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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"H200 - Civil engineering"”.
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The role of town planning and other legislation in the transport planning process
In common with all other aspects of Central and Local Government activity, transportation planning is carried out against a background of legislation. Without this the limits of the work would not be defined, nor would the manner in which the conclusions and proposals may be implemented be …
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Treatise on the 1980 JCT standard form of building contract
This document provides a detailed study of the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) Standard Form of Building Contract (1980 edition). As the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract is a product of the development of time, a brief history of its evolution is included to assist in understanding the concept …
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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modelling of renewable energy turbine wake interactions
This thesis presents Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of renewable turbines akin to those used for wind, hydro, and tidal applications. The models developed took the form of actuator discs with the solution of incompressible Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations with the k-ω SST …
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Fault Tolerant Flight Control: An Application of the Fully Connected Cascade Neural Network
The endurance of an aircraft can be increased in the presence of failures by utilising flight control systems that are tolerant to failures. Such systems are known as fault tolerant flight control systems (FTFCS). FTFCS can be implemented by developing failure detection, identification and …
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Nonlinear aeroelastic modelling of large wind turbine composite blades
The increasing size and flexibility of large wind turbine blades introduces significant aeroelastic effects, which are caused by fluid-structure interaction. These effects might result in aeroelastic instability problems, such as edgewise instability and flutter, which can be devastating to the …
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Environmental Performance Evaluation of Heating and Cooling Between Sustainable and Conventional Office Building
The aim of the study was to evaluate the long-term environmental performance effectiveness of heating and cooling systems between ‘sustainable’ and conventional office buildings. The key research question that this study tried to answear is, ‘To what extent do sustainable office buildings remain …
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Implementation of the lean approach in sustainable construction: a conceptual framework
There has been a growing awareness of the adoption of lean principles within UK construction organisations. The UK Government has recognised the importance of the construction industry in achieving the overall goals of sustainable development. Therefore, the Government has put several policies and …
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The Effect of Surface Processing Methods on the Laser Induced Damage Threshold of Fused Silica
High peak power laser systems, such as National Ignition Facility (NIF), Laser Mega Joule (LMJ), and High Power laser Energy Research facility (HiPER), include a large amount of optics. Fused silica glass is one of the most common optical materials which is used in these high peak power laser …
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Accelerating the parsing process with an Application Specific VLSI RISC processor
This thesis investigates the topic of the design, implementation and potential use of specialised hardware used to accelerate the recognition and translation of computer programs expressed in a range of computer languages. This investigation focuses specifically on the twin processes of parsing and …
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Biometric Person Identification Using Near-infrared Hand-dorsa Vein Images
Biometric recognition is becoming more and more important with the increasing demand for security, and more usable with the improvement of computer vision as well as pattern recognition technologies. Hand vein patterns have been recognised as a good biometric measure for personal identification due …
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Development and management of high-fidelity test technology for comprehensive performance evaluation of electronic warfare systems in multi-threat environments.
This thesis addresses the key challenge of improving multi-threat RF environment simulator capability and fidelity to the level where most, if not all electronic warfare receiver performance could be adequately proven on ground-based test facilities rather than by expensive and difficult to repeat …
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Probabilistic Modelling of Sensitivity in Fire Simulations
… cause deviations in the results. Conventional engineering approaches are not suitable for reliable prediction of effects of input uncertainties on the results. In this work, probabilistic sensitivity analysis based on random sampling is used to determine the most important input variables and …
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A Hybrid Neural Network Architecture for Texture Analysis in Digital Image Processing Applications
A new hybrid neural network model capable of texture analysis in a digital image processing environment is presented in this thesis. This model is constructed from two different types of neural network, self-organisation and back-propagation. Along with a brief resume of digital image processing …
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Tracking moving objects in surveillance video
The thesis looks at approaches to the detection and tracking of potential objects of interest in surveillance video. The aim was to investigate and develop methods that might be suitable for eventual application through embedded software, running on a fixed-point processor, in analytics capable …
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Evacuation Modelling of Mixed-Ability Populations in Fire Emergencies
… framework for designing solutions to fire safety engineering problems. The purpose of this research programme was to develop a more general methodology for predicting evacuation times of mixed-ability populations. This was made possible through the development and use of a novel concept of …
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Robust hardware elements for weightless artificial neural networks
This thesis investigates novel robust hardware elements for weightless artificial neural systems with a bias towards high integrity avionics applications. The author initially reviews the building blocks of physiological neural systems and then chronologically describes the development of …
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Aerodynamic design and analysis of small horizontal axis wind turbine blades
… fixed-pitch fixed-speed (FPFS) wind turbine. An engineering blade design and analysis code was developed in MATLAB to accommodate aerodynamic design and analysis of the blades. The linearisation for radial profiles of blade chord and twist angle for the FPFS wind turbine blade design was …
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Effective and Efficient Non-Destructive Testing of Large and Complex Shaped Aircraft Structures
The main aim of the research described within this thesis is to develop methodologies that enhance the defect detection capabilities of nondestructive testing (NDT) for the aircraft industry. Modem aircraft non-destructive testing requires the detection of small defects in large complex shaped …
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Aerodynamics Analysis of Small Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine Blades by Using 2D and 3D CFD Modelling
Please write a brief description of your work, or copy an abstract you have included in the Thesis Wind power is one of the most important sources of renewable energy. Wind-turbines extract kinetic energy from the wind. Currently much research has concentrated on improving the aerodynamic …
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The fundamentals of two-phase flow in wet domestic central heating systems
An emerging trend in the building services industry is the installation of passive deaerators on the flow line of domestic wet central heating systems. To date, no data and theoretical models predicting the two-phase flow characteristics in domestic wet central heating systems are available in the …