Liu, Qiang

Ester liquids including both natural ester and synthetic ester are being considered as potential alternatives to mineral oil, due to their better environmental performance and for some liquids their higher fire point. Although these liquids have been widely used in distribution …

Cold formed steel (CFS) sigma sections are commonly used as purlins in the construction of modern industrial and residential buildings due to their excellent strength-to-weight ratio. This thesis reports investigations on the structural behaviour of CFS sigma purlins in three di…

This thesis presents a methodology to automatically determine a data memory organisation at compiletime, suitable to exploit data reuse and loop-level parallelization, in order to achieve high performanceand low power design for data-dominated applications. Moore?s Law has enabl…