Structural analysis of thin film silicon PV modules by means of large area laser beam induced current measurements by Pongpan Vorasayan, Tom Betts, Ralph Gottschalg, A.N. Tiwari

“…The spatial variation of key properties of large area silicon thin film PV modules is investigated using a Laser Beam Induced Current (LBIC) system. …”
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Beam patterns of a thermooptical source of acoustic waves excited by a narrow laser beam in metals by S.I. Zolotov, Victor V. Krylov, E.P. Ponomarev, T.V. Shtentsel'

“…Beam patterns of a thermooptical source of acoustic waves excited by a narrow laser beam in metals…”
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Precision laser beam measurements by Basil A. Omar

“…A system is described, based on a glass fluorescer, which writes the beam profile of a single-shot KrF laser directly into computer memory and hence permits powerful image processing, and measurements to be made on the laser beam profile. …”
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The forced vibration of a partially delaminated beam by Roger Menday

“…We investigate a number of aspects of this system, using mathematical models to gain insight into its behaviour. …”
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The sunlight beam index by John Mardaljevic, Nicolas Roy

“…The sunlight beam index is determined for a full year on a time-step basis (e.g. every 15 minutes), but it can be aggregated into monthly or yearly totals. …”
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Integrated model for design of SWS and beam-wave interaction analysis of a planar THz sheet-beam TWT by Aakash Bansal, Vishnu Srivastava, Richa Gupta

“…The energy balance factor was achieved within ±0.001% over a very wide dynamic range from even 100 dB below saturation to more than 10 dB above saturation. …”
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Mobility of a semi-infinite beam with constant curvature by Stephen Walsh, R.G. White

“…In a straight beam the flexural and longitudinal wave motions are uncoupled. …”
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Dynamic interfacial fracture of a double cantilever beam by Tianyu Chen, Christopher Harvey, Simon Wang, Vadim Silberschmidt

“…In this work, the pure-mode-I interfacial fracture behavior of a symmetric double cantilever beam (DCB) under constant-rate opening displacement is studied using a dynamics and vibration analysis of Euler-Bernoulli beams, and the ERR is derived. …”
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Condition monitoring for a neutral beam heating system by Nick Wright

“…This thesis presents the design of a condition monitoring scheme for the neutral beam cryogenic pumping system deployed in the Joint European Torus. …”
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Generating Mode 2 OAM beam using a circular leaky-wave antenna on a corrugated half-mode SIW with beam-scanning by Aakash Bansal, William Whittow

“…The conventional straight LWA is converted into a compact CLWA with a continuous long slot to create a uniform leaky-wave architecture at 17.5 to 21 GHz. …”
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A pinned-pinned beam with and without a distributed foundation: A simple exact relationship between their eigenvalues by William P. Howson, Andrew Watson

“…The body of this paper considers a pinned-pinned Bernoulli-Euler beam, from which the core natural frequencies and critical buckling loads corresponding to in-plane flexure, can be determined easily. …”
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Vibration transmission through structural connections in beams by Saiddi A.F. bin Mohamed Ishak

“…Predicted results are compared to an existing model of a joint between two semi-infinite beams where the joint was modelled as a fixed inertia regardless of the angle between the beams, thus limiting its physical representation, especially at the extremes of angle (two beams lay next to each other at 180 degree joint). …”
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Emergent biaxiality in nematic microflows illuminated by a laser beam by Jan-Christoph Eichler, Robert A Skutnik, Anupam Sengupta, Marco Mazza, Martin Schoen

“…We quantify the response of a nematic liquid crystal (NLC) undergoing a Poiseuille flow in the Stokes regime, while being illuminated by a laser beam incident perpendicular to the flow direction. …”
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The mathematical modelling of focussed ion beam systems by Robert J. Amos, G.A. Evans, Roger Smith

“…The applications include individual ion lcn cs, extraction optics for ions in surface analytical instruments and the design of columns for ion beam lithography.…”
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Measurement of phase accumulation in the transfer functions of beams and plates by L. Wang, Stephen Walsh

