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Front underride protection devices: methods for design and testing
(2014-04-01)
Improvements to highway safety are in continual demand. One of the most severe instances of vehicle collision occurs as a result of vehicle weight and sizing mismatch. The fitment of Front Underride Protection Devices ...
Micro-differential evolution: diversity enhancement and comparative study.
(2014-08-01)
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs), such as the differential evolution (DE) algorithm, suffer
from high computational time due to large population size and nature of evaluation, to
mention two major reasons. The micro-EAs employ ...
Nonlinear vibration and chaotic motion of uniform and non-uniform carbon nanotube resonators.
(2014-07-01)
Vibration analysis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is very essential field owing to
their many promising applications in tiny instruments. The unique and interesting
properties of CNTs, particularly their mechanical and electrical ...
Experimental study of turbulent boundary layer flows over forward facing steps with different surface conditions.
(2014-09-01)
This thesis is a fundamental study that was conducted experimentally to investigate the
effects of different surface types on turbulent flows over forward facing steps. A particle
image velocimetry technique was employed ...
Publish-subscribe based middleware for heterogeneous critical infrastructure systems communication.
(2014-07-01)
Critical Infrastructures (CIs) are physical assets and organizations responsible for the production and distribution of society’s vital goods and services. The increasing interconnection of CIs has resulted in interdependencies ...
Multi-antenna relay network beamforming design for multiuser peer-to-peer communications.
(2014-08-01)
In this work, we consider a multi-user peer-to-peer relay network with multiple multiantenna
relays which employ amplify-and-forward relaying protocol. Assuming distributed
relay beamforming strategy, we investigate the ...
Comparative study of ammonia-based clean rail transportation systems for Greater Toronto area
(2014-04-01)
Ammonia as a transportation fuel offers a carbon-free, hydrogen rich energy source
that emits no greenhouse gases in combustion, and has no global warming potential.
Furthermore, it may be produced from any renewable ...
Design and analysis of an adjustable wrist rehabilitation robot.
(2014-07-01)
Numerous people lose motor capabilities of their hands every year because of the Stroke. Rehabilitation robot was used to recover the movement ability based on the plasticity theory. Many robots have been proposed but most ...
Determining fuzzy link quality membership functions in wireless sensor networks
(2014-04-01)
Wireless Sensor Network routing protocols rely on the estimation of the quality of the links between nodes to determine a suitable path from the data source nodes to a data-collecting node. Several link estimators have ...
Development of a PSA-based safety assessment and management framework for nuclear-based hydrogen generation system.
(2014-08-01)
The nuclear-based Cooper-Chloride (Cu-Cl) thermochemical cycle a promising method for future large-scale hydrogen generation. The nuclear-based hydrogen generation leads to new challenge for system safety due to the ...