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Can surrounding greenery reduce noise annoyance at home? (2010)
Journal Article
Li, H. N., Chau, C. K., & Tang, S. K. (2010). Can surrounding greenery reduce noise annoyance at home?. Science of the Total Environment, 408(20), 4376-4384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.06.025

Annoyance has been identified as the most important psychological impact arisen from noise. Besides socioeconomic status, residing neighborhood characteristics such as greenery has been shown to be able to reduce noise annoyance. To study the effects... Read More about Can surrounding greenery reduce noise annoyance at home?.

Scale model study of balcony insertion losses on a building façade with non-parallel line sources (2010)
Journal Article
Tang, S. K. (2010). Scale model study of balcony insertion losses on a building façade with non-parallel line sources. Applied acoustics. Acoustique appliqué. Angewandte Akustik, 71(10), 947-954. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2010.06.006

The screening effect of balconies on a building faade in the case where the noise source is not parallel to the faade is studied using scale model experiment in the present study. Results show that the angle of source inclination to the faade has sub... Read More about Scale model study of balcony insertion losses on a building façade with non-parallel line sources.

Microstructure and property development in spray formed and extruded Al-Mg-Li-Zr alloys for aerospace and autosport applications (2010)
Journal Article
Hogg, S. C., Mi, J., Nilsen, K. E., Liotti, E., & Grant, P. S. (2010). Microstructure and property development in spray formed and extruded Al-Mg-Li-Zr alloys for aerospace and autosport applications. Materials Science and Engineering Technology / Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik, 41(7), 562-567. https://doi.org/10.1002/mawe.201000643

Low density Al-4Mg-1.3Li-0.4Zr and Al-6Mg-1.6Li-0.4Zr alloys were spray formed and the billets extruded under a range of conditions. The alloy compositions were selected to provide an attractive balance of tensile strength and elongation, without rel... Read More about Microstructure and property development in spray formed and extruded Al-Mg-Li-Zr alloys for aerospace and autosport applications.

Phase field modelling of dendrite fragmentation during thermal shock (2010)
Journal Article
Guo, Z., Mi, J. W., & Grant, P. S. (2010). Phase field modelling of dendrite fragmentation during thermal shock. Materials Science Forum, 654-656, 1524-1527. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.654-656.1524

The dendrite grain growth of a succinonitrile based transparent alloy, their fragmentation under an intense thermal shock and the subsequnet morphology evolution during solidification have been simulated using a two-dimensional binary alloy phase fie... Read More about Phase field modelling of dendrite fragmentation during thermal shock.

Modelling and experiments concerning dendrite re-melting and its role in microstructural evolution in spray formed Ni superalloys (2010)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Guo, Z., Zhang, G., Mi, J. W., & Grant, P. S. (2010). Modelling and experiments concerning dendrite re-melting and its role in microstructural evolution in spray formed Ni superalloys. Materials Science Forum, 654-656, 1363-1366. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.654-656.1363

This paper presents a combined experimental and modelling approach to understand dendrite fragmentation of atomised metal alloy droplets during deposition in spray forming, and to study quantitatively the relationship between this dendrite fragmentat... Read More about Modelling and experiments concerning dendrite re-melting and its role in microstructural evolution in spray formed Ni superalloys.

Refinement of TiB2 in Al-Ti-B grain refiner alloys by ultrasound and the effect on Al grain size (2010)
Journal Article
Shu, D., Sun, B. D., Mi, J. W., & Grant, P. S. (2010). Refinement of TiB2 in Al-Ti-B grain refiner alloys by ultrasound and the effect on Al grain size. Materials Science Forum, 654-656, 958-961. https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.654-656.958

High-intensity ultrasound was applied during the preparation of an Al-5Ti-1B master alloy when reacting fluoride salts with molten Al. The reaction rate was significantly increased with TiB2 particles of much reduced mean diameter and narrow width sp... Read More about Refinement of TiB2 in Al-Ti-B grain refiner alloys by ultrasound and the effect on Al grain size.

On sound transmission loss across a Helmholtz resonator in a low Mach number flow duct (2010)
Journal Article
Tang, S. K. (2010). On sound transmission loss across a Helmholtz resonator in a low Mach number flow duct. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 127(6), 3519-3525. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3409481

A simplified physical model, which described the generation of sound by a Helmholtz resonator upon flow excitation at its neck, was developed in the present investigation to study the drop in sound power transmission loss across such a resonator moun... Read More about On sound transmission loss across a Helmholtz resonator in a low Mach number flow duct.

Modeling the deposition dynamics of a twin-atomizer spray forming system (2010)
Journal Article
Zhang, G., Li, Z., Zhang, Y., Mi, J., & Grant, P. S. (2010). Modeling the deposition dynamics of a twin-atomizer spray forming system. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 41(2), 303-307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11663-009-9333-0

A numerical study of the deposition dynamics of twin-atomizer spray-forming of large-diameter billets is presented with a focus on the coupled effect of the twinatomizer scan frequency and substrate rotation frequency. The common period of the two fr... Read More about Modeling the deposition dynamics of a twin-atomizer spray forming system.