Fatigue Behaviour of Functionally Graded Steels Produced by Additive Manufacturing

Wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) can create large parts, due to its high deposition rate. WAAM can be used to create functionally graded materials (FGMs) such as a strong core of high strength low alloy (HSLA) steel and corrosion-resistant cladding of austenitic stainless (AUS) steel. However, HSLA and AUS steel are dissimilar metals with...

Short-time Oxidation of Fe-Mn Alloys

The global production of steel in a year is in the range of several millions of tonnes due to its essential function in industries such as automotive, manufacturing, and construction among others. However, a major challenge faced by the steel industry in the development of new steel grades is the inability to predict surface behaviour, such as...

Adopting a systemic design perspective within a design thinking practice

This graduation project was a collaboration between TU Delft and VanBerlo, a strategic and product design agency based in the Netherlands. The motivation of this project was to understand how the Design for Transitions team, a part of VanBerlo, can start to apply Systemic design within their design practice. This team addresses societal and...

[RE]shaping urban environments in Chennai city: Urban transformation through an integrated densification process to facilitate liveable environments

Chennai, a historical seaside city on the southern coast of India, has undergone extensive urbanisation ever since the postcolonial economic reform of the nineties. Mismanaged urban growth that predominantly prioritises economic development has led to a situation of congestion, lack of public space and forgotten ecological networks in the city....

Back to Ground Zero: A study on rear passivated thin-CIGS solar cells

Having an absorber layer thickness below 1 micrometre for a regular copper indium gallium di-selenide (CIGS) solar cell reduces the pathways for electron collection which lead to reduced recombination in the bulk absorber layer. Additionally, it reduces material costs and production time. Yet, having such a thin absorber reduces the cell...