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Liu, Y. (author), Zhang, H. (author), Wang, Lingen (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Sun, Fenglian (author)Purpose: Crack and stress distribution on dies are key issues for the pressure-assisted sintering bonding of power modules. The purpose of this research is to build a relationship among stress distributions, sintering sequences and sintering pressures during the sintering processes. Design/methodology/approach: Three sintering sequences, S(a)...journal article 2019
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Mendoza Lugo, M.A. (author), Delgado-Hernández, David-Joaquín (author), Morales Napoles, O. (author)In the bridge industry, current traffic trends have increased the likelihood of having the simultaneous presence of both extreme live loads and earthquake events. To date, their concurrent interaction has scarcely been systematically studied. Prevailing studies have investigated the isolated existence of either live loads or seismic actions. In...journal article 2019
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Palin, D. (author), Mo, Yu (author), Wiktor, V.A.C. (author), Jonkers, H.M. (author)Presented is a modified test for generating crack permeability data for cementitious materials. Single-parallel cracks were generated in mortar specimens. The width of the cracks was analysed through stereomicroscope and computer tomography, and the water permeability of the cracks was determined. Reduction factors and crack flow models were...journal article 2019
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Nair, Varun (author), Litjens, R. (author), Zhang, Haibin (author)A suitability assessment and performance optimisation is presented of narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) cellular technology for use in smart energy distribution networks. The focus is on the reliable and timely delivery of outage restoration and management (ORM) messages at the event of a local or regional power outage. Both the cellular...journal article 2019
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Schouhamer Immink, Kees A. (author), Cai, Kui (author), Weber, J.H. (author)We consider the transmission and storage of encoded strings of symbols over a noisy channel, where dynamic threshold detection is proposed for achieving resilience against unknown scaling and offset of the received signal. We derive simple rules for dynamically estimating the unknown scale (gain) and offset. The estimates of the actual gain...journal article 2018
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Corman, Francesco (author), Quaglietta, E. (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author)Railway transportation provides sustainable, fast and safe transport. Its attractiveness is linked to a broad concept of service reliability: the capability to adhere to a timetable in the presence of delays perturbing traffic. To counter these phenomena, real-time rescheduling can be used, changing train orders and times, according to rules of...journal article 2018
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Christodoulou, A. (author), van Oosterom, P.J.M. (author)In this paper, a method is proposed for solving relative translations of 3D point clouds collected by Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) techniques. The proposed approach uses the attributes of the 3D points to generate and match 2D-projections, by employing a simple correlation technique instead of matching in 3D. As a result, the developed method...journal article 2018
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Cabrall, C.D.D. (author), Lu, Z. (author), Kyriakidis, M. (author), Manca, L. (author), Dijksterhuis, C. (author), Happee, R. (author), de Winter, J.C.F. (author)A common challenge with processing naturalistic driving data is that humans may need to categorize great volumes of recorded visual information. By means of the online platform CrowdFlower, we investigated the potential of crowdsourcing to categorize driving scene features (i.e., presence of other road users, straight road segments, etc.) at...journal article 2018
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Shipurkar, U. (author), Lyrakis, E. (author), Ma, Ke (author), Polinder, H. (author), Ferreira, Jan Abraham (author)The power electronic converter, especially the power semiconductor, is a major contributor to the failure rates of the wind turbine drivetrain. As the temperature is a major driving factor behind the failure mechanisms of these power semiconductors the choice of topology and switching strategy can have a significant effect on the reliability...journal article 2018
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Wang, Q. (author), Giustiniano, Domenico (author), Zuniga, Marco (author)LEDs in our buildings, vehicles, and consumer products are rapidly gaining visible light communication capabilities. LED links however are notorious for being unreliable: shadowing, blockage, mobility, external light, all of these issues can disrupt the connectivity easily. Therefore, unless a reliable and cost-efficient data link layer is...journal article 2018
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Meeusen, M. (author), Visser, P. (author), Fernández Macía, L. (author), Hubin, A. (author), Terryn, H.A. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)In this work, the study of the time-dependent behaviour of lithium carbonate based inhibitor technology for the active corrosion protection of aluminium alloy 2024-T3 is presented. Odd random phase electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (ORP-EIS) is selected as the electrochemical tool to study the corrosion protective properties of a model...journal article 2018
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Brown, T. W. (author), Bischof-Niemz, T. (author), Blok, K. (author), Breyer, C. (author), Lund, H. (author), Mathiesen, B. V. (author)A recent article ‘Burden of proof: A comprehensive review of the feasibility of 100% renewable-electricity systems’ claims that many studies of 100% renewable electricity systems do not demonstrate sufficient technical feasibility, according to the criteria of the article's authors (henceforth ‘the authors’). Here we analyse the authors’...journal article 2018
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Liu, Yang (author), Zhang, H. (author), Wang, Lingen (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Sun, Fenglian (author)The microstructure, thickness, porosity, and shear performance of the silver (Ag) sintering layers under different sintering pressures were investigated. Experimental results demonstrated that the thickness and the porosity of the sintering layer decreased when the sintering pressure varied from 5 MPa to 30 MPa. This densification phenomenon...journal article 2018
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Yazdan Mehr, M. (author), Toroghinejad, M.R. (author), Karimzadeh, F. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Reduction of intensity of light output is one of the most common degradation modes in light-emitting diode (LED) systems. It starts from the failure of the various components in the system, including the chip, the driver, and optical components (i.e. phosphorous layer). The kinetics of degradation in real life applications is relatively slow...journal article 2018
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Sun, B. (author), Fan, J. (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)This work studies the effect of randomness of LED's lumen depreciation on reliability of the entire LED lamp. An integrated LED light bulb is selected as carrier of the proposed method. A PoF based lumen depreciation model and electronic-thermal simulations are introduced for reliability prediction. The normal distribution is used to describe...conference paper 2018
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Mustaffa, Z. (author), van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (author), Dawotola, A. W. (author), Yu, S. Y. (author), Kim, D. K. (author)This paper presents a method for assessing the reliability of a corroded pipeline placed in series, with special consideration given to the effect of the length scale imposed by each segment of the pipe. The features of corrosion in different pipe segments are statistically correlated; thus, a failure in one section may impact the adjacent...journal article 2018
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Sun, B (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)This chapter investigates the reliability of the integrated LED lamps with electrolytic capacitor-less LED drivers. Firstly, the impact of the interaction between the degradations of the LED light source and the driver on the lumen depreciation is studied. The electronic-thermal simulation was carried out to obtain the history of temperatures of...book chapter 2018
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Sun, B. (author)Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) have become a very promising alternative lighting source with the main advantages of a longer lifetime and a higher efficiency than traditional ones. However, the LED lamp’s lifetime is compromised by its driver’s reliability. Although extensive studies have been made on the reliability of LEDs, the research on the...doctoral thesis 2017
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Shekhar, A. (author), Ramirez Elizondo, L.M. (author), Bauer, P. (author)Since shipboard power systems are inherently islanded and consist of energy intensive sources and loads, it is an interesting application for dc microgrids. The object of this paper is to explore the merits of dc based shipboard power distribution as compared to conventional ac solutions. A survey of current initiatives, emerging concepts and...conference paper 2017