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Static concentrating photovoltaic modelling using MATLAB (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Muhammad-Sukki, F., Farooq, H., Abu-Bakar, S. H., Ardila-Rey, J. A., Sellami, N., Kilpatrick, C., …Zulkipli, M. (2021). Static concentrating photovoltaic modelling using MATLAB. . https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2053/1/012003

The world has recorded an increasing interest and staggering investment in renewable technology in the last two decades, specifically in solar photovoltaic (PV). Concentrating PV (CPV) is one of PV's technology advancements and is gaining popularity... Read More about Static concentrating photovoltaic modelling using MATLAB.

More than the sum of their parts - How UK Timber Houses can be Deconstructed and Reused (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cramer, M., & Sandin, Y. (2021, October). More than the sum of their parts - How UK Timber Houses can be Deconstructed and Reused. Presented at Annual Meeting of the Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering, Kaunas, Lithuania

The InFutUReWood project (infuturewood.info) focuses on the reuse of structural timber and is working on improving the design of buildings to facilitate deconstruction and reuse. For this purpose, we conducted five case studies in four of the partner... Read More about More than the sum of their parts - How UK Timber Houses can be Deconstructed and Reused.

Factors Influencing the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in the Construction Industry – A System Dynamics Approach (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Olawumi, T., Ojo, S., Chan, D., & Yam, M. (2020, November). Factors Influencing the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in the Construction Industry – A System Dynamics Approach. Presented at CRIOCM 2020 Conference – 25th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, Online

The construction industry is always a slow adopter of innovative technologies than other sectors of the economy. Although some technologies, such as Building Information Modelling (BIM), robotics, among others, have been implemented, their ad... Read More about Factors Influencing the Adoption of Blockchain Technology in the Construction Industry – A System Dynamics Approach.

Observer-Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Soft Actuators with Input Constraints (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cao, G., Shi, H., Xia, D., Zheng, Y., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. Observer-Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Soft Actuators with Input Constraints. Presented at 2021 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference, Zhanjiang, China

Fabricated by superelastic materials, soft actuators are an emerging field to provide a solution of safe interaction with complicated, unstructured and frequently brittle work environments, while they also bear challenges in fragility and controlling... Read More about Observer-Based Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Soft Actuators with Input Constraints.

Electromyographic Signal Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Transfer Learning (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Song, S., Yang, L., Huo, B., Wu, M., Liu, Y., & Yu, H. Electromyographic Signal Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Transfer Learning. Presented at 2021 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference, Zhanjiang, China

Recent years, the research of gesture recognition based on surface EMG signal has become an active topic. The conventional methods mainly focus on feature engineering, but the sEMG signal is non-stationary temporally, which makes proper feature desig... Read More about Electromyographic Signal Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Transfer Learning.

Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjadian, S. M., Jafari, M., & Chen, X. (2021). Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2021 (69-78). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6269-0_6

Architectural designers and technologists are able to make an assessment on buildability, thermal and hygrothermal performance of design details. To process drawings, human vision segments, classifies and distinguishes the drawing objects on the basi... Read More about Automatic Architectural Drawing Labelling Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network.

Several cases of backward erosion/liquefaction piping from Hungary (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Imre, E., Koch, E., Nagy, L., Illés, Z., Hortobágyi, Z., & Barreto, D. (2021, September). Several cases of backward erosion/liquefaction piping from Hungary. Presented at 6th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterization, Online

Examination of saturated hydraulic conductivity using grading curve functions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Imre, E., Bálint, E. Á., Nagy, L., Lőrincz, J., Illés, Z., Barreto, D., Casini, F., Guida, G., & Feng, S. (2021, September). Examination of saturated hydraulic conductivity using grading curve functions. Presented at 6th International Conference on Geotechnical and Geophysical Site Characterisation, Budapest

In a previous research program 74 artificial soil mixtures of natural fluvial soils were prepared in 4 series of measurements for falling head permeability testing, differing in d 10. The conclusions drawn from the original investigations were as fol... Read More about Examination of saturated hydraulic conductivity using grading curve functions.

Access to Ubiquitous Real-Time Information by Bus Passengers in Urban Contexts (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Islam, M. F., Fonzone, A., & Fountas, G. (2021, June). Access to Ubiquitous Real-Time Information by Bus Passengers in Urban Contexts. Presented at 2021 7th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS), Heraklion, Greece

Due to higher smartphone uptake and Internet penetration rate, Ubiquitous Real-time Passenger Information (URTPI) has become available to and required by larger segments of the public transit passenger population. URTPI can influence perceptions rega... Read More about Access to Ubiquitous Real-Time Information by Bus Passengers in Urban Contexts.

Empowering Citizens in a Smart City Project One Step at a Time: a Norwegian Case Study (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Senior, C., Jowkar, M., Temeljotov-Salaj, A., & Johansen, A. (2021, March). Empowering Citizens in a Smart City Project One Step at a Time: a Norwegian Case Study. Presented at 2021 IEEE European Technology and Engineering Management Summit (E-TEMS), Dortmund, Germany

Considering public participation as one of the key components of “smart cities”, efforts have been made by local governments to provide opportunities for citizens to take an active role in smart cities planning. This paper presents preliminary result... Read More about Empowering Citizens in a Smart City Project One Step at a Time: a Norwegian Case Study.

