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Exploring the Use of Rock Flour for Sustainable Peat Stabilisation (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Bernal-Sanchez, J., Coll, J., Leak, J., & Barreto, D. (2024). Exploring the Use of Rock Flour for Sustainable Peat Stabilisation. In Geo-Congress 2024: Soil Improvement, Sustainability, Geoenvironmental, and Cold Regions Engineering (450-460). https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784485330.046

This paper aims to investigate the mechanical behaviour of peat stabilised with glacial rock flour for foundation construction. Peat, a natural organic soil, presents challenges for construction due to its high compressibility and low bearing capacit... Read More about Exploring the Use of Rock Flour for Sustainable Peat Stabilisation.

Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences (2024)
Conference Proceeding
El Raoui, H., Quigley, J., Aslan, A., Vasantha, G., Hanson, J., Corney, J., & Sherlock, A. (2024). Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences. In 2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) (1304-1315). https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC60868.2023.10407667

Conventional methods used to elicit risk-taking preferences have demonstrated significant disparities with real-world behaviours, compromising the validity of the data collected. Serious gaming (SG) provides a high potential to bridge this gap. This... Read More about Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences.

Cognitive Factors Affecting the Manufacturing Optimization Skills of Rural Indian BPO Workers (2023)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., & Upadhyay, C. K. (2023). Cognitive Factors Affecting the Manufacturing Optimization Skills of Rural Indian BPO Workers. Knowledge, 3(4), 626-641. https://doi.org/10.3390/knowledge3040039

Crowdsourcing offers on-demand access to large numbers of human workers to implement new forms of human–computer collaborative functionalities that can be seamlessly integrated into advanced software and algorithms. However, crowdsourcing tasks are p... Read More about Cognitive Factors Affecting the Manufacturing Optimization Skills of Rural Indian BPO Workers.

Experiences of Design for Disability in Collaborating with Students and Industries (2023)
Book Chapter
Harris, N., & Vasantha, G. (in press). Experiences of Design for Disability in Collaborating with Students and Industries. In Future of Design Education: InFuSED23. Springer

This chapter looks at the design and engineering of products to assist people with disability. It looks at the process that companies, disability organisations and universities employ to help develop aids and products that solve various needs. Althou... Read More about Experiences of Design for Disability in Collaborating with Students and Industries.

A Knowledge Graph Approach for State-of-the-Art Implementation of Industrial Factory Movement Tracking System (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Aslan, A., Hanson, J., El-Raoui, H., Corney, J., & Quigley, J. (2024). A Knowledge Graph Approach for State-of-the-Art Implementation of Industrial Factory Movement Tracking System. In Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: Establishing Bridges for More Sustainable Manufacturing Systems. Proceedings of FAIM 2023, June 18–22, 2023, Porto, Portugal, Volume 2: Industrial Management (1194-1204). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38165-2_136

Digital sensing technologies are essential for realizing Industry 4.0, as they enhance productivity, assist with real-time decision-making, and provide flexibility and agility in manufacturing factories. However, implementing these technologies can b... Read More about A Knowledge Graph Approach for State-of-the-Art Implementation of Industrial Factory Movement Tracking System.

Movement Tracking-Based In-Situ Monitoring System for Additive Manufacturing (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Aslan, A., Lapok, P., Lawson, A., & Thomas, S. (2024). Movement Tracking-Based In-Situ Monitoring System for Additive Manufacturing. In Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: Establishing Bridges for More Sustainable Manufacturing Systems. Proceedings of FAIM 2023, June 18–22, 2023, Porto, Portugal, Volume 1: Modern Manufacturing (388-398). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38241-3_44

Monitoring and identification of defects during additive manufacturing is mostly done by bespoke optical or acoustic measurement systems. These in-situ monitoring technologies are either intrusive or sensitive to noisy manufacturing environments. We... Read More about Movement Tracking-Based In-Situ Monitoring System for Additive Manufacturing.

Data-driven Discovery of Manufacturing Processes and Performance from Worker Localisation (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Aslan, A., El-Raoui, H., Hanson, J., Vasantha, G., Quigley, J., & Corney, J. (2024). Data-driven Discovery of Manufacturing Processes and Performance from Worker Localisation. In Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: Establishing Bridges for More Sustainable Manufacturing Systems: Proceedings of FAIM 2023, June 18–22, 2023, Porto, Portugal, Volume 1: Modern Manufacturing (592-602). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38241-3_67

In complex manufacturing industries that are not fully automated and involve human workers it is important to identify deviations from the planned production schedule and locate bottlenecks for improved efficiency. This is not an easy task as it requ... Read More about Data-driven Discovery of Manufacturing Processes and Performance from Worker Localisation.

Carbon impact & mitigation of housing developments on peatlands in the UK - A case study (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Bernal-Sanchez, J., & Gaspari, A. (2023). Carbon impact & mitigation of housing developments on peatlands in the UK - A case study. In Proceedings of the ISSMGE TC215 9th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics 25-28 June 2023 (361-371). https://doi.org/10.53243/ICEG2023-216

Peatlands are a key asset in the drive to reduce annual carbon emissions due to their potential as a carbon sink. This is especially important in Scotland where 25% of the land is covered by peat. Peatlands have historically been considered wasteland... Read More about Carbon impact & mitigation of housing developments on peatlands in the UK - A case study.

A numerical framework for the simulation of coupled electromechanical growth (2023)
Journal Article
Li, Z., Kadapa, C., Hossain, M., & Wang, J. (2023). A numerical framework for the simulation of coupled electromechanical growth. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 414, Article 116128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2023.116128

Electro-mechanical response exists in growing materials such as biological tissues and hydrogels, influencing the growth process, pattern formation and geometry remodelling. To gain a better understanding of the mechanism of the coupled effects of gr... Read More about A numerical framework for the simulation of coupled electromechanical growth.

