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Alboustani, Tarik (author)System Design in the built environment is one of the most influential design paradigms in architecture and construction. This paper seeks to amalgamate empirical design strategies with various architectural principles, including the notion of “open buildings” or “open-ended architecture,” as well as Structuralism, all within a computational...master thesis 2023
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de Paula, A. (author)The construction industry’s impact on carbon emissions, pollution, and resource depletion necessitates innovative approaches to reduce environmental harm. This research explores the use of computational design, digital fabrication, and timber as a renewable material to mitigate the construction industry’s environmental impact. Timber is...master thesis 2023
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PAUL, Ivana Mariam Paul (author)The development of an efficient and sustainable transportation system is crucial for the effective functioning of economies. Concrete, a widely used material for road construction, poses significant environmental challenges. A sustainable alternative is to use alkali-activated concrete (AAC) for road construction. However, the aggregates used in...master thesis 2023
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Aoustin, Jacques (author)This master's thesis provides knowledge on non-destructive testing of cement and supplementary cementitious materials composition in concrete with a handheld X-ray Fluorescence analyser. <br/><br/>Today, concrete production is responsible for 8\% of the world's $CO_{2}$ emissions. Recycling concrete material can directly contribute to the...master thesis 2023
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Commandeur, Richard (author)The Flemish government is in pursuit of reaching their mobility and environment goals for 2040 and onwards. Therefore, the Flemish government sees building pipeline infrastructure as an option for transport of liquid bulk goods in the Antwerp – Ruhr trajectory. Pipeline transport is considered as an environmental friendly transport mode, which...master thesis 2023
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Nedelchev, Hari (author)Recycled aggregate concrete is emphasized more and more nowadays due to its importance towards the construction industry and general welfare of our planet. Being such a significant feature with regard to universal sustainable development, every aspect of its properties should be evaluated, examined and optimized so that there is a well-known,...master thesis 2023
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Palazzo, Marco (author)Large amounts of data are continuously generated by individuals, apps, or dedicated devices. These data can be aggregated to compute useful statistics from multiple sources using data aggregation protocols. However, oftentimes these data contain private information that must be protected from misuse. Privacy-preserving protocols can help to...master thesis 2022
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Bisma Renata Artala, Bisma (author)The benefit of secondary use of data leads to the belief that data can be monetized through exchanging and trading between businesses. Many new data marketplaces emerge from this, resulting in the heterogeneity of the data marketplace that leads to market fragmentation in the industry. The aggregator business model can offer various values to...master thesis 2022
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Garg, Chirag (author)In a high-precision system that performs measurements or tooling on a workpiece, alignment of the tool and workpiece is of prime importance. To prevent misalignment, which leads to a loss in accuracy and precision, unwanted vibrations in structures must be attenuated. Topology Optimization (TO) is evolving as a mature design tool that provides...master thesis 2022
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Boereboom, Bram (author)The Dutch government described its vision to achieve significant reductions in greenhouse emissions in the climate goals of 2030 and 2050. The energy infrastructure in the Netherlands will be a critical factor in achieving these goals. As an extension to the stated importance, understanding the current energy infrastructure is equally...master thesis 2022
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Dijkhuis, Jeffry (author)A profound change is occurring in the Dutch energy system and significant growth in energy production from renewables can be observed. This requires flexibility solutions to balance the demand and supply of electricity. As described by the European Union in the Clean Energy Package, aggregators have the important responsibility to provide this...master thesis 2022
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Fu, Danny (author)In recent years, the area of structural engineering has found new interesting prospects in the theory of waves. The acoustoelastic properties of materials are utilized in a new promising structural health monitoring (SHM) technique. The propagation of ultrasonic waves through stressed elements gives the ability to find invaluable information on...master thesis 2022
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Salome, Stefan (author)In the military field, detailed simulation models are often used to get insight in the consequences of choices regarding the composition of a force and the extent to which it can be kept deployable. With detailed models, the main idea is to capture all real-world complexity relevant for decision-making processes. However, detailed models tend to...master thesis 2021
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Bánsági, Aurél (author)In group recommendation, a key question is how preferences from individuals should be obtained and then aggregated into a group outcome. Collecting individual preferences can be done through implicit or explicit means, but there is insufficient research available on what option is optimal. For comparing different possible aggregation strategies,...master thesis 2021
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Ouali, Mouad (author)The Dutch infrastructure counts many bridges, the majority of which are built in concrete. These bridges have been designed and constructed according to safety codes. A lot of these bridges date from the previous century and have been designed conform outdated safety codes. Therefore, the main problem<br/>of these bridges is the uncertainty with...master thesis 2021
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Mylonas, Akis (author)In the Netherlands, yearly 33 Mton new concrete (roughly 15 billion m3) is producewhile 12 Mton concrete waste becomes available. Recycling of the yearly 12 Mton concrete waste results in roughly 7 Mton coarse recycled concrete aggregate (CRCA) and 5 Mton fine recycled concrete aggregates (fRCA). Currently, fRCA is not used in structural...master thesis 2021
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Verbraeken, Joost (author)Federated learning (FL) is a type of machine learning where devices locally train a model on their private data.<br/>The devices iteratively communicate this model to a central server which combines the models and sends the updated model back to all devices.<br/>Because the data stays on the devices and only the model is transmitted, federated...master thesis 2021
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Koster, Martin (author)In practice, many applications like traffic monitoring and smart grids rely on computing functions on privacy-sensitive data. In order to protect privacy-sensitive data and still keep the ability to compute any arbitrary function, multi-functional privacy-preserving data aggregation schemes have been created. These schemes, however, can be...master thesis 2021
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Wysocki, Jakub (author)Residents typically have a negligible impact on their living units spatial layout in mass housing projects. Building industry lacks tools for users to create space tailored to their needs. The purpose of this work is facilitate co-creation by providing a pre-configured and engineered set of spatial units corresponding to human activities, in...master thesis 2021
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Dekker, Florine (author)Privacy-preserving data aggregation protocols have been researched widely, but usually cannot guarantee correctness of the aggregate if users are malicious. These protocols can be extended with zero-knowledge proofs and commitments to work in the malicious model, but this incurs a significant computational cost on the end users, making adoption...master thesis 2020