Improvement to structure details in ship sections for robotic welding

The master thesis is a parallel development of a Maritime Manufacturing Robotics project. The aim of the thesis is to find out how to make it easier and convenient for robotic welding in ship section production by improving ship structures. The objective is to design a work process and evaluation method to be followed to do structure...

On the use of path-dependent maximum range method in critical plane based multi-axial fatigue criteria

Multi-axial stress state is the stress state where several stress components exist. Multi-axial fatigue assessment is very challenging due to complex stress state and component geometry. Many multi-axial fatigue assessment criteria simplify the complex multi-axial stress into an equivalent uniaxial stress. Critical plane method which bases on...

An E-learning Platform for Career Development of International Talents in the Netherlands

HoiTalent is a young start-up to help international talents with their career development in the Netherlands. The company has its job portal hoitalent.com with thousands of openings for internationals and HoiCoaching to offer tailored and face-to-face career coaching service. Currently, the company is going to launch a new project as an e...

Topology Control in Energy-harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks

Ambient energy-harvesting technology is a promising approach to keep wireless sensor networks (WSNs) operating perennially. Depending on the harvesting source, nodes can either be active (alive) or inactive (dead) at any instant in such Energy-Harvesting WSNs (EH-WSNs). Thus, even in a static deployment of EH-WSNs, the network topology is no...

Slope stability analysis based on random finite element method and probabilistic approach

In this work, an investigation into generic slope stability is carried out. The investigation takes into account slope parameters of height (H) and slope gradient (?) as well as material parameters of shear strength (vc) and spatial correlation length (?). A Monte Carlo analysis of many slopes with randomly generated shear strength parameters is...

An empirical study on consumer information search behavior and experience in mobile shopping

This research, which is based on developments and innovations in mobile technology and attempts to provide guidance to applications of mobile retailing or shopping, focuses on Human Behavior and Interaction. A research framework is established with the thinking of customer relationship, which leads to 4 issues to be explored. Therefore, this...

Improving Auditory Navigation in Public Buildings for Blind and Visually impaired People

Compared with people with normal vision, blind and visually impaired people (B&VI) suffer from not only limited accessibility to public buildings but also poor experience of these buildings. However, the keen senses of sound and touch of B&VI, which are honed through daily practice and compensated by the loss of vision in brain, could be...

Facilitating social interaction: Neighborhood revitalization strategy of Shanghai Cannes

This project is about the neighborhood revitalization of Shanghai Cannes, which is a problematic suburban high-density neighborhood in Shanghai. The research itself is a spatial analysis on different scales and mapping of current social networks. The future strategy and design will mainly focus on how to regenerate neighborhood living...