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Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings: Lessons learned from Sri Lanka (2021)
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Nawarathna, A., Alwan, Z., Gledson, B., & Fernando, N. (2021). Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings: Lessons learned from Sri Lanka. Journal of Building Engineering, 42, Article 102441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.102441

Growing concerns over the importance of reducing the embodied carbon (EC1) of buildings have led to a greater focus on EC-related research and policymaking. Nevertheless, the Sri Lankan building sector is currently lagging behind on this issue. While... Read More about Embodied carbon in commercial office buildings: Lessons learned from Sri Lanka.

The chemical dynamics of hydrogen/hydrogen peroxide blends diluted with steam at compression ignition relevant conditions (2021)
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Tingas, E.-A. (2021). The chemical dynamics of hydrogen/hydrogen peroxide blends diluted with steam at compression ignition relevant conditions. Fuel, 296, Article 120594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2021.120594

In the current work, the use of hydrogen peroxide as an additive to hydrogen/air mixtures is proposed and explored computationally, in conditions relevant to compression ignition engines. The hydrogen/hydrogen peroxide blends are supplemented with st... Read More about The chemical dynamics of hydrogen/hydrogen peroxide blends diluted with steam at compression ignition relevant conditions.

A New Estimate of Building Floor Space in North America (2021)
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Arehart, J. H., Pomponi, F., D'Amico, B., & Srubar III, W. V. (2021). A New Estimate of Building Floor Space in North America. Environmental Science and Technology, 55(8), 5161-5170. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c05081

Floor space is a key variable used to understand the energy and material demands of buildings. Using recent datasets of building footprints, we employ a random forest regression model to estimate the floor space of the North American building stock.... Read More about A New Estimate of Building Floor Space in North America.

Bounds for Lacunary maximal functions given by Birch–Magyar averages (2021)
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Cook, B., & Hughes, K. (2021). Bounds for Lacunary maximal functions given by Birch–Magyar averages. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 374(6), 3859-3879. https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/8152

We obtain positive and negative results concerning lacunary discrete maximal operators defined by dilations of sufficiently nonsingular hypersurfaces arising from Diophantine equations in many variables. Our negative results show that this problem di... Read More about Bounds for Lacunary maximal functions given by Birch–Magyar averages.

Integration and optimisation of high-penetration Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for fulfilling electrical and thermal demand for off-grid communities (2021)
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Kahwash, F., Maheri, A., & Mahkamov, K. (2021). Integration and optimisation of high-penetration Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for fulfilling electrical and thermal demand for off-grid communities. Energy Conversion and Management, 236, Article 114035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114035

The recent steep decline in the cost of PV panels and wind turbines provides an opportunity to utilise Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (HRES) to fulfil thermal loads as well as the electrical demand. Two coupled system architectures are proposed and... Read More about Integration and optimisation of high-penetration Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems for fulfilling electrical and thermal demand for off-grid communities.

On the dynamics of FG-GPLRC sandwich cylinders based on an unconstrained higher-order theory (2021)
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Eyvazian, A., Sebaey, T. A., Żur, K. K., Khan, A., Zhang, H., & Wong, S. H. F. (2021). On the dynamics of FG-GPLRC sandwich cylinders based on an unconstrained higher-order theory. Composite Structures, 267, Article 113879. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2021.113879

In the present paper, a novel unconstrained higher-order theory (UCHOT) is applied to analyse the free vibration of cylindrical sandwich shells with nanocomposite face sheets reinforced with graphene platelets. UCHOT considers the shear and thickness... Read More about On the dynamics of FG-GPLRC sandwich cylinders based on an unconstrained higher-order theory.

Implementation and Evaluation of Physical, Hybrid, and Virtual Testbeds for Cybersecurity Analysis of Industrial Control Systems (2021)
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Robles-Durazno, A., Moradpoor, N., McWhinnie, J., Russell, G., & Porcel-Bustamante, J. (2021). Implementation and Evaluation of Physical, Hybrid, and Virtual Testbeds for Cybersecurity Analysis of Industrial Control Systems. Symmetry, 13(3), Article 519. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13030519

Industrial Control Systems are an essential part of our daily lives and can be found in industries such as oil, utilities, and manufacturing. Rapid growth in technology has introduced industrial components with network capabilities that allow them to... Read More about Implementation and Evaluation of Physical, Hybrid, and Virtual Testbeds for Cybersecurity Analysis of Industrial Control Systems.

The greenhouse gas emissions of nuclear energy – Life cycle assessment of a European pressurised reactor (2021)
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Pomponi, F., & Hart, J. (2021). The greenhouse gas emissions of nuclear energy – Life cycle assessment of a European pressurised reactor. Applied Energy, 290, Article 116743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116743

Nuclear energy contributes ~10% of the global electricity generation and different views exist on its carbon-intensity and sustainability. Context is crucial to determine the sustainability of new nuclear power generators, making the existence of a g... Read More about The greenhouse gas emissions of nuclear energy – Life cycle assessment of a European pressurised reactor.

Common design structures and substitutable feature discovery in CAD databases (2021)
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Vasantha, G., Purves, D., Quigley, J., Corney, J., Sherlock, A., & Randika, G. (2021). Common design structures and substitutable feature discovery in CAD databases. Advanced engineering informatics, 48, Article 101261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2021.101261

It has been widely reported that the reuse of previously created components, or features, in new engineering designs will improve the efficiency of a company’s product development process. Although the reuse of engineering components has established... Read More about Common design structures and substitutable feature discovery in CAD databases.