Heat-affected zone in welded cold-formed rectangular hollow section joints

High-strength steel (HSS) has higher strength but lower ductility than mild steel. The cross-section of the structural members may be reduced using HSS instead of mild steel, provided the buckling of elements does not govern the failure. The reduced member size benefits the environment and economy by means of less energy consumption, less carbon...

Wear Behaviour of A Convex Pattern Surface for Bulk Handling Equipment

Bulk handling plays a significant role in a range of industries, such as the mining, agricultural, chemical, and pharmaceutical industry. For the mining industry, economic development results in an increasing demand of steel and consequently the raw materials used for steel production, such as cokes and iron ore. Dealing with bulk material leads...

Public Rental Housing Governance in Urban China: Essence, Mechanisms and Measurement

Recently, Chinese Public Rental Housing (PRH) provision has witnessed a shift from ‘government’ to ‘governance’: policy making shifted from government steering to mixed forms involving government, market and civic actors to pursue effective and fair policies. In the meantime, this new-era PRH governance is credited with mixed results. However,...

Low-cost Space-borne Data for Inundation Modelling: Topography, Flood Extent and Water Level

Floods are among the most damaging natural hazards and their impacts have been dramatically increasing worldwide over the past decades. As most basins of the world are ungauged or poorly gauged and some measurement networks are continuously under decline, the spatial distribution of flood hazard is often difficult to estimate because the input...

Algorithms for Indoor Positioning Systems Using Ultra-Wideband Signals

Positioning systems and techniques have attracted more and more attention in recent years, in particular with satellite navigation technology as a tremendous enabler, and developments in indoor navigation. The work presented in this thesis has been conducted within the research project: \HERE: indoor positioning based on UWB radio signals",...