Racking performance of platform timber frame walls
Thesis
Dhonju, R. L. Racking performance of platform timber frame walls. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2058930
Platform timber frame construction is considered an efficient building method for multistorey dwellings where timber walls and diaphragms provide the overall stability for the...
EC5 - Deformation and creep of timber structures
Journal Article
Porteous, J., & Kermani, A. (2009)
EC5 - Deformation and creep of timber structures. The structural engineer : journal of the Institution of Structural Engineers, 87, 25-30
With timber or wood-based structures, deformation rather than strength behaviour will commonly be the limiting factor in design and as such, a lack of understanding of design ...
EKF-Based Enhanced Performance Controller Design for Nonlinear Stochastic Systems
Journal Article
Zhou, Y., Zhang, Q., Wang, H., Zhou, P., & Chai, T. (2018)
EKF-Based Enhanced Performance Controller Design for Nonlinear Stochastic Systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 63(4), 1155-1162. https://doi.org/10.1109/tac.2017.2742661
In this paper, a novel control algorithm is presented to enhance the performance of the tracking property for a class of nonlinear and dynamic stochastic systems subjected to ...
Letter from Edinburgh - governance, economic performance and economic disparities in Scotland
Journal Article
Brown, R., McQuaid, R. W., & Newlands, D. (2007)
Letter from Edinburgh - governance, economic performance and economic disparities in Scotland. Regions, 24-27
John Smith, when Leader of the Labour Party, said that devolution was “the settled will of the Scottish people”. However, far from quelling debates about governance – and par...
New approach for designing beam steering uniform antenna arrays using Genetic Algorithms
Conference Proceeding
Abusitta, M., Abd-Alhameed, R., Zhou, D., See, C., Jones, S., & Excell, P. (2009)
New approach for designing beam steering uniform antenna arrays using Genetic Algorithms. In 2009 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference, 617-620. https://doi.org/10.1109/lapc.2009.5352561
A new approach to the design of electronic beam steering in antenna arrays is introduced and analysed. The technique is demonstrated for a uniform antenna array structure. The...
Performance modeling and testing of a building integrated concentrating photovoltaic (BICPV) system
Journal Article
Baig, H., Sellami, N., & Mallick, T. K. (2015)
Performance modeling and testing of a building integrated concentrating photovoltaic (BICPV) system. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 134, 29-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2014.11.019
Building Integrated Concentrating Photovoltaics (BICPV) is a promising solution leading toward self-sustaining buildings. In this work, we have evaluated the performance of on...
Performance evaluation of electric vehicle ventilation using directly powered photovoltaic fans
Conference Proceeding
Kolhe, M. L., Muneer, T., Adhikari, S. K., & Smith, I. (2015)
Performance evaluation of electric vehicle ventilation using directly powered photovoltaic fans. https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC-India.2015.7386939
Electric vehicles have tremendous potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. One of the main draw-back of the electric vehicle though is the sourcing of energy for air-c...
The Effect of Occupants’ Behaviour on the Building Performance Gap: UK Residential Case Studies
Journal Article
Bahadori-Jahromi, A., Salem, R., Mylona, A., Hasan, A. U., & Zhang, H. (2022)
The Effect of Occupants’ Behaviour on the Building Performance Gap: UK Residential Case Studies. Sustainability, 14(3), Article 1362. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031362
Studies have shown that the assumptions used to create dynamic thermal models of buildings do not reflect their actual energy use. Bridging the energy performance gap is vital...
Active current transformer circuits for low distortion sensing in switched mode power converters.
Journal Article
McNeill, N., Gupta, N. K., & Armstrong, W. (2004)
Active current transformer circuits for low distortion sensing in switched mode power converters. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 19, 908-917. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2004.830075
The current transformer (CT) is frequently used for sensing applications in switched mode power converters. Advantages are that galvanic isolation is inherently incorporated, ...
Mutual information based input feature selection for classification problems
Journal Article
Cang, S., & Yu, H. (2012)
Mutual information based input feature selection for classification problems. Decision Support Systems, 54(1), 691-698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dss.2012.08.014
The elimination process aims to reduce the size of the input feature set and at the same time to retain the class discriminatory information for classification problems. This ...