College of Engineering: Recent submissions
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On-chip measurement of protrusive force exerted by single hyphal tips of pathogenic microorganisms
(2016)Invasive growth is a process used by fungi and oomycetes to find sources of nutrients. To study the protrusive forces generated as part of this process, we have developed a Lab-on-a-Chip platform capable of measuring ... -
Spatial utilization predicts animal social contact networks are not scale-free
(2017)While heterogeneity in social behaviour has been described in many human contexts it is often assumed to be less common in the animal kingdom even though scale-free networks are observed. This homogeneity raises the question ... -
Fluid-body interactions: Clashing, skimming, bouncing
(ROYAL SOC, 2011)Solid-solid and solid-fluid impacts and bouncing are the concern here. A theoretical study is presented on fluid-body interaction in which the motion of the body and the fluid influence each other nonlinearly. There could ... -
Body-rock or lift-off in flow
(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2013)Conditions are investigated under which a body lying at rest or rocking on a solid horizontal surface can be removed from the surface by hydrodynamic forces or instead continues rocking. The investigation is motivated by ... -
Enhanced pattern resolution, swelling-behaviour and biocompatibility of bioimprinted casein microdevices
(2017)This work introduces casein microstructures with surface features as a biodegradable biomedical platform technology for enhancing tissue-engineering applications. An optimized fabrication process is presented to reduce the ... -
3D printing of porous polymeric materials for stationary phases of chromatography columns
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The work described in this thesis focused on the creation of 3D printed chromatography columns using high internal phase emulsion polymer (polyHIPE) materials. The first step was to prepare and optimize a porous, polymeric ... -
Self-assembly of toroidal proteins explored using native mass spectrometry
(2018)© The Royal Society of Chemistry. The peroxiredoxins are a well characterised family of toroidal proteins which can self-assemble into a striking array of quaternary structures, including protein nanotubes, making them ... -
Next-generation, personalised, model-based critical care medicine : a state-of-the art review of in silico virtual patient models, methods, and cohorts, and how to validation them
(2018)© 2018 The Author(s). Critical care, like many healthcare areas, is under a dual assault from significantly increasing demographic and economic pressures. Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are highly variable in response ... -
A non-contact structural health monitoring method based on radio frequency signal analysis
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Structural health monitoring (SHM) is a group of technologies enabling the monitoring of structural motion during external loading. This loading is often caused by earthquakes. SHM provides understanding of the severity ... -
The effect of a diet moderately high in protein and fiber on insulin sensitivity measured using the dynamic insulin sensitivity and secretion test (DISST)
(2017)© 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Evidence shows that weight loss improves insulin sensitivity but few studies have examined the effect of macronutrient composition independently of weight loss on ... -
Comparison of a Conjugate Heat Transfer Scheme using the Lattice Boltzmann Method
(2018)The Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is a collision based computational fluid dynamics method used as an alternative to more traditional finite difference and finite element methods, in that LBM is built to take advantage ... -
Femtosecond X-ray coherent diffraction of aligned amyloid fibrils on low background grapheme
(2018)© 2018 The Author(s). Here we present a new approach to diffraction imaging of amyloid fibrils, combining a free-standing graphene support and single nanofocused X-ray pulses of femtosecond duration from an X-ray free-electron ... -
A stratified GIS-based model to identify optimal locations for establishing new permanent sample plots for Eucalyptus bosistoana and Eucalyptus globoidea in New Zealand
(University of Canterbury, 2018)As part of an effort to develop a forest industry based on durable hardwood eucalypts in New Zealand, the New Zealand Dryland Forests Initiative (NZDFI) have considered Eucalyptus bosistoana and Eucalyptus globoidea as two ... -
Growth and yield modelling for unthinned acacia mangium, acacia crassicarpa and eucalyptus pellita plantations in Indonesia
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Several species, including Acacia crassicarpa (Sugesty, Kardiansyah, & Pratiwi, 2015) and Eucalyptus pellita (Lee, 2003) have been used as alternatives for Acacia mangium in Indonesia due to reductions in site quality in ... -
Electrochemical micromachining of aluminium for microfluidic devices
(University of Canterbury, 2018)Through-mask electrochemical micromachining (TMEMM) combines photolithographic masking with anodic metal dissolution and thus enables the mass fabrication of microfluidic devices made from metals. To achieve an even removal ... -
Modelling ripple morphodynamics driven by colloidal deposition
(2018)© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Fluid dynamics between a particle–laden flow and an evolving boundary are found in various contexts. We numerically simulated the morphodynamics of silica particle deposition from flowing water within ... -
Impact of inverter energy systems on fuse protection of low voltage networks
(2018)With the introduction of inverter energy systems (IESs) to electricity distribution networks, it is important for electricity distributors to know the nature of new challenges to basic protection systems in the low-voltage ...
