Submissions from 2022
A systematic review of optimal planning and deployment of distributed generation and energy storage systems in power networks, Dong Zhang, G. M. Shafiullah, Choton K. Das, and Kok Wai Wong
Single-atom catalysts on metal-based supports for solar photoreduction catalysis, Huayang Zhang, Wenjie Tian, Xiaoguang Duan, Hongqi Sun, Yingping Huang, Yanfen Fang, and Shaobin Wang
Carbon nitride-based Z-scheme photocatalysts for non-sacrificial overall water splitting, Huayang Zhang, Wenjie Tian, Jinqiang Zhang, Xiaoguang Duan, Shaomin Liu, Hongqi Sun, and Shaobin Wang
Regulation of energetic hot carriers on Pt/TiO2 with thermal energy for photothermal catalysis, Jinqiang Zhang, Yunguo Li, Jiaming Sun, Haijun Chen, Yuezhao Zhu, Xiaoli Zhao, Lai Chang Zhang, Shuaijun Wang, Huayang Zhang, Xiaoguang Duan, Lei Shi, Shu Zhang, Peng Zhang, Guosheng Shao, Mingbo Wu, Shaobin Wang, and Hongqi Sun
Microstructure evolution and deformation mechanism of α+ β dual-phase Ti-xNb-yTa-2Zr alloys with high performance, Ting Zhang, Daixiu Wei, Eryi Lu, Wen Wang, Kuaishe Wang, Xiaoqing Li, Lai-Chang Zhang, Hidemi Kato, Weijie Lu, and Liqiang Wang
Effect of Ti and B additions on the microstructure and properties of FeCoCrNi high entropy alloys prepared by hot pressing, Yichen Zhang, Yanru Yang, Jifeng Zhang, Jiawen Li, Heguo Zhu, and Zonghan Xie
Resource allocation for blockchain-enabled fog computing with deep reinforcement learning, Yihe Zhang, Shanshan Tu, Muhammad Waqas, Yongjie Yang, Aiming Wu, and Xuetao Bai
Fine-grained ship image recognition based on BCNN with inception and AM-Softmax, Zhilin Zhang, Ting Zhang, Zhaoying Liu, Peijie Zhang, Shanshan Tu, Yujian Li, and Muhammad Waqas
Selective laser melting of bulk immiscible alloy with enhanced strength: Heterogeneous microstructure and deformation mechanisms, Shengfeng Zhou, Min Xie, Changyi Wu, Yanliang Yi, Dongchu Chen, and Laichang Zhang
The utilization of algae and seaweed biomass for bioremediation of heavy metal-contaminated wastewater, Hussein Znad, Md Rabiul Awual, and Sri Martini
Theses from 2021
Simultaneous machining of aerospace structural materials using poly-drills, Muhammad Aamir
The effect of TiN-, TiCN-, TiAlN-, and TiSiN coated tools on the surface defects and geometric tolerances of holes in multi-spindle drilling of Al2024 alloy, Muhammad Aamir, Adrian Davis, William Keeble, Ugur Koklu, Khaled Giasin, Ana Vafadar, and Majid Tolouei Rad
Effect of cutting parameters and tool geometry on the performance analysis of one-shot drilling process of AA2024-t3, Muhammad Aamir, Khaled Giasin, Majid Tolouei-Rad, Israr Ud Din, Muhammad I. Hanif, Ugur Kuklu, Danil Y. Pimenov, and Muhammad Ikhlaq
Multi-spindle drilling of Al2024 alloy and the effect of TiAlN and TiSiN-coated carbide drills for productivity improvement, Muhammad Aamir, Majid Tolouei-Rad, and Khaled Giasin
Evaluation of the surface defects and dimensional tolerances in multi-hole drilling of AA5083, AA6061, and AA2024, Muhammad Aamir, Majid Tolouei Rad, Khaled Giasin, Ana Vafadar, Ugur Koklu, and William Keeble
Effect of rock wettability on the electric resistivity of hydrate formations: An experimental investigation, Ghazanfer Raza Abbasi, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Faisal Ur Rahman Awan, Abubakar Isah, Alireza Keshavarz, and Stefan Iglauer
