Fibre-reinforced composites (FRPs) are strong, light, and resistant to corrosion. However, they are complex, anisotropic materials: They can deform and degrade via a variety of damage and failure modes, and their performance can be affected by macro-, meso- and micro-structural properties such as fibre architecture – as well as by specimen geometry...
Fibre-reinforced composites (FRPs) are strong, light and corrosion resistant. From marine to aerospace and space applications, potential benefits from wider use of high-strength FRPs include increased fuel efficiency and service life. However, they are also highly complex, with strongly anisotropic properties which depend not just on their ...
Objective: Motor Imagery (MI) is a key paradigm in Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) aimed at decoding motor intentions from EEG signals. However, accuracy remains challenging due to data limitations, noise, and non-stationarity. Method: This paper introduces DFBRTS, a novel method leveraging Riemannian geometry and Cross-Frequency Coupling to improv...
Amidst the intensifying extreme rainfall patterns due to climate change, global early warning systems for mass movements (e.g. landslides, avalanches) need to provide not only the coarsely aggregated danger reports, but also the necessary fine details to understand its potential implications on critical infrastructures such as transportatio...
Geometric Digital Twins (GDT) represent a critical advancement in road management, yet their practical implementation encounters a substantial obstacle due to development costs outweighing the expected benefits. This paper addresses this challenge and introduces an automated solution for creating 3D geometric foundation models for road digital twin...
Laser-induced grating spectroscopy (LIGS) is applied, for the first time, to a swirling nonpremixed hydrogen–air flame in a high-pressure combustion facility. A portable LIGS unit is used to probe 35 different axial and radial locations in the flame, and a new conditioned processing approach based on laminar flame simulation is introduced t...
The bulk of research in carbon capture involves high CO2 concentrations. This work instead describes the kinetics of CaO carbonation in mixtures with pCO2 between 0.38 and 2.70 vol % and at temperatures between 400 and 650 °C. The reaction was studied in a bed of SiO2 fluidized at flow rates corresponding to U/Umf of ∼4. Lower concentrations of CO2...
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