Optimised control and pipe burst detection by water demand forecasting

Water demand forecasting The total water demand in an area is the sum of the water demands of all individual domestic and industrial consumers in that area. These consumers behave in repetitive daily, weekly and annual patterns, and the same repetitive patterns can be observed in the drinking water demand. The observations of the water demand...

Soil Retaining Structures: Development of models for structural analysis

The topic of this thesis is the development of models for the structural analysis of soil retaining structures. The soil retaining structures being looked at are; block revetments, flexible retaining walls and bored tunnels in soft soil. Within this context typical structural behavior of these structures is discussed too. The emphasis within the...

Non-Destructive Inspection Techniques based on Elastodynamics: Development and Validation

Softening in the blast furnace process: Local melt formation as the trigger for softening of ironbearing burden materials