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Benjamens, Lies (author)On 12 December 2015 in Paris, 195 countries reached the World’s first climate agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to reduce greenhouse gases emissions. At present, consumers are expecting companies to operate responsibly to address social and environmental issues (59% of global consumers have...master thesis 2017
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Vaddadi, Bhavana (author)“Anyone who only thinks of technology, has not yet recognized that autonomous driving will change our society.” says Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of Daimler AG, and indicates to what the future of mobility will look like. Autonomous and shared mobility is the most talked about topic in the world of transport today. Self-driving shared vehicles...master thesis 2017
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Papangelopoulou, Popi (author)Bridges are of one of the most important infrastructures in the<br/>Netherlands. Due to Dutch landscape bridges of every size and<br/>types are needed in the rural as well as in the urban environment<br/>and often more than one piece is needed for a specific location.<br/>Due to the significant cost of bridge maintenance engineer’s<br/>attention...master thesis 2017
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Nayak, Pratik (author)Direct Numerical simulations (DNS) belong to the class of simulations that strive to emulate the real physical flow by trying to simulate the complete range of scales involved in the flow. Though the computational power has steadily increased in the past few decades, resolving the complete range of scales from the largest scales up to the...master thesis 2017
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Gerry Julian Faturrochman, Gerry (author)Integration of bifacial photovoltaic module with a noise barrier (PVNB) has emerged as one of the promising innovation in the building integrated PV (BIPV) system application. By having the advantage to absorb both the light incident from the front and the rear side of the cell, bifacial PV module is suitable for a vertical installation...master thesis 2017
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Mühlsteff, Joris (author)In the history of medicine, different treatments for cancer have been developed, such as radiotherapy, surgery and chemotherapy. However, nowadays more than 50% of the people diagnosed with cancer, undergo a radiotherapy treatment. One of the devices used for the treatment is the CyberKnife: a robotic radiodurgery system that can move around the...bachelor thesis 2017
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Vlenterie, Wilco (author)In the near future many tasks could be performed by swarms of flying robots. To successfully implement multiple of these swarms in the same airspace they will have to be decentralised, autonomously cope with high densities and even resolve conflicting objectives of other swarms, while remaining controllable by operators through high-level...master thesis 2017
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Geldof, Sybren (author)Research on the influence of political and economic uncertainty on the decision-factors for accommodation decision-making in corporate real estate management. Research showed that economic uncertainty, and not political uncertainty, did influence the decision criteria during the last decade. A shift can be seen from practical, costs and...master thesis 2017
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van Baalen, Sander (author)Research in using Topology optimisation as a tool to improve the design process of bridge design. The research focuses on implementing Topology optimisation in the design process of architects and engineers. As an example topology optimisation is used to propose a design for a pedestrian bridge in Amsterdam.master thesis 2017
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van Manen, Rijk (author)Compliant mechanisms accomplish their function due to the elastic deformation of their elements rather than using the relative motion of rigid bodies. Thereby the drawbacks of sliding friction, including wear and hysteresis are eliminated. Besides that compliant mechanisms allows monolithic production which facilitates cost reduction and...master thesis 2017
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Cancrinus, Nick (author), Max, Gyula (author)Nowadays, localization of cars is mostly done using GPS. Some major disadvantages of this method are that it is not very accurate and that it cannot be used indoors. These disadvantages do not form a major problem when an active human driver is controlling the car, but will become more critical when the autonomy of vehicles increases. The goal...bachelor thesis 2017
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Francis, Sachin (author)Variable Stiffness Laminates are created by spatially varying the fiber orientation resulting in designs that makes use of curved fibers rather than Uni-directional fibers to tailor the properties to design requirement. The advent of automated manufacturing methods such as Automated Fiber Placement and Tailored Fiber Placement has made variable...master thesis 2017
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Jux, Constantin (author)Aerodynamics research and development often involves large-scale and turbulent flows; may this be a rotor flow, the wake of a car, or the flow passing a human athlete to name a few examples. Volumetric particle image velocimetry (PIV) is well suited for the study of such flows. The introduction of Helium Filled Soap Bubbles (HFSB) for wind...master thesis 2017
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Bekker, Bernard (author), Sikkes, Louis (author), Goudriaan, Maiko (author), Meeuwissen, Ruben (author)In order to measure the spectrum of radio emissions from galaxies and other deep space objects, a new superconducting spectrometer, working at very cold temperatures close to the absolute zero, is developed. An advanced cooling system called a cryostat is used to cool down the spectrometer. The cool down of the cryostat involves the control of...bachelor thesis 2017
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Staats, Bart (author)Navigation from a room inside a building to another room inside a building which is across the street consists of three parts: first, the indoor part at the building where you start your journey. Secondly, the outdoor part and thirdly, another indoor part inside the building of destination. As regards to the outdoor environment, a navigation aid...master thesis 2017
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