**Author details**

Esam Elsarrag<sup>1</sup> \*, Opubo N. Igobo<sup>2</sup> and Philip A. Davies<sup>3</sup>

1 BGG, Manchester, UK

2 Howard Butler, Walsall, UK

3 School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK

\*Address all correspondence to: elsarrag@hotmail.com

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