Fieldwork Hydraulic Engineering: Asparuhovo Beach

Fieldwork Hydraulic Engineering’ is a course given at Delft University of Technology for the MSc Hydraulic Engineering. In collaboration with local experts Boyan Savov and Traian Marin, a team of 8 students guided by Mark Voorendt was sent to investigate the local conditions at Asparuhovo beach in Varna, Bulgaria, for purely educational purposes...

Flexure Design Optimization for Foldable Structures: Pseudo-Rigid Body Modeling and Multi-Objective Optimization

Compliant mechanisms have found their way in more and more applications in recent years, particularly in the aerospace and microsystems sectors. The benefits of compliant mechanisms stretch far, and can be exploited for large scale applications as well. Little research has been performed on the use of compliant mechanisms in large scale...

State-of-the-art of Blockchain Technology in Intelligent Transportation Systems: Literature review

In recent years blockchain technology has become a popular topic for research in multiple fields of discipline. For the transport sector especially, the technology is seen as disruptive. Because the research field is young and the research on the topic is developing fast, state-of-the-art knowledge is exclusive to a select group of academics....

Manyame Catchment: A Risk Assessment

This study investigates the many dynamics of the Manyame Catchment and comes up with recommendations on how to adapt or become more resilient to the risks at hand. The bad politics and forthcoming economic situation of Zimbabwe has led to instability and dramatic inflation over the last decade. This has resulted in a terrible investment climate,...

PoDeA, Port development Argentina

This report contains the conceptual lay-out for two possible expansions of the port of Bahía Blanca. To determine the best conceptual lay-outs, emphasis is drawn to understand the physical system to determine the effect of the expansion of the port on the natural system. The port of Bahía Blanca is situated at the end of a ria, or tidal basin....

Deformation Behaviour of Thermoplastic Vulcanisates

A Thermoplastic Vulcanisate (TPV) is a blend of a thermoplastic material and a vulcanised elastomer, in which the rubber is present as particles in a thermoplastic matrix. In this investigation a Polypropylene/EPDM TPV was studied. This material has fairly good elastic properties and can be processed as a thermoplastic material, which makes it...