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Gheyssens, T. (author)Due to the awareness of climate change, more sustainable and efficient ways of transport are needed. The most polluting road transport mode in the European Union are the long-haul tractor-trailer combinations. This study will investigate the aerodynamic characteristics of three vehicles in a platoon subjected to cross wind conditions. The effect...master thesis 2016
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Kuppens, P.R. (author)Robots usually do a single job and would perform better when their mechanical structure is particularly designed for their designated task. However, manually designing robots with mechanical properties that implicitly compute and execute a specific task is very hard and time consuming. To assist designers, a platform that automatically designs...master thesis 2016
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Laarhoven, K.J. (author)Laparoscopic suturing can be very time consuming and frustrating for inexperienced surgeons. It is one of the hardest actions to perform in a laparoscopic fashion, but it remains the golden standard. There are alternative fixation methods such as automatic needle passers, knot-tying devices, staplers, tackers and adhesives but they all have...master thesis 2016
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Papageorgiou, M. (author)The motivation to adapt a building in terms of an upward vertical extension lies within the need for urban renewable programs. Although this practice has significant supports to make the built environment more sustainable, there are also barriers which invariably concern costs. In the case of vertical extension projects, the constructional and...master thesis 2016
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Boeree, F. (author)The starting point from this project was the plan of Leapfrog 3D Printers to start selling packages aiming on specific user groups. For this project the focus was on the architecture industry and the content of the package could become anything from adjustments to the printer to some sort of service. As a start, an analysis was performed on...master thesis 2016
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Tieleman, O.C. (author)As part of the Afsluitdijk project the discharge capacity, which is currently facilitated by two sluice complexes, is increased to cope with future sea level rise. It was decided to realise this by an innovative solution: the pump gate. The steel lifting gates, each containing three pumps, will be implemented in the existing sluice complex in...master thesis 2016
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Beerens, M.A. (author)The latest Conference of Parties at Paris resulted in an important agreement that 27 percent of the total European energy consumption has to come from renewable energy in 2030. Offshore wind energy is an important resource for renewable energy. The shortage of shallow water areas pushed offshore wind farms into deeper waters. Floating Offshore...master thesis 2016
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Keijts, J. (author)The Superroute-app, part of the Praktijkproef Amsterdam (PPA) provides commuters with an elaborate and personalized route advice and travel time prediction in the Amsterdam area. On urban roads the travel time prediction from the ARS Traffic & Transport Technology route planner is used, which is based on free flow travel times. To improve the...master thesis 2016
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Paicu, I.L. (author)Frequently compelled by their knowledge and governance legislations, architects act as agents of expertise and impose top down solutions, in the form of fixed typologies, to bottom up and often temporary problems. Together with the fact that, in a fast paced, open source and migrating society, we still rely on the public-private dichotomy,...master thesis 2016
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Culek, J. (author)At the height of its production, Dutch architecture has come to the point where the main criteria for a project’s success is its compelling concept, which in turn manifests itself through the architectural story. The project questions the capacity of architectural storytelling, which is exactly the topic that should be discussed in this story...master thesis 2016
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Jansen, T.G.C. (author)This graduation assignment is created by my interest in photography, mobile photography and travelling. The direction of this project is to create a meaningful service or product for people that travel in combination with mobile photography. The start of this project was very open and the method ViP was used to define a future context for a new...master thesis 2016
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Zhang, J. (author)From the Medieval Walled City model to the contemporary Grid City model, the anthropocene CITY has evolved as a new species to a stage that surpasses humanity. Its main goal is efficiency and prosperity of the city itself instead of individual human aspirations. At this moment the city has repressed individual by collective goals, it is no...master thesis 2016
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Van der Bent, B. (author)Het onderzoek geeft inzicht in de verschillende manieren waarop een gebiedsconcessie financieel haalbaar gemaakt kan worden. Dit inzicht is enerzijds gericht op de te beheersen risico’s van een gebiedsconcessie, en anderzijds gericht op het gebruik van enkele ontwikkelmethoden. Hierdoor kunnen ontwikkelaars die de stap richting meer privaat...master thesis 2016
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Jansen, L.L.M.J. (author)In this report you will find the research I did to innovative façade design processes. To come up with an innovative façade engineering for the Tianjin library in china and make a proper comparison to a more product specific engineering, I first need to learn more about façades in general. To achieve this I read several books, talk to different...master thesis 2016
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Sikkel, F.D.P. (author)This project searches for an aftercare typology in an urban environment and finds it in the 'hofjes' typology which has been used for centuries. Also the architecture follows the ways of Evidence based design in order to use the architecture in the healing proces of the patient.master thesis 2016
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Nilsson, C.L.M. (author)The climate is changing and the rising temperatures are causing the polar ice to melt, combined with more and intense rain low-lying waterfronts are becoming vulnerable for flooding. Two urban waterfronts have been selected for the study: Frihamnen in Gothenburg and Stadswerven in Dordrecht. The two waterfronts have to be adapted to be able to...master thesis 2016
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Van der Cruijsen, J. (author)Falling is one of the major causes of unintentional death or injury worldwide. People older than 65 years and people suffering from neurological disease have a higher chance of falling, which indicates the involvement of higher brain structures such as the cortex. For this reason, cortical activity underlying balance control has been subject of...master thesis 2016
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Volbeda, E.A. (author)Bank protections are currently constructed with stone, wood, concrete and steel. NETICS has introduced a sustainable and commercially very attractive alternative called the GEOWALL. The goal of this study is to find a viable field of application within the quay structures by considering the arising challenges of a larger scale wall. Additionally...master thesis 2016
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Tomassen, M.W.L. (author)The bombings of the second World War left devastated cities all over Germany. With the rebuilding of these cities new modernistic ideas were used. This has led to problems in the cities of today. Mannheim is one of these typical cities that knows the problems. Cars dominating the streets, a lack of human scale and bad public spaces are some of...master thesis 2016