Development of Finite Element Models to study Pavement Widening

<br/>Sustainability has become a paramount concern in modern research, aligning with global efforts to reduce carbon emissions and embrace circular economy principles. The mentioned imperative extends to the field of pavement engineering, where the widening of existing pavements, a common practice to accommodate increasing traffic demands,...

Speeding up proton therapy optimization algorithms using GPU-acceleration

Proton irradiation therapy is a powerful form of cancer treatment, promising better dose conformity as compared to conventional radiotherapy. Due to the complex scattering properties of protons, the optimization process that is needed to accurately target the cancer cells whilst causing minimal damage to<br/>the surrounding healthy tissue and...

The development of a Statistical Shape- and Finite Element-Model of the human pelvis to analyse the performance of current acetabular implants and validate the concept of a new deformable design

Background: Patients who suffer from acetabular bone defects are often subjected to a decreased mobility and a loss of independence. To treat these bone defects, standard hemispherical acetabular implants offer in most cases the solution. However, when these defects are large, a custom triflange acetabular implant is needed. Although this type...

Homogeneous Orthotropic Masonry Material Model: Research, development and implementation for explicit analysis

The Groningen region, in the Netherlands, experiences earthquakes since 1986. These earthquakes are new to the region and the structures built there are not designed for it. Therefore, they pose a great risk for the historical structures and people living in the area. Most of the buildings there are built using masonry and to analyze such...

Dissipation in the Abelian Sandpile Model

The Abelian Sandpile model was originally introduced by Bak, Tang and Wiesenfeld in 1987 as a paradigm for self-organized criticality. In this thesis, we study a variant of this model, both from the point of view of mathematics, as well as from the point of view of physics. The effect of dissipation and creation of mass is investigated. By...

Java/JNI/C/Fortran based HSVD/HLSVD custom plugins for the jMRUI software system: Development, installation and usage

This work was done in the context of FP7 - PEOPLE Marie Curie Initial Training Network Project PITN-GA-2012-316679-TRANSACT. This report describes the development, installation and usage of the HSVD and HLSVD plugin for the jMRUI software system. The latter system is maintained by the TRANSACT EU project. The plugins aim at providing information...

Monte Carlo Modeling for in vivo MRS: Generating and quantifying simulations via the Windows, Linux and Android platform

Work in context of European Union TRANSACT project. We have developed a Java/JNI/C/Fortran based software application, called MonteCarlo, with which the users can carry out Monte Carlo studies in the field of \emph{in vivo} MRS. The application is supposed to be used as a tool for supporting the \emph{j}MRUI platform, being the \emph{in vivo}...

DEFMEF predesign document

The predesign document of DEFMEF presents the decisive requirements for the DEFMEF language and the associated DEFMEF translator. It also shows a basic technical design, which fulfills the requirements. DEFMEF as a software design language has been designed so, that it is possible to describe both a technical design and a detailed design with it...

COLAS program generator and program generator generator

This manual describes the use of two tools for the development of software: - the COLAS Program Generator (CPG), which generates the complete control part of programs for interactive use from a specification of the user interaction. In addition the specifications needed for the COLAS command definition and stubs for the application routines are...

Application of model following control and estimation techniques to attitude control of manoeuvring spacecraft Part II: Simulation software description

This document describes two computer programs developed during a study of the application of modern control techniques in the area of spacecraft attitude control. Theory and simulation results are described in part I of this report. In part II a general overview of the tasks of the simulation program is presented, and program design aspects are...

ROLLRFT – A Fortran Program to predict ship roll, sway and yaw motions in oblique waves, including the effects of rudder, fin and tank roll stabilizers

Numerieke oplossing van een wiskundig model van de stroming in een ondiepe rivierbocht

Dit rapport behandelt de numerieke' oplossing van de over de waterdiepte gemiddelde massa- en impulsiebalansvergelijkingen voor de permanente, turbulente stroming in een ondiepe, bochtige rivier, zoals die zijn afgeleid in "A mathematical model of steady flow in curved shallow channels" (ref. 1, zie pag. 4). Het eerste oogmerk hiervan is een...