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Lubelli, B. (author)Salt weathering is one of the most recurrent damage processes affecting both the natural and the built environment. Due to the complexity of the process, numerical models are rarely applied in practice; accelerated weathering tests in laboratory are still the most common way to assess and forecast durability of (conservation and renovation)...abstract 2023
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Chen, Qilin (author)Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are often pruned to achieve faster training and inference speed while also requiring less memory. Nevertheless, during computation, most modern GPUs cannot take advantage of the sparsity automatically, especially on networks with unstructured sparsity. Therefore, many libraries that exploit sparsity, have...bachelor thesis 2022
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Dur, Rens (author)In 1952, Alan M. Turing presented a reaction-diffusion model that described formation of skin patterns. The patterns he predicted have later been found in various natural phenomena, such as in skins of fish or even in vegetation around termite hills. His patterns have even been taken to the micro-level. In 1984, David A. Young proposed a...bachelor thesis 2023
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Ça?layan, F.H. (author), Heij, R.W. (author), Geers, M. (author)Due to advancing technology, genetic sequencing has become cheaper over the years. This has caused the demand for computational power to grow even faster than Moore's law. To remedy this problem, we analyzed low-cost hardware solutions to parallelize the computational part of the genetic sequencing. We proposed a novel method for calculating the...bachelor thesis 2013
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Strengholt, B. (author), Brobbel, M. (author)With the sequencing of DNA becoming cheaper and the resulting stack of data growing bigger, there is a big challenge for both engineer and biologist. Researchers are limited by their computational power. In this thesis, first an overview of sequence alignment algorithms will be given. Then a method to store the values of the similarity score...bachelor thesis 2013
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Gluth, Gregor J.G. (author), Ke, Xinyuan (author), Vollpracht, Anya (author), Weiler, Lia (author), Bernal, Susan A. (author), Cyr, Martin (author), Dombrowski-Daube, Katja (author), Geddes, Dan (author), Nedeljković, Marija (author)The current ability to predict the carbonation resistance of alkali-activated materials (AAMs) is incomplete, partly because of widely varying AAM chemistries and variable testing conditions. To identify general correlations between mix design parameters and the carbonation rate of AAMs, RILEM TC 281-CCC Working Group 6 compiled and analysed...book chapter 2023
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Jing, R. (author), Varveri, Aikaterini (author), Liu, X. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author), Erkens, S. (author)Accelerated pavement testing (APT) is an effective method in evaluating pavement performance by applying wheel loading and speed under controlled conditions. This study aims to investigate the effects of wheel loading, speed and ambient temperature on the pavement responses at different directions and depths of pavement structure. A two-layer...book chapter 2020
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Gluth, Gregor J.G. (author), Ke, Xinyuan (author), Vollpracht, Anya (author), Bernal, Susan A. (author), Cizer, Özlem (author), Cyr, Martin (author), Dombrowski-Daube, Katja (author), Geddes, Dan (author), Nedeljković, Marija (author)The current understanding of the carbonation of alkali-activated concretes is hampered inter alia by the wide range of binder chemistries used. To overcome some of the limitations of individual studies and to identify general correlations between their mix design parameters and carbonation resistance, the RILEM TC 281-CCC working group 6...book chapter 2023
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Ross, Robert (author), Koopmans, Gerben (author)Testing materials and devices for a specific failure mechanism usually yields a characteristic distribution of failure times. However, failure of power electronics (PE) can be due to a manifold of mechanisms. Even in a single PE device multiple failure processes may compete. For instance, modules may contain various components that fail...book chapter 2022
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Schuld, M. (author), Jacobs, B. (author)Commercial claims for LED-based products in terms of lumen maintenance are fully based on TM-21 extrapolations using LM-80 data. This chapter indicates that there may be a risk in doing this as TM-21 only relies on the behavior of the average LED degradation, instead of taking into account the degradation of all individual LEDs. Therefore, we...book chapter 2018
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Jacobs, B.J.C. (author), van der Marel, C. (author), Lu, S.J. (author), Li, X.P. (author)The penetration of solid state lighting applications is due to the promise of a low-cost reliable solution by means of application of low- and mid-power LEDs. These LED packages are manufactured by making use of new processes and materials which in principle introduces a series of known and unknown failure modes. Corrosion is a specific failure...book chapter 2018
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Vos, T. (author), den Breeijen, P. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author)In the past 4 years we have witnessed a change in quality and reliability to make the marked introduction of solid-state lighting (SSL) successful. LED penetration levels have reached values of 10–30%, depending on the application. The number and variety of LED packages and, thus, associated LED-based products, have significantly increased in...book chapter 2018
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Turkel, E. (author), Vatsa, V.N. (author), Swanson, R.C. (author), Rossow, C.C. (author)We consider a multistage algorithm to advance in pseudo-time to find a steady state solution for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations. The rate of convergence to the steady state is improved by using an implicit preconditioner to approximate the numerical scheme. This properly addresses the stiffness in the discrete equations associated with...conference paper 2006
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Stive, M.J.F. (author), Terrile, E. (author), Reniers, A.J.H.M. (author), Verhagen, H.J. (author)Threshold of motion of coarse particles under regular shoaling waves is studied. Experiments were performed to investigate the effects of bed fluid acceleration on coarse particle stability. By varying wave height, wave period and water depth combinations of similar peak orbital velocities and weak to strong intra-wave accelerations were created...conference paper 2005
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Kreeft, J.J. (author), Weghs, M. (author), Van Zuijlen, A.H. (author), Bijl, H. (author)Two reduced order models are presented for the simulation of physically strong coupled fluid-structure interaction problem, based on computationally partitioned flow and structure solvers. The reduced order models used are a class of quasi-Newton coupling methods to obtain a stable solution and to reduce the number of subiterations. The second...conference paper 2011
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Krelani, V. (author), Ferrara, L. (author)The presence of cracks may significantly affect the life-cycle of structures, as a results of its influence on the designed structural response vs. persistent or even severe accidental load and exposure conditions, when requested. Repairing damaged concrete in existing structures needs important investments to recover the pristine level of...conference paper 2013
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Calvert, S.C. (author), Snelder, M. (author), Taale, H. (author), Van Wageningen-Kessels, F.L.M. (author), Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author)In this contribution a model-based analysis of the application of bounded acceleration in traffic flow is considered as a cause for the capacity drop. This is performed in a Lagrangian formulation of the kinematic wave model with general vehicle specific characteristics. Unconstrained overtaking is presumed, which allows a demonstration to be...conference paper 2015
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Alzaeili, J.S.L. (author), Mazaheri, K. (author)In solution of the Euler equations in the steady state conditions, the error or residual waves are blamed for the reduction of convergence rate. These waves may be damped by adding a bulk viscosity term to the momentum equations. It was done to the Euler equations previously and in this work this method has been applied to the Navier-Stokes...conference paper 2006
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Morales, W.F. (author), Laue, J. (author), Springman, S.M. (author)Correct scaling of breach analysis of river levees is a challenging task that is not easily accomplished by physical modelling. Several small-scale physical model tests have been conducted at 1-g level, which cannot truly represent the stress-dependency of soils, whereas the scaling issues arising from centrifuge modelling have not been fully...conference paper 2012
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Nedeljković, Marija (author), Arbi, Kamel (author), Ye, Guang (author)The reduction of pH from ~12.5 to ~9 by carbonation of the pore solution of reinforced cementbased concrete structures results in the reinforcement corrosion. The rate of carbonation is an important input for design of the concrete cover depth and the service life prediction of reinforced concrete structures because the initiation of...conference paper 2021