Dataflow Analysis in a Language Workbench

Dataflow analysis is a powerful tool used for program optimization, static analysis, and editor services for many programming languages. Spoofax, a language workbench, contains a domain-specific language called FlowSpec for the definition of control-flow and dataflow semantics that language developers can use to implement dataflow analyses for...

Optimising First-Class Pattern Match Compilation

Pattern matching is the act of checking if a value is in the set of values described by a pattern. Many programming languages provide constructs to pattern match on program values. Pattern matching constructs appear in different variants. Stratego, a term rewriting language, features first-class pattern matching, which attempts to match a...

Green-linking Rotterdam Zuid

This research is aimed at the necessity and the design of a new city bridge in the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and how green could be implemented in such a structure. Through analysis of issues regarding the connection of Rotterdam Zuid over the Nieuwe Maas, the city’s plans and ambitions, precedent bridge designs and different...

The Application of Bio-Based Composites in Load-Bearing Structures: A research into the possibilities, properties and the durability of flax fibre reinforced bio-based composites

An increasing environmental concern and a growing interest of environmentally friendly and renewable materials is driving the growth of the bio-based composite sector. From 2010 to 2020, it is expected that the use of natural fibres as a reinforcement in composites will be doubled. Bio-based composites are already widely applied within the...

Optimizing the design and production process for FRP constructions

Concrete Dynamics

Bridges are both landscape and infrastructure elements. Looking through the eyes of a landscape architect, bridges become a continuation of the landscape; a manmade action that heals the misconnections of the landscape. The problematique of infrastructure as a type of landscape and connecting element is a crucial topic which influences the...

FRP Structures: A canopy in Kotzia square

The objective of my graduation project was to understand the lack of loadbearing Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) structures and why in most of the example FRP components are being used as cladding. In order to do that I decided to design an FRP loadbearing canopy, which had to be a shell structure with large spans between its support points. In...

A filament wound pillar for a pedestrian bridge

This report describes the research done on the possibilities of a structural element in the built environment made using the ‘coreless’ filament winding composite forming technique. The focus lies with the combination of a loadbearing capacity and an aesthetic value specifically derived from this production technique. This is done by the design...

Shells and arches: Developing a new method to calculate shells and arches through graphic statics

A new method to calculate arches using the minimum complementary energy due to bending is developed.

A research on the optimization of the process: Structural bonding of glazing in unitized curtain wall facades

A research on the optimization of the process: structural bonding of glazing in unitized curtain wall facades. Different approaches, a design proposal and evaluation of the approaches and proposal