Influence of rock wettability on THF hydrate saturation and distribution in sandstones, Ghazanfer Raza Abbasi, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Abubakar Isah, Alireza Keshavarz, and Sefan Iglauer
CO2/Basalt's interfacial tension and wettability directly from gas density: Implications for carbon geo-sequestration, Hesham Abdulelah, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Muhammad Ali, Ausama Giwelli, Berihun Mamo Negash, and Mohammad Sarmadivaleh
Drastic enhancement of CO2 adsorption capacity by negatively charged sub-bituminous coal, Hussein R. Abid, Stefan Iglauer, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, and Alireza Keshavarz
Striking CO2 capture and CO2/N2 separation by Mn/Al bimetallic MIL-53, Hussein R. Abid, Zana H. Rada, Lihong Liu, Shaobin Wang, and Shaomin Liu
Numerical assessment of the overall heat transfer and pressure drop performances of an aqueous ammonia base-nanofluids in rectangular microchannel heat sinks, Ahmed Mohammed Adham and Hussein A. Mohammed
Liquid nitrogen fracturing efficiency as a function of coal rank: A multi-scale tomographic study, Hamed Akhondzadeh, Alireza Keshavarz, Faisal Ur Rahman Awan, Muhammad Ali, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Changfu Liu, Yongfei Yang, Stefan Iglauer, Boris Gurevich, and Maxim Lebedev
Enhancing the adhesion strength and wear resistance of nanostructured NiCrN coatings, Rumana Akhter, Zhifeng Zhou, Zonghan Xie, and Paul Munroe
Harmonizing mechanical responses of nanostructured CrN coatings via Ni additions, Rumana Akhter, Zhifeng Zhou, Zonghan Xie, and Paul Munroe
Measurement of micro burr and slot widths through image processing: Comparison of manual and automated measurements in micro‐milling, Fatih Akkoyun, Ali Ercetin, Kubilay Aslantas, Danil Yurievich Pimenov, Khaled Giasin, Avinash Lakshmikanthan, and Muhammad Aamir
Synergistic effect of nanoparticles and polymers on the rheological properties of injection fluids: Implications for enhanced oil recovery, Sarmad Al-Anssari, Muhammad Ali, Mobarak Alajmi, Hamed Akhondzadeh, Abbas Khaksar Manshad, Azim Kalantariasl, Stefan Iglauer, and Alireza Keshavarz
Graphene nanoplatelets suspended in different basefluids based solar collector: An experimental and analytical study, Omer A. Alawi, Haslinda Mohamed Kamar, Abdul Rahman Mallah, Hussein A. Mohammed, Mohd Aizad Sazrul Sabrudin, Omar A. Hussein, Salim Newaz Kazi, and Gholamhassan Najafi
Nanofluids for flat plate solar collectors: Fundamentals and applications, Omer A. Alawi, Haslinda Mohamed Kamar, A. R. Mallah, Hussein A. Mohammed, S. N. Kazi, Nor Azwadi Che Sidik, and Gholamhassan Najafi
Investigating the mechanism of microbiologically influenced corrosion of carbon steel using X-ray micro-computed tomography, Mohammed Bassil Albahri, Ahmed Barifcani, Stefan Iglauer, Maxim Lebedev, Connor O’Neil, Silvia J. Salgar-Chaparro, and Laura L. Machuca
Charging infrastructure for commercial electric vehicles: Challenges and future works, Bassam Al-Hanahi, Iftekhar Ahmad, Daryoush Habibi, and Mohammad A. S. Masoum
Sub-micron moulding topological mass transport regimes in angled vortex fluidic flow, Thaar M. D. Alharbi, Matt Jellicoe, Xuan Luo, Kasturi Vimalanathan, Ibrahim K. Alsulami, Bediea S. AL Harbi, Aghil Igder, Fayed A. J. Alrashaidi, Xianjue Chen, Keith A. Stubbs, Justin M. Chalker, Wei Zhang, Ramiz A. Boulos, Darryl B. Jones, Jamie S. Quinton, and Colin L. Raston
