Life cycle assessment of a medium-sized photovoltaic facility at a high latitude location
Journal Article
Muneer, T., Younes, S., Lambert, N., & Kubie, J. (2006)
Life cycle assessment of a medium-sized photovoltaic facility at a high latitude location. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 220(6), 517-524. https://doi.org/10.1243/09576509jpe253
Performance of a 160 m 2 photovoltaic installation at the Napier University's Merchiston Campus, situated 3 km from Edinburgh's city centre, is presented. The alternative curr...
Equipment for the investigation of the accelerated curing of concrete using direct electrical conduction
Journal Article
Wilson, J. G., & Gupta, N. K. (2004)
Equipment for the investigation of the accelerated curing of concrete using direct electrical conduction. Measurement : journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 35(3), 243-250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2003.11.002
The need for accelerated curing of concrete in precast civil engineering components is discussed, and the techniques available to achieve this are presented, with particular e...
Exact minimization of large fixed polarity dual form of reed-muller functions
Journal Article
Yang, M., Xu, H., Wang, L. Y., Tong, J. R., & Almaini, A. E. A. (2007)
Exact minimization of large fixed polarity dual form of reed-muller functions. Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology, 1931-1933. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSICT.2006.306532
Dual form of Reed-Muller (DFRM) expansions are implemented in OX/XNOR logic, which are based on the features of coincidence operation and are known as fixed polarity Canonical...
Electron transport in metal-amorphous silicon-metal memory devices.
Journal Article
Hu, J., Hajto, J., Snell, A. J., & Rose, M. J. (2001)
Electron transport in metal-amorphous silicon-metal memory devices. IEICE Transactions on Electronics, E84-C, 1197-1201
Current-voltage characteristics of Cr-doped hydrogenated amorphous silicon-V (Cr/p+a-Si:H/V) analogue memory switching devices have been measured over a wide range of device r...
Assessing the relationship between the human response to vibration in the vibrotactile threshold shift with HAV exposure determined on the subject
Conference Proceeding
Anderson, L., Taylor, M., Maeda, S., & McLaughlin, J. (2018)
Assessing the relationship between the human response to vibration in the vibrotactile threshold shift with HAV exposure determined on the subject. In The 26th Japan Conference on Human Response to Vibration Proceedings. , (86-100
Existing risk assessment methodologies are based on fixed tool vibration magnitude emission data (such as tool declaration data or a point in time (typically annually) tool me...
You are where you have been.
Conference Proceeding
Clarke, R. A., & Wigan, M. (2008)
You are where you have been. In K. Michael, & M. Michael (Eds.), Australia and the new technologies: Evidence based policy on public administration. [Proceedings of the] Third RSNA Workshop on the Social Implications of National Security: Evidence based policy on public administration, 23-24 July 2008, 100-113
Location is a critical aspect of both privacy and surveillance. A detailed record of locations allows all sorts of other information to be linked together, adding to informati...
Computation of Electromagnetic Fields in Assemblages of Biological Cells Using a Modified Finite-Difference Time-Domain Scheme
Journal Article
See, C. H., Abd-Alhameed, R. A., & Excell, P. S. (2007)
Computation of Electromagnetic Fields in Assemblages of Biological Cells Using a Modified Finite-Difference Time-Domain Scheme. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 55(9), 1986-1994. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmtt.2007.904064
When modeling objects that are small compared with the wavelength, e.g., biological cells at radio frequencies, the standard finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method requir...
The Influence of Particles’ Aspect Ratio on the Shear Behaviour of Granular Materials
Conference Proceeding
Xie, Y. H., Yang, Z. X., & Barreto, D. (2017)
The Influence of Particles’ Aspect Ratio on the Shear Behaviour of Granular Materials. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Discrete Element Methods. , (253-264). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1926-5_29
The mechanical response of granular material depends both on the material properties (e.g. stiffness, anisotropy, permeability, etc.) and particle geometry (shape, roughness, ...
A design tool for predicting the performances of light pipes
Journal Article
Jenkins, D., Muneer, T., & Kubie, J. (2005)
A design tool for predicting the performances of light pipes. Energy and Buildings, 37(5), 485-492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2004.09.014
Light pipes are simple means of directing daylight (diffuse and direct light) into interior spaces. Previous work by the authors described the initial work on a luminous flux ...
Design of a PV driven low flow solar domestic hot water system and modelling of the system collector outlet temperature.
Journal Article
Grassie, T., MacGregor, K., Muneer, T., & Kubie, J. (2002)
Design of a PV driven low flow solar domestic hot water system and modelling of the system collector outlet temperature. Energy Conversion and Management, 43, 1063-1078. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0196-8904%2801%2900090-5
The system under consideration comprises a new freeze tolerant flat plate collector connected directly to a domestic hot water storage tank. Water is circulated by means of a ...