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Potential for estimating the age of instruments by characterisation of wood properties via acoustics. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ridley-Ellis, D., & Popescu, C. (2014, September). Potential for estimating the age of instruments by characterisation of wood properties via acoustics. Presented at WoodMusiCK (FP1302) conference ‘multidisciplinary approach to wooden musical instrument identification’

The performance of musical instruments is sensitive to several wood properties that are affected by aging. These wood properties also change with temperature and humidity in ways that interact with (and change as a result of) aging processes. This of... Read More about Potential for estimating the age of instruments by characterisation of wood properties via acoustics..

Mathematical Modelling of Rhenium Phytoextraction with Indian Mustard (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Onishi, V. C., Gonzalez, L., Mahler, C. F., & Novo, L. A. (2014, September). Mathematical Modelling of Rhenium Phytoextraction with Indian Mustard. Poster presented at 11th International Phytotechnologies Conference, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Acur, N., Lynn, A., Jagadeesan, A., Smith, M., & Agrawal, A. (2014, June). Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland. Presented at International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Economics and Management Study - SEM 2014, London, United Kingdom

Various surveys mentioned that the commercial benefits of Internet crowdsourcing are reaped largely by people located in metro areas and smaller cities. The impact of crowdsourcing on the rural population is questionable. The aim of this research is... Read More about Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland.

Transient diagnosis of induction generators via atom-based time-frequency transforms (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pons-Llinares, J., Riera-Guasp, M., Antonino-Daviu, J. A., & Vedreno-Santos, F. (2014, September). Transient diagnosis of induction generators via atom-based time-frequency transforms. Presented at 2014 International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM)

Induction generators used in windmills usually work in non-stationary conditions, due to the varying speed of the wind. Therefore, in order to perform its diagnosis through the stator current analysis, adequate time-frequency transforms must be used.... Read More about Transient diagnosis of induction generators via atom-based time-frequency transforms.

A hybrid converter for medium voltage using a low-voltage current source active filter connected via a series capacitor (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Papadopoulos, S., Rashed, M., Klumpner, C., & Wheeler, P. (2014, August). A hybrid converter for medium voltage using a low-voltage current source active filter connected via a series capacitor. Presented at 2014 16th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'14-ECCE Europe), Lappeenranta, Finland

This paper proposes a new three phase hybrid inverter topology suitable for medium to high voltage inverter applications. The topology shown in Fig. 1 consists of a 3-phase VSI rated at medium voltage acting as a main inverter bridge processing the b... Read More about A hybrid converter for medium voltage using a low-voltage current source active filter connected via a series capacitor.

Characterisation of New Generation of Solar Concentrators (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sellami, N., Meng, X., Knox, A. R., & Mallick, T. (2014). Characterisation of New Generation of Solar Concentrators. In 29th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (2166-2169). https://doi.org/10.4229/EUPVSEC20142014-4CV.3.42

The cost of the Concentrated Photovoltaic CPV modules could be reduced by increasing the output per unit solar cell and this could be done by replacing expensive solar cells with a low cost optical material. The problem remains with the increase of t... Read More about Characterisation of New Generation of Solar Concentrators.

Machine Vision For Condition Monitoring Vegetation On Railway Embankments (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nyberg, R., Gupta, N., Yella, S., & Dougherty, M. (2014, September). Machine Vision For Condition Monitoring Vegetation On Railway Embankments. Presented at 6th IET Conference on Railway Condition Monitoring, RCM

National Railway Administration in Northern Europe do not employ systematic procedures in monitoring the current state of vegetation to form the basis of maintenance decision making. Current day vegetation maintenance is largely based on human visual... Read More about Machine Vision For Condition Monitoring Vegetation On Railway Embankments.

Usage of gestures along with other interaction modes in collaborative design (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Prakash Ramesh, H., Mouli Sugavanam, C., & Chakrabarti, A. (2014, September). Usage of gestures along with other interaction modes in collaborative design. Presented at 12th International Conference on Manufacturing Research, Southampton, UK

Currently many computer-aided multi-modal interaction tools are under development, and some have demonstrated their applications in design. To avoid disruptive transformation from current design tools to multi-modal designing, there is a need for sev... Read More about Usage of gestures along with other interaction modes in collaborative design.