Indoor Characterisation of a Reverse Truncated Pyramid Concentrator (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Osikibo Tamuno-Ibuomi, L., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Ramirez-Iniguez, R., Ardila-Rey, J. A., Hawa Abu-Bakar, S., Bani, N. A., Hwang See, C., Faisal, N. H., & Sellami, N. (2021, June). Indoor Characterisation of a Reverse Truncated Pyramid Concentrator. Presented at 48th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC 48), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

The development of concentrating photovoltaic (PV) started in 1960s and over the years, a variety of concentrator designs have been explored. One of its applications is for use in building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) with the aim of producing a ch... Read More about Indoor Characterisation of a Reverse Truncated Pyramid Concentrator.

Test Machine Effect in the determination of modulus of elasticity for strength-graded timber (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gil-Moreno, D., Ridley-Ellis, D., & Harte, A. M. (2021, August). Test Machine Effect in the determination of modulus of elasticity for strength-graded timber. Presented at WCTE 2021: World Conference on Timber Engineering, Santiago, Chile [Online]

This paper investigates if the relationship between the global and local moduli of elasticity (MoE), measured in bending tests, is affected by the test machines employed, and how that may influence strength grading. The ultimate aim is to study the p... Read More about Test Machine Effect in the determination of modulus of elasticity for strength-graded timber.

Perception and use of timber in construction: A case study of Ireland and the UK (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Ceallaigh, C., Gil-Moreno, D., Ridley-Ellis, D., & Harte, A. M. (2021, August). Perception and use of timber in construction: A case study of Ireland and the UK. Presented at WCTE 2021: World Conference on Timber Engineering, Santiago, Chile [Online]

A survey was carried out to examine the perception of timber in construction among industry stakeholders within northwest Europe. The survey received responses from 17 countries in total. The total results of all respondents are presented along with... Read More about Perception and use of timber in construction: A case study of Ireland and the UK.

Testing Membranes for Separation of CO2 from Small Molecules in Landfill Gas (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ogunlude, P., Abunumah, O., Muhammad-Sukki, F., & Gobina, E. (2021, August). Testing Membranes for Separation of CO2 from Small Molecules in Landfill Gas. Presented at TUBA World Conference on Energy Science and Technology (TUBA WCEST-2021), Online

The present work is focusing on the utilization of previously fabricated membrane (synthesized in 3 days as reported in our previous work) to study the effect of hydrocarbons and its durability at the previously optimized conditions. Subsequently, ga... Read More about Testing Membranes for Separation of CO2 from Small Molecules in Landfill Gas.

The obstacles to energy saving in residential buildings in Nigeria: stakeholders’ perspectives (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tilde Ibrahim, A., & Fernando, N. (2021, July). The obstacles to energy saving in residential buildings in Nigeria: stakeholders’ perspectives. Presented at The 9th World Construction Symposium, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Over the past three decades research on energy use in buildings has become significant due to increasing scientific and political pressure on issues concerning global warming and climate change. As part of the impact by climate change, tropical natio... Read More about The obstacles to energy saving in residential buildings in Nigeria: stakeholders’ perspectives.

Flexible and Printed Potentiometric pH Sensor for Water Quality Monitoring (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hosseini, E. S., Manjakkal, L., & Dahiya, R. (2021, June). Flexible and Printed Potentiometric pH Sensor for Water Quality Monitoring. Presented at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS), Manchester, United Kingdom

This work presents a flexible potentiometric pH sensor consisting of a graphite-CuO sensitive electrode and an Ag/AgCl reference electrode. The pH sensor was fabricated by using a simple stencil hand printing technique at room temperature. The result... Read More about Flexible and Printed Potentiometric pH Sensor for Water Quality Monitoring.

Graphene–Graphite Polyurethane Composite Based Wristband Supercapacitor for Wearable Electronics (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Manjakkal, L., & Dahiya, R. (2021, June). Graphene–Graphite Polyurethane Composite Based Wristband Supercapacitor for Wearable Electronics. Presented at 2021 IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems (FLEPS), Manchester, United Kingdom

Wearable and flexible electronics research has recently boomed for applications such as health monitoring and smart portable electronic devices. Considering the advances in flexible and wearable electronics, a suitable energy autonomy has become a cr... Read More about Graphene–Graphite Polyurethane Composite Based Wristband Supercapacitor for Wearable Electronics.

Identification of Key Processes and Periods in a Model of Human Brain Energy Metabolism by Algorithmic Decomposition with Computational Singular Perturbation (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Patsatzis, D., Tingas, S., Sarathy, M., Goussis, D., & Jolivet, R. (2021, July). Identification of Key Processes and Periods in a Model of Human Brain Energy Metabolism by Algorithmic Decomposition with Computational Singular Perturbation. Paper presented at XV European Meeting on Glial Cells in Health and Disease, Online

Energetic considerations play a crucial role in brain function and disease. The study of brainenergy metabolism is, however, rendered difficult by a relative lack of experimental tools thatcan probe the contributions of different intri... Read More about Identification of Key Processes and Periods in a Model of Human Brain Energy Metabolism by Algorithmic Decomposition with Computational Singular Perturbation.

Utilizing SWOT Analysis for the Energy Research: A Methodological Overview (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Karim, R., Muhammad-Sukki, F., Muhtazaruddin, M. N., & Ardila-Rey, J. A. (2021, June). Utilizing SWOT Analysis for the Energy Research: A Methodological Overview. Paper presented at 1st International Conference of Advanced Research on Renewable Energy for Universal Sustainability 2021 (ARUS2021), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

This paper is an attempt to guide the future researchers who want to utilize the SWOT as a method to understand a particular energy industry of a country. This study is the pioneer in the domain of SWOT analysis in the energy research, as it strategi... Read More about Utilizing SWOT Analysis for the Energy Research: A Methodological Overview.