The glass Sashimono joint: Designing a rigid and demountable connection for a portal frame

Glass is gaining more and more popularity as a structural material and has become a big share of the building industry. Unfortunately, the building industry is the largest polluter in terms of industrial waste and is responsible for 40% of Europe’s energy demand (CIB, 1999), and glass is also playing a significant role in this number. One...

On the Assessment of Equivalent Hysteretic Damping on Offshore Wind Turbines Subjected to Seismic Excitations

The increasing global demand of renewable and clean energy has led to the exponential growth, development, and interest in the offshore wind energy industry and expansion towards earthquake-prone areas. Offshore wind turbine structures, typically supported by a tubular monopile foundation, are increasing in size to meet the increasing human...

NanoFlowNet: Real-time optical flow estimation on a nano quadcopter

Nano quadcopters are small, agile, and cheap platforms well suited for deployment in narrow, cluttered environments. Due to their limited payload, nano quadcopters are highly constrained in processing power, rendering conventional vision-based methods for autonomous navigation incompatible. Recent machine learning developments promise high...

Pitch type classification based on pelvis and trunk IMU data

Classification of pitch types outside the laboratory or game environment provide benefits in designing and outlining training routines to reduce injury and improve performance. Current classification approaches are based on vision-based optical data, however these optical data is often not available in training sessions. The aim of the current...

Effects of goal-dependent implementation choices on the achievement of goals in Participatory Value Evaluation processes

As public participation is increasingly used, more and more scholars publish about how to execute it effectively and its facilitation and running has become a profession. The research on effective participation that investigates the combination of the possible ways to realise public participation and the goal that it is pursuing is, however,...

A Visit to the Crime Scene: Monitoring end-users during the remediation process of Mirai infected Internet of Things devices

The increasingly important availability of online services is constantly threatened by malicious software such as botnets. Attackers have gained power through devices that are part of the rising Internet of Things (IoT), mostly through infections caused by Mirai. The botnets created by Mirai are used for the purpose of DDoS attacks, which can...

Time Evolution of a Device for Remote Detection on Atomic Spin Chains using Matrix Product States

In this thesis the matrix product state(MPS) formalism is applied to simulate a device created for remote detection in atomic spin chains. Although simulation of the full device quickly becomes infeasible for direct algorithms, MPS allowed for highly accurate simulations while requiring only modest computational resources. It has been verified...

Conformal Phased Array for DISTURB

Mankind becomes ever more reliant on wireless technology like mobile communications, navigation and radar. This development has resulted in more sensitive receivers, but this increased sensitivity also has increased the susceptibility of these receivers to interference from external sources. One of these sources that is known to disrupt...

Annualized hours: Comparing an exact optimization model with its approximation

In this thesis, we propose two mixed integer linear program formulations for an optimization problem that incorporates annualized hours: an exact one and an approximation. The objective of our model consists of three weighted parts: a part which minimizes the difference between working hours and contract hours for each employee per week, a part...

Simulation Environment for an Open-Ended Coaxial Probe and Visualisation of Permittivity Measurements

This thesis work focuses on the development of reference data and visualization software to implement a user friendly probe to image the electrical parameters (i.e., permittivity) of biological materials, such as the skin. The reference data is used for the creation of a lookup table that can be used to quickly derive the relative permittivity...

Understanding Communication Preferences of Banking Customers

Banks and service companies in general are facing problems with multi-channel management, especially in the context of outbound communication. Problems are the high costs of the multi-channel systems, unsatisfied cus-tomers, and few customers who interact with companies. Personalization of the selection of communication channel to reach a...

Wave attenuation by a floating slab

To predict the effect of a floating viscoelastic slab on the propagation and attenuation of gravity waves, a theoretical linear model has been developed. The slab has been modeled as a Kelvin-Voigt model and the fluid is assumed to be ideal. For long and short wave theory a dispersion relation for gravity waves covered by a viscoelastic slab of...

Floating breakwaters: Literature review

The purpose of this report is to find out which floating breakwaters can be utilized in open sea conditions and what can be expected of them. Since every breakwater interferes with the energy of the waves, it is logical that a probable power generation function of floating breakwaters is also investigated. This report is a global review of the...