How to assess whether new technology is necessarily better technology.
Presentation / Conference
Clarkson, J., Harrison, L., & Keates, S. (2001, April)
How to assess whether new technology is necessarily better technology. Paper presented at International Conference on Inclusive Design and Communications (INCLUDE 2001
In 2002, 1000 million of the world population will have a noticeable degree of functional impairment (1). It is well established that impairments such as hearing and vision ar...
A practical inclusive design approach.
Presentation / Conference
Clarkson, J., & Keates, S. (2001, April)
A practical inclusive design approach. Paper presented at International Conference on Inclusive Design and Communications (INCLUDE 2001
Designers instinctively design for able-bodied users and are either unaware of the needs of users with different capabilities, or do not know how to accommodate their needs in...
Assessing the accessibility of everyday products.
Presentation / Conference
Cardoso, C., Clarkson, P. J., Harrison, L., Langdon, P., & Keates, S. (2001, April)
Assessing the accessibility of everyday products. Paper presented at International Conference on Inclusive Design and Communications (INCLUDE 2001
If a product is being designed to be genuinely inclusive, then the designers need to be able to assess the level of exclusion of the product they are working on and identify p...
Flexural behaviour of Rectangular Hollow Sections with circular side wall openings.
Conference Proceeding
Ridley-Ellis, D. J., Owen, J. S., & Davies, G. (2001)
Flexural behaviour of Rectangular Hollow Sections with circular side wall openings. In R. Puthli, & S. Herion (Eds.), Tubular Structures IX : Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium and Euroconference, Dusseldorf, Germany, 3-5 April 2001:, 339-348
The influence of circular web openings on the flexura behaviour of Rectangular Hollow Sections is introduced. The results of full-scale laboratory tests in three and four-poi...
An industrial evaluation of a stand level grading system for Pinus patula.
Journal Article
Turner, P., Megown, K. A., Grzeskowiak, V., Megown, R. A., Pauck, J. & Alborough, D. (2001)
An industrial evaluation of a stand level grading system for Pinus patula. Southern African forestry journal. 190, 105-114. doi:10.1080/20702620.2001.10434123. ISSN 1029-5925
This paper reports on progress made in the development and implementation of a stand level wood quality grading system for P. patula identified for processing in Mondi Mereban...
Failure probabilities for plastic utility ducts in roadway trench reinstatements.
Journal Article
Hounsome, I. W. S., & Fairfield, C. A. (2001)
Failure probabilities for plastic utility ducts in roadway trench reinstatements. Proceedings of the ICE - Transport, 147, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1680/tran.2001.147.1.1
Wavin Industrial Products Limited arranged access in conjunction with Balfour Beatty Construction Limited and Bovis Construction Limited to the Braehead construction site, nea...
Reliability of timber structural systems: a review
Journal Article
Drummond, I., Kermani, A. & Wamuziri, S. C. (2001)
Reliability of timber structural systems: a review. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Structures and buildings. 146(1), 101-108. doi:10.1680/stbu.2001.146.1.101. ISSN 1751-7702
The estimation of reliability in timber structures is a procedure complicated by the time-dependent nature of timber failure, coupled with the complex structural behaviour of ...
I-Design project (inclusive design for the whole population).
Presentation / Conference
Clarkson, P., Keates, S., Coleman, R., Lebbon, C., & Johnston, M. (2000, June)
I-Design project (inclusive design for the whole population). Presented at Designing for the 21st Century: International Conference on Universal Design
No abstract available.
On anomalously low values of the tensile strength of water
Journal Article
Williams, P. R., & Williams, R. L. (2000)
On anomalously low values of the tensile strength of water. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 456, 1321-1332. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2000.0564
We provide an explanation for the anomalously low values of liquid tensile strength recorded in some experiments involving the reflection of a pressure pulse (as tension) at t...
Universal access in the work-place: a case study.
Conference Proceeding
Keates, S., Clarkson, J., Coy, J., & Robinson, P. (1999)
Universal access in the work-place: a case study. In Proceedings of the 5th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All
Universal Access belongs not only in the research laboratory, but also in an industrial environment. Many countries have set out specific legal requirements for companies to m...