• Characterization of Iron-Doped Titanium Dioxide by Electron Microscopy Techniques 

  Parisi Couri, Atieh (2022-10-18)

  Access to clean water is essential for human health and dignity. The increasingly rapid population growth, combined with the emergence of resistant chemical compounds and more concentrated toxic residues in the effluent ...
• 3D Bioprinting Patient-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Models of Alzheimer’s Disease using Drug Releasing Microspheres 

  Benwood, Claire (2022-09-27)

  Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, is becoming increasingly prevalent in aging populations. It is characterized by the buildup of amyloid beta plaques and neurofibrillary tangles containing ...
• Modelling forces in milling screw rotors 

  Wang, Xi (2022-09-13)

  The deflections of screw rotors under machining forces cause mismatch between the male and female rotors and, consequently, accelerated wear and suboptimal efficiency in their performance. Optimizing the machining process ...
• Parameter identification of mechanistic milling force model for carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composite parts 

  Farhadmanesh, Mehran (2022-09-09)

  The application of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (CFRP) has been recently increasing in a wide range of industries such as automotive and aerospace due to their excellent mechanical properties and high strength-to-weight ...
• Chatter vibrations in robotic milling considering structural nonlinearity 

  Mohammadi, Yaser (2022-09-08)

  The application of robotic manipulators in machining systems has gained a great interest in manufacturing because of their lower prices, higher kinematic flexibility and larger workspace compared to conventional CNC machine ...
• Comparative Power Capture of Unmoored Floating Offshore Wind Turbines and Energy Ships 

  Connolly, Patrick (2022-08-23)

  Given the bleak current and projected global climate trends, society is transitioning the energy systems that we rely upon away from fossil fuel based systems to reduce global CO2 emissions. There are now well-established ...
• Digital Light Processing Bioprinting Full-Thickness Human Skin for Modelling Infected Chronic Wounds in Vitro 

  Stefanek, Evan (2022-08-08)

  Chronic wounds have a detrimental impact on patient quality of life, a significant economic cost, and often lead to severe outcomes such as amputation, sepsis or death. The elaborate interplay between bacteria, cutaneous ...
• Confinement Effects on the Hydrodynamic Performance of a Fully-Passive Oscillating-Foil Turbine 

  Mann, Sierra (2022-08-05)

  Current emissions targets have created a strong need for introducing more renewable energy sources into the energy mixture. The oscillating-foil turbine (OFT) has gained interest in recent years for renewable energy ...
• A New Sensing System to Detect Liquid Water Penetration through Water Resistive Barriers 

  Qi, Wenqin (2022-07-08)

  The current test methods that evaluate the liquid water resistance performance of a water resistive barrier (WRB) have various drawbacks. A Hydrostatic Pressure Test Apparatus (HPTA) provided by SMT Research Ltd. was used ...
• Estimation of Cutting Forces in Vibration Assisted Drilling System Using Augmented Kalman Filter 

  Nadeem, Kashif (2022-05-04)

  Vibration assisted drilling (VAD) is a type of machining process in which high-frequency vibrations with a small amplitude are induced in the cutting tool to improve the cutting process of hard and brittle materials. These ...
• 3D bioprinting of human induced pluripotent stem cells derived neural progenitors using bioinks containing drug-releasing microspheres 

  Sharma, Ruchi (2022-05-03)

  Tissue engineering employs biological and engineering principles to create functional substitutes for damaged tissue by combining biomaterial scaffolds with drug delivery devices. 3D (three-dimensional) bioprinting has ...
• Optimal energy management strategies for electric vehicles: advanced control and learning-based perspectives 

  Zhang, Qian (2022-05-02)

  Motivated by the goal of transition to a zero-carbon-emission-based economy for climate change mitigation, electrification opportunities are more promising in the transportation sector. Electric Vehicles (EVs) are at the ...
• Robust and distributed model predictive control with application to cooperative marine vehicles 

  Wei, Henglai (2022-04-29)

  Distributed coordination of multi-agent systems (MASs) has been widely studied in various emerging engineering applications, including connected vehicles, wireless networks, smart grids, and cyber-physical systems. In these ...
• Fleet-wide transit bus energy consumption modelling and techno-economic analysis of stationary energy storage systems for high-power electric bus charging 

  Wilson, Graham (2022-04-25)

  Electric buses offer a range of benefits, including a drastic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions compared to personal transit, or to conventional diesel buses. Unfortunately, electric buses also require additional ...
• On the study of surrogate-based optimization methods in aircraft conceptual design 

  Sohst, Martin (2022-03-17)

  The goal of "greener" aviation is one of the main challenges in aircraft design. The target of Europeans "Flightpath 2050'' and IATA is to reduced the net aviation CO2 emission by 75% relative to 2000 and 50% relative to ...
• Hydrologic and water quality performance of bioretention cells during plant senescence 

  Dhami, Jessica (2022-03-11)

  Bioretention cells (also known as rain gardens) are a Low Impact Development (LID) method for sustainable stormwater management. An increasingly popular form of urban stormwater infrastructure, bioretention cells ...
• Bar force profiles in LC refining 

  Aigner, Matthias (2022-01-28)

  Reducing energy consumption in pulp and paper refining requires a deep understanding of all the processes involved. This dissertation investigates fundamental mechanics of the low consistency mechanical refining process. ...
• Adaptive learning and robust model predictive control for uncertain dynamic systems 

  Zhang, Kunwu (2022-01-07)

  Recent decades have witnessed the phenomenal success of model predictive control (MPC) in a wide spectrum of domains, such as process industries, intelligent transportation, automotive applications, power systems, cyber ...
• Thermodynamic analysis of a direct air carbon capture plant with directions for energy efficiency improvements 

  Long-Innes, Ryan M. (2022-01-07)

  According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies play a significant role in deep mitigation pathways to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. As a result, interest in ...
• Macroscopic modelling of the phase interface in non-equilibrium evaporation/condensation based on the Enskog-Vlasov equation 

  Jahandideh, Hamidreza (2022-01-04)

  Considerable jump and slip phenomena are observed at the non-equilibrium phase interface in microflows. Hence, accurate modelling of the liquid-vapour interface transport mechanisms that matches the observations is required, ...

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