Beyond Jack-Ups: A Moonshot for Future Offshore Wind Turbine Installation Vessels for an Uncertain Market

The offshore wind market is rapidly growing, resulting in increasing wind turbine sizes, increasing distances to port, and a shift to deeper waters. A literature study in this thesis shows that existing wind turbine installation vessels, vessels under construction, and innovative concepts will not be able to install next-generation turbines or...

Optimal Stop Location Analysis for Urban Tram Systems: A Multi-Objective Optimisation Model for Minimising Social, User and Operator Costs

Enhancing and expanding public transportation is becoming a crucial solution to the high costs of congestion and the escalating environmental impacts of car-centric transportation systems observed in numerous cities today. One approach to enhance the quality of public transportation, and thereby boosting its ridership, is through the intelligent...

Characterizing the architecture of reconstituted minimal septin and septin-actin cortices at high resolution

In animal cells, cell shape is primarily regulated by the actin cortex, a thin filament network connected to the plasma membrane. The architecture of the cortex is considered a key regulator of its function. Visualising the cortex is difficult due to the high density of numerous small-sized proteins involved in its formation. Consequently, the...

The exposition of aspirations: Embracing multiple ethnic groups within a smart replicable strategy that has the potential to transform into a specific matter

Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, is challenged by the phenomenon of rapidly growing urbanization. The city is targeted at the risk that fast-tracked urbanization will cause loss of existing habitats and socioeconomic qualities (Tesfaye, 2012). The initiated condominiums have caused a mismatch between the Architectural approach and the...

Addis Ababa as a Palimpsest

The goal of the Global Housing graduation studio is to research and design housing solutions to improve the livelihood of Addis Ababa’s urban dwellers. Combining analysis, planning and design, the participants in this graduation studio are challenged to use multidisciplinary research methods and tools to elaborate design proposals for mass...

The added value of Heritage: Strategy making for public heritage

“Tangible and intangible heritage are sources of social cohesion, factors of diversity and drivers of creativity, innovation and urban regeneration – we must do more to harness this.” This was the message of Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO, during the World Urban Forum in Napels in 2012. Her statement provides the basis of this...

Healthcare Sustainability Mode and Effect Analysis: Design, validation, and clinical application of the HSMEA tool to improve the environmental sustainability of healthcare

Sustainability is becoming more important in numerous industries, including healthcare. Action to achieve sustainability is undertaken by various means, such as the Green Deal Healthcare. Several tools exist that can assess the environmental impact of a certain industry or company, but no tools exist that aid in actively lowering this...

Rotterdam's Transformation Potential: Transforming vacant office space into housing

This research aims to uncover the transformation potential of the structural vacant office space in Rotterdam to residential space. The office market in the Netherlands has become a replacement market. The result of this replacement market is that users can choose to rent the highest quality offices at the best locations due to the surplus of...

Horizontal Slurry Transport on a Large Laboratory Scale

The first head loss prediction methods for hydraulic transport of solids in pipes, date back to the years '50 of last century. The principles are still applied today. Although it is observed that obtained results may differ from reality, when the circumstances do not represent the situation of the original experiment. To investigate this, the...

Non-hydrostatic wave modelling of coral reefs with the addition of a porous in-canopy model

One sixth of the world's coastline consist of coral reefs and provide natural flood defence for the people who live in the coastal region behind the reef. However, a rising sea level, changing wave conditions and degradation of corals threaten the coastal safety of these reefs.Numerical models can be applied to study the reef-hydrodynamics and...

The tidal bore in the Sittaung River: A sensitivity analyse of the propagation

A 2Dnumericalmodel is set-up for the tidal bore in the Sittaung River. This model is used to analyse the effect of the bottom friction, bathymetry, tidal range and river discharge on the propagation of the tidal bore. To obtain information about the tidal bore the Sittaung River is visited two times. During the second visit, depth measurements...

Convex Guidance, Navigation, and Control for Pin-Point Lunar Landing

Convex guidance is a developing guidance algorithm that seeks to unify the trajectory optimisation for pin-point landings. The unification would mean the elimination of the need of different optimisation techniques for different stages of the landing. Using convex optimisation, convex guidance is guaranteed to find the global-optimum of the design...

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