“…Predictions of the accumulated phase are then compared to measurements of the accumulated phase from the transfer mobilities of a number of beam and plate structures. It is shown that selection of the correct FFT frequency resolution in the experiment is vital in obtaining an accurate measurement of the phase of the transfer function. …”
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Vibrational power transmission in curved beams by Stephen Walsh, R.G. White

“…The results of numerical studies are presented which show the effects upon power transmission along a curved beam of: (i) the degree of curvature; and (ii) various simplifying assumptions made concerning beam deformation.…”
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A four-beam optical polarimeter for robust particle shape detection by Wai-Hoong Lum

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A method for forming distributed beams in time modulated planar arrays by Ben Clark, James Flint

“…A planar array is modelled as two linear arrays on orthogonal axes and the binomial and Dolph-Chebyshev time-weighting distributions are applied to a 5 × 5 element array. …”
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New concepts in the design and construction of concrete-steel composite beams by Mohammed A. Al-Shuwaili

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Hybrid equilibrium finite element formulation for composite beams with partial interaction by Hugo A.F.A. Santos, Vadim Silberschmidt

“…This study will focus on two-layer composite beams with a flexible shear interface between layers. …”
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A benchmarked framework for geometric digital twinning of slab and beam-and-slab bridges by Ruodan Lu, Ioannis Brilakis

“…This paper describes the design, implementation and benchmarking of a framework to automate the process of geometric digital twinning for existing slab and beam-and-slab bridges. …”
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Measurement of point mobility and input energy of a beam under moment excitation by Thomas Eck, Stephen Walsh, Jane Horner

“…However, it has been shown that moment induced vibrational energy at low frequencies is important in the analysis when sources are close in proximity of discontinuities [1,2] and particularly if the translatory motion at a discontinuity is constrained [3,4]. …”
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Using the vibration envelope as a damage-sensitive feature in composite beam structures by Stavros Kasinos, Alessandro Palmeri, Mariateresa Lombardo

“…A novel approach of damage detection in composite steel-concrete composite beams is suggested. …”
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FE investigation of failure modes at the soffit of a steel plated RC beam by Mohammad Arsalan Khan

“…In recent decades, a significant research has been carried out towards understanding the behaviour of plated beam. …”
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Measurement of vibrational power transmission in curved beams by Stephen Walsh, R.G. White

“…In a companion publication [1] expressions were derived which described vibrational power transmission due to predominantly flexural, extensional and shear types of travelling wave in a curved beam where the neutral axis forms a plane curve of constant radius of curvature. …”
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Dual-beam orthogonal circular polarized antenna by Shahin Salarian, Reza Mostafavi, Dariush Mirshekar-Syahkal, Gan Zheng

“…It operates at 32 GHz with 3.2 GHz (-10 dB) bandwidth. It has the potential to be easily scaled for 5G band. …”
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Electron-beam instability in left-handed media by Yury P. Bliokh, Sergey Saveliev, Franco Nori

“…We predict that two electron beams can develop an instability when passing through a slab of left-handed media (LHM). …”
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The use of custom beam profiles in laser deposition by Matthew Gibson

“…This work shows that through modifying the laser beam profile factors influencing the quality of a resulting deposition can be changed. …”
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Multiwavelength laser beam induced current data by Lewis Wright

“…Multi-wavelength laser beam induced current measurements present a spatially resolved form of the external quantum efficiency.This is part of a collection (https://doi.org/10.17028/rd.lboro.c.4299728) for the article "Water based spray pyrolysis of metal-oxide solutions for CZTSSe solar cells using low toxicity amine/thiol complexants".…”
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Beam-switching planar parasitic antenna array by Zohaib Imran, Chinthana Panagamuwa

“…The treatment of the Yagi-Uda principle in this paper employs closely-spaced directors as opposed to the traditional inter-director spacing, and this shows advantages in terms of the front-to-back ratio (F/B) and size. The beam switching has been realized in 3 principal beam directions through the selective switching of 4 PIN Diodes on the antenna structure. …”
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The ultimate strength of reinforced concrete beams in shear by S.C. Dutta

“…It is suggested that the cost of shear reinforcement is a very small part of the total cost of such beams.…”
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