Hydraulic Fracture Containment in Sand

The mechanism of hydraulic fracturing in soft, high permeability material is considered fundamentally different from that in hard, low permeability rock, where a tensile fracture is created and conventional linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) applies. The fracturing and associated modeling work is then a relatively new area. Particularly,...

High-Tc superconducting thin films devices

Data Driven Fault Tolerant Control: A Subspace Approach

The main stream research on fault detection and fault tolerant control has been focused on model based methods. As far as a model is concerned, changes therein due to faults have to be extracted from measured data. Generally speaking, existing approaches process measured inputs and outputs either by a filter designed based on a known model (e.g....

Probabilistic scenario-based decision making for water resources planning and management

Uncertainty is an unavoidable part of decision making. Decisions always have to be made before perfect knowledge on their consequences is known. However, there is no ‘perfect knowledge’ in hindsight. To research uncertainty and take actions proactively becomes the challenge to scientists and decision makers. In water resources planning and...

A free wake vortex model for floating wind turbine aerodynamics

In order to significantly increase the share of wind energy produced worldwide, wind energy technology is moving from onshore to offshore and from shallow water to deep water. Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are expected to be economically better than bottom-mounted turbines when placed in water deeper than 60 metres. Despite key...

“Mg” Bone: Ink extrusion-based additive manufacturing of Mg implants

The treatment of largy bone defect remains challenging in clinics. All the clinically available bone grafts have their own limitations and are not ideal for the treatment. Therefore, developing a new generation of suitable bone substitutes is urgently needed. In the recent years, porous magnesium (Mg) has been extensively studied for orthopedic...

High resolution soil moisture mapping using distributed temperature sensing: A data assimilation framework

System in package for intelligent lighting and sensing applications

As we enter era of “intelligence”, an increasing number of smart devices are being equipped around us. Such devices reflect the emerging need in microelectronics industry: increased functionality and miniaturization. As Moore’s law gradually meets its bottleneck, the concept of “More-than-Moore” (MtM) is proposed to address this issue by...

Transport Processes in Hydrating Cementitious Coating Systems

Concrete is currently the most widely used material in construction field. A good performance of concrete structures is required for reaching the designed service life. However, the initial scatter in the quality of concrete is unavoidable in practice, possibly resulting from improper design, poor execution, or deterioration due to stresses...

Optimization-based Approaches for Fault Detection and Estimation: with applications to health-monitoring of energy systems

Advancements in technology and societal demands have led to increasing complexity, size, and automation in modern industrial systems. This trend makes these systems more safety-critical, as the occurrence of faults in system components or subsystems may cause the entire system to fail, resulting in significant economic losses and casualties....