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Scholten, D.J. (author)The reliable operation of energy infrastructures is more than just a technical matter. It is also dependent upon the organizational structure that enables and constrains entities in their management of operations. Yet this lesson seems forgotten in our planning of future renewable energy systems. There, focus is on technical development, market...doctoral thesis 2012
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Wang, F. (author)Reliability evaluation of power system substations is of significant importance when performing asset management. Most of the studies about substation reliability only focus on the substation connectivity. The reaction of protection system is fully neglected, which cannot be true in reality. Failures of the protection system failure or the...master thesis 2012
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Wagner, W. (author)Introduction Floods are a threat to millions of people who live in lowlands like the Netherlands. Therefore the Dutch government has been given re-quirements for primary flood defence systems like dikes. The current condition of most of these dikes does not fulfill to these requirements based on flood risk analyses of RWS. The most logical step...master thesis 2012
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Moraes Ramos, G. (author), Frejinger, E. (author), Daamen, W. (author), Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author)The past decades have seen an increased interest in the role of information as a tool to alleviate congestion. However, because the relationship between travelers’ behavior and information provision is not clear yet, the need for more experiments has been claimed in literature. From May 9th, 2011 to July 12th, 2011 a revealed route choice...conference paper 2012
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Snelder, M. (author), Van Zuylen, H.J. (author), Immers, L.H. (author)There is a growing awareness that road networks, are becoming more and more vulnerable to unforeseen disturbances like incidents and that measures need to be taken in order to make road networks more robust. In order to do this the following questions need to be addressed: How is robustness defined? Against which disturbances should the network...journal article 2012
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Vásconez, P.A. (author)Reliability-based design is an approach currently gaining more popularity for geotechnical engineering. Neverthless, its implementation poses several challenges, one being the additional time (usually significant) in order to perform it. An important portion of this additional time comes from the need to perform many scenarios to compute the...master thesis 2013
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Schweckendiek, T. (author)Dikes and levees play a crucial role in flood protection in deltaic areas such as the Netherlands. Internal erosion piping or under-seepage is a major cause of levee failures and a main contributor to the probability of failure of river levees due to the large (mostly geotechnical) uncertainties. The present thesis investigates how geotechnical...doctoral thesis 2014
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Lo, J.C. (author), Van den Hoogen, J. (author), Meijer, S.A. (author)Debriefing is an overlooked topic in the gaming simulation literature, especially in the context of gaming for applied research and design. Building upon existing frameworks, mostly in the fields of policy and educational games, and linking the design of the debriefing with the intricacies of innovation in complex networked infrastructures, we...conference paper 2014
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Donkervliet, J.J.R. (author), Hegeman, T.M. (author), Hugtenburg, S. (author)Petabytes of data are processed daily by distributed applications built upon Hadoop and MongoDB. A significant fraction of these applications use cloud infrastructure to cope with this vast amount of data. Commercial clouds use virtualized environments, but most distributed applications are designed around the idea that they run on physical...bachelor thesis 2014
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Miranda, C.A. (author)The traditional Dutch way to deal with piping for river levees is the implementation of piping berms. The disadvantage of such a measure is the inland space required, especially in urban areas. Relief wells, on the other hand, require less or no inland space and therefore represent an attractive solution as mitigation measure against piping. The...master thesis 2014
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Abma, R. (author)Research on the relevance of reliable travel times to road users. Generally, average travel times are used, but reliability is important to road users as well. A method in which travel time reliability is included is developed and evaluated.master thesis 2014
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Shams Ghahfarokhi, G. (author)Risk and reliability analysis is presently being performed in almost all fields of engineering depending upon the specific field and its particular area. Probabilistic risk analysis (PRA), also called quantitative risk analysis (QRA) is a central feature of hydraulic engineering structural design. Actually, probabilistic methods, which consider...doctoral thesis 2014
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Janssen, M.S. (author)The DNV GL Health Index translates statistical, condition and utilization data of electrical power equipment into several asset representations that show technical asset health, including expected remaining lifetimes. These remaining lifetimes are used to determine the required action for the asset manager. In this research, a method was...master thesis 2014
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Arnold, P. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author), Fokkens, Jan (author), Fokker, Peter A. (author)OPERA-PU-TUD311<br/>The Onderzoeks Programma Eindberging Radioactief Afval (OPERA) is the third national research programme for the geological disposal of radioactive waste in the Netherlands, operating during the period 2011 to 2016. This document is the final report of Work Package 3.1, where the principal technical feasibility of the current...report 2015
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Kraijema, S. (author)This thesis describes a method to find the best maintenance policy for a light rail rolling stock system based on reliability, availability, and maintenance cost. The objective of this maintenance policy is to maintain a minimum required level of system reliability at minimum maintenance cost and maximum availability. The maintenance policy...master thesis 2015
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Draisma, R.M. (author)The four blast furnace blowers at Tata Steel IJmuiden are essential for the operation of the blast furnaces. The blast blowers are steam turbines that drive large air compressors, with a power up to 37MW. In the last four years the blast blowers have suffered from a higher unplanned downtime than is acceptable for the company. This situation...master thesis 2015
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West, J. (author), Cats, O. (author)Assessment of bus service improvements such as bus lanes, allowing boarding through all doors and headway-based holding control ideally requires a simulation model that combines features of both classical analytical models and microscopic simulation. However, as the usage of such models has been limited, their validity has hitherto remained low....conference paper 2015
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Kandalepa, N. (author)The worldwide demand for electricity, which is steadily increasing, leads to a continuous need for developing and extending the transmission networks. However, the installation of new overhead lines faces many challenges due to social, environmental and technical reasons. One solution that gains widespread public support is the installation of...master thesis 2015
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Van der Slikke, R.M.A. (author), Berger, M.A.M. (author), Bregman, D.J.J. (author), Veeger, H.E.J. (author)Accurate knowledge of wheelchair kinematics during a match could be a significant factor in performance improvement in wheelchair basketball. To date, most systems for measuring wheelchair kinematics are not suitable for match applications or lack detail in key kinematic outcomes. This study describes the construction of wheel skid correction...conference paper 2015
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Theelen, M.J. (author)Thin film CIGS solar cells and individual layers within these solar cells have been tested in order to assess their long term stability. Alongside with the execution of standard tests, in which elevated temperatures and humidity levels are used, the solar cells have also been exposed to a combination of elevated temperature and humidity and...doctoral thesis 2015