Applying the Dynamic Adaptation Policy Pathways (DAPP) approach to select future flood risk reduction strategies

Sea level variations and storm surges are expected to increase as a result of climate change. 570 cities and some 800 million people are by 2050 estimated to be exposed to these phenomena when emissions do not decrease (UCCRN, 2018). It is, however, deeply uncertain if and to what extent emissions will decrease. Additionally, the effects of...

Assessing and redesigning Valkenburg’s flood risk management system: A multidisciplinary project

The geographical features in the Southern part of Limburg forces precipitation from upstream located areas to flow through a bottleneck, which is exactly located at the city centre of Valkenburg. This makes increasing the safety level more complicated than in other areas. The safety level of Valkenburg has a lower standard in comparison to the...

Development of a medical Bernoulli gripper

When performing minimally invasive interventions, surgeons use grippers to grip and manipulate tissue. These grippers generally rely on their toothed profile and require pinching of the tissue for sufficient grip, entailing a risk of tissue damage. An solution should be found for this risk of damage. An alternative could be to manipulate the...