More than 1000 jointless bridges have been built in Finland during recent decades. The maximum length of a symmetrical road bridge has been 70 meters, that is, 35 m + 35 m from the centre of thermal movements. Integral ...

The life cycles of mobile control electronics are significantly longer than in the mainstream electronics. The low production quantities and high number of product variants together with long life cycles has led to scattered ...

Stochastic optimization (SO) represents a category of numerical optimization approaches, in which the search for the optimal solution involves randomness in a constructive manner. As shown also in this thesis, the stochastic ...

In this thesis we develop a state space output regulation theory for linear infinite-dimensional systems and bounded uniformly continuous exogenous reference/disturbance signals. The output regulation problems that we study ...

The target of this study was to establish statistical prediction models for the water vapour transmission rate (WVTR) of extrusion-coated papers and paperboards commonly used in food packaging. The models bring along ...

The mechanical behavior of metastable austenitic steels can be relatively complex in terms of temperature and strain rate sensitivity. This is connected to their low stacking fault energy and tendency towards martensitic ...

The Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) is a multinational initiative to standardize digital broadcasting worldwide. It produces different system specifications including satellite: DVB-S, cable: DVB-C, terrestrial: ...

Printed electronics (PE) is based on printing thin- and thick-film structures on cost-sensitive flexible substrates, such as paper-like, plastic, and on rigid substrates using a novel approach to manufacturing electronics ...

Positioning capability in mobile terminals (phones, laptops, netbooks) is required for various purposes including location-based commercial services, navigation and local search. Other uses include positioning of emergency ...

Many software development organizations have started to deploy agile methods to gain improvements, for example, in production speed and quality. In a large, distributed organization the agile transformation may be a ...