This paper presents the simulations of the cooling system of a battery pack (BTPC) consisting
of lithium-ion (LIN) plate batteries. The BTPC includes six battery cells (BTCL) in two rows with
three BTCLs, which are placed ...
The Engineering Education Research Network in Africa (EERN-Africa) was created to enable connections
between practitioners and researchers with a shared interest in African engineering education
contexts. Recognising the ...
The use of alternative energy sources, particularly solar energy, in buildings is rising and spreading around the globe. In this paper, a solar wall is analyzed using a numerical method. On the wall, a number of obstacles ...
Considering solar gain through the window (SGW), this study investigated the effects of installing shading on cooling load. Approving energy analysis for the base building (without shading), the cooling, heating, and annual ...
Over the years, informative frequency band (IFB) identification techniques emerged with the aim of guaranteeing optimal demodulation-band for the diagnostics of rotating machinery. A measured vibration signal from complex ...
The energy and power industry conventionally depends on large-scale turbomachinery to meet the ever-growing global energy demands. However, unplanned in-service failures remain a threat to sustainability with safety and ...
Unstable articulated vehicles pose a serious threat to the occupants driving them as well as the occupants of the vehicles around them. Articulated vehicles typically experience three types of instability: snaking, ...
Albatrosses exploit winds to travel vast distances across the ocean. Their morphology is adapted for low-cost dynamic soaring flight, but these adaptations confer low manoeuvrability, which may be risky when flying over ...
Condition-based monitoring for critical assets is reliant on the quality of the indicators used for condition inference. These indicators must be sensitive to the development of faults under constant and non-stationary ...
Informative frequency band identification methods are used to automatically design bandpass filters to enhance fault signatures in vibration measurements. Blind and targeted features can be used to guide the frequency band ...
The object of this paper is to propose a new phase-cycle analysis for gear and bearing diagnostics of rotating machinery which synthesises the theory of angle-time cyclostationary (AT-CS). The motivation for this research ...
Scholtz, Simon J.; Hamersma, Herman Adendorff(Taylor and Francis, 2024)
This study investigates the improvement of off-road vehicle lateral stability by integrated control of active rear steering (ARS) and rear differential braking (RDB) and how the performance of such systems compares on ...
Ramatlo, Dineo A.; Wilke, Daniel Nicolas; Loveday, Philip W.(Sage, 2024)
eveloping reliable ultrasonic-guided wave monitoring systems requires a significant amount of inspection data for each application scenario. Experimental investigations are fundamental but require a long period and are ...
Bouwer, Johann M.; Wilke, Daniel Nicolas; Kok, Schalk(Elsevier, 2024-02)
This work develops a novel coordinate system transformation scheme to improve the performance of common radial basis function surrogate models. This coordinate system transformation scheme is based on the fact that commonly ...
Botha, Natasha; Coetzer, Roelof; Inglis, Helen Mary; Labuschagne, F.J.W.J. (Frederick Johannes Willem Jacobus)(Wiley Open Access, 2023-10)
Polymers are used in various industrial applications due to their ease of production,
light weight, and ductility. Fillers such as clays are added to polymers to
improve a range of factors such as material processing, ...
This investigation intends to analyze the influence of nanoparticles morphology on the magnetic flux dependent thermo-physical properties and magnetohydrodynamic free convection heat transfer performance of water-based ...