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Mechanical properties estimation by non-destructive testing of Irish hardwood round timber from thinnings for construction purposes
(Department of Forestry Policy and Economics, University of Sopron, Hungary, 2018-10-25)
Thinning involves the removal of competitors of high quality trees, and trees for extraction racks, all to favour the growth of the selected trees. Many felled trees are small-diameter and in Ireland hardwood thinnings are ...
Carbonation in stabilised peat: an accelerated pilot study
(ICE Institution of Civil Engineers, 2015)
Due to stringent environmental regulations, embodied carbon estimates are being used increasingly to assess the environmental
impact of major building and infrastructure projects, including their geotechnical components. ...
Irish timber - characterisation, potential and innovation
(Civil Engineering Research Association of Ireland (CERAI), 2014-09-28)
In order to increase the utilisation of Irish timber in construction and novel engineered wood products, the mechanical and physical properties of the material must be established. For timber products used for structural ...
Vortex drop shaft structures: state-of-the-art and future trends
(International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), 2019-09-01)
Vortex drop shaft structures have played a critical role in hydraulic engineering; from one of their first
applications in hydroelectric energy dissipation in the 1940s, to numerous contemporary installations throughout
modern ...
Enhancing low grade sitka spruce glulam beams with bonded-in BFRP rods
(National University of Ireland Galway, 2014)
The reinforcement of timber elements using fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) rods or plates
is widely accepted as an effective method of increasing the stiffness of members, while at
the same time reducing the variability ...
The application of deep learning on depth from multi-array camera
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018-01-02)
Consumer-level multi-array cameras are a key enabling technology for next generation smartphones imaging systems. The present paper aims to analyze the accuracy of the depth estimation while using different camera combinations ...
Fake data - the future of advanced computer vision systems
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-22)
Recent research shows that Data Augmentation techniques and Synthetic Data can improve the accuracy and reduce the susceptibility of Deep Neural Networks to Adversarial Attacks. In this presentation we consider some of the ...
A privacy framework for games and interactive media
(IEEE, 2018-08-16)
Privacy is a concept that is intertwined with data security, but its scope is significantly broader. Often considerations of privacy in the context of consumer devices are limited to a consideration of the security of the ...
Privacy challenges for smart-cities: The challenge of IoT camera uberveilance
(IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, 2019-04-15)
The challenges of handling personal privacy are examined in the context of a smart-city environment with every-present surveillance. The current state of digital camera technology is reviewed and two over-arching approaches ...
Identifying the reality gap between abstract and realistic models using evolved agents and simulated kilobots
(IEEE, 2018-12-12)
A common challenge in evolutionary swarm robotics is the transfer of
simulated results into real-world applications. This difficulty can arise in
a variety of real-world settings and problems such as sensory differences
in ...