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Olberts, Olof (author)The Dutch railway system is subject to maintenance, which is carried out by a group of rail contractors who need parking space to park and prepare trains in between projects. The objective of this study is to minimise the total costs as a result of the distance travelled by maintenance trains and the preservation of the included parking...master thesis 2021
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Jordanov, Viktor (author)The idea of capturing an asteroid has gained more and more attention in recent years, sparked by rapid technological development and the growing general interest into the subject, both by scientists and commercial parties. The focus of this thesis project lies on transferring a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) from its original orbit to a safe, stable...master thesis 2020
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Rijnink, Alexandra (author)A dam including a tidal power station with pumping capacity is a new type of flood defence. The negative ecological impact normally associated with closure dams is partially mitigated by including a tidal power station in the structure. Water can move through the tidal power station resulting in a reduced tidal stroke at the created lake. This...master thesis 2020
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Blondeel, Tim (author)The thesis focusses on the effects that an intercooler (IC) and an interturbine burner (ITB) have on the cycle performance of a UBPR engine. The IC is located between the lowpressure compressor (LPC) and the highpressure compressor (HPC). It exchanges heat between the core flow and the bypass flow reducing the temperature in the core flow....master thesis 2020
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Versluis, N.D. (author)Waste-to-energy is the process of generating energy from municipal waste. The most conventional energy recovery method is incineration, which takes place at a waste-to-energy plant. The incoming waste is collected in a bunker, where an overhead crane stacks and mixes the material before feeding it to the furnaces. The more homogeneous the waste...master thesis 2020
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Cao Chiew, Daniel (author)The present research performed a design exploration of fast ferry catamarans with hard chined demihulls sailing in irregular head waves, to analyse the influence of the demihull shape (without appendages) on wet deck slamming, and identify the geometrical properties and their trends to reduce it. Wet deck slamming is a phenomenon known to cause...master thesis 2020
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Zoetmulder, Luuk (author)Over the last decade, interest in deep-sea mining of Polymetallic Nodules (PN) has reignited. It is driven by an increasing demand of metals that are critical for the digital economy and modern technologies such as batteries. Methods for resource estimation of PN are known and commercially available. There is however no standard method of a...master thesis 2020
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van der Niet, Astrid (author)Minimum-time optimisation has been used extensively in motorsports, such as Formula One racing. Using minimum-time optimisation, the ideal racing line as well as control strategies such as braking strategies can be found. This is interesting, as Reijne et al have shown that cyclists apply diverse strategies, specifically during a descent [1]....master thesis 2020
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Teitsma, Jacco (author)The maritime inventory routing problem (MIRP) is a tactical and operational planning problem, that takes an integrated view on ship scheduling and inventory management for bulk products. Given production and consumption levels during a predetermined planning horizon, the problem aims at finding delivery schedules with minimal travel costs, such...master thesis 2020
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van 't Hoff, Jurriaan (author)In the field of radio astronomy the Ultra-Long Wavelength (f < 30MHz) band is unique, it has been studied for nearly a century yet it is still almost completely uncharted. Due to the reflective properties of Earth's ionosphere this band is nearly completely inaccessible for ground-based observatories, which can only receive frequencies down...master thesis 2020
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Versendaal, Bryan (author)In this thesis we look at three different algorithms within the field of phylogenetics and create a proof of concept for using machine learning to improve the algorithms. The problems are the maximum agreement forest problem, the hybridization number problem and finally the tail move problem. A study of the problems show that they can all...master thesis 2020
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Vigorito, Alessio (author)This research aimed to design a new bridge for the city of Rome, Italy, through the support of modern optimisation and decision-making processes that can be implemented to make informed choices regarding aesthetic performance, structural firmness, and environmental impact. The bridge’s design was carried forward considering the city’s plans for...master thesis 2020
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Atkins, Megan (author)One of the goals outlined during the Paris Agreement in 2015 aimed at 'holding the increase in global average temperature to well below 2C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C'. In conjunction with this, the Klimaatakkord of the Netherlands aims to 'reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the...master thesis 2020
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Leung, S.Y. (author)This thesis project investigated how user-centred design(UCD) contributes to the railway maintenance planning optimisation. A new UX concept and digital prototype were designed to provide intuitive interaction and clear structure to support the planners confidently and independently optimise railway maintenance planning on a digital platform. ...master thesis 2020
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Dreucci, D. (author)Although the idea of electric vehicles fell out of favour in the 1930s, it seems this phenomenon is now reversing and that many companies are willing to invest again on this technology. The advantages are clear: no emissions and the possibility to power vehicles by means of sustainable sources. On the other hand, a high number of simultaneously...master thesis 2020
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Teeling, Jelle (author)During a previous research project, a parametric model for conceptual layout design has been developed. The model uses optimisation using genetic algorithms to approach the optimal breakwater layout for specific locations. <br/>The developed model serves as a successful proof-of-concept. In the model, several aspects of design have been...master thesis 2020
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Schmidt, Nadine (author)Currently the world is dealing with a pandemic. The world has stopped, and people are distancing from each other. However, this large crisis is not the only crisis the world is currently dealing with. Climate change is affecting the world drastically since the last century. Our current way of development must stop to deal with this change. This...master thesis 2020
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Rouwenhorst, Tessa (author)The MOR prototype is a smart passive building with a central building management system to control and optimise the operation of the active and passive building systems and therefore reduce the energy consumption of the building and improve the users comfort conditions (MOR Team, 2019b). During the competition, the systems in the prototype were...master thesis 2020
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Özdemir, T. (author)Reduction of energy consumption and to increase its generation is necessary, as the population lives in urban settlements consume three-quarters of global resources, and these numbers are continually growing. Building-integrated photovoltaic panels (BIPV) which would assist for the resolution of the problem can be applied by replacing the façade...master thesis 2020
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Fumagalli, Andrea (author)The current housing market in the Netherlands depicts a need for energy-efficient buildings for young professionals. Performative Computational Architecture (PCA), as computational methodology, is a valuable source of knowledge and design support to integrate the buildings’ performances at early stages. By applying PCA, this thesis explores and...master thesis 2020