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Scale-up of an unsteady flow field for enhanced spatial and temporal resolution of PIV measurements: application to leaflet wake flow in a mechanical heart valve
(Springer, 2011-07)A scale-up approach is developed to enhance effective spatial and temporal resolution of PIV measurements. An analysis shows that complete similarity can be maintained for certain unsteady flows and that all types of error ... -
Scale-up of bileaflet mechanical heart valve for enhanced resolution of the unsteady flow field
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A scorecard for supporting enterprise knowledge management
(2003)Enterprise knowledge management is becoming a critical component of competitive success. Managers must ensure that they can successfully generate, leverage and reuse knowledge assets in their organisations. In this view, ... -
Secondary comminution of wood pellets in power plant and laboratory-scale mills
(Elsevier, 2017-03-14)This study aims to determine the influence of mill type and pellet wood composition on particle size and shape of milled wood. The size and shape characteristics of pellets comminuted using power plant roller mills were ... -
Serious Play as a method for process design
(Springer, 2014-09-20)As motivating and including people is a crucial aspect in any plan-ning, design and change process there is always a need for appropriate methods and tools to support this. Lego Serious Play (LSP) is such a method which ... -
Short basalt fibre reinforced recycled polypropylene filaments for 3D printing
(Elsevier, 2022-08-12)Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing, and specifically Material Extrusion) is a rapid and convenient manufacturing method using raw material in filament form and is a potential candidate process for the use of recycled ... -
Simulation of turbulent flow in a rapid compression machine: Large Eddy Simulation and computationally efficient alternatives for the design of ignition delay time experiments
(Elsevier, 2018-07-05)Rapid compression machines (RCMs) are widely used by the fuel research community to provide engine-relevant conditions to study ignition delay time (IDT), which is a crucial target for validating chemical kinetic mechanisms ... -
SME collaboration: Trick or Treat?
(2008)Collaboration is a major new source of competitive advantage and an essential regional, and indeed, global management requirement. The collaboration process will ultimately be successful if there is an existence of appropriate ... -
Strain-gradient modelling of grain size effects on fatigue of CoCr alloy
(Elsevier, 2014-07-30)A strain-gradient crystal plasticity framework based on physical dislocation mechanisms is developed for simulation of the experimentally observed grain size effect on the low cycle fatigue of a CoCr alloy. Finite-element ... -
A strain-gradient, crystal plasticity model for microstructure-sensitive fretting crack initiation in ferritic-pearlitic steel for flexible marine risers
(Elsevier, 2018-02-03)A three-dimensional, strain-gradient, crystal plasticity methodology is presented for prediction of microstructure-sensitive length-scale effects in crack initiation, under fatigue and fretting fatigue conditions, for a ... -
Strategies for mainstreaming education for sustainable development in education systems
(Index Copernicus, 2022-06-30)A meaningful and relevant ¿Excellence in Education Spaces¿ is imperative so that future generations can address societal risks. This inevitably requires education to integrate strategies to transform the current approaches ... -
The student voice: the students own views on smartphone usage and impact on their academic performance
(International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2018-03-05)By the time they are 12 years of age, 90% of Irish children will have a smartphone (Bielenberg, 2017). This rise in smartphone ownership has meant that mobile technology has become an integral part of our daily lives. ... -
A study into the reasons for process improvement project failures: results from a pilot survey
(Emerald, 2019-07-22)Purpose Process improvement initiatives, such as Lean, Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma, typically have common characteristics that are carried through projects. Whilst a project’s performance is an important determinant of ... -
Supplier performance evaluation: Lessons from a large multinational organisation
(2007)Purpose - Progressive organisations are developing proactive supplier-based strategies in order to integrate key suppliers into their processes and systems. The purpose of this paper is to present an approach that helps ... -
Supplier performance evaluation: Lessons from a large multinational organization
(2005-07-03)There are ever-increasing demands from customers for more manufacturing agility in the form of higher product variety, smaller production runs of more customised products and batch sizes with shorter delivery times. To ... -
Supporting global collaboration teams through innovative Web 2.0 technologies.
(Fraunhofer-Verlag, 2011)Enhanced collaboration among multicultural European countries is necessary for effective enterprise development and innovation. The current climate of an increasingly competitive global economy provides opportunities to ... -
Supporting online students through the liminal space from facilitated online modules to self-starting a thesis
(International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2018-03-05)Most third-level institutes now offer online education (Bowers & Kumar, 2015). Allen et al. (2016) report that in excess of 28% of all American higher education students are enrolled on at least one online course. Online ... -
Supporting systems innovation
(World Scientific Publishing, 2000)Many researchers and practitioners contend that organisations should respond to changing market need and create competitive advantage through innovation and creativity. Each year, organisations expend significant resources ... -
Sustaining multi-national subsidiaries operations in the electronics industry in Ireland
(2010-09)US multi-national corporations' (MNC) subsidiaries operating in the electronics industry represent a significant and important grouping of the high tech manufacturing sector in Ireland based on the number of people employed, ... -
Systems innovation management: Supporting innovation in a manufacturing environment
(1999)Each year organisations spend a significant amount of money developing new products and processes in an effort to satisfy customer demands and manufacture high quality products efficiently. Both development processes - ...