Stability of laminated composites with delaminations by Yap, Chun Wee

“…In this thesis, investigation on buckling problem of composite beam is carried out. A new formula which is denoted as CLT method 3 is derived to calculate the effective flexural stiffness of the thin composite beam. …”
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Optimal network charge for peer-to-peer energy trading: a grid perspective by Yang, Yu, Chen, Yue, Hu, Guoqiang, Spanos, Costas J.

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Multi-modal piezoelectric energy harvester by Wang, Nan

“…Recent researches of energy harvester are designed as a cantilever beam with piezoelectric material. It was proven that resonant peaks can be achieved with array of harvester beams in wider bandwidth. …”
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Target Design and Optimizations for Spent Fuel Transmutation by Tukharyan, Grigor

“…This thesis examines the feasibility of using proton beams to transmute LLFPs into shorterlived or stable isotopes. …”
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Development of interactive software/app (normal stress) by Koo, Chia Wei

“…Designing a beam involves a trial and error in determining the supports available, recognizing the loads to be withstand by the beam, performing analysis and comparing stresses to the structural limits of the mechanical properties of the beam until all criteria is satisfied. …”
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Effect of partial debonding on catenary action of reinforced concrete frames by Yu, Jun, Tan, Kang Hai

“…Catenary action, one of ALPs, uses tensile force in beams to balance external loads applied onto structures. …”
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Properties and flexural performance of iron ore tailings concrete by Oritola, Sikiru Folahan

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Creating functionally graded concrete materials with varying 3D printing parameters by Tay, Daniel Yi Wei, Lim, Jian Hui, Li, Mingyang, Tan, Ming Jen

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Seismic behavior of interior concretebeam-column joints with non-seismic and limited seismic detailing by Li, Qingyuan.

“…Implications of the experimental and analytical evidence were discussed and design recommendations of beam-column joints were made.…”
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Does bankruptcy law prevent internalization of environmental costs: evidence from China by Li, Xingwei

“…The principle requires those responsible for environmental damage or imminent threats of damage to bear the necessary costs of remediation and prevention. …”
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Exploring the Mechanical Behavior of a Traditional Japanese Joint for Flexible Structural Design by Ortea Varela, Ines

“…Through computational simulations employing Finite Element Analysis (FEA), the study examines a continuous beam and an unmodified MRO splice, revealing expected behavior in the beam and unexpected tress concentration and displacement asymmetry in the splice. …”
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Study on mechanism and influential factors of progressive collapse resistance of base-isolated structure by Bao, Chao, Zhang, Yuhang, Lv, Dahai, Wang, Huxiang, Ma, Xiaotong, Cao, Jixing, Lim, Kar Sing

“…In order to study the progressive collapse mechanism of base-isolated structures, the test study and numerical simulation of the base-isolated structures were carried out based on the vertical Pushover method and analysis of the variation rule of the capacity of the remaining structure and influence mechanism. The isolation bearing failure position, the size of the beam of the seismic isolation layer, the type of the isolation bearing, and the horizontal stiffness of the seismic isolation layer on the capacity of the remaining structure were compared and analyzed. …”
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Biomedical cellular imaging using digital holographic photothermal microscope by Hendry Renaldo.

“…The method is based on irradiating a cellular structure with a laser pump beam and using a probe beam to measure the optical path difference resulted from the heat distribution of the structure to the surroundings. …”
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High-voltage IR-UWB pulse generator MMIC design and beamforming for indoor-ranging and radar applications by Hussain Ansari Md Arif

“…In order to further improve the peak power level in desired directions, the beam-pattern analysis of an electronically steerable multi-beam IR-UWB transmitter tag suited for real-time positioning systems is presented and demonstrated. …”
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Hybrid free space optics/radio frequency communication for next generation wireless networks by Sharma, Shubha

“…Free space optical (FSO) communication is a point to point transmission using laser beams that supports high data rate (up to GBPS) for short range transmission up to few kilometers. …”
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MMSE multiuser detection for uplink DS-CDMA with regenerative cooperative relaying by Liu, Yan.

“…Max-Cooperation achieves the lowest BER among the three methods. When the number of users increases, the BER performance with direct transmission gets worse, but the BER performance of Max-Cooperate improves significantly. …”
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A novel two-degrees-of-freedom piezoelectric energy harvester by Wu, Hao, Tang, Lihua, Yang, Yaowen, Soh, Chee Kiong

“…The harvester comprises one main cantilever beam and an inner secondary cantilever beam, each of which is bonded with piezoelectric transducers. …”
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Developing a novel radical source for cold, controlled reaction studies by Wu, LY

“…The magnetic focusing effect was also demonstrated on a beam of OH molecules using an imaging system.</p> <p>The control of the alignment of radicals in space was also explored in the studies of the adsorption of O2 on a Cu(111) surface using an alignment-controlled beam. …”

Bit-error rate simulation and analysis of various frequency-hopped multiple-access receivers by Wang, Kaiyuan

“…In the end, we get the results of BER performances in different situations. In each channel, we have 3 figures illustrating the BER performance of MRC, EGC and SC with multiple users. …”
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Novel receiver design for suppression of frequency-hopped multiple-access (FHMA) systems by Muhammad Faizal Razali

“…We include five diversity combining techniques and simulate the results in order to study if they help improve the BER of the FHMA system. Based on the Matlab simulations, the addition of diversity combining techniques helps to improve the BER of the system. …”
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