CO2-wettability reversal of cap-rock by alumina nanofluid: Implications for CO2 geo-storage, Muhammad Ali, Adnan Aftab, Faisal Ur Rahman Awan, Hamed Akhondzadeh, Alireza Keshavarz, Ali Saeedi, Stefan Iglauer, and Mohammad Sarmadivaleh
Hydrogen wettability of quartz substrates exposed to organic acids; Implications for hydrogen geo-storage in sandstone reservoirs, Muhammad Ali, Nilesh K. Jha, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Yihuai Zhang, Stefan Iglauer, and Mohammad Sarmadivaleh
Influence of pressure, temperature and organic surface concentration on hydrogen wettability of caprock, implications for hydrogen geo-storage, Muhammad Ali, Nurudeen Yekeen, Nilanjan Pal, Alireza Keshavarz, Stefan Iglauer, and Hussein Hoteit
Effect of humic acid on CO2-wettability in sandstone formation, Mujahid Ali, Faisal Ur Rahman Awan, Muhammad Ali, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Muhammad Arif, Mónica Sánchez-Román, Alireza Keshavarz, and Stefan Iglauer
A convolutional neural network-based framework for the assessment of human muscles, Noman Ali, Muhammad Abubakr, Muhammad Bilal Shaikh, Ali Raza Shahid, Wayne Poon, and Rizwan Qureshi
Numerical investigation of microchannel heat sink with trefoil shape ribs, Sadiq Ali, Faraz Ahmad, Kareem Akhtar, Numan Habib, Muhammad Aamir, Khaled Giasin, Ana Vafadar, and Danil Yurievich Pimenov
Analysis of microstructure and mechanical properties of bismuth-doped SAC305 lead-free solder alloy at high temperature, Umair Ali, Hamza Khan, Muhammad Aamir, Khaled Giasin, Numan Habib, and Muhammad Owais Awan
Sustainable removal of copper from wastewater using chemically treated bio-sorbent: Characterization, mechanism and process kinetics, Ahmed M. D. Al Ketife, Fares Almomani, and Hussein Znad
Deep learning versus spectral techniques for frequency estimation of single tones: Reduced complexity for software-defined radio and iot sensor communications, Hind R. Almayyali and Zahir M. Hussain
Characterization and analysis of naturally fractured gas reservoirs based on stimulated reservoir volume and petro-physical parameters, Ali Al-Rubaye, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Muhammad Ali, and Hisham Ben Mahmud
Performance of FFT-OFDM versus DWT-OFDM under compressive sensing, Zainab Hdeib Al-Shably and Zahir M. Hussain
Deep learning control for digital feedback systems: Improved performance with robustness against parameter change, Nuha A. S. Alwan and Zahir M. Hussain
Deep learning techniques for noise-resilient localisation in wireless sensor networks, Nuha A. S. Alwan and Zahir M. Hussain
Frequency estimation from compressed measurements of a sinusoid in moving‐average colored noise, Nuha A. S. Alwan and Zahir M. Hussain
Short word-length entering compressive sensing domain: Improved energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks, Nuha A. S. Alwan and Zahir M. Hussain
Assessment of CO2/shale interfacial tension, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Hesham Abdulelah, Nurudeen Yekeen, Muhammad Ali, Berihun M. Negash, and Yihuai Zhang
Enhancing CO2 storage capacity and containment security of basaltic formation using silica nanofluids, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Mujahid Ali, Ghazanfer Raza Abbasi, Hussein Rasool Abid, and Nilesh Kumar Jha
