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Influence of parameters affecting the racking strength of partially anchored timber framed walls (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhang, B., Dohnju, R., Kermani, A., Porteous, J., & D'Amico, B. (2018, August). Influence of parameters affecting the racking strength of partially anchored timber framed walls. Presented at World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE) 2018, Seoul, Korea

A test-based assessment of the racking performance of partially anchored timber framed walls is described in this paper. The tested wall specimens were constructed and tested at the Centre for Timber Engineering (Edinburgh Napier University, UK) cons... Read More about Influence of parameters affecting the racking strength of partially anchored timber framed walls.

Cyclist exposure to hand-arm vibration and pavement surface improvement in the City of Edinburgh (2018)
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Taylor, M., Edgar, A., & Raine, M. (2018). Cyclist exposure to hand-arm vibration and pavement surface improvement in the City of Edinburgh. Edinburgh

Cyclist exposure to hand/arm vibration

Napier University's Dr Mark Taylor used an instrumented bike to assess the effect of setts and other road surfaces on hand-arm vibration. Setts were found to be a severe problem, with some cyclists even e... Read More about Cyclist exposure to hand-arm vibration and pavement surface improvement in the City of Edinburgh.

Dynamic behaviour of shredded rubber soil mixtures (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bernal-Sanchez, J., McDougall, J., Barreto Gonzalez, D., Miranda, M., & Marinelli, A. (2018, June). Dynamic behaviour of shredded rubber soil mixtures. Presented at 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Thessaloniki

Residential buildings in high population density areas are seismically vulnerable to the action of major seismic events. The high cost and technical difficulties related to the use of advanced seismic isolations systems precludes its installation to... Read More about Dynamic behaviour of shredded rubber soil mixtures.

Flexible ZnO Nanowires-Graphene Stack by Hot Lamination Method (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shakthivel, D., Yogeswaran, N., Manjakkal, L., & Dahiva, R. (2018, October). Flexible ZnO Nanowires-Graphene Stack by Hot Lamination Method. Presented at 2018 IEEE Sensors, New Delhi, India

Inorganic nanostructures on flexible substrates form key components for high performance flexible electronics. 1D (Nanowires) and 2D (graphene) nanostructures are inherently flexible, in addition to having attractive electronic properties. The utilit... Read More about Flexible ZnO Nanowires-Graphene Stack by Hot Lamination Method.

Optimization RFID-enabled Retail Store Management with Complex Event Processing (2018)
Journal Article
Peng, S.-L., Liu, C.-J., He, J., Yu, H.-N., & Li, F. (2019). Optimization RFID-enabled Retail Store Management with Complex Event Processing. International Journal of Automation and Computing, 16(1), 52-64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11633-018-1164-5

Radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled retail store management needs workflow optimization to facilitate real-time decision making. In this paper, complex event processing (CEP) based RFID-enabled retail store management is studied, particular... Read More about Optimization RFID-enabled Retail Store Management with Complex Event Processing.

Optical Fiber Sensor Design for Ground Slope Movement Monitoring for Railway Safety Operations (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hook, D., Laing, W., Kerrouche, A., Barreto Gonzalez, D., & Alwis, L. S. (2018, October). Optical Fiber Sensor Design for Ground Slope Movement Monitoring for Railway Safety Operations. Presented at 17th IEEE SENSORS Conference, New Delhi, India

Scour and slope instability are a major issue in keeping the railway structures safe and operational. Conventional measurement techniques do not allow real-time monitoring of slope movement and/or are time/resource consuming. Novel fiber optic techno... Read More about Optical Fiber Sensor Design for Ground Slope Movement Monitoring for Railway Safety Operations.

An Alternative Current-Error Based Control for VSC Integration to Weak Grid (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Givaki, K., Chen, D., Xu, L., & Xu, Y. (2018, August). An Alternative Current-Error Based Control for VSC Integration to Weak Grid. Presented at 2018 IEEE PES General Meeting, Portland, OR, USA

An enhanced current control strategy is proposed for voltage source converters for the integration to weak grids. The
control derives from the current-error based vector control. By implementing simple close-loop compensations of both angle and magn... Read More about An Alternative Current-Error Based Control for VSC Integration to Weak Grid.

Improved Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm and its Application in Classification (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, H., Wei, J., Wen, S., Yu, H., & Zhang, X. (2018). Improved Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm and its Application in Classification. Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 30(6), 921-926. https://doi.org/10.20965/jrm.2018.p0921

For improving the classification accuracy of the classifier, a novel classification methodology based on artificial bee colony algorithm is proposed for optimal feature and SVM parameters selection. In order to balance the ability of exploration and... Read More about Improved Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm and its Application in Classification.

Analysis of integration of multi‐terminal HVDC network to weak grids (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Givaki, K., Rahman, M. H., Vozikis, D., & Giveki, A. (2018, June). Analysis of integration of multi‐terminal HVDC network to weak grids. Presented at 14th IET International Conference on AC and DC Power Transmission, Chengdu, China

In this paper, the integration of multi-terminal HVDC systems to weak power grids is analysed under different grid strengths and control methods. In this paper, a modular multi-level converter based MTDC network is considered. The analysis showed the... Read More about Analysis of integration of multi‐terminal HVDC network to weak grids.