Development of a Reliable and Efficient 3D Calculation Model of a High-Rise Building Under Seismic Loading

This thesis research focusses on the development of a reliable and efficient 3D calculation model of an existing high-rise, reinforced concrete building in the Groningen area, in order to analyse the dynamic behaviour of the existing and subsequently retrofitted main bearing structure of this high-rise building. The assessment of the existing...

Testing and extension of a GIS-supported design tool for new urban development areas: Case study: Sloterdijk I, Amsterdam

The emergence of spatial data, GIS-supported tools, web mapping technologies has opened up many applications for more inclusive spatial planning and spatial decision support approaches. Site analysis is strongly supported by spatial data analysis in both 2D and 3D, which offers a more comprehensive understanding of urban settings. Furthermore,...

Indoor 3D Reconstruction from a Single Image

3D indoor reconstruction has been an important research area in the field of computer vision and photogrammetry. While the initial techniques developed for this purpose use sensor devices and multiple images for data acquisition and extracting 3D information and representation of the scene, with the advent of deep learning techniques, there has...

Strategies to increase the number of customer orders that can be handled in online grocery fulfilment centres: A case study at AH Online

Although e-groceries is nothing new, the scale at which it is currently growing in the Netherlands has not been seen before. Over the past four years, the market share of online grocery shopping showed an average growth of over 20% per year. While it was already challenging to keep up with this high demand, it became increasingly more difficult...

Heart-on-chip: functional lipoprotein lipase (LPL) expression in co-cultures of cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells

Introduction | Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the number one cause of death worldwide. Individuals with a high risk of developing CVD are nowadays mainly treated with cholesterol lowering drugs. Although disease risk can be lowered by a maximum of 40% in this way, a significant untreatable residual risk is left. Therefore, there is a big...