Adding a New Dimension to Glass Giants: Development of a Three-Dimensional Topology Optimization Algorithm for Mass-Optimized Cast Glass Components

This thesis is part of a larger ongoing research project at the TU Delft regarding structural glass as a novel construction material. Here, the focus is directed towards the casting of glass to create complex free-form geometries. Thus far, only smaller components have been created, but a multitude of previous student work explored how the...

Nowcasting Rainfall in Sri Lanka using Commercial Microwave Links

Disasters like inland floods and landslides are a cause of extreme rainfall. To increase the time to take early measures against such disasters it is of great importance to have access to accurate prediction of the rainfall. For the prediction of floods, Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts (QPFs) are used as input for hydrologic models....

Exploring Heuristic Methods for the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem with Logical Constraints

This paper presents the use of a heuristic solution method to improve the process of creating a conjunctive normal form (CNF) encoding of and finding optimal solutions to instances of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem with logical constraints (RCPSP-Log).<br/><br/>The RCPSP is an optimisation problem consisting of a set of...

Simulations of steady and oscillating flow in diffusers

In this thesis diffuser performance will be simulated with computational fluid dynamics, which will be done with the program Ansys Fluent. The expanding geometry creates an adverse pressure gradient and under certain conditions there will also be separation.<br/><br/>At first a relative simple simulation will be done of a one-directional...

Generating stowage plans in the steel industry: Modelling steel coils' loading procedures while incorporating pre-haulage by rail transport

Increasing air cargo throughput per ground surface unit under footprint constraints

Reclaiming the City

Design of a transformation of a factoryhall with the the plotsize of 6 footballfields to a new cityquarter.

Interactive Waterplay

The design and engineering of two interactive waterplay elements for Van Egdom B.V. One being a ring which can be retrofitted to current water playground structures, and the other being one of the products from a range of pneumatic atomized water play elements.

ForBuS: A Tool to Form a Business Strategy

In this graduation report companies who lack in having a clear and supported business strategy are offered a solution. This solution comes in the form of a business strategy forming tool: ForBuS. ForBuS is based on extensive literature research where the closed loop management system of Kaplan & Norton (2008) is used as basis. ForBuS is an...

De Besturing van Distributienetwerken met name de besturing van het Richards netwerk.

Het doel van dit verslag is het geven van inzicht in de problematiek van distributienetwerken. Op het gebied van dialoog verkeer is al veel bekend. Het Glos netwerk is het beste, tot nu toe bekende, netwerk voor dialoog verkeer (zoals telefoon), maar helaas niet geschikt voor het afhandelen van distributie verkeer. Het Richards netwerk is het...