Experimental Research and Failure Mechanism Detection on Temporary Flood Barrier

In July 2021, an extraordinary precipitation led to severe flooding across Europe, particularly affecting South Limburg in the Netherlands, causing significant damage. In response, the Dutch government is seeking methods and new ways to mitigate the effects of future flash floods. Consequently, Waterschap Limburg (Limburg Water Board) initiated...

Improving Global Tide and Storm Surge Forecasts with Parameter Estimation

Coastal flooding is threatening the personal safety, property, and social development of the low-lying land around the coast worldwide. Stormsurge is one of the main sources of coastal flooding. Tide and surge models can provide timely water level forecasts for coastal management with the early warning of flooding. Although a regional model can...

Fast transport of water in carbon nanotubes: a review of current accomplishments and challenges

The intriguing mass transport properties of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have received widespread attention, especially the rapid transport of water through CNTs due to their atomically smooth wall interiors. Extensive research has been dedicated to the comprehension of various aspects of water flow in contact with CNTs, the most prominent ones...

Modeling contact between plastically deformable crystals at the micrometer scale

Integral boundary layer analysis of vortex generator induced flow on a flat plate

Vortex Generators (VGs) are flow control devices commonly applied in wind turbine blades, among other applications. A significant advance in the design of wind turbine blades would be the integration of vortex generators in the aerofoil optimisation process. Currently, aerofoil optimisation relies on either computational fluid dynamics or...

Old quay walls: Proposal for a method for analysing the remaining lifespan

Old quay walls are present in many cities in the Netherlands and characterise itself by a masonry top construction (sometimes with basalt on the water side to prevent erosion of the masonry) with a wooden relieving floor. Rows of wooden piles bear the top construction. Since these quay walls are generally more than 100 years old, extra...

Estimating the Tire-Road Friction Coefficient Based on Tire Force Measurements

Electronic stability control (ESC) has been shown to reduce the accident rate in a number of situations. Therefore, it is important to keep improving ESC and other control systems. One way to do this is by improving the available information on the state of the vehicle and its environment. The tire-road friction coefficient µ is particularly...

Characteristics of the Friction Between Aluminium and Steel at Elevated Temperatures During Ball-on-Disc Tests

Appropriate specification of the frictional boundary condition for the finite-element (FE) simulation of metal-forming processes is of great importance to the trustworthiness of the results. The research reported in this communication aimed at understanding the interfacial contact between aluminium and steel at elevated temperatures and...

Ontwikkeling van een testmethode ter bepaling van het wrijvingsgedrag tussen geokunststoffen en grond

Geokunststoffen worden voor verschillende doeleinden in civieltechnische constructies in de grond toegepast, vooral als wapening, filter, scheiding en scherm. Er bestaan een groot aantal geokunststoffen die de bovenstaande functies vervullen. De belangrijkste vier type geokunststof zijn weefsels, vliezen, geogrids en geomembranen. In veel...

Onderzoek, ontwerp en konstruktie van kribben

Detailed analysis of river groynes, extensive literature overview, additonal study on fiction and friction coefficients of several material interfaces (especially between rock and geotextile). Aanlysis of erosion downstream of a groyne with the method of Garde. Field tests.