Western Australia basalt-CO2-brine wettability at geo-storage conditions, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Mujahid Ali, Muhammad Ali, Reza Taheri, and Domenik Wolff-Boenisch
On hydrogen wettability of basaltic rock, Ahmed Al-Yaseri and Nilesh Kumar Jha
Hydrogen wettability of clays: Implications for underground hydrogen storage, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Domenik Wolff-Boenisch, Cut Aja Fauziah, and Stefan Iglauer
CFD-PBM and experimental investigation of a shear thinning fluid in a gas-liquid tank agitated by a helical ribbon impeller, Maryam Amiraftabi, Mehdi Khiadani, Hussein A. Mohammed, and Arslan Arshad
Experimental and CFD–PBM investigation of an agitated bioreactor using a dual helical ribbon impeller, Maryamsadat Amiraftabi
Advances in zeolite imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) derived bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts and their application in zinc–air batteries, Yasir Arafat, Muhammad R. Azhar, Yijun Zhong, Hussein R. Abid, Moses O. Tadé, and Zongping Shao
Metal-free carbon based air electrodes for Zn-air batteries: Recent advances and perspective, Yasir Arafat, Muhammad R. Azhar, Yijun Zhong, Moses O. Tade, and Zongping Shao
Behaviour of sandy soil reinforced with geotextile having partially and fully wrapped ends, Shadi Aria, Sanjay K. Shukla, and Alireza Mohyeddin
X-ray tomography imaging of shale microstructures: A review in the context of multiscale correlative imaging, Muhammad Arif, Mohamed Mahmoud, Yihuai Zhang, and Stefan Iglauer
Shale wettability: Data sets, challenges, and outlook, Muhammad Arif, Yihuai Zhang, and Stefan Iglauer
Hematite-based nanomaterials for photocatalytic degradation of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs): A short review, Abdul Hannan Asif, Shaobin Wang, and Hongqi Sun
Heterogeneous activation of peroxymonosulfate by Co-doped Fe2O3 nanospheres for degradation of p-hydroxybenzoic acid, Abdul H. Asif, Nasir Rafique, Rajan A. K. Hirani, Hong Wu, Lei Shi, and Hongqi Sun
The effect of hollow glass microspheres, carbon nanofibers and activated carbon powder on mechanical and dry shrinkage performance of ultra-lightweight engineered cementitious composites, Farhad Aslani, Ayoub Dehghani, and Lining Wang
Development and analysis of highly workable high-strength heavyweight concrete using magnetite aggregates, Farhad Aslani, David M. Lesslie, and Fatemeh Hamidi
Borehole stability in shale formations: Effects of thermal˗mechanical˗chemical parameters on well design, Masoud Aslannezhad, Azim Kalantariasl, and Alireza Keshavarz
Micro-proppant placement in hydraulic and natural fracture stimulation in unconventional reservoirs: A review, Masoud Aslannezhad, Azim Kalantariasl, Zhenjiang You, Stefan Iglauer, and Alireza Keshavarz
Adsorption of nanoparticles on glass bead surface for enhancing proppant performance: A systematic experimental study, Faisal Ur Rahman Awan, Alireza Keshavarz, Muhamamd Rizwan Azhar, Hamed Akhondzadeh, Muhamamd Ali, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Hussein R. Abid, and Stefan Iglauer
The role of leadership in aviation safety and aircraft airworthiness, Ayiei Ayiei, Luke Pollock, Fatima Najeeb Khan, John Murray, Glenn Baxter, and Graham Wild
An adsorption–catalysis pathway toward sustainable application of mesoporous carbon nanospheres for efficient environmental remediation, Muhammad Rizwan Azhar, Yasir Arafat, Yijun Zhong, Mehdi Khiadani, Moses O. Tade, Shaobin Wang, and Zongping Shao
