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Peyghami, S. (author), Palensky, P. (author), Fotuhi-Firuzabad, Mahmoud (author), Blaabjerg, Frede (author)Power electronic converters will serve as the fundamental components of modern power systems. However, they may suffer from poorer reliability if not properly designed, consequently affecting the overall performance of power systems. Accordingly, the converter reliability should be taken into account in design and planning of Power Electronic...journal article 2020
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Acquatella Bustillo, P.J. (author), Chu, Q. P. (author)This paper presents an agile and robust spacecraft attitude tracking controller using the recently reformulated incremental nonlinear dynamic inversion (INDI). INDI is a combined model- and sensor-based control approach that only requires a control effectiveness model and measurements of the state and some of its derivatives, making a reduced...journal article 2020
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Clarke, Nicholas (author), Zijlstra, H. (author), de Jonge, W. (author)The Section for Heritage and Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the Delft University of Technology specializes in architectural education for adaptive reuse of heritage buildings, with a specific focus on the built heritage of the 20th century. Our approach combines architectural design and technological...journal article 2019
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Vossen, T.E. (author), Henze, Ineke (author), de Vries, M.J. (author), van Driel, J.A.S. (author)Research and design activities are becoming more important in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and D&T (design and technology) education. Research and design are often taught separately from each other, while in professional STEM practices, many projects are neither ‘research only’ or ‘design only’—they are both. In...journal article 2019
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Vossen, T.E. (author), Tigelaar, E. H. (author), Henze, Ineke (author), de Vries, M.J. (author), van Driel, J.A.S. (author)Technological design is a core activity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. During the design process, students often employ research activities to enhance the quality of their design decisions and to rise above a mere trial-and-error approach to designing. There are many functions of research within the...journal article 2019
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Kusnandar, K. (author), van Kooten, O. (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)Participation of local actors has shown to be of significant importance to the uptake of new approaches to agricultural initiatives in developing countries. This paper proposes a new approach to empower local chain actors to work together to understand their own and others’ challenges, to pursue common understanding of their situations and...journal article 2019
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Langelaar, Matthijs (author)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to communicate a method to perform simultaneous topology optimization of component and support structures considering typical metal additive manufacturing (AM) restrictions and post-print machining requirements. Design/methodology/approach: An integrated topology optimization is proposed using two density...journal article 2019
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Frey, Marion (author), Zirkelbach, Meri (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author), Faude, Eric (author), Trachsel, Etienne (author), Hannus, Mikael (author), Burgert, Ingo (author), Keplinger, Tobias (author)Delignified densified wood is a new promising and sustainable material that possesses the potential to replace synthetic materials, such as glass fiber reinforced composites, due to its excellent mechanical properties. Delignified wood, however, is rather fragile in a wet state, which makes handling and shaping challenging. Here we present...journal article 2019
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Price, R.A. (author), de Lille, C.S.H. (author), Bergema, Katinka (author)Design educators and industry partners are critical knowledge managers and co-drivers of change, and design graduate and post-graduate students can act as catalysts for new ideas, energy, and perspectives. In this article, we will explore how design advances industry development through the lens of a longitudinal inquiry into activities...journal article 2019
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Giampa, J.R. (author), Bradshaw, Aaron (author), Gerkus, Hande (author), Gilbert, R.B. (author), Gavin, Kenneth (author), Sivakumar, V. (author)This paper presents an experimental and analytical study to investigate the effect of shape on the pull-out capacity of shallow horizontal plate anchors in sand under drained loading conditions. Novel dynamically penetrating plate anchor concepts have been proposed for use in the offshore energy sector. These anchor concepts may have shapes that...journal article 2018
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van Engelenburg, S.H. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Klievink, A.J. (author)Context-aware systems are systems that have the ability to sense and adapt to the environment. To operate in large-scale multi-stakeholder environments, systems often require context awareness. The context elements that systems in such environments should take into account are becoming ever more complex and go beyond elements like geographic...journal article 2018
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Wang, Q. (author), Giustiniano, Domenico (author), Zuniga, Marco (author)LEDs in our buildings, vehicles, and consumer products are rapidly gaining visible light communication capabilities. LED links however are notorious for being unreliable: shadowing, blockage, mobility, external light, all of these issues can disrupt the connectivity easily. Therefore, unless a reliable and cost-efficient data link layer is...journal article 2018
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Visser, Mirjam (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author), Vogtländer, J.G. (author)Although most people claim to prefer a more sustainable product, only a limited number of ‘green buyers’ act on their words at the moment of purchase. To find out how to get mainstream buyers to buy more sustainable products, we used data on 950 Western European buyers of 32 different vacuum cleaner models. The issue was why three out of four...journal article 2018
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Juaristi, Miren (author), Monge-Barrio, Aurora (author), Knaack, U. (author), Gómez-Acebo, Tomas (author)Today's society needs to face challenging targets relating to environment and energy efficiency, and therefore the development of efficient façade systems is essential. Innovative concepts such as Adaptive Building Façades might play a role in the near future, as their dynamic behaviour could optimise the performance of a building. For their...journal article 2018
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Iwamoto, Rikako (author), Rodrigues Santos, A.L. (author), Chavannes, Niels (author), Reis, Ria (author), Diehl, J.C. (author)Background: The lack of adequate information about fever in low-resource settings, its unreliable self-assessment, and poor diagnostic practices may result in delayed care and under-or-overdiagnosis of diseases such as malaria. The mismatches of existing fever thermometers in the context of use imply that the diagnostic tools and connected...journal article 2017
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Moncada Escudero, J.A. (author), Luteijn-Nava Guerrero, G.D.C. (author), Park Lee, E.H. (author), Okur, Ö. (author), Chakraborty, S.T. (author), Lukszo, Z. (author)The EU has set ambitious targets for an energy transition. While research often focuses on technology, institutions or actors, a transition requires complex coordination and comprehensive analysis and design. We propose a framework accounting for technology, institutions and actors' perspective to design in socio-technical systems. We present...journal article 2017
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van de Poel, I.R. (author), Robaey, Z.H. (author)Safe-by-design (SbD) aims at addressing safety issues already during the R&D and design phases of new technologies. SbD has increasingly become popular in the last few years for addressing the risks of emerging technologies like nanotechnology and synthetic biology. We ask to what extent SbD approaches can deal with uncertainty, in...journal article 2017
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van Kuijk, J.I. (author), Kanis, H. (author), Christiaans, H.H.C.M. (author), van Eijk, D.J. (author)This study identified practitioner-reported barriers to and enablers of usability in the development of electronic consumer products. Barriers and enablers are properties, situations, or conditions in the product development process, team, or context that negatively or positively influence the usability of a product. Based on a review of...journal article 2017
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Liu, Y. (author), van Nederveen, G.A. (author), Hertogh, M.J.C.M. (author)In construction projects, Building Information Modeling (BIM) influences on the common way of collaboration, including the roles of different participants. The goal of this research is to explore current practices and identify the critical effects of BIM on collaborative design and construction. Through a focus group discussion and interviews...journal article 2016
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Frouws, J.W. (author)The Energy Emission Design Index (EEDI) is an index indicating the CO2 emission per transportation effort, for example the emitted tons CO2 per ton mile, to be calculated for each new design. The required index for new designs will be gradually lowered in the coming years resulting in either improved energy efficiencies or speed reductions.<br/>...journal article 2016