Driving Toward Sustainability: Large-Scale Electric Road Systems for Road Freight - an optimization model for ERS Network Planning

As societies worldwide grapple with the urgent need to mitigate carbon emissions, one domain where substantial strides can be made is heavy-duty road freight transport. Electrification has emerged as a practical and technologically mature solution to address this challenge. However, the widespread adoption of electrification in this sector is...

Monitoring Techniques in Modern Industrial Systems: Fault detection and non-intrusive load monitoring

The Monitoring technique plays a vital role in ensuring the proper functioning of modern industrial systems that are highly sophisticated and automated. On two different applications, this thesis investigates two major categories of information redundancy monitoring techniques, model-based and data-driven.<br/><br/>The first application focuses...

A mathematical model for optimal fleet and usage price control of EVs with V2G

Proposed an MILP mathematical model to optimize the total profits for a EV sharing system considering dynamic usage price and V2G technology.

Magnetic actuator for mechanical stretching of cells in organs-on-chip

Organ-on-chip (OoC) is invented around 10 years ago which is used to do pre-clinical drug test without live animals. Physiological microenvironment of different cells can be mimicked in OoC. In order to better form of tissue in OoC, mechanical stimulation can offer through different ways including pneumatic, thermal, and electric stimulations....

Facilitating healthcare using smartwatches: Smartwatch data acquisition platform

This report details the design and implementation of a subsystem providing a web-based platform for smartwatch data acquisition. A smartwatch application is developed to read out the accelerometer, gyroscope and heart rate sensor on the smartwatch and transmit the sensor data to the platform. A platform is developed to receive the data and store...

Advanced Constitutive Models for Offshore Applications on Suction Pile Foundation

The suction pile foundation is a large steel cylinder with an open end and sealed top. This foundation type is widely used in the oil&amp;gas industry and wind energy. Experimental investigation and numerical investigation are the main two methods to understand the performance of the suction bucket foundation. The experimental studies are...

Detourism: From cultural tourism to creative tourism, towards integrated and community-based tourism system in Budapest

In recent years, lots of papers are fast reacting to overtourism, making it open for discussion and finding the solutions. Specifically, in the European context, cultural tourism is the fastest-growing sector in the tourism industry, which is the leading cause of overtourism. Furthermore, globalization makes cultural tourism gradually become...

Pit Stop

This project deals with the industrial heritage of Gibraltar and its future prospects in the context of the global economy and the local culture. More particularly, it is about an upgrade of a ship repair yard known as Gibdock. It is aiming to counterbalance the issue between the ecological and Gibraltar’s economy, improving a better quality of...

Modelling flexible timber diaphragms in masonry buildings subjected to seismic excitations

Gas extraction has caused increased seismic activity in the area of Groningen, bringing about considerable damage to houses. The houses are generally old masonry houses with flexible timber diaphragms. It is of importance to assess the response of these houses in order to apply proper retrofit measures. There has been substantial research on...

Empowering THA Patient to Proactively Manage Recovery Progress by Design

Next to a successful surgery, hospital aim to provide support to improve osteoarthritis patient experience for the complete treatment journey as a vision in next 3-5 years. The term “patient experience” is highly correlated with patient’s perception about their context, when a single or multiple personal events occurred alongside with the...

Water Resilient Living in Houston: The Porch of Kashmere Gardens neighborhood

The Lasting Notion of Street: Variate, Adapt, Engage. Transforming Eilandenbuurt Apartments

The Eilandenbuurt Post-war flats designed by J.H.Van den Broek are unique in its street form and is and early experiment for Dutch modernism dwellings. Yet today it suffers from low occupancy. In this project I finds the solution through three actions: vary, adapt, engage to change the heritage from repetitive functional dwellings into variant...

Cross-shore Velocity Moments in the Nearshore: Validating SWASH

The cross-shore sediment transport is of great importance in the coastal water since it may lead to significant change of coastal profile. Many researches have proved that the sediment transport is proportional to velocity moments. In this study, the velocity moments under wave action in the perpendicular direction to the coastline are studied...

Chinese Consumer Preferences for Electric Vehicles

Road transport is one of the major contributors to pervasive problems such as air pollution, oil dependency and global warming, hence it is desirable to make mobility cleaner and more sustainable. Electric vehicle (EV) is considered as an alternative which can potentially reduce the environmental impact substantially in contrast to cars powered...