Author:De Beer, Morris; Sallie, Ismail M; Van Rensburg, Yvette; Kemp, Mauritz JDate:Jul 2009This paper describes the proposed new methodology for the determination of the Permit Mass Fees for Abnormal road Vehicles (AVs) based on the estimation of road damage. The existing South African mechanistic-empirical (M-E) pavement design ...Read more
Author:Asaka, OT; Adejo, A; Onumanyi, Adeiza J; Bello-Salau, H; Oluwamotemi, FTDate:Jul 2021Cellular users are often considered to be uniformly distributed within the communication network for the purposes of simplified analysis. Based on this assumption, the inter-cell interference experienced by users has been handled using soft ...Read more
Author:O'Farrell, Patrick J; Donaldson, JS; Hoffman, MTDate:Aug 2009Renosterveld is a grassy shrubland with a diverse understory of geophytes. Exceptional plant diversity and endemism, combined with considerable fragmentation due to transformation to cropland, make this vegetation type a conservation priority. ...Read more
Author:Gibberd, Jeremy TDate:Oct 2016Local content refers to materials and products made in a country as opposed those that are imported. There is an increasing interest in the concept of local content as a means of supporting local economies and providing jobs (Belderbos & ...Read more
Author:Bhagwan, J; Wall, KDate:May 2007The paper describes an alternative service delivery institutional concept, viz the franchising of local entrepreneurs, a PPP model especially suited to developing countries. The concept is being developed with the intention of making it ...Read more
Author:Ittmann, HWDate:Sep 2011The Constitution of South Africa requires that both national and local government elections be held every five years. These elections are not held simultaneously; currently, the local government elections are held two years after the national ...Read more
Author:Paige-Green, PDate:Sep 2007This paper discusses latest perspectives regarding the improvement of the performance of unsealed roads, particularly by reducing many of the current problems. Like many countries, South Africa has a preponderance of unsealed roads in the ...Read more
Author:Theron, Maritha; Van Rooyen, Corney; Malabi, Khorommbi P; Hoosain, Shaik EDate:2019Laser cladding or laser metal deposition involves the deposition of any weldable material onto the surface of a metal substrate by means of a laser beam. Although clad deposits are fully fusion-joined to the substrate material, the very low ...Read more
Author:Chakwizira, J; Nhemachena, C; Dube, S; Maponya, GDate:Oct 2010This paper focuses on local resource based approach to maintaining and preserving rural local access roads assets using the Siyatentela project in Mpumalanga as a case study. The weaknesses of the exisiting rural local access road asset ...Read more
Author:Holtmann, BDate:31 Aug 2010Crime, violence and the related state of unsafety are issues of deep concern for most South Africans. Criminal justice responses, despite heavy investment and efforts by the state to increase and improve capacity to ensure effective law ...Read more
Author:James, S; Verrinder, RA; Sabatta, D; Shahdi, ADate:Sep 2012This research addresses the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) problem in the context of an underground mining environment. This would allow autonomous vehicle navigation in this hazardous setting. This environmental setting has few ...Read more
Author:Bhugwandin, AshleyDate:Oct 2017This presentation focuses on localisation for industrial development, and is presented by Ashley Bhugwandin at The 6th CSIR Conference: Ideas that work for industrial development, 5-6 October 2017, CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, ...Read more
Author:Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Apr 2012This project presents an extension to the current version of ns-2, which enables a normal user, who has basic knowledge of ns-2, to simulate localization system within a wireless network. Moreover, this project would be beneficial to researchers ...Read more
Author:Bosscha, Peter ADate:Oct 2015South Africa faces a number of challenges in its manufacturing industry. Some of the competitive advantages that existed previously, like cheap electricity and low labour costs, have been eroded by rolling blackouts and increases in electricity ...Read more
Author:Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Hancke, GPDate:Jan 2018Many wireless sensor network (WSN) applications and techniques require sensor location to work correctly. Information fusion in WSNs is crucial for location discovery and many information fusion techniques have been used in several ...Read more
Author:Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Jan 2018Many wireless sensor network (WSN) applications and techniques require sensor location to work correctly. Information fusion in WSNs is crucial for location discovery and many information fusion techniques have been used in several ...Read more
Author:Brits, R; Engelbrecht, AP; Van den Bergh, FDate:2007Many scientific and engineering applications require optimization methods to find more than one solution to multimodal optimization problems. This paper presents a new particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique to locate and refine multiple ...Read more
Author:Croucamp, PL; Rimer, S; Kruger, Carel PDate:Jul 2014Theft of cables used for powering a locomotive not only stops the train from functioning but also paralyzes the signalling and monitoring system. This means that information on certain locomotive's cannot be passed onto other locomotives which ...Read more
Author:Rens, G; Lakemeyer, G; Meyer, TDate:Aug 2012We propose a non-standard modal logic for specifying agent domains where the agent’s actuators and sensors are noisy, causing uncertainty in action and perception. The logic is multi-modal, indexed with actions; the logic is also augmented ...Read more