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Mulder, W.A. (author), Shamasundara, R. (author)We consider isotropic elastic wave propagation with continuous mass-lumped finite elements on tetrahedra with explicit time stepping. These elements require higher-order polynomials in their interior to preserve accuracy after mass lumping and are only known up to degree 3. Global assembly of the symmetric stiffness matrix is a natural approach...journal article 2016
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Šavija, B. (author), Schlangen, E. (author)Phase change materials (PCMs) have found their use in concrete technology for increasing energy efficiency of building envelopes. In recent years, however, new potential applications for PCMs in concrete have been suggested, for example for reducing freeze-thaw damage and melting of ice forming on top of concrete pavements. A recent application...journal article 2016
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Reale, C. (author), Xue, J. (author), Gavin, Kenneth (author)Many engineered and natural slopes have complex geometries and are multi-layered. For these slopes traditional stability analyses will tend to predict critical failure surfaces in layers with the lowest mean strength. A move toward probabilistic analyses allows a designer to account for uncertainties with respect to input parameters that...journal article 2016
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van Maren, D.S. (author), Cronin, Katherine (author)Estuarine suspended sediment transport models are typically calibrated against suspended sediment concentration data. These data typically cover a limited range of the actual suspended sediment concentration dynamics, constrained in either time or space. As a result of these data limitations, the available data can be reproduced with complex...journal article 2016
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Verschelling, Eelco (author), van der Deijl, Eveline (author), van der Perk, Marcel (author), Sloff, C.J. (author), Middelkoop, Hans (author)Sediment deposition is one of the key mechanisms to counteract the impact of sea level rise in tidal freshwater wetlands (TFWs). However, information about sediment deposition rates in TFWs is limited, especially for those located in the transition zone between the fluvially dominated and tidally dominated sections of a river delta where...journal article 2017
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van den Eijnden, A.P. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author)Improbable slope failure is addressed in the framework of reliability analysis of slopes in heterogeneous cohesive soils, as the small subset of realisations that fail without additional measures to trigger failure. The mode of these slope failures, located at the weak tail of the reliability curve, is demonstrated to differ significantly...journal article 2018
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Santarsiero, Manuel (author), Bedon, Chiara (author), Louter, P.C. (author)Laminated glass components are usually realized by bonding glass plates using interlayer polymers that develop adhesion forces during lamination. Recently, these adhesion forces have been used also to realize special adhesive connections for structural glass components and assemblies. The typical example of such a joining technique is...journal article 2018
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Huisman, B.J.A. (author), Ruessink, B. G. (author), de Schipper, M.A. (author), Luijendijk, Arjen (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author)Large perturbations in the coastline, such as the 'Sand Motor' nourishment (∼21 million m<sup>3</sup>) at the Holland coast, can initiate considerable spatial and temporal changes in the median grain size (D<sub>50</sub>) of the sea bed on the lower shoreface. The relevance of hydrodynamic conditions for the development of the heterogeneity...journal article 2018
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Lashley, Christopher H. (author), Roelvink, D. (author), Van Dongeren, Ap R. (author), Buckley, Mark (author), Lowe, Ryan J. (author)The accurate prediction of extreme wave run-up is important for effective coastal engineering design and coastal hazard management. While run-up processes on open sandy coasts have been reasonably well-studied, very few studies have focused on understanding and predicting wave run-up at coral reef-fronted coastlines. This paper applies the short...journal article 2018
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Zhang, R. (author), Zijlema, Marcel (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author)In this paper, the ability of the numerical phase resolving model SWASH (Simulating WAves till SHore) to hindcast wave-induced longshore currents is evaluated. Using default settings for all processes modelled, highly accurate results are found for wave heights, mean water levels and longshore currents. While wave current interaction is...journal article 2018
