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Pargar, F. (author), Koleva, D.A. (author), Copuroglu, Oguzhan (author), Koenders, E.A.B. (author), van Breugel, K. (author)
The stability of chloride ion selective electrodes in highly alkaline solutions is an important aspect when reliability and feasibility within reinforced concrete applications are concerned. The sensitivity of these electrodes largely depends on the properties of the AgCl layer, including uniformity, porosity, orientation, thickness, etc. These...
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Pargar, F. (author), Koleva, D.A. (author), Koenders, E.A.B. (author), van Breugel, K. (author)
Service life of reinforced concrete structures exposed to chloride enriched environment is well known to be mainly determined by steel passivity breakdown in the event of chloride-induced corrosion initiation and propagation. Since Cl- induced (localized) corrosion is caused by the free (water-soluble) chloride, present in the pore network of a...
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Lahuerta, F. (author), Westphal, T. (author), Nijssen, RPL (author), van der Meer, F.P. (author), Sluys, Lambertus J. (author)
The aim of this work is to study the thickness effect in static and fatigue tests of glass-fibre unidirectional compression coupons. For this purpose, the self-heating effect, the effect of specimen geometry, and the influence of the manufacturing processes have been minimized. A scaled thickness compression coupon has been designed with the...
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de Vries, S. (author), de Schipper, M.A. (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author)
In this paper it is aimed to quantify bulk (surf-zone integrated) alongshore sediment transport using morphological data collected along the Dutch coast. The collected morphological data covers a domain of 18 km alongshore including the beach, the foreshore and the intertidal zone in the cross shore. The measurement domain contains the 20...
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Basak, Debarshi (author), Loni, B. (author), Bozzon, A. (author)
Crowdsourcing and Human computation have enabled industry and<br/>scientists to create innovative solutions by harnessing organised<br/>collective human effort. In human computation platforms, it is<br/>observed that workers spend large amount of time searching for<br/>appropriate tasks due to lack of effective task discovery mechanism. This...
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Huijts, N.M.A. (author), van Wee, G.P. (author), Roeser, S. (author)
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Hichert, M. (author), Plettenburg, D.H. (author), Vardy, A.N. (author)
Users of body powered prostheses (BPP) complain about too high operating forces, leading to pain and/or fatigue during or after prosthetic operation. In the worst case nerve and vessel damage can occur [1, 2], leading to nonuse of prostheses. Smit et al. investigated cable forces and displacements required to operate commercially available...
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Aydin, B.E. (author), van Overloop, P.J.A.T.M. (author), Tian, X. (author)
Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful tool which is used more and more to managing water systems such as reservoirs over a short-term prediction horizon. However, due to unknown disturbances present in the water system and other uncertainties, there is always a mismatch between the model and the actual system. To overcome this mismatch...
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Donchyts, G. (author), Baart, F. (author), van Dam, A (author), Jagers, B (author), van der Pijl, S. (author)
Developing easy-to-use software that combines components for simultaneous visualization, simulation and interaction is a great challenge. Mainly, because it involves a number of disciplines, like computational fluid dynamics, computer graphics, high-performance computing. One of the main characteristics of an interactive model is that it should...
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Abbasi, A. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author)
In many parts of the world, the available water resources are now being used close to their limits. Global climate change, the increasing population of the earth and ever-increasing standards of living and consequent growing demand of water are bringing water sustainability into sharp focus. Evaporation as a major component of the hydrologic...
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Hofman, J.A.M.H. (author), Bloemendal, Martin (author), Wols, Bas (author), Agudelo-Vera, Claudia (author), Elias Maxil, J.A. (author), Boderie, P. (author), Nijman, M. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)
Recent studies have indicated that wastewater contains relatively large amounts of thermal energy. Recovering this thermal energy can be used to decrease the CO2 footprint of the water cycle. This paper describes the development of a model to simulate the heat balance and predict the temperature in a sewer system. The model can be used to...
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Mazzoleni, M. (author), Alfonso, Leonardo (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author)
Accurate real-time forecasting of river water level is an important issue that has to be addressed in order to prevent and mitigate water-related risk. To this end, data assimilation methods have been used to improve the forecasts ability of water model merging observations coming from stations and model simulations. As a consequence of the...
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Chacon Hurtado, J.C. (author), Alfonso, Leonardo (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author)
Design of optimal precipitation sensor networks is a common topic in hydrological literature, however this is still an open problem due to lack of understanding of some spatially variable processes, and assumptions that often cannot be verified. Among these assumptions lies the homoscedasticity of precipitation fields, common in hydrological...
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Spekkers, M.H. (author), Clemens, F.H.L.R. (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author)
The objective of this study was to identify the main failure mechanisms behind water-related building damage and to investigate to what extent these processes are related to characteristics of buildings and rainfall events. Results are based on the mining of property level insurance damage data, for a case study in Rotterdam, the Netherlands....
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Mazzoleni, M (author), Alfonso, Leonardo (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author)
The reliable evaluation of the flood forecasting is a crucial problem for assessing flood risk and consequent damages. Different hydrological models (distributed, semi-distributed or lumped) have been proposed in order to deal with this issue. The choice of the proper model structure has been investigated by many authors and it is one of the...
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Vojinovic, Zoran (author), Abebe, Y.A. (author), Sanchez, A. (author), Medina Pena, N. (author), Nikolic, I. (author), Manojlovic, N (author), Makropoulos, C. (author), Pelling, M. (author), Abbott, M. (author)
Coastal floods are one of the most dangerous and harmful natural hazards affecting urban areas adjacent to shorelines. The present paper discusses the FP7-ENV-2013 EU funded PEARL (Preparing for Extreme And Rare events in coastaL regions) project which brings together world leading expertise in both the domain of hydro-engineering and risk...
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Yan, K (author), Pappenberger, F (author), Umer, Y.M. (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author), Di Baldassarre, G (author)
One of the main obstacles in mapping flood hazard in data scarce areas is the difficulty in estimating the design flood, i.e. river discharge corresponding to a given return period. This exercise can be carried out using regionalization techniques, which are based on flood data of regions with similar hydro...
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Aguilar Lopez, J.P. (author), Andel, Schalk Jan Van (author), Werner, M (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author)
Data for water management is increasingly easy to access, it has finer spatial and temporal resolution, and it is available from various sources. Precipitation data can be obtained from meteorological stations, radar, satellites and weather models. Land use data is also available from different satellite products and different providers. The...
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de Boer, G.J. (author), Baart, F. (author), Jagers, B (author), Becker, B.P.J. (author)
Assessment of environmental status and integral safety requires combination of information from many sources, coming from either databases or increasingly via live model (scenario) simulations. Many of these models require input from one another, sometimes unidirectional, but more and more two-directional as well. Many protocols and frameworks...
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Meesuk, V. (author), Vojinovic, Zoran (author), Mynett, A.E. (author)
Top-view data obtainedfrom LiDAR systemshas long been used as topographic-input data for urban flood modelling applications. This high-resolution input data has considerable potential to improve urban flood modelling predictions with more detail. However, the difficulty of employing top-view data is that it may create some missing urban features...
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