Soil-Structure Interaction Modelling of High-Rise Building Settlements due to Compressible Soil Layers below Foundation Level

In the field of structural and geotechnical engineering, a uniform approach to predict and model foundation settlements during the design phase of a high-rise building appears to be missing. In the Netherlands, pile foundations of tower structures underlain by compressible soil layers are challenging to model due to different stiffness and load...

Analysis of the feasibility of Battery Energy Storage as the solution for electricity grid congestion

The construction of reinforcements of the electricity grid cannot keep up with the increasing demand for transport capacity caused by the energy transition. This leads to increasing congestion of the grid. Therefore, the feasibility of battery energy storage systems as a solution is researched in this thesis. To make this a financially viable...

Optimising First-Class Pattern Match Compilation

Pattern matching is the act of checking if a value is in the set of values described by a pattern. Many programming languages provide constructs to pattern match on program values. Pattern matching constructs appear in different variants. Stratego, a term rewriting language, features first-class pattern matching, which attempts to match a...

Dignified through self-determination: Using space | flows: The case of UNHCR refugee camps

In a world of rapidly rising numbers of forcibly displaced people, most refugee/IDP camps are designed as short-term shelter facility when no alternative is available. However, the average time a United Nations (UN) planned refugee camp functions, is seventeen years. This temporal disparity is not necessarily a problem on its own, however during...

Room for the Wadden Sea: Analysis of a building with nature approach to strengthen the foreshore at Koehool-Lauwersmeer

A significant part of the Netherlands lies below sea level. The Dutch have protected their land against seawater since the 10th century. Nowadays, the Netherlands is protected by 3800 km of primary flood defences. Since the Flood Defences Act was included in the Dutch law in 1996, all flood defences are tested against the national safety...

Nature based alternatives regarding coastal and environmental climate change hazards: A case study of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation foreshore

The Tsleil-Wautuh Nation (TWN) reserve, Sleil-Waututh, located at the north shore of the Burrard Inlet in Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) is strongly influenced by climate change. Sea level rise, coastal flooding and shoreline erosion are contributing to loss of land, damages to infrastructure, ecosystem changes and exposure of historic...

Project Delphi: What is Innovation?

Being a company with over 1500 employees, a lot of data is available about people and their day-to-day pursuits, including projects they are working on. Company X has requested to gain more insight into this data, as it is currently scattered over multiple systems. Specifically, they requested to gain insight into which projects have been...

Het Verticale Hof: De omgeving zorgt voor ouderen

The population of the Netherlands is ageing. The number of people above 65 is expected to grow from 3.1 million in 2017 to 4.8 million in 2040. The increasing ageing population results in more elderly in need of care and a lower percentage of young people able to provide formal care. The classical welfare state seems to gradually change to a ...

HEMA Next Generation: Designing a shopping ritual for the optimal customer experience

Guidelines for translating relevant zones in the HEMA stores into rituals, based on qualitative and literature research. Elaborated design of a ritual for the relevant zone in the HEMA stores, based on customer insights. The project set-up consists of an analysis phase, a research phase and a generation phase. Research in collaboration with the...

Foresea: An installation about sea level rise at Oerol 2016

Foresea is the result of course 'AR0148 - landscape architecture ON site' 2016, initiated by the section Landscape Architecture at the faculty of Architecture. Central aim of this course is to express the given site in a project at the interface between landscape architecture and landscape art, which will be performed during the Oerol festival...

Designing a scorecard to create insight into partnerships between traditional energy companies and Dutch cities on the sustainable energy topic

This research focuses on collaborations between traditional energy companies and cities to increase the sustainability of cities and will be illustrated by the Vattenfall Sustainable Cities case. The environment of traditional energy companies like Vattenfall is changing. Renewable, distributed and more efficient energy generation technologies...

Extending behavioral test models with symbolic data

Model-based testing is a technique to automatically generate test cases and oracles in order to test an implementation. A typical behavrial model used for model-based testing is a Labeled Transition System9LTS). However cre-ating the LTS models needed for testing is a complex task, and especially when data is involved the number of states and...

EPBD van rood naar groen: Een onderzoek naar de incorporatie van energetische kwaliteitsverbetering van de bestaande woningvoorraad in het strategisch voorraadbeleid van woningcorporaties

Meten is weten: Onderzoek naar bruikbaarheid van krachtopnemers t.b.v. cilinderdrukmeting en storingsdiagnose

Het verloop van de cilinderdruk van een diese1motor en de daarmee te berekenen motheden en diagrammen verschaffen belangrijke informatie over de conditie van verstuivers, kleppen, zuigers, zuigerveren en de verbranding op zich. Een verslechterende conditie van een van deze heeft tot gevolg dat het totale rendement van de motor daalt Indien nu de...

Van motor tot model: Het maken van een simulatiemodel van een dieselmotor met het computerprogramma WAVE

Veel motorenfabrikanten maken gebruik van computerprogramma's om het gedrag van dieselmotoren in ontwerp- en onderzoekfases te kunnen simuleren. Enerzijds door het betere inzicht dat men krijgt in en tussen fysische grootheden in de motor en anderzijds door het economische aspect: effecten van modificaties of andere ontwerpen kunnen vooraf...

Metingen van effectieve radiale diffusie coefficient bij laminaire stroming door gepakte bedden met behulp van ionenwisselaars

Ontwikkeling van een apparatuur op semi-technische schaal voor continue uitwisseling van ionen in tegenstroom