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Tribological Characterisation of Chromium-nitride Coatings

Designing for Compact Living Spaces: An Exploration Tool for the Ultimate Tiny House Experience

In recent years, the popularity of compact living spaces like Tiny Houses is rising in the Netherlands. With Tiny Houses still gaining in popularity, there is a demand for information and knowledge about this new form of living. Through multiple sources, interested people are learning about tiny living and how to realize living in a Tiny House....

Monopile Installation Using a Motion-Compensated Gripper Frame on a DP Vessel

Offshore wind energy is one of the solutions to meet the growing demand for renewable energy. The offshore wind turbines producing this energy keep increasing in size and, as a result, the monopile foundations are becoming larger and heavier. The traditional jack-up installation vessels have limited crane capacity and many of these vessels are...

Effective Notch Stress Concept Investigations for Mode-III Loading & Response Conditions

Fatigue strength is typically a governing limit state for marine structures. Predicting an accurate fatigue lifetime is important for structures (e.g. wind turbines) that are supposed to be out at sea for decades. It is valuable for all type of structures that encounter stochastic sea loadings to optimise the design so that fatigue failure is...

StructuralComponents 9: Early-stage structural analysis and design of Universal prefab apartment buildings

This research introduces the concept of Universal Prefab (UP), a highly modular building system which uses only prefabricated elements to realise building designs. The discrete structural elements are connected with a standardized connection throughout the entire structure that allows for quick assembly, increasing the efficiency of construction...

The transition to a circular lithium system and the potential effectiveness of Europe's battery circularity policy: an exploratory modelling approach

The energy transition makes us less dependent on fossil fuels, but it also brings a new dependence to the table: a dependence on critical metals for green technology. This study used an Exploratory System Dynamics Modelling and Analysis approach to analyse the transition to a circular lithium system towards 2050 and the potential effectiveness...