The sand erosion performance of coatings

RJK Wood - Materials & design, 1999 - Elsevier
This paper reviews studies of the performance of polymeric, metallic and ceramic including
diamond coatings on steel and ceramic substrates when subjected to water–sand jet …

Rodin: an open toolset for modelling and reasoning in Event-B

JR Abrial, M Butler, S Hallerstede, TS Hoang… - International journal on …, 2010 - Springer
Event-B is a formal method for system-level modelling and analysis. Key features of Event-B
are the use of set theory as a modelling notation, the use of refinement to represent systems …

Instance‐based prediction of real‐valued attributes

D Kibler, DW Aha, MK Albert - Computational Intelligence, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
Instance‐based representations have been applied to numerous classification tasks with
some success. Most of these applications involved predicting a symbolic class based on …

An incremental development of the Mondex system in Event-B

M Butler, D Yadav - Formal Aspects of Computing, 2008 - Springer
A development of the Mondex system was undertaken using Event-B and its associated
proof tools. An incremental approach was used whereby the refinement between the …

Applying atomicity and model decomposition to a space craft system in Event-B

A Salehi Fathabadi, A Rezazadeh, M Butler - … , CA, USA, April 18-20, 2011 …, 2011 - Springer
Event-B is a formal method for modeling and verifying consistency of systems. In formal
methods such as Event-B, refinement is the process of enriching or modifying an abstract …

Qualitative probabilistic modelling in Event-B

S Hallerstede, TS Hoang - International Conference on Integrated Formal …, 2007 - Springer
Event-B is a notation and method for discrete systems modelling by refinement. We
introduce a small but very useful construction: qualitative probabilistic choice. It extends the …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of a guideline by formal modelling of cruise control system in Event-B

S Yeganefard, M Butler, A Rezazadeh - 2010 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
Recently a set of guidelines, or cookbook, has been developed for modelling and refinement
of control problems in Event-B. The Event-B formal method is used for system-level …

Applying Event-B atomicity decomposition to a multi media protocol

A Salehi Fathabadi, M Butler - … on Formal Methods for Components and …, 2009 - Springer
Atomicity Decomposition is a technique in the Event-B formal method, which augments
Event-B refinement with additional structuring in a diagrammatic notation to support complex …

Large-scale gene expression analysis of osteoblasts cultured on three different Ti–6Al–4V surface treatments

CH Ku, M Browne, PJ Gregson, J Corbeil, DP Pioletti - Biomaterials, 2002 - Elsevier
To improve implant biocompatibility, we developed a simple cost-effective thermal surface
treatment allowing an increase in the oxide layer thickness of a titanium (Ti) alloy used in …

Aspect ratios and morphology of acicular ferrite in C–Mn–Ni weld metals

RA Farrar, Z Zhang - Materials science and technology, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
The aspect ratio and morphology of acicular ferrite formed in C–Mn–Ni weld metals and the
effect of nickel and oxygen contents have been investigated. The experimental results …