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Fire performance of cold-formed steel sections
(Plymouth University, 2015)
Thin-walled cold-formed steel (CFS) has exhibited inherent structural and architectural advantages over other constructional materials, for example, high strength-to-weight ratio, ease of fabrication, economy in transportation ...
Numerical modelling and control of an oscillating water column wave energy converter
(Plymouth University, 2015)
An oscillating water column (OWC) wave energy converter (WEC) is a device designed to
extract energy from waves at sea by using the water to move trapped air and thus drive
an air turbine. Because the incident waves and ...
TRIBOLOGICAL CHARACTERISATION AND MODELLING OF PREMIUM TUBULAR CONNECTIONS
(Plymouth University, 2014)
Premium tubular connections (sometimes referred to as rotary shouldered thread connections), are commonly used to complete a production string in a well in the oil and gas industry. These are attached to threaded pipe ends ...
NON INVASIVE INVESTIGATION OF SENSORIMOTOR CONTROL FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF BRAIN-MACHINE-INTERFACE (BMI)
(Plymouth University, 2014)
My thesis focuses on describing novel functional connectivity properties of the sensorimotor system that are of potential interest in the field of brain-machine interface. In particular, I have investigated how the ...
A Study of Non-Linguistic Utterances for Social Human-Robot Interaction
(Plymouth University, 2014)
The world of animation has painted an inspiring image of what the robots of the future could be. Taking the robots R2D2 and C3PO from the Star Wars films as representative examples, these robots are portrayed as being more ...
Computational Study of the Mechanisms Underlying Oscillation in Neuronal Locomotor Circuits
(Plymouth University, 2014)
In this thesis we model two very different movement-related neuronal circuits, both of which produce oscillatory patterns of activity.
In one case we study oscillatory activity in the basal ganglia under both normal and ...
Multiplicity of viral infection in brown algae
(Plymouth University, 2014)
Brown algae are important primary producers and habitat formers in coastal environments and are believed to have evolved multicellularity independently of the other eukaryotes. The phaeoviruses that infect them form a ...
Multi-phase modelling of multi-species ionic migration in concrete
(Plymouth University, 2014)
Chloride-induced corrosion of reinforcing steel in concrete is a worldwide problem. In order to predict how chlorides penetrate in concrete and how other ionic species in con-crete pore solution affect the penetration of ...
Socio-economic drivers of agricultural production in a transition economy: A case study of Hu Village, Sichuan Province, China
(Plymouth University, 2014)
Contemporary global agriculture has been undergoing transition towards different pathways. In developed countries, a shift from productivist agriculture to multifunctional agriculture has begun since the 1980s (Wilson, ...
Plant tissue culture and artificial seed production techniques for cauliflower and their use to study molecular analysis of abiotic stress tolerance
(Plymouth University, 2014)
A protocol for cauliflower micro-propagule production was developed and optimised for both micropropagation and artificial seed production techniques using meristematic tissues from cauliflower curd. All steps in the ...