Relative energy consumption of low-cost 3D printers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Walls, S., Corney, J., & Vasantha, G. (2014, September). Relative energy consumption of low-cost 3D printers. Presented at 12th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR 2014), Southampton, UK

The potential of low cost, 3D printing to support distributed manufacture in remote, rural communities has been noted by several observers. However the economic practicality of such proposals has not yet been clearly established and although some ove... Read More about Relative energy consumption of low-cost 3D printers.

Towards crowdsourcing spatial manufacturing tasks from rural India (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Jagadeeshan, A., Lynn, A., Acur Bakir, N., Smith, M., & Agrawal, A. (2014, September). Towards crowdsourcing spatial manufacturing tasks from rural India. Presented at 12th International Conference on Manufacturing Research, Southampton, UK

Many tasks involving production software that involve spatial reasoning can only produce "good" rather than optimum solutions. It is frequently possible for humans to improve on algorithmically generated solutions computed by CAD/CAM software. The th... Read More about Towards crowdsourcing spatial manufacturing tasks from rural India.

The Engineering Peer Tutors. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Durkacz, K. (2014, September). The Engineering Peer Tutors. Paper presented at SEBE LTA conference

Loop feed meander-line Antenna RFID tag design for UHF band (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ma, Y., Abd-Alhameed, R., Zhou, D., See, C., Abidin, Z., Jin, C., & Peng, B. (2014). Loop feed meander-line Antenna RFID tag design for UHF band. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ursigass.2014.6929405

A loop feed meander-line Antenna (LFMLA) RFID tag on a relatively low dielectric constant substrate operates on the European UHF band 865-868 MHz is presented. The tag modeling is analyzed using two different electromagnetic simulator HFSS and CST. A... Read More about Loop feed meander-line Antenna RFID tag design for UHF band.

Silence, Melancholia and Science Fiction: Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Artt, S. (2014, August). Silence, Melancholia and Science Fiction: Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin. Paper presented at Becoming Scotland

In 'On the Melancholic Imaginary' Julia Kristeva notes that epochs of crisis are especially prone to black humour and melancholy: "In times of crisis... melancholy imposes itself, lays down its archaeology, produces its representations and its knowle... Read More about Silence, Melancholia and Science Fiction: Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin..

Winkler springs (p-y curves) for liquefied soil from element tests (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rouholamin, M., Bhattacharya, S., & Lombardi, D. (2014, September). Winkler springs (p-y curves) for liquefied soil from element tests. Presented at International Symposium on Geomechanics from Micro and Macro

In practice, piles are most often modelled as "Beams on Non-Linear Winkler Foundation" (also known as “p-y spring” approach) where the soil is idealised as p-y springs. These p-y springs are obtained through semi-empirical approach using element test... Read More about Winkler springs (p-y curves) for liquefied soil from element tests.

Nanotechnology and Its Legal and Social Implications (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Karim, M., Munir, A., Mohd Yasin, S., & Muhammad-Sukki, F. (2014, August). Nanotechnology and Its Legal and Social Implications. Paper presented at 11th International Postgraduate Research Colloquium (IPRC 2014), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Nanotechnology is the next industrial revolution after internet and the wave of the future. Countries around the world have been investing huge and thousands of consumer products containing nanomaterial are already in the market. However, industries... Read More about Nanotechnology and Its Legal and Social Implications.

Shear failure modes of wood under torsional loading (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khokhar, A., & Zhang, J. (2014, August). Shear failure modes of wood under torsional loading. Presented at World Conference on Timber Engineering, Quebec City, Canada

This paper presents details of the experimental investigation that was undertaken to examine the fracture mechanism of wood in shear. Torsion test method was employed to test structural size timber joists until they fractured. The test joists fract... Read More about Shear failure modes of wood under torsional loading.