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Huigen, Vincent (author)
The offshore wind industry is a quickly growing market because the increasing demand for clean energy sources. Large wind speeds and the abundance of potential wind farm locations make Offshore Wind Turbines an interesting solution. Because of high continuous dynamic loading and extreme environmental conditions, the structural design requires a...
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van der Laan, Dirk (author)
The orthotropic steel deck (OSD) is a deck system applied regularly in steel bridges all around the world. It consists of a steel deck plate which is stiffened by structural elements placed in two orthogonal directions. The deck plate can be used as an integral part of the structure, causing OSDs to achieve a high material efficiency and...
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Renckens, Berber (author)
Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) has increased rapidly in popularity in the past few decades. The material's advantageous properties, such as a high strength-to-weight ratio and low required maintenance, gave rise to its popularity in multiple major engineering branches. Buckling behaviour develops due to the notably low stiffness-to-strength...
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Vilanova Hanusaik, Natalia (author)
Due to the recent increase in traffic capacity requirements, the need for larger spans in immersed concrete tunnels has become a pressing matter. Although commonly used in Europe, reinforced concrete has a structural capacity limit when it comes to the transverse span length. The implementation of post-tensioning could allow for longer spans and...
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Yépez Calderón, Andrés (author)
Energetic materials have widespread applicability in various fields of engineering as propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics. The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) is investigating additive manufacturing of solid propellants. As part of this investigation, TNO developed a new polymer binder mix for solid...
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Strookman, Mark (author)
Non-linear finite element analysis (NLFEA) is a powerful numerical solution method that can enhance accurate determination of the structural resistance for a more efficient design. However, the implementation of NLFEA for the design of reinforced concrete structures is lagging behind as related uncertain- ties have not been quantified adequately...
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Griemink, Andre (author)
Railway sleepers form an important part of a classic track structure. Sleepers exists in their current form for a long time. The transition from wood to concrete sleeper has been made, but wood is still used and present in many track sections. As creosoted wooden sleepers are not allowed to be installed on the tracks anymore the search for...
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Aarts, Aukje (author)
During the last decades, the development of high-rise increased quickly. The Eurocode is frequently used to make wind calculations for high-rise structures. To make those calculations, the dynamic wind load is simplified to a conservative equivalent static load. An alternative to calculate wind loads is a physical wind tunnel test. Wind tunnel...
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Pooja Karthik, Pooja Karthik (author)
A railway turnout, which is a combination of a switch and a crossing is an important component in the railway network to divert trains. Due to the change in contact between the wheels and the rails as the train negotiates a turnout, severe impact loading occurs in two-directions: vertically and laterally. These cause negative environmental...
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Verhoeven, Alexander (author)
In off-shore structures, the jacket foundations are mainly welded connections in circular hollow sections. These connections exhibit problems in resisting fatigue load. Wrapped composite joints tackle this problem with improved fatigue resistance. However, the material properties are yet unknown. In order to determine the properties on a more...
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Bourgonje, Daan (author)
The strut-and-tie method is a reliable tool for designing the reinforcement in discontinuity regions in reinforced concrete structures. It provides safe designs, but it is on the other hand also acknowledged to provide conservative designs. As the strut-and-tie model is widely used in the design of structural elements as wall girders and pile...
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de Vries Robbé, Maria (author)
Bridges are exposed to dynamic forces – such as pedestrians crossing a bridge or the wind force acting on a bridge – which cause vibration of the structure. When a structure is forced at one of its eigenfrequencies it deforms into a corresponding shape leading to major deformations, which, in the worst-case scenario, can lead to collapse of the...
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Sushin, Harikrishnan (author)
Adopt the concept of demountable and rebuildable brides to an existing idea of an integral bridge. An understanding of the different forces and moments that the bridge will have to take up and how the critical connections (deck-abutment) can be realized. Applying the understanding of how integral and demountable bridges behave and try to...
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Ilahibaks, Shaneeza (author)
In the design of offshore wind turbine generator (WTG) support structures, a large number of environmental parameters are used. The most important ones include the wind climate (wind speed and wind direction probability distributions), the wave climate (wave height and wave direction as well as peak frequencies of the waves, and water levels)...
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Znabei, Tigist (author)
This master thesis is on post-tensioning cross-laminated timber stability cores for multiple story buildings. When designing a CLT core, significantly larger core sections will be needed than when designing a stabilizing core in concrete. This is for one part due to the limited stiffness of the CLT compared to concrete. For another part it is...
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Yassiri, Ammar (author)
Hybrid concrete-SHCC beams are a new development in construction techniques. SHCC stands for Strain Hardening Cementitious Composite. In such beams, the tension zone could for example consist, next to the traditional reinforcement, of a material that shows strain hardening behaviour. That helps with controlling the crack width. In traditional ...
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Arul Kumar, Priya (author)
With rapid industrialisation, the infrastructure sector has seen exponential growth in prefabricated concrete elements due to their speedy construction and efficient usage of material. Precast concrete elements have thus observed some deterioration due to increased internal temperature as a result of rapid curing, and also through deliberate...
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Asefa, Sali (author)
Piles and pile caps are commonly used in the Netherlands due to the soft shallow subsurface soil that is predominant in the country which does not have sufficient bearing capacity to support heavy structures. Pile caps are currently designed analytically using the strut and tie model (STM). This is believed to be conservative and results in an...
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van de Velde, Tibo (author)
Developments in structural engineering give rise to the ability of increasing the slenderness within the design of footbridges. However, this often results in a fundamental eigenfrequency which coincides with the step frequency range of humans on the bridge. This can lead to uncomfortable vibrations of the structure. In order to maintain the...
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Hoogeveen, Maartje (author)
3D concrete printing (3DCP) is a new, innovative construction method in which concrete structures are produced layer-by-layer using a 3D printer. A printed concrete structure, can be self-supporting, which means no formwork is required anymore, increasing the freedom of form, while decreasing construction cost and material use. However, the...
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