Embedded strip footing in a geotextile-reinforced sand slope, Emmanuel Baah-Frempong and Sanjay Kumar Shukla
CO2 – brine – sandstone wettability evaluation at reservoir conditions via nuclear magnetic resonance measurements, Auby Baban, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Alireza Keshavarz, R. Amin, and Stefan Iglauer
Characterization, micellization behavior, and performance of a novel surfactant derived from Gundelia tournefortii plant during chemical enhanced oil recovery, Hossein Bahraminejad, Abbas Khaksar Manshad, and Alireza Keshavarz
Catalytic upgradation of bio-oil over metal supported activated carbon catalysts in sub-supercritical ethanol, Humair Ahmed Baloch, Sabzoi Nizamuddin, M. T.H. Siddiqui, Sajid Riaz, Kristina Konstas, N. M. Mubarak, M. P. Srinivasan, and G. J. Griffin
Effect of solvent on hydro-solvothermal co liquefaction of sugarcane bagasse and polyethylene for bio-oil production in ethanol–water system, Humair Ahmed Baloch, M. T. H. Siddiqui, Sabzoi Nizamuddin, Sajid Riaz, Muhammad Haris, N. M. Mubarak, G. J. Griffin, and M. P. Srinivasan
A comparative study of various machine learning methods for performance prediction of an evaporative condenser, Pooria Behnam, Meysam Faegh, Mohammad B. Shafii, and Mehdi Khiadani
Semifluidized bed adsorption column studies for simultaneous removal of aqueous phase Pb2+ and Cd2+ by composite adsorbents: An experimental and mass transfer dynamic model–based approach, Subrata Biswas, Shubham Sharma, Hammad Siddiqi, Bhim Charan Meikap, Tushar Kanti Sen, and Mehdi Khiadani
A unified form of fuzzy c-means and k-means algorithms and its partitional implementation, Ioan-Daniel Borlea, Radu-Emil Precup, Alexandra-Bianca Borlea, and Daniel Iercan
Investigating temperature and moisture profiles of seasonally frozen soil under different land covers using actively heated fiber Bragg grating sensors, Ding-Feng Cao, Hong-Hu Zhu, Bing Wu, Jia-Chen Wang, and Sanjay K. Shukla
Video analysis and verification of direct head impacts recorded by wearable sensors in junior rugby league players, Lauchlan Carey, Douglas P. Terry, Andrew S. McIntosh, Peter Stanwell, Grant L. Iverson, and Andrew J. Gardner
A strategy to introduce gradient equiaxed grains into Zr sheet by combining laser surface treatment, rolling and annealing, Linjiang Chai, Yufan Zhu, Xing Hu, Korukonda L. Murty, Ning Guo, Liang-Yu Chen, Yanlong Ma, and Lai-Chang Zhang
Enhanced oil recovery by hydrophilic silica nanofluid: Experimental evaluation of the impact of parameters and mechanisms on recovery potential, Tariq A. Chandio, Muhammad A. Manan, Khalil R. Memon, Ghulam Abbas, and Ghazanfer R. Abbasi
Editorial: Hexagonal close-packed metals and alloys: Processing, microstructure and properties, Liang-Yu Chen, Linjiang Chai, and Lai-Chang Zhang
Additive manufacturing of metallic lattice structures: Unconstrained design, accurate fabrication, fascinated performances, and challenges, Liang-Yu Chen, Shun-Xing Liang, Yujing Liu, and Lai-Chang Zhang
Corrosion behavior and characteristics of passive films of laser powder bed fusion produced Ti-6Al-4V in dynamic Hank’s solution, Liang-Yu Chen, Hong-Yue Zhang, Chuanbo Zheng, Hong-Yu Yang, Peng Qin, Cuihua Zhao, Sheng Lu, Shun-Xing Liang, Linjiang Chai, and Lai-Chang Zhang
