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Multi Point Sensing and Defect Detection of Wind Turbine Blades: An Approach Using Fibre Bragg Gratings (2025)
Thesis
Sihivahana Sarma, A. (2025). Multi Point Sensing and Defect Detection of Wind Turbine Blades: An Approach Using Fibre Bragg Gratings. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5126324

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of Wind Turbine Blades (WTBs) plays a critical role in ensuring safe and cost-effective operations of these complex structures. However, detecting manufacturing-induced defects and operation-induced damages poses si... Read More about Multi Point Sensing and Defect Detection of Wind Turbine Blades: An Approach Using Fibre Bragg Gratings.

Decoupling the Effects of Temperature, Strain, and Refractive Index in Long-Period Fiber Grating Used for Epoxy Resin Cure Monitoring (2025)
Journal Article
Ivanov, O. V., Bhavsar, K., & Gilbert, J. M. (2025). Decoupling the Effects of Temperature, Strain, and Refractive Index in Long-Period Fiber Grating Used for Epoxy Resin Cure Monitoring. Sensors, 25(3), Article 786. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25030786

Epoxy resins are widely used in the manufacture of composite materials for a wide range of applications. Control of the curing process is an important consideration in ensuring product quality and minimizing production times. The curing of epoxy resi... Read More about Decoupling the Effects of Temperature, Strain, and Refractive Index in Long-Period Fiber Grating Used for Epoxy Resin Cure Monitoring.

Noise Attenuation Using Acoustic Resonators: A Multifactorial Investigation and Characterisation of Performance Factors (2025)
Thesis
Houston, B. (2025). Noise Attenuation Using Acoustic Resonators: A Multifactorial Investigation and Characterisation of Performance Factors. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5132751

Unwanted or harmful sound is considered noise. If not addressed, it can cause psychological and physiological harm and have detrimental effects on structures and machinery. Despite the widespread use of acoustic resonators for noise reduction, there... Read More about Noise Attenuation Using Acoustic Resonators: A Multifactorial Investigation and Characterisation of Performance Factors.

Monitoring terrestrial rewilding with environmental DNA metabarcoding: a systematic review of current trends and recommendations (2025)
Journal Article
Cowgill, C., Gilbert, J. D., Convery, I., & Lawson Handley, L. (2025). Monitoring terrestrial rewilding with environmental DNA metabarcoding: a systematic review of current trends and recommendations. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 5, Article 1473957. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2024.1473957

Introduction: Rewilding, the facilitation of self-sustaining and resilient ecosystems by restoring natural processes, is an increasingly popular conservation approach and potential solution to the biodiversity and climate crises. Outcomes of rewildin... Read More about Monitoring terrestrial rewilding with environmental DNA metabarcoding: a systematic review of current trends and recommendations.

Wind resource assessment and site selection of offshore wind farms in the state of Kuwait (2025)
Journal Article
Hasan, A. H., Umoh, K., Al-Qattan, A., Al-Awadi, L., Rajab, A., Adouane, M., & Gilbert, J. (2025). Wind resource assessment and site selection of offshore wind farms in the state of Kuwait. Energy Sources Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy, 20(1), Article 2507683. https://doi.org/10.1080/15567249.2025.2507683

Among several countries, Kuwait has made significant progress in transitioning to renewable energy. As a result, the onshore Shagaya renewable energy park was deployed in 2017 with a total capacity of 70 MW. To effectively progress in the development... Read More about Wind resource assessment and site selection of offshore wind farms in the state of Kuwait.

Investigating the role of non-helpers in group living thrips (2024)
Journal Article
Gilbert, J. D. (2024). Investigating the role of non-helpers in group living thrips. The journal of animal ecology, 93(12), 1960-1971. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14204

Behavioural variation among individuals is a hallmark of cooperative societies, which commonly contain breeders and non-breeders, helpers and non-helpers. In some cases, labour is divided with non-breeders “helping.” Conversely, in some societies, su... Read More about Investigating the role of non-helpers in group living thrips.

