Cranfield Institute of Technology (CIT) is one of Europe's premier technological teaching and
research institutes. It is located in Cranfield, Bedford, United Kingdom (UK), and is unusual …

This study set out to investigate the value consumers place on less tangible product attributes.
Although some work has been done in the past, to establish the relative importance of …

This report documents the result of an investigation of the optimum design of shear web
structures whose function is to resist buckling. The structure considered was comprised of a …

The effects of shoot and root densities of a grass vegetation on the erosion of channel banks
through scour and slumping are assessed for a clay and sandy clay loam soil. By means of …

The effect of sodium chloride on the mechanical behavior of protective oxide scales on nickel-,
cobalt-, and iron-base superalloys was determined. Laboratory tests with thin films of sea …

This paper addresses some of the more important problems associated with the computer
simulation of aircraft and the reasons for adopting an alternative simulation strategy are …

Numerical flux formulas for the convection terms in the Euler or Navier-Stokes equations are
analyzed with regard to their accuracy in representing steady nonlinear and linear waves (…

… As everybody knows, in 1970 the Privy Council recommended the award of a Royal Charter
and Cranfield became the Cranfield Institute of Technology with powers to award its own …

For many years sweep-back has been applied to wings to delay the onset of compressibility
effects. However sweep-back can also radically alter other aerodynamic characteristics of a …