Recent advances and future trends on maintenance strategies and optimisation solution techniques for offshore sector

Fixture Design Automation and Optimization Techniques: Review and Future Trends

Fixture design is crucial part of manufacturing process. Fixture design is a critical design activity process, in which automation plays an integral role in linking computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD). This paper presents a literature review in computer aided fixture design (CAFD) in terms of automation and optimization techniques over the past decades. First, the...

RECENT ADVANCES AND TRENDS IN NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES FOR PROCESS SIMULATIONf

-The gradually increasing complexity of the processing models and necessity to simulate in higher dimensions persistently challenges computational efficiency of the modern process simulators. In this paper, an outlook on the current status and trends in numerical techniques for efficient multidimensional bulk process simulation is given. Grid generation, grid adaptation, discretization and solv...

Ultrasonic waves and material analysis: recent advances and future trends

Optimisation of maintenance routing and scheduling for offshore wind farms

An optimisation model and a solution method for maintenance routing and scheduling at offshore wind farms are proposed. The model finds the optimal schedule for maintaining the turbines and the optimal routes for the crew transfer vessels to service the turbines along with the number of technicians required for each vessel. The model takes into account multiple vessels, multiple periods (days),...

RF MOSFET: recent advances, current status and future trends

Recent advances in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processing, continuous scaling of gate length, and progress in silicon on insulator have stirred serious discussions on the suitability of metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) for RF/microwave applications. This paper covers the recent advances and current status of mainstream CMOS as the dominating techno...