Websuit 1: The Protective Wetsuit for Olympic Foiling Sailors

The project focused on improving Olympic foiling classes sailing athletes' safety: Nacra 17, iQFOiL, and IKA Formula Kite. The primary objective was to investigate dangerous circumstances with foil sailors to research the mechanisms that cause injuries and develop a design solution to prevent them. The research performed provides an integrated...

Design of a Fully Electric Super Yacht: Research by design to find the drivers, enablers and barriers of electric yachting

The aim of this thesis is to analyze if a fully electric super yacht is feasible, desirable and viable. This is done using a “research by design” approach using the current (and future) drivers, enablers and barriers to design a concept.<br/><br/>First, a vision is developed using the ViP (Vision in Product design) method, in order to create a...

Flexible Armour

Field hockey is a growing sport in the Netherlands, where both the male and female national squads belong amongst the best teams in the world. Field hockey requires a lot of technical capabilities from the player, which not all players possess. This sometimes leads to uncontrolled strikes of the ball, which can lead to accidents and injuries....

New Rowing: Play the Sea. Design of the Volans Coastal

In July 2011, the Volans2 was introduced on the market. It is a single skull, recreational rowing boat designed for a wide public to make the rowing sport more accessible. The design is compact and light, challenging for rowers of variable levels. The implementation of a sliding rigger system (in which the rigger slides instead of the seat)...

An Extreme Lightweight Pilot Boat: Incorporation of an innovative shock mitigation system

This thesis shows the exploration of the dangers of working on a pilot boat. Finding that impact is one of the major dangers. The selection of a shock mitigating cabin as the ultimate solution. The design of such a cabin and the implementation of this cabin in a 12m pilot boat. The focus was on human factors and lightness. The full carbon boats...

Multi-stiffness thigh support for the 2012 Olympic sailors

Magic Marine and TU Delft worked together to create a new innovative hiking pad that effectively reduces the pressure on the thighs. The key design factors have been a reduction of pressure, (larger pressure spread), leg support and a comfortable contact areas. Hiking is one of the most demanding activities during a race. With wind speeds over 8...

Flex Fingers: Design of a partial hand prosthesis

This master thesis describes the development of Flex Fingers, a prosthesis for people with a partial hand defect. People with a partial hand defect miss fingers and sometimes part of their hand, they do have a functioning wrist. There are already many types of prostheses on the market, but there is no suitable prosthesis for the target group....