Tailored family adaptation to living in a zero-energy house: Occupant’s crises and conflicts with a heat pump-based system

Background<br/>This project belongs to the IEBB project, which advocates for the renovation of ‘zero energy houses’ (ZEH) that synergize insulation and heat pump systems for energy conservation. The ZEH’s energy-saving efficiency depends on user behaviour. From a systems perspective, improper human interactions hinder energy saving, while...

Routing and Wavelength Assignment Methods in WDM Optical Networks Based on Multi-Layer Graph Metrics

Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) has been a widely-used multiplexing technique in large-scale optical telecommunication networks during the past few decades. Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) is a fundamental process that involves determining the optimal path (routing) and assigning specific wavelengths to incoming data streams to...

From algae to thread: A deep dive into a circular textile industry

Plastic is one of the most visibly polluting elements in our environment. From big plastic accumulation zones at sea to microplastic entering our everyday drinking water, plastic is becoming a more evident pollutant every day, which is damaging ecosystems, marine life and human health.<br/>This paper will envision a possible solution for plastic...

Topological Properties of Semantic Networks

The main goal of this thesis is to understand the topological properties of semantic networks, to find language-specific patterns, and to investigate their connection principles. Interpreting unstructured texts in natural language is a crucial task for computers. Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications rely on semantic networks for...

How might human experience inform AI systems

The problem we want to address<br/>AI(Artificial intelligence) is diving into people’s lives as its algorithm continues to iterate. However, the algorithmic and quantitative systems do not seem to access people’s experiences, which always include emotional and qualitative factors. How can an AI system understand people’s feelings? How can an AI...

Customized CooperatIve Community: Affordable Housing with Flexible Layout

Co-care Oasis: Mutual Benefit of Intergenerational Engagement

The Hell’s Kitchen area should keep its residential character and provide more public function so as to be a stable and active community connecting the waterfront and Midtown CBD in the next decades. However, dull street interface, uneven distribution of vitality, expensive living burden, isolation at home intensified the contradiction between...

Port of Rotterdam Intertidal wetland: Final Report

The Port of Rotterdam has many old harbours located close to the Rotterdam city center that are no longer suitable to be used for industrial purposes. Meanwhile due to expansion and population growth of the city, more recreational spaces are needed. The idea is to use the abundant dredged material from the Port of Rotterdam to fill in and...

The Stamp City: Community Complex in Sloterdijk, Amsterdam

Ecotourism: Design a meaningful landscape for ecology and economy

Due to the advancing technology, human activities clearly play an important role in creating landscapes. The Dutch natural landscape has now changed into a cultural landscape under control. This project explores the potential of cultural landscape in terms of boosting the economy by recreation and recovering the ecology. Taking one of the most...

Investigation on Viscoplastic Properties of Au-Sn Die-attach Solder

Reliability is one of the major research topics of modern electronic packaging technology. The characterization of Au-Sn dia-attach solder material properties, including viscoplastic properties is requested for fast and accurate reliability assessment by industry. In this thesis, a detailed experimental based methodology to characterize Au-Sn...

Super Sinan

In such design, a simple logic of form appears to be the repetition of inhabitable wall depicting a hybrid system of market, workshop and education, would represent the idea of unity that is required by the position of the site against the fragmented reality. Meanwhile devoted, on a wider level, to reducing the functionality and metaphorical...

One City Nine 'Ghost' Towns? -Seeking an alternative growth model to vitalize the Lingang New Harbor City in Shanghai

Problem definition -Most of the new built neighborhoods in Lingang area are empty or unvital, and a problematic urban pattern dominanted in building this kind of new towns. Design Goals -Improving the current growth model of building Lingang New Harbour City to resist speculative growth, improve the urban environment and vitalize the new towns....

A Case Study: Technical Feasibility and Economic Potentials of Using LNG as Alternative Marine Fuel

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as alternative marine fuel has been regionally applied to several shipping segments for a few years. In recent time, the interests from ship owners in further exploring the viability and future market potentials of applying the LNG fuelling technology to large vessels such as VLCC and ultra large containerships has...

Modeling of inland shipping competition: Between Ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp

The growth in sea shipping trade of containerized cargo has surpassed the growth in world trade generally and world economic growth due to the introduction of the container during the 1950s, and the volumes of containerized cargo are still growing rapidly. Most of the ports located in the Hamburg-Le Havre range are fighting for the vastly...

Application of dielectric loss measurements for life consumption and future life estimation modeling of oil-impregnated paper insulation in HV power cables

This thesis gives a description of diagnosing life consumption and future life estimation of oil-impregnated paper insulated cable by using dielectric loss value. Dielectric loss values were investigated at different temperatures and different electrical field intensities in the laboratory. Based on laboratory measurements, a program was built;...