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Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 4: sporadic fatigue crack propagation (2020)
Journal Article
Bucknall, C., Altstädt, V., Auhl, D., Buckley, P., Dijkstra, D., Galeski, A., Gögelein, C., Handge, U. A., He, J., Liu, C.-Y., Michler, G., Piorkowska, E., Slouf, M., Vittorias, I., & Wu, J. J. (2020). Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 4: sporadic fatigue crack propagation. Pure and Applied Chemistry, 92(9), 1521-1536. https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0408

Fatigue tests were carried out on compression mouldings supplied by a leading polymer manufacturer. They were made from three batches of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) with weight-average relative molar masses, ¯¯¯¯ M W, of about 0... Read More about Structure, processing and performance of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (IUPAC Technical Report). Part 4: sporadic fatigue crack propagation.

Domain Adaptation via Image Style Transfer (2020)
Book Chapter
Atapour-Abarghouei, A., & Breckon, T. (2020). Domain Adaptation via Image Style Transfer. In H. Venkateswara, & S. Panchanathan (Eds.), Domain adaptation in computer vision with deep learning (137-156). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45529-3_8

While recent growth in modern machine learning techniques has led to remarkable strides in computer vision applications, one of the most significant challenges facing learning-based vision systems is the scarcity of large, high-fidelity datasets requ... Read More about Domain Adaptation via Image Style Transfer.

On 60 GHz MIMO Diversity in an Underground Mine Propagation Channel (2020)
Journal Article
Ait Taleb, H., Ghanem, K., Zaaimia, M. Z., Ben Mabrouk, I., & Nedil, M. (2020). On 60 GHz MIMO Diversity in an Underground Mine Propagation Channel. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 19(10), 1769-1773. https://doi.org/10.1109/lawp.2020.3017350

This letter presents a set of 60 GHz multiple-input–mutiple-output (MIMO) channel measurements to investigate the diversity gain in an underground mine. A 2 × 2 MIMO propagation measurements were performed in line-of-sight (LOS) within an underground... Read More about On 60 GHz MIMO Diversity in an Underground Mine Propagation Channel.

An implicit non-ordinary state-based peridynamics with stabilised correspondence material model for finite deformation analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Hashim, N. A., Coombs, W., Augarde, C., & Hattori, G. (2020). An implicit non-ordinary state-based peridynamics with stabilised correspondence material model for finite deformation analysis. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 371, Article 113304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.113304

This paper is devoted to the development of a stabilised implicit non-ordinary state-based peridynamics approach. We propose a geometrically nonlinear implicit approach focusing on quasi-static analyses. Since the construction of the Jacobian matrix... Read More about An implicit non-ordinary state-based peridynamics with stabilised correspondence material model for finite deformation analysis.

Parametric study on melting process of a shell-and-tube latent thermal energy storage under fluctuating thermal conditions (2020)
Journal Article
Li, Z., Lu, Y., Huang, R., Wang, L., Jiang, R., Yu, X., & Yu, X. (2020). Parametric study on melting process of a shell-and-tube latent thermal energy storage under fluctuating thermal conditions. Applied Thermal Engineering, 180, Article 115898. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2020.115898

The intermittent and fluctuating nature of thermal sources such as solar, geothermal, industrial processes and waste heat from internal combustion engines is one of the most challenging research areas and currently limits the implementation of heat r... Read More about Parametric study on melting process of a shell-and-tube latent thermal energy storage under fluctuating thermal conditions.

Energy Performance of a High-rise Residential Building Retrofitted to Passive Building Standard – A Case Study (2020)
Journal Article
Huang, H., Iman Binti Wan Mohd Nazi, W., Yu, Y., & Wang, Y. (2020). Energy Performance of a High-rise Residential Building Retrofitted to Passive Building Standard – A Case Study. Applied Thermal Engineering, 181, Article 115902. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2020.115902

In China, residential building is a major energy consumer and retrofitting of existing residential buildings is considered as an effective method in achieving energy savings. This study examined a high-rise residential building located in northern Ch... Read More about Energy Performance of a High-rise Residential Building Retrofitted to Passive Building Standard – A Case Study.

Design optimization for thermal conductivity of plain-woven textile composites (2020)
Journal Article
Zhou, X.-Y., Ruan, X., Zhang, S., Xiong, W., & Ullah, Z. (2021). Design optimization for thermal conductivity of plain-woven textile composites. Composite Structures, 255, Article 112830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2020.112830

Textile reinforced polymer composites have excellent structural performance including mechanical properties and thermal properties, which are benefited from their relative complex architecture of the reinforcement. Tailoring the geometry of the fabri... Read More about Design optimization for thermal conductivity of plain-woven textile composites.

A 1-bit High-Gain Flexible Metasurface Reflectarray for Terahertz Application (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rehman Kazim, J. U., Abohmra, A., Al-Hasan, M., Ben Mabrouk, I., Ur-Rehman, M., Sheikh, F., Kaiser, T., Imran, M. A., & Abbasi, Q. H. (2020, July). A 1-bit High-Gain Flexible Metasurface Reflectarray for Terahertz Application. Presented at 2020 Third International Workshop on Mobile Terahertz Systems (IWMTS), Essen, Germany

In this paper, a 1-bit, high gain and wide-band reflectarray metasurface is proposed. The proposed reflectarray operates from 0.9 THz to 1.4 THz giving operational bandwidth of 0.5 THz. The realized gain achieved is 32 dB at 1.4 THz while the maximum... Read More about A 1-bit High-Gain Flexible Metasurface Reflectarray for Terahertz Application.

Exact analysis of the multihop multibranch hybrid AF/DF relaying networks (2020)
Journal Article
Forghani, A. H., Al Hassan, M., Ben Mabrouk, I., Sultan, A., & Babar Rasheed, M. (2020). Exact analysis of the multihop multibranch hybrid AF/DF relaying networks. International Journal of Communication Systems, 33(15), Article e4549. https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.4549

In this paper, the exact analysis of a multihop multibranch (MHMB) relaying network is investigated wherein each relay can operate in amplify-and-forward (AF) or decode-and-forward (DF) modes depending upon the decoding result of its received signal.... Read More about Exact analysis of the multihop multibranch hybrid AF/DF relaying networks.

Improved epicentral distance estimations for railway earthquake early warning (2020)
Journal Article
Steele, H., Noda, S., Yamamoto, S., & Korenaga, M. (2020). Improved epicentral distance estimations for railway earthquake early warning. Quarterly Report of RTRI, 61(3), 222-227. https://doi.org/10.2219/rtriqr.61.3_222

Accurate, rapid estimation of epicentral distance, Δ, is essential for earthquake early warning systems. To improve Δ estimation, new methods to calculate the empirical relationship between the amplitude growth rate parameter, C, and Δ are investigat... Read More about Improved epicentral distance estimations for railway earthquake early warning.