Scholarly Works - Engineering
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THE ‘P’ WORD – Plastic in the UK: practical and pervasive … but problematic
(2020-10-12)Plastics are ubiquitous in modern society, owing to their usefulness, durability and how cheap and easy they are to produce. This makes plastics both a blessing and a curse. We manufacture a myriad of plastic materials, ... -
Understanding risk in pharmaceutical supply chains
(2020-05-21)The ReMediES (Reconfiguring Medicines End-to-end Supply) project - involving 22 industrial partners comprising global pharmaceutical companies, major contract manufacturing organisations, equipment manufacturers, and ... -
Folding of bistable composite tape-springs
(University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, 2019-01-31)Bistable composite tape-spring technologies have great potential in application to aircraft landing gears, in order to reduce weight, complexity and maintenance compared to the conventional lock-link assemblies. To investigate ... -
Sequential Monte Carlo Optimisation for Air Traffic Management
This report shows that significant reduction in fuel use could be achieved by the adoption of `free flight' type of trajectories in the Terminal Manoeuvring Area (TMA) of an airport, under the control of an algorithm which ...
