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Slingerland, Kylian (author)
For the renovation of the Suurhoff bridge, Arup decided to design and propose a new, innovative strengthening scheme, which improves the fatigue performance of the bridge deck and extends the design life of the bridge by at least 15 years. In this strengthening scheme, a steel plate is placed on top of the existing deck plate with a layer of...
master thesis 2022
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Brouwers, Raymond (author)
Structural health monitoring of buildings is useful for a few reasons. It provides information on the usage and cause of damage to a building. This can result in targeted maintenance or allow for potential improvements.<br/><br/>Traditionally, a building can be monitored by installing sensors during construction or maintenance work. These can be...
master thesis 2022
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Gülmez, D.E. (author), Sinke, J. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author)
Discontinuous tape composites have considerable attention due to their high formability and tailorable structures. Despite their advantages, this discontinuity leads to complex structures and makes it difficult to predict their mechanical properties. On the other hand, they have high orientational and dimensional sensitivity, which causes...
conference paper 2022
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Daelemans, Lode (author), Dung Dinh, Tien (author), Caglar, Baris (author), Michaud, Véronique (author), Van Paepegem, Wim (author)
We propose a new modeling strategy based on hybrid elements for virtual fiber modeling (also known as the digital element method) to predict both kinematics as well as mechanics of woven fabrics. In virtual fiber modeling, yarns are modeled consisting of a number of discrete fibers. We show that through the development of a modeling strategy...
conference paper 2022
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Wang, L. (author), Wang, Ping (author), Wei, Kai (author), Dollevoet, R.P.B.J. (author), Li, Z. (author)
To investigate the train-induced ground vibration, an explicit time-domain, three dimensional (3D) finite element (FE) model is developed. The train, track, embankment, pile-board structure and nearby ground soils are all fully coupled in this model. The complex geometries involving the track components and pile-board structure are all...
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Chen, Fuquan (author), Liu, Liyang (author), Lai, F. (author), Gavin, Kenneth (author), Flynn, Kevin N. (author), Li, Yida (author)
Large-diameter monopiles are widely used as the foundation to support offshore wind turbines (OWTs) in shallow coastal waters. The benefits of small-to-medium diameter tapered piles have been reported in the past. The potential use of large-diameter tapered monopiles installed by impact driving to support OWTs is thus presented, and then...
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Fusco, Daniela (author), Addessi, D. (author), Messali, F. (author), Rots, J.G. (author), Pampanin, S. (author)
Since the 1980s, calcium silicate element masonry has been commonly used in Dutch buildings, and vertical continuous joints have been usually located at the corner of perpendicular walls. Since the shear failure of these joints may significantly reduce the seismic performance of the flanged wall and therefore of the entire building, the...
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Gao, Hanyan (author), Zhang, Jing (author), Zhu, Yingcan (author), Guo, Ruiqian (author), Zhang, Wanlu (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Liu, Pan (author)
With the trend of miniaturization and the increasing power density, the operating temperature of electronic devices keeps climbing, especially for wide band-gap semiconductors such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride. The high operating temperature up to 250℃ brings challenges to encapsulation materials since traditional encapsulation...
conference paper 2022
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Zhang, Qiang (author), Zhang, X. (author), Xu, Lei (author)
Modelling slab track-bridge interaction subject to a moving train usually involves solving complex high-dimensional matrix equations which is time-consuming. This research works to optimize the auto-assembling process in the slab track-bridge coupling matrices formulation and improve the computational efficiency by truncating the dynamic...
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Yaghoubi Nasrabadi, V. (author), Setayeshnasab, Hamed (author), Mosaddegh, Peiman (author), Kadkhodaei, Mahmoud (author)
IntraOcular Pressure (IOP) is one of the most informative factors for monitoring the eye-health. This is usually measured by tonometers. However, the outputs of the tonometers depend on the physical and geometrical properties of the cornea. Therefore, the common practice is to develop a numerical model to generate some correction factors. The...
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Sañudo, Roberto (author), Miranda, Marina (author), Alonso, Borja (author), Markine, V.L. (author)
Sleeper spacing has been a taboo subject throughout the railway’s history. Safety concerns related to the structural integrity have been the main causes of not addressing this matter. There are no specific and clear recommendations or guidelines in relation to this matter and the distances do not go more than 0.8 m. In order to go beyond this...
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Lantsoght, E.O.L. (author), Yang, Y. (author), van der Veen, C. (author)
Load testing and in some cases failure (or collapse) testing of bridges is a method to learn more about the behaviour of full-scale bridges in site conditions. Since such experiments, especially failure tests, are expensive, an extensive preparation of these tests is important. This paper addresses the question of when a bridge is a good...
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Zhou, Yujue (author), Zheng, Yonglai (author), Liu, Yongcheng (author), Pan, Tanbo (author), Zhou, Y. (author)
Vibration-based structural damage detection (SDD) has been a subject of intense research in structural health monitoring (SHM) for large civil engineering structures over the decades. The performance of the conventional SDD approaches predominantly relies on the rational choices of the damage feature and classifier. Hand-crafted features or...
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Askarinejad, A. (author), Wang, H. (author), Chortis, Giorgos (author), Gavin, Kenneth (author)
The scour protection layers are usually installed around the monopiles to prevent the formation of scour hole. While extensive studies have been performed on the effectiveness of scour protection layer as mitigation measure, no study to date has been found to quantify the influence of scour protection layer on the lateral response of...
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Vargas, Daniel (author), Lantsoght, E.O.L. (author), Genikomsou, Aikaterini S. (author)
Eccentric punching shear can occur in concrete slab–column connections when the connection is subjected to shear and unbalanced moments. Unbalanced moments occur in all floor slabs at the edge and corner columns. As such, this problem is of practical relevance. However, most punching experiments in the literature deal with concentric punching...
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Mehrotra, A.A. (author), Liew, Andrew (author), Block, Philippe (author), DeJong, Matthew J. (author)
Failure of tall slender masonry structures during earthquakes often involves partial collapse of the structure well-above ground level. Consequently, the elastic response of the structure needs to be considered, which often requires modal analysis using finite element models — the generation of which can be labour-intensive and time-consuming...
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He, C. (author), Yang, Z. (author), Zhang, P. (author), Li, S. (author), Naeimi, M. (author), Li, Z. (author)
Polygonal wear is a common type of damage on the railway wheel tread, which could induce wheel-rail impacts and further components failure. This study presents a finite element (FE) thermomechanical model to investigate the causes of wheel polygonal wear. The FE model is able to cope with three possible causes of polygonal wear: thermal...
conference paper 2022
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Cleijpool, Bram (author)
The detachment of a product from a suction cup gripper is a challenge that emerged in recent years in the high-speed case packing of packaged food. In this industry suction cups are used to temporarily attach a product to a case packing robot. The detachment of products from the suction cup gripper threatens throughput. In, some cases, the...
master thesis 2021
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van der Vegt, Niels (author)
Over time, degradation processes might cause damage to pattern-placed revetments. Examples of such damages are missing elements, deformation, and the loss of joint filling. However, little is known about the exact consequences of those damages. Therefore, when damage is observed during an inspection, it is estimated based upon experience what...
master thesis 2021
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Germonpré, Flores (author)
The collapse of composite stiffened panels in compression is complex and involves the interactions of many different failure modes. However, when the panel is allowed to enter the post-buckling regime, skin-stringer separation due to the interaction of the post-buckling deformations with the skin-stringer interface is often the critical failure...
master thesis 2021
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