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Maggioli, Filippo (author)Finite Element Methods (FEMs) are widely employed for damage simulation in composites, with the Cohesive Zone Model (CZM) being particularly favored for its robustness and scalability. Despite the CZM's mesh-dependent nature, the Discontinuous Galerkin Cohesive Zone Model (DG/CZM) formulation allows for relatively arbitrary crack propagation...master thesis 2024
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Kazmi, Syed Baqir Ali (author)This dissertation endeavors to introduce a novel supervised Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) methodology for the detection of damage and the prediction of fatigue life in asphalt concrete materials. Grounded in the principles of S-N (strain-number of cycles until failure) curves, this research addresses the intricate task of proficiently...master thesis 2023
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van Batenburg, Tobias (author)Groynes in the Lower Elbe estuary in Germany are subject to attack from overflowing long-period primary ship-induced waves. Damage can occur on the crest and lee side of the structure due to the high turbulent overflowing flow velocities. An actual design tool for groynes exposed to overflowing primary ship waves is not yet present. Therefore,...master thesis 2023
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Sijmons, Kasper (author)During this research, a new approach to predict impact damage was evaluated using the PAL-V Liberty’s propeller blade as the test subject. The purpose of this research was to provide a simple method for impact damage prediction which will support the certification activities of the PAL-V propeller.<br/>This method involves conducting a threat...master thesis 2023
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Sharma, Sudaya (author)Previous earthquake reports have highlighted the high vulnerability of masonry walls to failure when subjected to the out-of-plane (OOP) loading. Particularly, this OOP failure is a significant cause of collapse in unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings, especially those with slender walls and large openings. Moreover, in the past they were...master thesis 2023
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Skarka, Michał (author)The concept of lightweight design is driving future aircraft to exploit all the available strength of materials and further reduce the weight of an aircraft leading to lower fuel consumption and more sustainable aviation. Current designs introduce rivets and bolts to join the structure and simultaneously create holes in the pristine material,...master thesis 2023
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Villanueva Aguado, Mauro (author)Executing quadrotor trajectories accurately and therefore safely is a challenging task. State-of-the-art adaptive controllers achieve impressive trajectory tracking results with slight performance degradation in varying winds or payloads, but at the cost of computational...master thesis 2023
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Vilhjálmsson, Thor (author)This thesis aims to investigate the feasibility of developing a successful unsupervised Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) methodology to detect damage in structures, specifically bridges. Detecting damage, especially in its earliest stages, is challenging, thus prompting the need for robust and effective methods. The success of such a...master thesis 2023
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Joshi, Amey (author)The light and frequent earthquakes in the north of the Netherlands, particularly in the province of Groningen, have recently exposed the unreinforced masonry structures to seismic activities. Since these structures do not adhere to seismic regulations, they are considered vulnerable to seismicity. The ultimate state capacity of the structures is...master thesis 2023
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Koutsounanos, Efthymios (author)Ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are advanced materials that consist of a ceramic matrix reinforced with a high-strength, high-stiffness material, such as carbon fibers. They offer excellent thermal and chemical stability while exhibiting low weight and exceptional mechanical properties. A novel CMC material is the C/C-SiC produced with 2/2...master thesis 2023
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Saify, Burhanuddin (author)As quadrotors continue to become more popular for personal and commercial use, improving their safety is essential, especially in impaired operating states. With (asymmetric) blade damage (ABD) being a potentially dangerous type of impairment, it is beneficial to understand how it affects the dynamic behavior of a quadrotor. This research...master thesis 2023
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Elnily, Yasser (author)The use of Grid-stiffened structures has been increasing in the space industry over the last decade. Thanks to it is high specific mechanical properties and excellent damage tolerance characteristics, researchers also started looking into the potential of using them for aeronautical applications. However, not much has been done to investigate...master thesis 2023
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Bhosale, Ahaan (author)This project aims at developing a model to predict the damage initiation and propagation in a cylindrical filament-wound cord-rubber structure under internal pressurization using non-linear FEA, and is conducted in cooperation with TANIQ BV, Netherlands.<br/>Cord-reinforced rubber composites are used in several safety-critical industries such as...master thesis 2022
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Kerssemakers, Daan (author)To accelerate the growth of offshore wind power, its Levelised Cost Of Energy (LCOE) must be reduced. A means of reducing the LCOE of offshore wind power is by mitigating the adverse wake effect by employing Wind Farm Control (WFC) for power maximization. A recent WFC technology is the helix approach, which uses Individual Pitch Control (IPC) to...master thesis 2022
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van Oosten, Eva (author)With almost 900.000 new patients per year suffering from head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC), who after radiotherapy treatments experience severe side effects, the focus is drawn to proton therapy. Proton therapy results to less side effects since healthy tissues surrounding the tumour receive less radiation dose. This results from...master thesis 2022
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van der Heijden, Sjoerd (author)In this thesis I use a novel approach to estimate the economic impact of the 2021 Limburg flood using high-frequency transaction data from ABN AMRO bank. High- frequency bank transaction data have previously been proven valuable in accessing the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (Neuteboom et al., 2021). To the best of my knowledge, this...master thesis 2022
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Michels, Dirk-Jan (author)On the east coast of Romania, at Eforie, coastal erosion manifests. To strengthen the coastal area a large coastal protection project was setup involving beach nourishment combined with the construction of breakwaters. The breakwaters are designed with the well-known modified Van der Meer formulas. To ensure confidence in the breakwaters...master thesis 2022
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Feng, Chengming (author)Deep learning has been widely implemented in industrial inspection, such as damage detection from images. However, training deep networks requires massive data, which is hard to collect and laborious to annotate, especially in the aviation scenario of aircraft engines. To alleviate the demand for annotated data, we create BladeSynth - a large...master thesis 2022
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ZHANG, ZIFAN (author)Damages within asphalt have been interesting phenomena in asphalt engineering, the detection of which is significant for maintenance of road sections. This project focuses on cracks and delaminations. An attempt was made to filter radar image data with a method based on a VNA-antenna-multilayered system model as well as the data from two...master thesis 2022