A Review on Non-destructive Evaluation of Civil Structures Using Magnetic Sensors

The growing demand towards life cycle sustainability has created a tremendous interest in non-destructive evaluation (NDE) to minimize manufacturing defects and waste, and to improve maintenance and extend service life. Applications of Magnetic Sensors (MSs) in NDE of civil engineering structures have become of great interest in recent years...

Bracelet+: Harvesting the Leaked RF Energy in VLC with Wearable Bracelet Antenna

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is widely considered a promising technology for the coming 6G networks. Recent studies show that a VLC transmitter not only emits visible light signals but also leaks RF signals during the transmission. In this work, we devote effort to harvesting the free leaked RF energy from VLC transmissions. We observe that...

VAL: Volume and Access Pattern Leakage-Abuse Attack with Leaked Documents

Searchable Encryption schemes provide secure search over encrypted databases while allowing admitted information leakages. Generally, the leakages can be categorized into access and volume pattern. In most existing SE schemes, these leakages are caused by practical designs but are considered an acceptable price to achieve high search...

A Tale of Two Boards: On the Influence of Microarchitecture on Side-Channel Leakage

Advances in cryptography have enabled the features of confidentiality, security, and integrity on small embedded devices such as IoT devices. While mathematically strong, the platform on which an algorithm is implemented plays a significant role in the security of the final product. Side-channel attacks exploit the variations in the system’s...

Long-term encapsulation of platinum metallization using a HfO2 ALD - PDMS bilayer for non-hermetic active implants

In this work, we investigate the insulating performance of an atomic layer deposited (ALD) HfO2 - polymer bilayer for platinum (Pt) metallization. As test vehicles, Pt interdigitated comb structures (IDC) were designed and fabricated on SiO2/Si substrates. The IDCs were first coated with a 100 nm thin HfO2 ALD layer. A group of samples was...

Detection of Exfiltration in Sewer Systems with Tracers

Due to the ageing of our underground wastewater infrastructure, leakage of sewers and pressure mains and subsequent infiltration or exfiltration are becoming an increasingly important issue. Herein, we present a novel method to detect and potentially quantify exfiltration from sewer systems under variable flow conditions; the DEST method. The...

Managing long-term and large-scale datasets from distributed fiber optic dam/dike monitoring systems: (Abstract)

The influence of the leakage length on the initiation of backward erosion piping: (Paper and Abstract)

The earliest relation describing the risk of backward erosion piping, from Bligh in 1915, calculates an overall gradient over the dike. This gradient should be lower than a certain value depending on the material of the dike foundation for the dike to be safe. Later developments rationalize this number, showing the influence of grain size,...

DECANTeR: DEteCtion of Anomalous outbouNd HTTP Traffic by Passive Application Fingerprinting

We present DECANTeR, a system to detect anomalous outbound HTTP communication, which passively extracts fingerprints for each application running on a monitored host. The goal of our system is to detect unknown malware and backdoor communication indicated by unknown fingerprints extracted from a host's network traffic. We evaluate a prototype...

Testing and Numerical Simulation of Magnetic Fields Affected by Presence of Fatigue Cracks

Reducing energy consumption and leakage by active pressure control in a water supply system

WTP Gruszczyn supplies drinking water to a part of the city of Pozna?, in the Midwest of Poland. For the optimal automatic pressure control of the clear water pumping station, nine pressure measuring points were installed in the distribution network, and an active pressure control model was developed and installed. This model is a hybrid form of...

Small incidents, big consequences. Leakage of a building pit causes major settlement of adjacent historical houses. Amsterdam North-South metro line project

The construction of the North-South metro line project in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) is ongoing for the last five years and until recently suffered no major construction incidents. In the summer of 2008 two leakages occurred in one of the building pits of the deep stations. These leakages caused major settlement of a number of historical houses...