New Generation Photonics Materials: Design, Development, Characterization and Applications

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paras N. Prasad ◽  
Guang S. He
Author(s):  
Marina Loseva ◽  
Lyudmila Nikanorova

At present, the road sector is experiencing a period of intensive development. The latest achievement was the design, development and implementation of a new generation of roads, the so-called «Smart Roads».


Author(s):  
Alexei Bereznitski

A new type of the wind turbine installation vessel is developed. The concept utilizes the Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) vessel. High transit speed, excellent seakeeping, and quick installation sequence allow placing a large number of wind turbines within short time minimizing the time of offshore construction works. The paper deals with the design development of this concept. Such major subjects as seakeeping, model testing in seakeeping tank, wind turbine landing sequence, and the workability are covered in the paper. Special attention will be given to the design of the active motion compensation system applied in the hoisting system. Dynamic behavior of this system is studied. The motions of the vessel are also compensated by dedicated active anti roll and anti-pitch systems. These systems were also tested in a seakeeping tank.


Author(s):  
Samuele Borri

AbstractThe concept of “space as the third teacher” suggests that the learning environment is as important as the teacher in the learning process. A constructivist pedagogical paradigm requires student-centered learning processes and learners to be autonomous and active. Therefore, more and more stakeholders and policy makers interested in school innovation put school buildings and learning environments at the top of their agendas. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the European Commission and many universities all over the world are observing case studies and promoting guidelines to implement new ways to design and furnish schools. Indire is leading a research project on educational architectures, which promotes a support framework, entitled “1 + 4 Learning Spaces for a New Generation of Schools.” It is aimed at architects, municipalities, school principals and other stakeholders involved in the design, development and use of innovative learning environments.


Author(s):  
Raja Ramanathan

Information technology is rapidly evolving to facilitate the design, development, and implementation of the next generation of architectural practices, tools, and techniques that will enable smart services and seamless enterprise integration. Service-Driven Computing involves the use of software services that conform to service architectural paradigms, such as Service-Oriented and Resource-Oriented Architectures, to drive computing solutions that enable building massively distributed software systems for this new generation of applications. Although services can promote agile, flexible, and extensible applications, service invocations can be subject to network latency, network failure, and distributed system failures. Moreover, service configurations are likely to change over time. This chapter explores the challenges in service-driven computing relating to composing adaptive services dynamically, supporting context-awareness and autonomic capabilities in services, verification of dynamic service compositions, and extending the service-driven paradigm to the Cloud. Along the way, contributions from researchers on potential solutions to these challenges are identified and discussed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymundo Arróyave ◽  
David L. McDowell

There is increasing awareness of the imperative to accelerate materials discovery, design, development, and deployment. Materials design is essentially a goal-oriented activity that views the material as a complex system of interacting subsystems with models and experiments at multiple scales of materials structure hierarchy. The goal of materials design is effectively to invert quantitative relationships between process path, structure, and materials properties or responses to identify feasible materials. We first briefly discuss challenges in framing process-structure-property relationships for materials and the critical role of quantifying uncertainty and tracking its propagation through analysis and design. A case study exploiting inductive design of ultrahigh-performance concrete is briefly presented. We focus on important recent directions and key scientific challenges regarding the highly collaborative intersections of materials design with systems engineering, uncertainty quantification and management, optimization, and materials data science and informatics, which are essential to fueling continued progress in systems-based materials design.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem ◽  
Siew Hon Teay ◽  
Hasan Shahariar ◽  
Paula Luise Fink ◽  
Alhussein Albarbar

This review paper presents an overview of the smart electro-clothing systems (SeCSs) targeted at health monitoring, sports benefits, fitness tracking, and social activities. Technical features of the available SeCSs, covering both textile and electronic components, are thoroughly discussed and their applications in the industry and research purposes are highlighted. In addition, it also presents the developments in the associated areas of wearable sensor systems and textile-based dry sensors. As became evident during the literature research, such a review on SeCSs covering all relevant issues has not been presented before. This paper will be particularly helpful for new generation researchers who are and will be investigating the design, development, function, and comforts of the sensor integrated clothing materials.


Author(s):  
Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem ◽  
Siew Hon Teay ◽  
Hasan Shahariar ◽  
Paula Luise Fink ◽  
Alhussein Albarbar

This paper presents an overview of the smart electro-clothing systems (SeCSs) targeted at health monitoring, sports benefits, fitness tracking, and social activities. Technical features of the available SeCSs, covering both textile and electronic components, are thoroughly discussed and their applications in the industry and research purposes have been highlighted. In addition, it also presents the developments in the associated areas of wearable sensor systems and textile-based dry sensors. As it became evident during the literature research, such a review on SeCSs covering all relevant issues has not been presented before. This paper will be particularly helpful for new generation researchers investigating the design, development, function and comforts of the sensor integrated clothing materials.


Author(s):  
Raja Ramanathan

Information technology is rapidly evolving to facilitate the design, development, and implementation of the next generation of architectural practices, tools, and techniques that will enable smart services and seamless enterprise integration. Service-Driven Computing involves the use of software services that conform to service architectural paradigms, such as Service-Oriented and Resource-Oriented Architectures, to drive computing solutions that enable building massively distributed software systems for this new generation of applications. Although services can promote agile, flexible, and extensible applications, service invocations can be subject to network latency, network failure, and distributed system failures. Moreover, service configurations are likely to change over time. This chapter explores the challenges in service-driven computing relating to composing adaptive services dynamically, supporting context-awareness and autonomic capabilities in services, verification of dynamic service compositions, and extending the service-driven paradigm to the Cloud. Along the way, contributions from researchers on potential solutions to these challenges are identified and discussed.


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