Advanced simulation methodologies for smart soft multifunctional polymeric composites (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Kadapa, C., & Hossain, M. (2023, May). Advanced simulation methodologies for smart soft multifunctional polymeric composites. Poster presented at RubberCon 2023, Edinburgh

Smart multifunctional polymeric composites such as magnetoactive polymers, electroac-tive polymers and photopolymers are increasingly being explored for various applications in soft robotics, energy harvesting, flexible electronic devices, precision... Read More about Advanced simulation methodologies for smart soft multifunctional polymeric composites.

Agent based simulation of workers’ behaviours around hazard areas in manufacturing sites (2023)
Conference Proceeding
El Raoui, H., Quigley, J., Aslan, A., Vasantha, G., Hanson, J., Corney, J., & Sherlock, A. (2023). Agent based simulation of workers’ behaviours around hazard areas in manufacturing sites. In C. Currie, & L. Rhodes-Leader (Eds.), Proceedings of the Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop 2023 (SW23) (86-95). https://doi.org/10.36819/SW23.010

Rewards for risk taking behaviour by workers (if accidents do not occur) can be realised in the form of increased productivity or worker idle time. However, frequent unsafe behaviours of workers inevitably results in accidents and an associated loss... Read More about Agent based simulation of workers’ behaviours around hazard areas in manufacturing sites.

Rubber-soil mixtures: use of grading entropy theory to evaluate stiffness and liquefaction susceptibility (2023)
Journal Article
Bernal-Sanchez, J., Barreto, D., & Leak, J. (2023). Rubber-soil mixtures: use of grading entropy theory to evaluate stiffness and liquefaction susceptibility. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 21, 3777–3796. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-023-01673-3

Rubber-soil mixtures are known to have mechanical properties that enable their use in backfills, road construction or geotechnical seismic isolation systems. The complexity of these mixtures comes from adding soft (i.e. rubber) particles that increas... Read More about Rubber-soil mixtures: use of grading entropy theory to evaluate stiffness and liquefaction susceptibility.

Multi-criteria sustainability risk management for post-war residential re-construction: the case of Damascus (2023)
Journal Article
Khaddour, L. A., & Deng, W. (2023). Multi-criteria sustainability risk management for post-war residential re-construction: the case of Damascus. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 38(3), 1939-1982. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-023-10024-2

The Syrian conflict nine years of destruction have had catastrophic influence on the built environment. Post-war Residential Re-construction Projects (PRRP) have been one of the most challenging and controversial responsibilities. PRRP play vital rol... Read More about Multi-criteria sustainability risk management for post-war residential re-construction: the case of Damascus.

Phased Array with Radiation-Mode Reconfigurability for 28 GHz Cognitive Cellular Communications (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Parchin, N. O., Alibakhshikenari, M., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., & Falcone, F. (in press). Phased Array with Radiation-Mode Reconfigurability for 28 GHz Cognitive Cellular Communications. In The 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication

A beam-steerable phased array with highly-miniaturized resonators and radiation-mode reconfigurability is studied in this paper for 28 GHz 5G cellular cognitive networks. Simple and straightforward design procedures are followed. Eight modified T-sha... Read More about Phased Array with Radiation-Mode Reconfigurability for 28 GHz Cognitive Cellular Communications.

Four-Element/Eight-Port MIMO Antenna System with Diversity and Desirable Radiation for Sub 6 GHz Modern 5G Smartphones (2022)
Journal Article
Parchin, N. O., Amar, A. S., Darwish, M., Moussa, K. H., See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., … Mohamed, H. G. (2022). Four-Element/Eight-Port MIMO Antenna System with Diversity and Desirable Radiation for Sub 6 GHz Modern 5G Smartphones. IEEE Access, 10, 133037-133051. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2022.3227199

In this manuscript, a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna array system with identical compact antenna elements providing wide radiation and diversity function is introduced for sub 6 GHz fifth-generation (5G) cellular applications. The intr... Read More about Four-Element/Eight-Port MIMO Antenna System with Diversity and Desirable Radiation for Sub 6 GHz Modern 5G Smartphones.

Towards Predictive Design: Tracking a CNC Fixture Design Process to Identify the Requirements (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Purves, D., Corney, J., Canavan, M., Quigley, J., & Sherlock, A. (2022). Towards Predictive Design: Tracking a CNC Fixture Design Process to Identify the Requirements. In Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXXV (187-192). https://doi.org/10.3233/atde220589

Training novice production engineers to design manufacturing fixtures is a time-consuming process involving significant input from experienced experts. Motivated by the vision of providing an intelligent support system for general mechanical design,... Read More about Towards Predictive Design: Tracking a CNC Fixture Design Process to Identify the Requirements.

Detection of Signals in MC–CDMA Using a Novel Iterative Block Decision Feedback Equalizer (2022)
Journal Article
Bagadi, K., Ravikumar, C., Sathish, K., Alibakhshikenari, M., Virdee, B. S., Kouhalvandi, L., …Limiti, E. (2022). Detection of Signals in MC–CDMA Using a Novel Iterative Block Decision Feedback Equalizer. IEEE Access, 10, 105674-105684. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3211392

This paper presents a technique to mitigate multiple access interference (MAI) in multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) wireless communications systems. Although under normal circumstances the MC-CDMA system can achieve high spectral e... Read More about Detection of Signals in MC–CDMA Using a Novel Iterative Block Decision Feedback Equalizer.