Investigating the role of non-helpers in group living thrips (2024)
Data
Gilbert, J. (2024). Investigating the role of non-helpers in group living thrips. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rjdfn2zmp

Behavioural variation among individuals is a hallmark of cooperative societies, which commonly contain breeders and non-breeders, helpers and non-helpers. In some cases, labour is divided, with non-breeders “helping”. Conversely, in some societies, s... Read More about Investigating the role of non-helpers in group living thrips.

Monitoring of Curing Process of Epoxy Resin by Long-Period Fiber Gratings (2024)
Journal Article
Ivanov, O. V., Bhavsar, K., Morgan-Clague, O., & Gilbert, J. M. (2024). Monitoring of Curing Process of Epoxy Resin by Long-Period Fiber Gratings. Sensors, 24(11), Article 3397. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24113397

The curing of epoxy resin is a complex thermo-chemical process that is difficult to monitor using existing sensing systems. We monitored the curing process of an epoxy resin by using long-period fiber gratings. The refractive index of the epoxy resin... Read More about Monitoring of Curing Process of Epoxy Resin by Long-Period Fiber Gratings.

Energy Maximization of Control for a Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter (2024)
Thesis
Li, D. Energy Maximization of Control for a Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4704554

To date, one of the main challenges and requirements in wave energy technologies is to design energy-maximising control for a wave energy converter (WEC) device to achieve the energy maximization production, so as to reduce the levelized cost of ener... Read More about Energy Maximization of Control for a Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter.

Robustness of embedded fibre optic sensor mesh configurations for monitoring composite structures (2024)
Journal Article
Gilbert, J. M., Bhavsar, K., & Ivanov, O. V. (2024). Robustness of embedded fibre optic sensor mesh configurations for monitoring composite structures. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 373, Article 115445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2024.115445

Fibre optic sensors are attractive for monitoring of composite structures but the significant risk of damage to fibres where they enter the structure and within the structure itself can make their use unreliable. Mesh configurations of embedded fibre... Read More about Robustness of embedded fibre optic sensor mesh configurations for monitoring composite structures.

Tidal Turbine Benchmarking Exercise: Environmental Characterisation and Geometry Specification (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tucker Harvey, S. W., Chen, X., Rowe, D., Bhavsar, K., Allsop, T., Gilbert, J., Stallard, T., Vogel, C. R., & Willden, R. H. J. (2021, September). Tidal Turbine Benchmarking Exercise: Environmental Characterisation and Geometry Specification. Presented at European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC) 2021, Plymouth, UK

Uncertainty in tidal turbine loading contributes significantly to conservatism in turbine design. This uncertainty originates not only from a lack of knowledge of the flow field at a particular site, but also from lack of understanding of the fundame... Read More about Tidal Turbine Benchmarking Exercise: Environmental Characterisation and Geometry Specification.

Solitary bee larvae prioritize carbohydrate over protein in parentally provided pollen (2021)
Journal Article
Austin, A. J., & Gilbert, J. D. (2021). Solitary bee larvae prioritize carbohydrate over protein in parentally provided pollen. Functional ecology, 35(5), 1069-1080. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13746

Most organisms must regulate their nutritional intake in an environment full of complex food choices. While this process is well-understood for self-sufficient organisms, dependent offspring, such as bee larvae, in practice have limited food choices... Read More about Solitary bee larvae prioritize carbohydrate over protein in parentally provided pollen.

Sporopollenin as a dilution agent in artificial diets for solitary bees (2020)
Journal Article
Tainsh, F., Woodmansey, S. R., Austin, A. J., Bagnall, T. E., & Gilbert, J. D. (in press). Sporopollenin as a dilution agent in artificial diets for solitary bees. Apidologie, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-020-00801-1

Nutritional studies often require precise control of nutrients via dilution of artificial diets with indigestible material, but such studies in bees are limited. Common diluents like cellulose typically result in total mortality of bee larvae, making... Read More about Sporopollenin as a dilution agent in artificial diets for solitary bees.

