College of Engineering: Recent submissions
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Optimizing Instantaneous and Ramping Reserves with Different Response Speeds for Contingencies—Part II: Implications
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)Part I presents a formulation to optimize reserves for contingent events while explicitly including their response times. Part II highlights the implications of using this formulation in a reserves market. There are ... -
Optimizing Instantaneous and Ramping Reserves with Different Response Speeds for Contingencies Part I: Methodology
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)The need to efficiently manage different reserve types, inertia, and the largest credible contingency is critical to the continued uptake of Variable Renewable Energy (VRE) and security of a power system. This paper ... -
Parametric Assessment of Equivalent Static Procedure Accounting for Foundation-Pinning Effects in Analysis of Piled Bridge Abutments Subject to Lateral Spreading
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Ball-milled, solvent-free Sn-functionalisation of wood waste biochar for sugar conversion in food waste valorisation
(Elsevier BV, 2020)A solvent-free ball milling protocol was investigated for synthesizing sustainable Sn-functionalized biochars for glucose isomerization to fructose. Raw wood biomass (W) and its derived biochars pyrolyzed at low (LB, 400 ... -
Mechanism of ice nucleation inhibition of PVA and PVP in aqueous glycerin solution
(Elsevier BV, 2020)In order to find effective anti-ice nucleation agents, polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as additives in glycerin – water solution was froze and investigated by Differential Scanning Calorimeter ... -
A case study of design decision-making for an exemplar steel portal-framed building under fire exposure using a hybrid analysis technique
(Elsevier BV, 2020)This paper demonstrates how stakeholder decision-making can be optimised in the design of steel-framed buildings that may be exposed to destructive fires. A novel hybrid technique, proposed in a previous study by the same ... -
Refinements in iterative blind deconvolution
(University of Canterbury, 1995)The thesis presents a number of results regarding blind deconvolution of a single contaminated blurred image. A scheme of routinely selecting the best support is proposed. This scheme employs an objective error metric ... -
Limit design of reinforced concrete slabs : openings and slab-column connections
(University of Canterbury, 1973)This thesis is concerned with two aspects of the limit design methods of reinforced concrete slabs. The first part deals with a theoretical investigation of uniformly loaded two-way rectangular slabs with four positions ... -
Photomechanics : a study of inelastic behaviour of polycarbonate of bisphenol A
(University of Canterbury, 1970)The photomechanical relationship of a polymer undergoing finite deformation is examined in light of basic considerations of the relationship between the index tensor and the mechanical tensors: the stress and strain tensor, ... -
Synthesis and characterisation of polyurethane made from pyrolysis bio-oil of pine wood
(Elsevier BV, 2020)This paper investigates the manufacture of polyurethane from pyrolysis bio-oil produced from radiata pine wood. Liquid-liquid extraction was used to separate bio-oil into fractions. These fractions were reacted with ... -
Ionic liquid-templated synthesis of 10-MR zeolites and its origin disclosure
(2020)Ionic liquids (ILs) have been used as the template/structure-directing agent (SDA) for the synthesis of crystalline materials, including aluminophosphates, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and covalent organic frameworks ... -
The influence of mass transfer on design criteria in liquid extraction
(University of Canterbury, 1977)An investigation into dispersed phase holdup and the droplet size distribution in a counter-current flow packed column, and in particular, into the effects of mass transfer, has been performed using the toluene - acetone ... -
Advances in zero-based consistent deconvolution and evaluation of human sensory-motor function
(University of Canterbury, 1994)Work in two separate research areas is presented. The two areas are the development of a new two-dimensional (2-D) zero-based deconvolution algorithm and the evaluation of human sensory-motor (S-M) function in a 2-D ... -
Zero-based ensemble deconvolution and EEG spectral topography.
(University of Canterbury, 1994)This thesis presents theoretical and practical aspects of two distinctly different topics - zero based two-dimensional ensemble blind deconvolution and spectral topography of the electroencephalogram. Reconstructing ... -
Development, functionalisation, and characterisation of triply periodic minimum surface hydrogels for solid-tolerant chromatography.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)The work presented in this thesis demonstrates the development of the first chromatography columns for solid-tolerant chromatography produced using 3D-printing methods. This work developed from the rapidly evolving 3D-printing ... -
The residual strength of soils and landslide stability
(University of Canterbury, 1991)This thesis studies the influence of the residual shear strength of soils on the stability of landslides. The effect of rate of shear on the residual strength of soils is studied in a modified Bromhead ring shear ... -
The strength of concrete under compressive load
(University of Canterbury, 1984)A background literature survey pertinent to the behaviour of plain concrete under short-term compressive load is presented. This yields little to suggest that any consis·tent "understanding" of the overall strength/defor ... -
The vapour boron timber treatment process.
(University of Canterbury, 1995)In 1994 approximately 400 000 m³ of Pinus radiata D. Don was treated with boron based preservatives. The current preservative process involves either the immersion or spraying of green timber with concentrated boric acid ... -
Discrete system analysis using continuous Padé approximations.
(University of Canterbury, 1983)Continuous systems are often emulated by discrete systems. This thesis analyses such emulations by substituting ans-domain Padé approximant for the time delay operator. The result is a "quasi-continuous" model of the ...