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Thin-walled beams have been extensively applied for engineering field, such as automotive industry and architecture industry, etc. In modern industry, those light stiffened structures are always preferred by designers or engineers. This paper presents an enhanced design of the thin-walled

This research paper presents a knowledge-based system for creative design tools (CDT). The developed system provides designers with a creative design environment to enhance their design thinking. Several creative thinking tools and techniques are grouped, developed, and incorporated with various

Finite element analysis (FEA) requires the management of simplification assumptions in order to simulate a real complex system. Usefulness of the FEA result highly depends on the pre-processing stage. Thus, defining an appropriate physical model (mathematical model, geometrical simplifications, materials

The increasing requirements of high quality and low cost of products have created an urgent need to implement new technologies in current automated manufacturing environments. Condition monitoring systems of manufacturing processes have been recognised in recent years as one of

An object-oriented product information model is established for extraction of product data from a CAD system so that an integrated interface can be built to achieve integration between heterogeneous product data management and CAD systems. An interface program is developed

Recently, more and more attention has been paid to heterogeneous material objects due to their excellent properties of combining two or several desired incompatible functionalities within the same component. Many efforts have been made to develop a systematic and effective

This paper reports a design of a novel prototype of reverse engineering equipment, which is characterised by combining a robotics laser surface measurement system with fuzzy neural network model reconstruction. The major novelty of the intelligent equipment includes, firstly scanning

Ultrasonic wave technique is employed to determine relaxation time and modulus of cement mortar. First, the property of attenuation of amplitude at different cross sections of the specimen may be obtained by detecting the ultrasonic signal at the ends of

A path probability model (PPM) for predicting the probability distribution of steel reinforcement subject to chloride ingress is presented in this paper to evaluate the corrosion level in a probability way. The whole corrosion history of given service period is

The majority of publications noticeably claim that parallel robots or manipulators are supposed to perform better than their serial counterparts. However, in practice these mechanisms suffer from many problems, such that the theoretically provided potentials are difficult to exploit. Focusing

In this paper, a study on how to perform simultaneous order and parameter estimation of multivariate (MV) ARMA (autoregressive moving average) models under the presence of noise is addressed. The proposed method, which is computationally efficient, is an extension of

This paper presents a convex optimisation method for observer-based control design of LPV neutral systems. Utilising the polynomials parameter-dependent quadratic functions and a suitable change of variables, the required sufficient conditions with high precision for the design of a desired

This paper is concerned with an adaptive sliding mode control (SMC) of a class of non-linear discrete-time systems with mismatched time-varying uncertainty. It is assumed that the non-linear discrete-time system is described by a state equation subject to a random

In this paper, robust stability and robust exponential stability for uncertain systems with time delay and non-linear disturbance are investigated. By employing the method of Lyapunov function and linear matrix inequality approach, several stability criteria are established and the stable

A method is proposed to compensate the effects made by delays both from sensor to controller and from controller to actuator within a control loop in a networked control system. The compensation method is designed based on online delay between

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