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Kerkhofs, Giel (author)The installed offshore wind energy capacity in Europe has been increasing rapidly over the past years, this trend is expected to continue thanks to the European green deal. In order to meet the future energy demand, new wind energy solutions such as increasing wind turbine size but also floating structures are being developed. This means that...master thesis 2021
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Hofwegen, Mark (author)To expand the use of additive manufacturing in aerospace towards more critical applications, it is required to design parts in a damage tolerant context. Therefore, the damage tolerance of additive manufactured multiple load path structures is assessed by analysing the fatigue life and damage propagation of components with increasing redundancy....master thesis 2021
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Rajpal, D. (author)The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the aviation industry with more than 60% reduction in the passenger traffic in the year 2020 compared to year 2019. The passenger traffic which is now expected to reach the 2019 level only around the year 2024 will still continue to grow but at a lower pace compared to the pre pandemic levels....doctoral thesis 2021
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Laanes, Mikk (author)Technology improvements and growing maturity of the offshore wind industry have resulted in significant cost reductions and rise in demand. More can be achieved by focusing on improving the understanding of key design areas of an offshore wind turbine (OWT). Since fatigue is one of the main design criteria for offshore structures and little is...master thesis 2021
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Meijerman, Krista (author)Welding is a joining method for thermoplastic composites (TPCs) that offers multiple advantages over the more traditional methods of mechanical fastening and adhesive bonding. A particularly promising welding technique is ultrasonic welding, which features very short process times as a result of the high heating rates that can be achieved. This...master thesis 2021
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Olivier, G. (author), Csillag, Fruzsina (author), Tromp, Elisabeth (author), Pavlovic, M. (author)As traffic loads are ever increasing and bridge infrastructure is ageing, existing materials and connection methods used in renovation and new construction projects are reaching their limits. New materials, such as Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) in the form of hollow decks can be a competitive solution due to good resistance to fatigue and...journal article 2021
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Lantsoght, E.O.L. (author), van der Veen, C. (author), Koekkoek, Rutger (author), Sliedrecht, Henk (author)In The Netherlands, existing slab-between-girder bridges with prestressed girders and thin transversely prestressed concrete decks require assessment. The punching capacity was studied in a previous series of experiments, showing a higher capacity thanks to compressive membrane action in the deck. Then, concerns were raised with regard to...conference paper 2021
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Zarouchas, D. (author), van Diën, C.C.J. (author), Eleftheroglou, N. (author)This paper presents the results for an experimental campaign of in-situ impact during tension-tension fatigue loading for open-hole carbon fibre reinforced polymer specimens. High-speed low energy impact was introduced to the specimen with the use of a canon, which was attached to testing bench enabling the impact without the need to remove...journal article 2021
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Kolken, H.M.A. (author), Garcia, A. Fontecha (author), Du Plessis, A. (author), Rans, C.D. (author), Mirzaali, Mohammad J. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Meta-biomaterials offer a promising route towards the development of life-lasting implants. The concept aims to achieve solutions that are ordinarily impossible, by offering a unique combination of mechanical, mass transport, and biological properties through the optimization of their small-scale geometrical and topological designs. In this...journal article 2021
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Olivier, G. (author), Csillag, Fruzsina (author), Tromp, Elisabeth (author), Pavlovic, M. (author)Due to constantly increasing traffic loads and ageing infrastructure, innovative materials for implementation in renovation and new bridge construction projects are gaining attention. One such innovation is hybrid structures consisting of Glass Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) composite decks connected to a steel girder(s) superstructure. By...journal article 2021
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Pedrosa, Bruno (author), Correia, José (author), Rebelo, Carlos (author), Veljkovic, M. (author), Gervásio, Helena (author)All over the world, the number of civil engineering structures, particularly bridges with long service periods, has been increasing. The most common evidences of damages are the presence of corroded metallic elements and cracks in structural details due to the fatigue phenomenon. A large number of cases were found in which fatigue cracks were...journal article 2021
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Rajpal, D. (author), Mitrotta, F.M.A. (author), Socci, C.A.M. (author), Sodja, J. (author), Kassapoglou, C. (author), De Breuker, R. (author)The aim of the paper is to experimentally validate a numerical design methodology for optimizing composite wings subject to gust and fatigue loading requirements and to assess the effect of fatigue on the aeroelastic performance of the wing. Traditionally, to account for fatigue in composite design, a knockdown factor on the maximum stress...journal article 2021
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Gan, Y. (author), Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Liang, M. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), van Breugel, K. (author), Šavija, B. (author)In this study, a numerical model using a 2D lattice network is developed to investigate the fatigue behaviour of cement paste at the microscale. Images of 2D microstructures of cement pastes obtained from XCT tests are used as inputs and mapped to the lattice model. Different local mechanical and fatigue properties are assigned to different...journal article 2021
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De Jonghe, Thomas (author)High performance continuous fiber-reinforced composites are becoming increasingly important in the aerospace industry. In these structures, internal damage is often created and propagated throughout the lifetime, having a negative impact on the structural properties. In order to allow for condition-based maintenance, there is a need for reliable...master thesis 2020
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Heyson, Kelsey (author)The prevalence of additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, has grown in recent decades as a method of manufacturing complex geometries, prototype parts, or high tuned microstructures. One method of additive manufacturing is selective laser melting (SLM), a powder bed fusion technique which utilizes a laser to melt a metal alloy powder layer...master thesis 2020
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Deshmukh, Kaustubh (author)Additive Manufacturing (AM), commonly known as 3D printing, exemplifies the recently emerging processing methodologies that aim to substitute the conventional routes, such as to produce parts with complex geometries and eliminate expensive tooling. AM also allows high degree of freedom and rapid prototyping for functional part optimization. This...master thesis 2020
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van Diën, Casper (author)This research experimentally investigates the effects of an impact event during fatigue loading of a CFRP structure. Open-hole specimens were impacted in-situ during a short interruption of a tension-tension cyclic loading program. The impact was aimed directly below the central hole, with the critical fatigue damage path being left and right of...master thesis 2020
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van der Ende, D.J. (author)An Orthotropic Steel Deck (OSD) is suspectable to fatigue and this forms an important design criterium. In this research the rib-to-crossbeam connection with a cope hole is studied using Finite Element Methods (FEM). The fatigue assessment is performed with the hot spot stress method making use of surface stress extrapolation. Two fatigue cracks...master thesis 2020
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Pandit, Sayantan (author)The phenomenon of fatigue in orthotropic steel deck (OSD) bridges is a predominant problem because of complexity of the prediction methods. In the past, many researchers have studied the fatigue behaviour of various details in OSDs via both experiments and Finite Element Modelling (FEM). In the present research, the connection of open stiffener...master thesis 2020
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den Ouden, Hajo (author)The relation between planar delamination growth, induced by transverse quasi-static load case, and the coupon delamination validation tests was investigated by evaluating the delamination criteria. The delamination criterion that allowed to describe planar delamination growth was the strain energy density criterion. An analytical study was...master thesis 2020