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Warringa, Sjoerd (author)Numerous offshore wind farms have been constructed recently in the southern part of the North Sea. Their infield and export cables are buried for protection against dropped or dragged objects. In sandy soils, it is common to use tracked remotely operated vehicles, equipped with two water jetting swords. These swords fluidise the seabed and...master thesis 2018
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Wijs, Ronald (author)Cables and pipes are critical infrastructure systems (CISs) which are mostly located in the very crowded subsurface. Especially in urban areas, a typical road includes five to ten infrastructure systems which are all owned and managed by different entities. The CISs are spatially interdependent as these are highly interconnected due to the close...master thesis 2018
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Buddhawar, Satish (author)The first commercial High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission link was installed in 1954 between the mainland of Sweden and the island of Gotland. Since then, there is continuous and remarkable development in the HVDC technology making it an efficient way of transmitting bulk power over large distances. Due to the transition towards low...master thesis 2018
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Li, Wanlin (author)The electricity demand is increasing with the development of industry. Nowadays, sustainable resources used for electricity generation are playing a more and more important role in the power system due to serious energy problems. Higher capability of power transmission and distribution thus becomes significantly necessary to keep the stability...master thesis 2018
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Peuchen, Robert (author)Body weight support (BWS) systems are widely used in gait rehabilitation. These systems allow patients to gradually increase training intensity and promote independent walking. Currently, there is no standardized method to assess the performance of BWS systems. This work proposes methods and metrics that can be used to assess and compare any...master thesis 2018
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de Feber, Max (author)There lies an opportunity for significant cost savings in the installation of subsea cables in offshore wind farms which is why the current work proposes a state-of-the-art method for monitoring the cable during installation. The proposed method enables offshore crew to look through the water with the use of augmented reality. To this end a real...master thesis 2017
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Verhage, Jaco (author)Heave Compensation (HC) greatly improves the operability of lifting operations at sea, performed from ships under influence of heave motion. Especially with long cables and heavy payloads, the payload starts moving with larger amplitudes than the ship itself when no HC control is involved. HC aims to decouple the ships vertical motion due to the...master thesis 2017
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Noordermeer, Bob (author)The cable between Vlieland and Terschelling needs to be replaced. The thesis focusses on the replacement of this cable. Because of the sensitive environmental situation some additional hurdles will need to be taken in order to come up with a decent placement plan.master thesis 2017
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Kallias Ntroumpis, Dimitris (author)Tideway is a marine solutions provider for the offshore oil & gas and renewables and among other activities specialized in subsea power cable installation. To optimize the installation of power cables in high currents a better understanding of the dynamic behavior of the cables is needed. During installation of subsea power cables in high...master thesis 2017
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Abdul Madhar, Saliha (author)The phenomenon of partial discharge has been long studied in various power components and in recent times, it has been agreed that the occurrence of such discharges can be considered as a vital parameter of component health. Partial discharges in power cables is a pervasive phenomenon that over time may lead to...master thesis 2017
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Vo, Nam (author)A quadrotor is a type of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle that has received an increasing amount of attention recently with many applications being actively investigated. Possible applications include search and rescue, surveillance, supply of food and medicines in emergency situations and object manipulation in construction and transportation. An...master thesis 2017
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van Willigen, Douwe (author)This work presents an ASIC designed to be integrated on the tip of an intra-vascular ultrasound catheter, capable of interfacing 64 ultrasonic transducer elements to an imaging system using only one micro-coaxial cable.<br/>A prototype chip has been taped out that can be used to transmit acoustic waves using a small-area transmit switch. The...master thesis 2017
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Abil, Biran (author)The electrical properties of a widely used stress control tube for medium voltage heat-shrink joints are examined in this master thesis by using non-destructive laboratory methods. They were determined by use of time domain dielectric response test while changing the DC electric field, temperature and level of humidity. <br/><br/>In order to...master thesis 2017
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Bui, N.C. (author)The investigation into the dynamic behavior of a cable during installation was done with the aim of improving cable installation for safety, operational and commercial value. In order to increase the operational limit of the vessel during cable installation, the investigation into improvement systems was desired. The workability of a vessel...master thesis 2016
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Rutgers, G. (author)The offshore wind market is growing rapidly and will take a significant share in the total energy supply. Offshore wind energy is usually generated by large wind turbines. To transport the generated energy to transformer platforms or the mainland large sub-sea power cables are used. These cables are installed by means of a cable installation...master thesis 2016
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Maselis, A. (author)As part of the effort to reduce the cost of offshore wind energy, this MSc Thesis deals with the layout optimization of an Offshore Wind Farm affected by wake effects, cable topology and support structure variation. The main objective of the current MSc Thesis is to investigate how important each of these aspects for the layout optimization is....master thesis 2016
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Broekens, K.A. (author)Future high-energy physics demands higher magnetic fields to attain higher beam energies and thus needs novel superconductingmaterials in accelerator magnet applications. Current superconductors operate in the temperature range between 1.8 and 4.2 K and attain 8 T in modern operational machines. Meanwhile, prototypes have been built to operate...master thesis 2016
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Beerens, M.A. (author)The latest Conference of Parties at Paris resulted in an important agreement that 27 percent of the total European energy consumption has to come from renewable energy in 2030. Offshore wind energy is an important resource for renewable energy. The shortage of shallow water areas pushed offshore wind farms into deeper waters. Floating Offshore...master thesis 2016
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De Rijke, S.L. (author)Dynamic analysis of the stinger hang-off system cable forces using ship motion data of Audacia. Already for some time the desire exists to acquire insight into the phenomenon of stinger uplift. This is the situation where external forces and motions acting on the ship, stinger cause the hang-off cables to have no or barely any cable tension....master thesis 2015
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Kandalepa, N. (author)The worldwide demand for electricity, which is steadily increasing, leads to a continuous need for developing and extending the transmission networks. However, the installation of new overhead lines faces many challenges due to social, environmental and technical reasons. One solution that gains widespread public support is the installation of...master thesis 2015