for modelling triaxial deviator stress - axial strain and volumetric strain – axial strain behaviour of granular soils with the ability to predict the entire stress paths, incrementally, point by point, in de... Read More about An evolutionary modelling approach to predicting stress-strain behaviour of saturated granular soils.

Assessment of perceptual distortion boundary through applying reversible watermarking to brain MR images (2018)
Journal Article
Qasim, A., Aspin, R., Meziane, F., & Hogg, P. (2019). Assessment of perceptual distortion boundary through applying reversible watermarking to brain MR images. Signal Processing: Image Communication, 70, 246-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.image.2018.10.007

The digital medical workflow faces many circumstances in which the images can be manipulated during viewing, extracting and exchanging. Reversible and imperceptible watermarking approaches have the potential to enhance trust within the medical imagin... Read More about Assessment of perceptual distortion boundary through applying reversible watermarking to brain MR images.

Within- and between-session prefrontal cortex response to virtual reality exposure therapy for acrophobia (2018)
Journal Article
Landowska, A., Roberts, D., Eachus, P., & Barrett, A. (2018). Within- and between-session prefrontal cortex response to virtual reality exposure therapy for acrophobia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12(362), https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00362

Exposure Therapy (ET) has demonstrated its efficacy in the treatment of phobias, anxiety and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), however, it suffers a high drop-out rate because of too low or too high patient engagement in treatment. Virtual Reali... Read More about Within- and between-session prefrontal cortex response to virtual reality exposure therapy for acrophobia.

Identification of conductivity in inhomogeneous orthotropic media (2018)
Journal Article
orthotropic media. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 29(1), 165-183. https://doi.org/10.1108/HFF-11-2017-0469

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to solve numerically the identification of the thermal
conductivity of an inhomogeneous and possibly anisotropic medium from interior/internal temperature measurements.
Design/methodology/approach - The formu... Read More about Identification of conductivity in inhomogeneous orthotropic media.

Multiscale in modelling and validation for solar photovoltaics (2018)
Journal Article
Hamed, T., Adamovic, N., Aeberhard, U., Alonso-Alvarez, D., Tomic, S., & et al. (2018). Multiscale in modelling and validation for solar photovoltaics. EPJ Photovoltaics, 9(10), https://doi.org/10.1051/epjpv/2018008

Photovoltaics is amongst the most important technologies for renewable energy sources, and plays a key role in the development of a society with a smaller environmental footprint. Key parameters for solar cells are their energy conversion efficiency,... Read More about Multiscale in modelling and validation for solar photovoltaics.

A multidimensional valuation of the human perception of construction vibration (2018)
Journal Article
Noviyanti, A., & Woodcock, J. (2018). A multidimensional valuation of the human perception of construction vibration. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1075, 012044. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1075/1/012044

Previous studies have shown that annoyance due to vibration does not simply depend on the magnitude of vibration exposure. However, only little is known about the important features that contribute the human perception of vibration. This paper presen... Read More about A multidimensional valuation of the human perception of construction vibration.

Modelling and application of condition-based maintenance for a two-component system with stochastic and economic dependencies (2018)
Journal Article
Do, P., Assaf, R., Scarf, P., & Iung, B. (2019). Modelling and application of condition-based maintenance for a two-component system with stochastic and economic dependencies. Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 182, 86-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2018.10.007

This paper develops a model of a condition-based maintenance policy for a two-component
system with both stochastic and economic dependencies. The stochastic dependency is such
that the degradation rate of each component depends not only on its own... Read More about Modelling and application of condition-based maintenance for a two-component system with stochastic and economic dependencies.

Observation of liquid–liquid phase transitions in ethane at 300 K (2018)
Journal Article
Proctor, J., Bailey, M., Morrison, I., Hakeem, M., & Crowe, I. (2018). Observation of liquid–liquid phase transitions in ethane at 300 K. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 122(44), 10172-10178. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b07982

We have conducted Raman spectroscopy
experiments on liquid ethane (C2H6) at 300 K, obtaining a
large amount of data at very high resolution. This has enabled
the observation of Raman peaks expected but not previously
observed in liquid ethane and... Read More about Observation of liquid–liquid phase transitions in ethane at 300 K.

Electric discharge machine for preparation of diamond anvil cell sample chambers (2018)
Journal Article
Proctor, J., & Massey, D. (2018). Electric discharge machine for preparation of diamond anvil cell sample chambers. Review of Scientific Instruments, 89(2018), #105109. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5050500

We have designed and constructed a novel electric discharge machine designed primarily for the preparation of sample chambers in rhenium and stainless steel gaskets for diamond anvil cell experiments. Our design combines automatic stage movement with... Read More about Electric discharge machine for preparation of diamond anvil cell sample chambers.

A sustainable pavement concrete using warm mix asphalt and hydrated lime treated recycled concrete aggregates (2018)
Journal Article
Albayati, A., Wang, Y., Wang, Y., & Haynes, B. (2018). A sustainable pavement concrete using warm mix asphalt and hydrated lime treated recycled concrete aggregates. Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 18, e00081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susmat.2018.e00081

Recently, increasing material prices coupled with more acute environmental awareness and the implementation of regulation has driven a strong movement toward the adoption of sustainable construction technology. In the pavement industry, using low tem... Read More about A sustainable pavement concrete using warm mix asphalt and hydrated lime treated recycled concrete aggregates.