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Meijer, Renée (author)This master thesis answers the following research question: <br/><br/>How can architecture enable communities to rebuild and thrive in the aftermath of ruinous chaos, by rapidly implement simple, sustainable design solutions, whilst acknowledging the chaotic situation and leveraging the receptiveness to change? <br/><br/>The research assumes the...master thesis 2023
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Goedert, Gina (author)Once, counting as an important banking hub and capital for fashion design within the Arabian countries, Beirut’s favourable economic positioning was weakened by social unrests, political standstill, and economic volatility. Beirut’s population has been facing severe socioeconomic challenges for the past decades, also reflected in the fashion...master thesis 2023
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Bazyar, H. (author)Microfluidic technology is a powerful tool to enable the rapid, accurate, and on-site analysis of forensically relevant evidence on a crime scene. This review paper provides a summary on the application of this technology in various forensic investigation fields spanning from forensic serology and human identification to discriminating and...review 2023
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In the spring of 2021, professors and teachers from around the world taught studio courses and seminars that focused on the destruction and rebuilding of Beirut following the massive explosion that took place in the port on August 4, 2020. Some of these courses were taught collaboratively, others started as an independent project, but students...book 2023
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Hanna, J.M.K. (author)Scholars of architecture use the epistemological practices of science and art to imagine alternative futures and identify their spatial prerequisites. Despite, or perhaps because of, the protected laboratory setting of academia, design studios have the potential to demonstrate and illustrate the possibilities of foregrounding different politics....book chapter 2023
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Hein, C.M. (author), Hanna, J.M.K. (author)Teaching design requires a conscious understanding of time and temporality. The passing of time is central to design as a creative process, which is mainly focused on initiating change and creating a transformation between two states. Whether this transformation is driven by a societal need or an individual need for self-actualization, the...book chapter 2023
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De Martino, P. (author), Hanna, J.M.K. (author), Hein, C.M. (author)How provocative can visions about the future be? What is the role that education can play in helping (re)imagining port-city territories at a time of transition? In this contribution we will answer this question through the lens of master’s elective course ‘Adaptive Strategies’ for the 2020/2021 spring quarter run by Carola Hein, Professor...book chapter 2023
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Yang, Fuqiang (author), Guo, Yong (author), Lai, Yong (author), Hong, Yidu (author), Yuan, S. (author)This study aims to characterize the whole reaction process of (i) emulsion explosive matrix and sulfide ores, and (ii) ammonium nitrate and pyrite by the thermodynamics analysis method. A series of experiments were carried out at atmospheric pressure from 25 °C to 350 °C at four heating rates (3, 5, 10, and 15 K/min) and the Coats–Redfern method...journal article 2022
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Doan, Nguyen Anh Khoa (author)In this chapter, the research dedicated to moderate or intense low-oxygen dilution (MILD) combustion (also called flameless combustion) that relied on direct numerical simulations (DNS) is summarized. In particular, the various DNS carried out are detailed and three different configurations are considered: the autoigniting mixing layer...book chapter 2022
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Ganther, Tobias (author)Landmines and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) are among the most dangerous weapons found in (former) conflict areas. Many of them have only minimal or even no metal built in making it difficult to detect such devices via conventional metal detectors. Thus, alternative methods such as Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) are deployed for this...master thesis 2021
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Chen, C. (author)Process and chemical industrial areas consist of hundreds and even thousands of installations situated next to each other, where quantities of hazardous (e.g., flammable, explosive, toxic) substances are stored, transported, or processed. These installations are mutually linked in terms of the hazard level they pose to each other in the system....doctoral thesis 2021
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Klerkx, Sean (author)Open-pit mining blast patterns are designed to safely break rock mass at desired boundaries and to produce uniformly sized fragments that lead to the optimal performance of subsequent mining operations. An issue that is often overlooked, however, is the deviation of drillhole locations with respect to their coordinates as designed in the...master thesis 2021
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Andrews, D. R. (author), Bourne, N. K. (author), Brown, E. N. (author), Dear, J. P. (author), Dickson, P. (author), Freeman, C. J. (author), Goveas, S. G. (author), Hauser, H. (author), van der Zwaag, S. (author)Professor John Edwin Field passed away on October 21st, 2020 at the age of 84. Professor Field was widely regarded as a leader in high-strain rate physics and explosives. During his career in the Physics and Chemistry of Solids (PCS) Group of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, John made major contributions into our...review 2021
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Sun, Hao (author), Wang, Haiqing (author), Yang, M. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)The explosion load is a significant escalation factor possibly influencing the potential occurrence of domino accidents in chemical plants. It is not economical to install explosion isolation systems (e.g., extinguishing barrier) for all equipment or process units across a chemical plant. Although shutting down all equipment or process unit...journal article 2021
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Sivaramakrishnan, Siddharth (author)Shock mounts are crucial components in reducing the transmissibility of a shock or impact, thereby protecting the objective system. Such shock mounts are application-specific and need a redesign for specific uses. This study establishes a transient nonlinear finite element optimization procedure to design a shock mount for withstanding an...master thesis 2020
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Chen, C. (author), Khakzad, Nima (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)Vapor cloud explosion (VCE) accidents in recent years such as the Buncefield accident in 2005 indicate that VCEs in process plants may lead to unpredicted overpressures, resulting in catastrophic disasters. Although a lot of attempts have been done to assess VCEs in process plants, little attention has been paid to the spatial-temporal...journal article 2020
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Xu, Jie (author)An explosion event, having a low probability of occurrence but severe consequences, due to a possible structural collapse, is a so-called "Low Probability and High Consequences (LP-HC)" event[13]. Due to the severe consequences, blast puts a great threat to public security. Thus, civil engineers should take these extreme cases into consideration...master thesis 2019
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Luijmes, Marijn (author)The Plofbos has a strong character that is defined by the presence of a young forest that springs from the remains of a decomposing military structure. This new growth is dynamic. It continuously changes the light, smells, sight-lines and experiences throughout the seasons. Together with the diversity of open and enclosed spaces and the sense of...master thesis 2019
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Janssen, S.A.M. (author), Sharpanskykh, Alexei (author), Curran, R. (author)Both security and efficiency are important performance areas of air transport systems. Several methods have been proposed to assess security risks and estimate efficiency independently, but only few of these methods identify relationships between security risks and efficiency performance indicators. To analyze security, efficiency, and the...journal article 2019