Size-dependent deformation behavior of dual-phase, nanostructured CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy, Yujie Chen, Xianghai An, Zhifeng Zhou, Paul Munroe, Sam Zhang, Xiaozhou Liao, and Zonghan Xie
Breaking-down and parameterising wave energy converter costs using the CapEx and similitude methods, Ophelie Choupin, Michael Henriksen, Amir Etemad-Shahidi, and Rodger Tomlinson
A decision-making process for wave energy converter and location pairing, O. Choupin, F. Pinheiro Andutta, Amir Etemad-Shahidi, and R. Tomlinson
Diagnosis and prognosis of rolling element bearings using audio signals and deep learning, Welihena Gamage Sameera Darshana
Integrating renewables into stand-alone hybrid systems meeting electric, heating, and cooling loads: A case study, Barun K. Das, Yasir M. Al-Abdeli, and Ganesh Kothapalli
Impact of storage technologies, temporal resolution, and PV tracking on stand-alone hybrid renewable energy for an Australian remote area application, Barun K. Das, Mahmudul Hasan, and Pronob Das
Techno-economic optimisation of stand-alone hybrid renewable energy systems for concurrently meeting electric and heating demand, Barun K. Das, Mohammad Shahed H.K. Tushar, and Rakibul Hassan
Effect of 3D, 4D, and 5D hooked-end type and loading rate on the pull-out performance of shape memory alloy fibres embedded in cementitious composites, Ayoub Dehghani and Farhad Aslani
Piezoelectric behaviour of hybrid engineered cementitious composites containing shape-memory alloy, steel, and carbon fibres under compressive stress cycles, Ayoub Dehghani and Farhad Aslani
Piezoresistive sensing of cementitious composites reinforced with shape memory alloy, steel, and carbon fibres, Ayoub Dehghani and Farhad Aslani
The ultimate shear capacity of longitudinally stiffened steel-concrete composite plate girders, Ayoub Dehghani, Aliakbar Hayatdavoodi, and Farhad Aslani
Photodegradation of reactive blue 19 dye using magnetic nanophotocatalyst α-Fe2O3/WO3: A comparison study of α-Fe2O3/WO3 and WO3/NaOH, Mohammad Delnavaz, Javad Farahbakhsh, and Seyed Sajad Mahdian
Response of Square Footing on Geocell-Reinforced Sand Bed Under Static and Repeated Loads, Chirajyoti Doley, Utpal Kumar Das, and Sanjay Kumar Shukla
Enhancing strength-ductility synergy and mechanisms of Al-based composites by size-tunable in-situ TiB2 particles with specific spatial distribution, Bai-Xin Dong, Qiang Li, Zhi-Fa Wang, Tian-Shu Liu, Hong-Yu Yang, Shi-Lu Shu, Liang-Yu Chen, Feng Qiu, Qi-Chuan Jiang, and Lai-Chang Zhang
Simulating coal permeability change as a function of effective stress using a microscale digital rock model, Huaimin Dong, Yihuai Zhang, Maxim Lebedev, Muhammad Arif, Yujie Yuan, and Stefan Iglauer
Heterogeneous electro-Fenton catalysis with self-supporting CFP@MnO2-Fe3O4/C cathode for shale gas fracturing flowback wastewater, Pei Dong, Xi Chen, Meiting Guo, Zhiyuan Wu, Haolong Wang, Feifei Lin, Jinqiang Zhang, Shuaijun Wang, Chaocheng Zhao, and Hongqi Sun
Quasi-MOF derivative-based electrode for efficient electro-Fenton oxidation, Pei Dong, Haolong Wang, Wenjing Liu, Shuaijun Wang, Yang Wang, Jinqiang Zhang, Feifei Lin, Yongqiang Wang, Chaocheng Zhao, Xiaoguang Duan, Shaobin Wang, and Hongqi Sun
Mechanical and electrical properties of concrete incorporating an iron-particle contained nano-graphite by-product, Wei Dong, Yimiao Huang, Barry Lehane, Farhad Aslani, and Guowei Ma