Improving citizens' quality of life and societal transitions: Highlights of the 49th European Transport Conference

Automation of Property Acquisition of Single Track Depositions Manufactured through Direct Energy Deposition

Metallic additive manufacturing processes have been significantly developed since their inception with modern systems capable of manufacturing components for structural applications. However, successful processing through these methods requires extensive experimentation before optimised parameters can be found. In laser-based processes, such as direct energy deposition, it is common for single track beads to be deposited and subjected to analysis, yielding information on how the input paramet...

The impact of water on firefighter protective clothing thermal performance and steam burn occurrence in firefighters

Exposure to oscillating heat fluxes while having variable water contents in the thermal protective clothing (T.P. C) is possible in a real firefighting scenario. The occurrence of steam burns becomes inevitable in certain conditions which are still unidentified in the literature. In light of such, in this study, the effect of water distribution on thermal protective clothing (T.P.C) performance is studied for various environmental conditions (i.e., fixed and transient values of heat flux). A ...

Converting carbon black into an efficient and multi-site ORR electrocatalyst: The importance of bottom-up construction parameters