Conformable Inflatable Wings Woven Using a Jacquard Technique

Inflatable wings are of interest for applications where low weight, compact transport volume, and easy set-up are important. Examples are unmanned aerial vehicles with inflatable wings, paragliders and softkites for sport or airborne wind-energy applications. In this paper, a new method of designing and fabricating conformable inflatable wings...

Report on the Dagstuhl Seminar on Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 23031 "Frontiers of Information Access Experimentation for Research and Education", which brought together 38 participants from 12 countries. The seminar addressed technology-enhanced information access (information retrieval, recommender systems, natural language processing)...

Supporting Food Design Processes: Development of Food Design Cards

Food design is a relatively new discipline that requires designers to become familiar with several areas that are not currently covered in many design curricula, such as agriculture, the food industry, culinary processes and the hospitality industry. To inspire, enrich and facilitate food design processes, we developed and tested a card set...

Food Perception and Aesthetics - Linking Sensory Science to Culinary Practice

This systematic overview tries to link scientific knowledge on human perception and appreciation mechanisms to culinary practices. We discuss the roles of the human senses during eating, starting out with basic mechanisms of taste and smell perception, up to principles of aesthetics. These insights are related to how foods are experienced,...

Clustering Wind Profile Shapes to Estimate Airborne Wind Energy Production

Airborne Wind Energy (AWE) systems use tethered flying devices to access higher altitudes, typically up to 500 meter, where wind is generally stronger and more persistent. To estimate the Annual Energy Production (AEP) of AWE systems, the wind speed statistics close to the ground are typically extrapolated to higher altitudes, introducing...

Ensemble predictions of hydro-biogeochemical fluxes at the landscape scale

Model predictions of biogeochemical fluxes on the landscape scale are highly uncertain, both with respect to stochastic (parameter) and structural uncertainty. The idea of our ensemble modelling approach is to reduce the predictive uncertainty by covering part of the parameter and model structural uncertainty. In this study 4 different models...

An inflatable wing using the principle of Tensairity

The paper describes the new concept Tensairity which can be used to significantly improve the load bearing capacity of inflatable wings. The basic principle of Tensairity is to use an inflatable structure to stabilize conventional compression and tension elements. So far, Tensairity has been mainly used in civil engineering application like roof...

Nieuwe woonzorgvoorzieningen voor ouderen

Documentatie en beknopte evaluatie van zeven (semi-)intramurale projecten

Bouwkundige implicaties van nieuwe woonzorgconcepten

Metamorphoses in housing, nursing and caring for the elderly in the Netherlands

De toekomst van de drie hoven

Een programmeringsstudie naar de toekomstige gebruiksmogelijkheden van een multifunctioneel wooncomplex voor ouderen