Ship The Stadium: Transforming Event Spaces: Embracing Temporality and Multifunctionality Through Modular and Circular Design

The essence of my project is to present a prototype as a statement against the ridiculousness of building a permanent stadium used only or mostly during a major international temporary sports events. In which the inhabitants of the place gain no real benefit from the investments of such a building after the tournament is finished. My prototype...

The Design and Implementation of a Stateful Streaming Rule Language for the Maritime Sector

Stream processing has taken a prominent position in the software engineering industry. Many applications, from a small to large scale, embrace this paradigm to deal with the difficulties of responding to events that happen asynchronously: programmers define "operators" that perform small, independent tasks on individual events. These operators...

Regional Geology and Fracture Network Characterisation of the Southern Chotts and Jeffara Basins, Central Tunisia: Implications for Petroleum Reservoirs

The Southern Chotts and Jeffara Basins are situated within the Saharan Domain of Central Tunisia, North Africa. The Southern Chotts Basin hosts reservoirs within the Triassic, Permian and Ordovician units that contain significant hydrocarbon accumulations whilst the Jeffara Basin contains outcrop analogues of the same hydrocarbon­bearing...

AI Enabled Dynamic Capabilities: Helping Large Organisations to Overcome Disruptions with a Capability Orchestration Framework

Due to globalisation and technological advancements, the world is becoming increasingly complex. Volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environments have called for organisations to become more agile in order to survive and compete in such changing environments. Large organisations are at particular risk for becoming stagnant due to...

PFAS removal from leachate water using electrocoagulation

This thesis aimed to elucidate the effects of dissolved organic matter on the applicability of electrocoagulation (EC) with iron electrodes for per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) removal from landfill leachate. The research methodology consisted of an experimental and a computational part. Galvanostatic EC experiments were...

Enhanced GitHub code review

Code review is a commonly used process to ensure the software quality of a product is maintained at a high level. One of the popular sites at the moment to employ code review is GitHub. GitHub provides a software repository hosting service and also has an integrated code review interface. The current GitHub interface is not suitable for...

Improvements to the design process of the energy distribution system: A comparison between operational use of the energy distribution system of a naval ship and its expected use during the design phase

After a ship is delivered from a shipyard to a customer, its operational use is not yet structurally compared to its expected use. This lack of structural comparison results in limited verification and self-evaluation of the design process. The objective of this research is therefore to develop a method to analyze operational data and apply this...

A Brand & Product Development for High Performance Bodyboarding, on the harsh Atlantic Coast of Ireland

The project is centered around the creation of a brand whose identity represents the unique character of the Irish Atlantic explorers. This group is not bound by a style or a fashion, but by a deep and honest connection to the raw and wind battered beauty of nature on the Irish Atlantic Coast. They are the tussock lead pioneers of empty,...

BIM en de projectmanager

Onderzoek naar de impact van het Bouw Informatie Model op de rol van de projectmanager. Uit verscheidene onderzoeken is het gebleken dat BIM op het gebied van informatie- en procesbeheersing kansen biedt voor de projectmanager. Er is echter nog geen antwoord gegeven op de vraag welke effecten BIM in de praktijk concreet heeft op de rol van de...

Online swing leg trajectory optimization for a force controllable humanoid robot

Humanoid robots are well suited to function in a world designed for humans. To function autonomously, it is important that the robot be robust against disturbances. Quick and accurate positioning of the swing foot allows the robot to recover from large disturbances. This thesis presents a novel controller that provides accurate foot positioning...

Critical Front-End Development Activities for Engineering Projects

Putting effort into the early project phases in order to prepare optimally for project delivery is labelled Front-End development (FED). For projects, an optimum has to be found where FED is performed in a way that it increases the chance on successful project delivery, without losing cost competiveness. The results of this research can be used...

Progressive Collapse Assessment: Non-linear behaviour of concrete structures in damaged state

Progressive collapse is a collapse where local failure leads to a disproportionate collapse. Due to a focus on ease of erection in the construction process and more and more optimisation of design through advanced analysis techniques buildings are believed to have become more vulnerable to loads outside the design envelope over the past decades...

Development west coast Taiwan: Redesign coastal area between Da’an River and Dajia River

Master project report. In the year 2004 there was a flooding in an area between Da'an River and Dajia River in Taichung County, Taiwan. The flooding was caused by outlets which were clogged up, thus lacking the capacity to discharge the amount of rainwater that the typhoon caused into the sea. A survey conducted by the project group, showed that...