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Deckers, Daan (author), van Dijk, Mathijs (author), Grund, Mitchel (author), Hendrickx, Gijs (author), de Koning, René (author), Smit, Niels (author)This report contains the conceptual lay-out for two possible expansions of the port of Bahía Blanca. To determine the best conceptual lay-outs, emphasis is drawn to understand the physical system to determine the effect of the expansion of the port on the natural system. The port of Bahía Blanca is situated at the end of a ria, or tidal basin....student report 2018
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Smit, Wouter (author)Smart Grid scheduling problems are characterized by quickly changing situations and multiple external factors that cannot be controlled. Most smart grid research applies stochastic models over the total power consumption of a household or system to find a schedule that achieves an optimization, a balancing, or constraint satisfaction. While...bachelor thesis 2018
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Smit, Anne (author)Data has become an essential asset which grows and makes possible opportunities tangible to find and make an accurate forecast for future developments and vision more certain. The role of data is evolving and expanding, resulting in being utilized in open public databases. The main objective for making data accessible is to improve and further...master thesis 2018
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Smit, Jasper (author), Tijhuis, Job (author)Pressure ulcers, also known as bedsores, are wounds that form when a person sits or lays in the same<br/>posture for an extended period of time. Continued pressure being applied to the same spot causes<br/>the skin to decay, possibly continuing into underlaying tissue if the wounds are not treated. A common<br/>and proven practice to prevent...bachelor thesis 2018
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Smit, Viola (author)This thesis project on Vlissingen is an account of the research being carried out during the graduation year of the Urbanism faculty, resulting in a design oriented project within the research group ‘Design of the Urban Fabric’.<br/><br/>The thesis consist of three parts: I. Research setup, II. Research and III. Design. It is divided into six...master thesis 2018
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van de Loo, Jasper (author), Smit, Roland (author)Water Treatment Plants (WTPs) play a key role in assuring water availability to citizens and businesses. Long term availability of these plants is the interest of the asset manager of a WTP and can be influenced by maintenance strategies and modifications of the system. A WTP is characterized by a complex configuration and repairable,...master thesis 2018
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Smit, Linda (author)Many cities in the Netherlands have poor areas that have to deal with a lot of social problems. One of the approaches that policymakers use to improve these areas is the so- called gentrification approach. In this approach policy makers renovate and rebuild parts of the neighborhoods in order to attract more ‘better educated’ citizens to these...master thesis 2018
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Smit, Ruud (author)Neoclassical economics dictates the decision-making process of economic agents as the mathematical problem of maximizing utility over a prescribed planning horizon. The mathematical similarities with optimal control theory lead to a new interpretation of economic agents as optimal controllers. Pontryagin's maximum principle generates the...master thesis 2018
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Smit, Kai (author)The dispenser project focused on developing an external vision for a dispenser range for the future washroom in office buildings, retirement homes, and hotels. The project resulted in a foldable dispenser that reduces sustainable impact by decreasing its volume during transport. Another part was wrapping the dispenser to let end customers be...master thesis 2017
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Smit, Michiel (author)The mobilization of the trapped residual oil is an important part of Enhanced Oil Recovery. The desaturation of nonwetting fluids from porous media is often described using capillary numbers which are a ratio of viscous forces over the capillary forces between the wetting and the nonwetting fluids. Twodimensional microfluidic devices ...bachelor thesis 2017
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Smit, Bas (author)This master thesis discusses the design of a 3D printed integrated miniature valve to control the air and flow rate in pneumatic soft robotics. The valve is able to control multiple bellows from inside the body of the soft robotic by only using one tube of air supply. The valves are actuated by Shape Memory Alloy actuator wires, named Flexinol....master thesis 2017
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Smit, Sam (author)Microfluidics has changed the way we think about laboratory experimental design. With the use of lab-on-chip devices, we are capable of carrying out experiments that include several functions on a single chip. Despite a lot of progress in the miniaturization of these devices, the peripheral systems which control the microfluidic functionalities...master thesis 2017
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Smit, Thijs (author)Origami has become a source of inspiration in engineering for structural design and the creation of mechanical metamaterials. In the often used analytic geometric and energy methods, it is difficult to incorporate deformation of the faces in non-rigid origami. However, deformation of the faces can play a significant role in their mechanical...master thesis 2017
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Smit, M.C.A.M. (author)Fast growing offshore maintenance work scopes increase the demand for better insights in cost and risk reduction opportunities related to redundant work scope maintenance activities. This report describes the research on developing a structured selection methodology to compare benefits between different strategies on removing or maintaining...master thesis 2017
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Smit, B. (author)A new type of polymeric artificial muscle was recently discovered. This muscle is based on twisted and coiled polymer fiber and is actuated thermally. It has interesting properties, such as low costs and high work densities. Based on fabrication methods, two variations can be considered. The autocoiled variation has a larger load capacity and...master thesis 2016
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Smit, B. (author)Conductive polymers such as polyaniline, polypyrrole and PEDOT (poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)) have been used extensively to enhance the sensitivity, versatility and biocompatibility of electrochemical- and biosensors. Both their electrochemical stability and their mechanical properties make them highly suitable for applications that require...master thesis 2016
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Smit, S.H.H.J. (author)A new method for capturing solar energy is proposed for a Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant with supercritical CO2 (s-CO2) as a working fluid. The idea is to disperse a low volume fraction of nanoparticles in s-CO2, that functions as a heat transfer fluid in a volumetric solar receiver and as a working fluid in a power cycle. The advantage of...master thesis 2016
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Smit, M.G. (author)Athletics is the sport that arguably requires the highest number of sundry, dedicated products in the world - a complete competition requires at least 55 different pieces of equipment. These products have to uphold the highest standards, sometimes literally; however, every single product has its shortcomings that reflect back on the quality,...master thesis 2016
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Smit, A.A.J. (author)To remove rocks from objects at the seabed, a mass flow jet could be the solution. The knowledge on the jet production is very scarse for larger particles (larger than 1.5mm). This knowledge starts with a good model for the erosion velocity of grains. Nowadays, only models are validated up to a mean particle diameter of 1.5mm. To give a better...master thesis 2015