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Liu, H. (author), Pisano, F. (author)Predicting the cyclic response of soils is still challenging in many geotechnical applications. In this area, the continual efforts on the constitutive modelling of cyclic sand behaviour demand new and reliable dataset for model validation - even more so for loading conditions involving numerous loading cycles ('high-cyclic' loading). This paper...journal article 2019
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Zhang, R. (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author)This paper focuses on a specific form of groins, Permeable Pile Groins (PPGs), consisting of a single or double rows of wooden piles. With only few experiments and simulations available to study the hydraulic functioning of PPGs, the correlation between the effectiveness and the characteristics of the groin system has yet to be fully understood....journal article 2019
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Maljaars, P.J. (author), Grasso, N. (author), den Besten, J.H. (author), Kaminski, M.L. (author)The first part of the paper presents a partitioned fluid–structure interaction (FSI) coupling for the non-uniform flow hydro-elastic analysis of highly flexible propellers in cavitating and non-cavitating conditions. The chosen fluid model is a potential flow solved with a boundary element method (BEM). The structural sub-problem has been...journal article 2020
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Lampaert, S.G.E. (author), Quinci, Federico (author), van Ostayen, R.A.J. (author)This paper discusses a new type of hybrid journal bearing in which a magnetorheological fluid is used in combination with local magnetic fields, such that the hydrodynamic and hydrostatic working regimes are not compromised. This demonstrates the potential of using the concept of rheological texture in bearings. The performance of this new...journal article 2020
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Werthmüller, D. (author), Mulder, W.A. (author), Slob, E.C. (author)3-D controlled-source electromagnetic data are often computed directly in the domain of interest, either in the frequency domain or in the time domain. Computing it in one domain and transforming it via a Fourier transform to the other domain is a viable alternative. It requires the evaluation of many responses in the computational domain if...journal article 2021
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Werthmüller, D. (author), Rochlitz, Raphael (author), Castillo-Reyes, Octavio (author), Heagy, Lindsey (author)Large-scale modelling of 3-D controlled-source electromagnetic (CSEM) surveys used to be feasible only for large companies and research consortia. This has changed over the last few years, and today there exists a selection of different open-source codes available to everyone. Using four different codes in the Python ecosystem, we perform...journal article 2021
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Jommi, C. (author), Chao, C. (author), Muraro, S. (author), Zhao, H.F. (author)Recent research effort carried out at Delft University of Technology to improve the experimental knowledge and develop a comprehensive modelling approach for fibrous organic soils is summarised. Experimental results and numerical analyses are combined to discuss some contradictory results which have delayed advanced characterisation of peats....journal article 2021
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Verkaik, J. (author), van Engelen, J. (author), Huizer, S. (author), Bierkens, Marc F.P. (author), Lin, H.X. (author), Oude Essink, G.H.P. (author)Fresh groundwater reserves, being of vital importance for more than a billion of people living in the coastal zone, are being threatened by saltwater intrusion due to anthropogenic activities and climate change. High resolution three-dimensional (3D), variable-density (VD), groundwater flow and salt transport (FT) numerical models are...journal article 2021
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Ali, Liaqat (author), Makhdoom, Nageena (author), Gao, Yifan (author), Fang, P. (author), Khan, Sikandar (author), Bai, Yong (author)A numerical model in slice configuration was applied to the Central Andaman Sea in order to derive metocean operational and design criteria associated to internal solitary waves which are large amplitude interfacial waves. For that purpose, a 10 year hindcast was generated. The model was driven by tides at the open boundary and included...journal article 2021
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Guo, Bingbing (author), Qiao, Guofu (author), Li, Z. (author), Li, Dongsheng (author), Dai, Jinghui (author), Wang, Yan (author)Impressed current cathodic protection (ICCP) is an effective and direct method for controlling the corrosion of reinforced concrete (RC) structures. However, few investigations related to ICCP in cracked RC structures have been reported. In this study, the effect of cracks in concrete cover on ICCP of chloride-contaminated RC structures was...journal article 2021