Detection of nitrous oxide using infrared optical plasmonics coupled with carbon nanotubes (2020)
Journal Article
Allsop, T., Al Araimi, M., Neal, R., Wang, C., Culverhouse, P., Ania-Castañón, J. D., Webb, D. J., Davey, P., Gilbert, J. M., & Rozhin, A. (2020). Detection of nitrous oxide using infrared optical plasmonics coupled with carbon nanotubes. Nanoscale advances, 2(10), 4615-4626. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0na00525h

© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2020. Interest in gas sensing using functionalised carbon nanotubes is a major area of research that utilises changes in their electrical properties induced by the reaction with a specific gas. This paper describes sp... Read More about Detection of nitrous oxide using infrared optical plasmonics coupled with carbon nanotubes.

Fault-tolerant load reduction control for large offshore wind turbines (2019)
Thesis
Liu, Y. Fault-tolerant load reduction control for large offshore wind turbines. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4270015

Offshore wind turbines suffer from asymmetrical loading (blades, tower etc.), leading to enhanced structural fatigue. As well as asymmetrical loading different types of faults (pitch system faults etc.) can occur simultaneously, causing degradation o... Read More about Fault-tolerant load reduction control for large offshore wind turbines.

Developing a vocabulary and ontology for modeling insect natural history data: Example data, use cases, and competency questions (2019)
Journal Article
Stucky, B. J., Balhoff, J. P., Barve, N., Barve, V., Brenskelle, L., Brush, M. H., Dahlem, G. A., Gilbert, J. D., Kawahara, A. Y., Keller, O., Lucky, A., Mayhew, P. J., Plotkin, D., Seltmann, K. C., Talamas, E., Vaidya, G., Walls, R., Yoder, M., Zhang, G., & Guralnick, R. (2019). Developing a vocabulary and ontology for modeling insect natural history data: Example data, use cases, and competency questions. Biodiversity Data Journal, 7, Article e33303. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.7.e33303

© Stucky B et al. Insects are possibly the most taxonomically and ecologically diverse class of multicellular organisms on Earth. Consequently, they provide nearly unlimited opportunities to develop and test ecological and evolutionary hypotheses. Cu... Read More about Developing a vocabulary and ontology for modeling insect natural history data: Example data, use cases, and competency questions.

Predation drives recurrent convergence of an interspecies mutualism (2018)
Journal Article
Feeney, W. E., Brooker, R. M., Johnston, L. N., Gilbert, J. D., Besson, M., Lecchini, D., Dixson, D. L., Cowman, P. F., & Manica, A. (2019). Predation drives recurrent convergence of an interspecies mutualism. Ecology letters, 22(2), 256-264. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13184

Mutualisms are fundamental ecological interactions that underpin much of the world’s biodiversity. Recent studies have demonstrated how external pressures, such as predation, can regulate the dynamics of interspecific interactions and cause the break... Read More about Predation drives recurrent convergence of an interspecies mutualism.

Skew in ovarian activation depends on domicile size in phyllode-glueing thrips (2018)
Journal Article
Gilbert, J. D., Wells, A., & Simpson, S. J. (2018). Skew in ovarian activation depends on domicile size in phyllode-glueing thrips. Scientific reports, 8(1), Article 3597. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21635-z

Costs and benefits of group living are a fundamental topic in behavioural ecology. Resource availability affects individuals’ breeding prospects alone and in groups, as well as how reproduction is distributed within groups (“reproductive skew”). Here... Read More about Skew in ovarian activation depends on domicile size in phyllode-glueing thrips.

Direct Speech Reconstruction from Articulatory Sensor Data by Machine Learning (2017)
Journal Article
Gonzalez, J. A., Cheah, L. A., Gomez, A. M., Green, P. D., Gilbert, J. M., Ell, S. R., Moore, R. K., & Holdsworth, E. (2017). Direct Speech Reconstruction from Articulatory Sensor Data by Machine Learning. IEEE/ACM transactions on audio, speech, and language processing, 25(12), 2362-2374. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASLP.2017.2757263

© 2014 IEEE. This paper describes a technique that generates speech acoustics from articulator movements. Our motivation is to help people who can no longer speak following laryngectomy, a procedure that is carried out tens of thousands of times per... Read More about Direct Speech Reconstruction from Articulatory Sensor Data by Machine Learning.