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Zheng, Zhenqi (author), Xiao, Xiongwu (author), Zhong, Zhi Chao (author), Zang, Y. (author), Yang, Nan (author), Tu, Jianguang (author), Li, Deren (author)Digital Elevation Model (DEM)-based mountain vertex extraction is one of the most useful DEM applications, providing important information to properly characterize topographic features. Current vertex-extraction techniques have considerable limitations, such as yielding low-accuracy results and generating false mountain vertices. To overcome...journal article 2021
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Mohajeri, M. (author), de Kluijver, Wilbert (author), Helmons, R.L.J. (author), van Rhee, C. (author), Schott, D.L. (author)The traditional design approach of grabs and other bulk handling equipment consists of manufacturing and testing physical prototypes. A novel design approach is to use a co-simulation of MultiBody Dynamics (MBD) and Discrete Element Method (DEM), in which the virtual prototype of a new concept interacts with bulk solids. Therefore, this study...journal article 2021
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Guo, Y. (author), Zong, Lu (author), Markine, V.L. (author), Wang, Xinyu (author), Jing, Guoqing (author)Lateral and longitudinal resistance of ballasted track are two main indicators for the track stability quantification. Aiming at improving the lateral and longitudinal resistance, nailed sleeper is studied with single sleeper push tests (SSPTs) and discrete element modelling (DEM). The SSPTs were applied to study how much resistance the...journal article 2021
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Mema, I. (author), Padding, J.T. (author)Having proper correlations for hydrodynamic forces is essential for successful CFD-DEM simulations of a fluidized bed. For spherical particles in a fluidized bed, efficient correlations for predicting the drag force, including the crowding effect caused by surrounding particles, are already available and well tested. However, for elongated...journal article 2021
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Huang, Zhenyan (author), Tang, Z. (author), Yu, Xiao Peng (author), Shi, Zheng (author), Lin, Ling (author), Tan, Nick Nianxiong (author)This brief presents a 0.65% relative inaccuracy CMOS temperature sensor with a duty-cycle-modulated (DCM) output. It uses a BJT-based front-end to generate a proportional to absolute temperature voltage (V_{PTAT}) and a complementary to absolute temperature voltage (V_{CTAT}), which are then modulated to a digital-friendly duty-cycle output....journal article 2021
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Mohajeri, M. (author), van den Bergh, Arjan J. (author), Jovanova, J. (author), Schott, D.L. (author)Ship unloader grabs are usually designed using the manufacturer's in-house knowledge based on a traditional physical prototyping approach. The grab performance depends greatly on the properties of the bulk material being handled. By considering the bulk cargo variability in the design process, the grab performance can be improved...journal article 2021
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Mohajeri, M. (author), van Rhee, C. (author), Schott, D.L. (author)This paper presents a multi-step DEM calibration procedure for cohesive solid materials, incorporating feasibility in finding a non-empty solution space and definiteness in capturing bulk responses independently of calibration targets. Our procedure follows four steps: (I) feasibility; (II) screening of DEM variables; (III) surrogate modeling...journal article 2021
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Schott, D.L. (author), Mohajeri, M. (author), Jovanova, J. (author), Lommen, S.W. (author), de Kluijver, Wilbert (author)The design of machinery for handling granular materials relies mainly on empirical methods and in-house engineering knowledge. This traditional approach provides incremental improvements that are often limited. Advancements in simulation and optimization can offer a promising alternative approach. Most of the research involved in improving or...journal article 2021
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Fransen, M.P. (author), Langelaar, M. (author), Schott, D.L. (author)Developments in discrete element modelling (DEM) enable detailed modelling of granular flows in bulk handling equipment (BHE) but due to the computational expense of DEM, wide use in analysing equipment performance is not yet feasible. Metamodels are a viable option to effectively use DEM in analysing BHE performance. Metamodels are able to...journal article 2021
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Benders, Dennis (author)Recent developments in neuroscience research, mainly introduced by neuroscientist Karl J. Friston, have resulted in a concept called the Free Energy Principle (FEP). The FEP is a brain theory unifying action, perception and learning. An important observation is that autonomous robots have to perform similar tasks to the human brain. Therefore,...master thesis 2020
