Enhanced geothermal system (EGS) reservoirs are artificial deep reservoirs designed to exploit geothermal power accumulated within hot dry rocks in order to generate electricity. EGS reservoirs have large potential to be exploited as a renewable source of energy. However, curren…
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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 de…
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, identif…
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 equation…
Over the last 15 years, the estimation of energy consumption in buildings has become a critical process during various stages of building's lifecycle due to growing global scientific and political pressure to respond to climate change. It has been widely acknowledged in the lite…
The uncertainty and complexity of the interdependent global economy have amplified collective exposure of supply chains to disruptive events. In the construction world, the fragmented nature of the temporary project teams and the uncertain operating environment make construction…
Transportation is a central component to most political, economic, social and environmental issues throughout most inhabited societies. The concerns of transport have become widely acknowledged. It is broadly accepted that promoting alternative forms of transport such as walking…
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a life-threatening issue and the situation is deteriorating each year resulting in an increasing number of deaths. The resistance of drugs developed by microbes is a natural process but this can be sped up easily due to unhygienic environments, …
There is a drive in industry to reliably detect surface breaking sub-millimetre defects in low electrical conductivity materials, such as stainless steel, titanium, and titanium aluminide using eddy-current testing. The sensitivity of the eddy current method to these materials i…
One response to the increasing pressure of urban living is in the re-appropriation of public spaces and urban green to help sustain and enhance the environmental, social and cultural life of cities. But a major paradox arises here: while they are increasingly leaning on voluntar…
As an engineering design practitioner both as an educator as well as a practicing design consultant it became clear that there was a need for a sustainability measurement tool for the mechanical engineering product designer who actually designs products, that is, the engineer wh…
Phosphate glass fibre polymer composites have the potential to be utilised as degradable orthopaedic implant devices with modifications to the glass fibre composition allowing for materials with tailorable mechanical properties and degradation rates. Accordingly such materials c…
Fibre optic sensors have demonstrated a broad range of commercial potential due to their intrinsic characteristics such as low loss, very small size, light weight and immunity to electromagnetic interference. Representing one type of optical fibre sensors, long period gratings (…
The main topic of this work is detection of solid particles suspended in conductive medium and development of methodologies for determining cholesterol levels in human blood non-invasively by electrical impedance technique. The main part of this research is focused on the develo…
A novel non-separable non-stationary stochastic model for the representation and simulation of pulse-like earthquake ground motions (PLGMs), capable to accurately represent peak elastic and inelastic structural responses, is proposed in this work. Further, the model is employed …
Trade marks are valuable intangible intellectual property (IP) assets with potentially high reputational value that can be protected. Similarity between trade marks may potentially lead to infringement. That similarity is normally assessed based on the visual, conceptual and pho…
A challenge for clinicians when presented with a significant head injury in a young child and a postulated fall height is to determine the plausibility of such an injury. Previous authors have aimed to determine the head injuries that can result from a low height fall, however d…
Offshore wind power is a key element in EU policies to reduce the greenhouse effect and secure energy sources. In order to accomplish the EU’s target of a 20% share of energy from renewable sources by 2020, some of the planned projects have to be placed far away from the shoreli…
This thesis presents a numerical, analytical and experimental investigation of inter-seasonal heat transfer processes in soils. Particular attention is given to the energy balance at the soil surface and its impact on the performance of thermal energy storage devices in shallow …