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Mema, I. (author)For the past century, fluidized beds have been standard equipment in many branches of industry. In most applications they are used to manipulate granular and powder-like materials, whose particles can roughly be approximated as spheres. Therefore, numerical models and investigations have focused mainly on fluidized beds with spherical particles....doctoral thesis 2020
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de Vries, Niels (author)Bulk materials such as iron ore transported by bulk carriers are commonly unloaded by the use of grabs. The unloading process is time consuming and increasing the unloading capacity is of big importance for terminals. A validated co-simulation developed by the TU Delft in cooperation with Nemag enables to test grabs in the virtual environment....master thesis 2020
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Wang, Xiuqi (author)To realize sustainable development, offshore wind energy has been a highly valuable solution to meet the demand for renewable energy. Accompanied with the construction of the offshore wind turbines, cable casting and the following cable trenching process in the underwater condition are necessarily required. The research on the underwater sand...master thesis 2020
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Žnidaršič, L.Y.D. (author)A fundamental task of intelligent and autonomous robots is to infer from observations the state of the world. This inference is generally achieved by employing a filter, which consists of a model and filtering law. Learning this model and filtering law from observations is another fundamental part of robotics, and is generally referred to as...master thesis 2020
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Weinhart, Thomas (author), Orefice, Luca (author), Post, Mitchel (author), van Schrojenstein Lantman, Marnix P. (author), Denissen, Irana F.C. (author), Tunuguntla, Deepak R. (author), Tsang, J. M.F. (author), Cheng, Hongyang (author), de Oliveira Barbosa, J.M. (author)We introduce the open-source package MercuryDPM, which we have been developing over the last few years. MercuryDPM is a code for discrete particle simulations. It simulates the motion of particles by applying forces and torques that stem either from external body forces, (gravity, magnetic fields, etc.) or particle interactions. The code has...journal article 2020
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Pachón-Morales, John (author), Perré, Patrick (author), Casalinho, Joel (author), Do, H.Q. (author), Schott, D.L. (author), Puel, François (author), Colin, Julien (author)The evaluation of the flow properties of biomass powders is essential for the design of handling systems within a thermochemical valorization context. The Discrete Element Method (DEM) is a valuable tool for simulating the bulk behavior of granular materials that has rarely been used for biomass feedstocks. This work focuses on the numerical...journal article 2020
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Vikrant, V. (author), Padding, J.T. (author)A novel approach to Multiphase-Particle-in-Cell (MP-PIC), called Continuum Particle Model (CPM), is developed for dense gas-particle flows. CPM has high computational speed, comparable to that of MP-PIC, but a robustness and accuracy closer to that of a Discrete Element Model (DEM). The gas phase is treated as a continuum phase and particles...journal article 2020
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Guo, Y. (author), Fu, Hao (author), Qian, Yu (author), Markine, V.L. (author), Jing, Guoqing (author)The lateral stability of ballasted track becomes more important because of the safety requirement under the demand of higher train speed and heavier axle load. To increase the lateral resistance of ballast bed, this paper proposes three types of new sleepers, frictional sleepers. The frictional sleepers are sleepers with different shapes of...journal article 2020
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Guo, Y. (author), Ji, Yameng (author), Zhou, Qiang (author), Markine, V.L. (author), Jing, Guoqing (author)The rubber-protected ballast (RPB) is made from natural ballast particles and crumb rubber particles. The crumb rubber is shredded waste tires. RPB was chosen to replace the ballast as it has higher resistance to breakage and abrasion. However, the static and dynamic performance of the RPB has not been confirmed yet. Towards this end,...journal article 2020
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Mema, I. (author), Padding, J.T. (author)The possibility to offer good intermixing between particles is one of the main properties that make fluidized beds such an important industrial appliance. In this work, we use CFD-DEM simulations to compare mixing characteristics of spherical (AR-1) to elongated spherocylindrical particles (AR-4) of aspect ratio In simulation of AR-4...journal article 2020