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Nguyen, Thy Anh (author)A new approach is proposed which uses concepts of both the limit equilibrium method (LEM) and finite element method (FEM) to analyse slope stability. The main limitation of the LEM is that it can give an incorrect display of the initial stresses. The FEM is able to overcome this limitation, however, it uses the shear strength reduction method ...master thesis 2021
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Gismondi, Roberta (author)Decision-making dynamics and their impact of human behaviour have raised a large number of questions throughout the years. Traits like competition and collaboration amongst agents are often studied, in the context of Game Theory, by the medium of games such as the Iterative Prisoners’ Dilemma.Furthermore, many realistic scenarios and possible...bachelor thesis 2021
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Labay Mora, Adrià (author)Distribution of high-quality entanglement over long distances is a key step for the development of a future quantum internet. Exponential photon loss related to distance in optical fibres makes it impractical to connect two nodes directly. Furthermore, the impossibility of copying general quantum states forbids using the same solutions as in...master thesis 2021
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Storm, Joep (author)Designing engineering structures relies on accurate numerical simulations to predict the behaviour of a structure before its realization. In the design process, many variables influence the final structure. There is an incentive for optimizing the design based on the desire for cheaper structures and less material usage. Although a wide variety...master thesis 2021
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van Leeuwen, Anouk (author)The Dutch Railways (NS) is the Dutch national passenger railway operator. They own rolling stock that has to be maintained regularly. One of the maintenance facilities executing regular maintenance on regional trains is the maintenance department (OB) in Leidschendam. The aim of this project is to develop a framework for optimizing the...master thesis 2021
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Verboom, Eva (author)This thesis investigates the optimization algorithm used for steel temperature control on the run-out table at Tata Steel IJmuiden. The system currently implemented in the finishing mill is called STORM (Smart Temperature Optimization on the Run out table for Mechanical property control) and was created and fully implemented this year. This...master thesis 2021
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Irias Mata, Marisol (author)Punchiná reservoir is part of the San Carlos Hydroelectric Power Plant, situated in the Guatapé watershed. The Guatapé river is an affluent of the Samaná Norte river, which in turn is an affluent of the Magdalena river. San Carlos Hydroelectric Project uses the waters from the rivers San Carlos and Guatapé and discharges the turbined flow...student report 2021
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Krcek, M. (author), Fronte, Daniele (author), Picek, S. (author)Fault injection attacks require the adversary to select suitable parameters for the attack. In this work, we consider laser fault injection and parameters like the location of the laser shot $(x,\ y)$, delay, pulse width, and intensity of the laser. The parameter selection process can be translated into an optimization problem. A very popular...conference paper 2021
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Mariot, L. (author), Picek, S. (author), Jakobovic, Domagoj (author), Leporati, Alberto (author)Reversible Cellular Automata (RCA) are a particular kind of shift-invariant transformations characterized by dynamics composed only of disjoint cycles. They have many applications in the simulation of physical systems, cryptography, and reversible computing. In this work, we formulate the search of a specific class of RCA – namely, those...journal article 2021
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Koolman, George (author), Stecca, M. (author), Bauer, P. (author)The high pulsating demand of fast charging stations (FCS) may cause monthly demand charges to account for a significant fraction of a station's electric bill. To reduce these costs, demand charge management can be applied to suppress peak power demands at FCSs, also using battery energy storage systems (BESS). This paper proposes a multi...conference paper 2021
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Dehghanipour, Mohammad Hassan (author), Karami, Hojat (author), Ghazvinian, Hamidreza (author), Kalantari, Zahra (author), Dehghanipour, A. (author)Evaporation from surface water plays a crucial role in water accounting of basins, water resource management, and irrigation systems management. As such, the simulation of evaporation with high accuracy is very important. In this study, two methods for simulating pan evaporation under different climatic conditions in Iran were developed. In...journal article 2021
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Loukogeorgaki, Eva (author), Michailides, Constantine (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Chatjigeorgiou, Ioannis K. (author)The present paper focuses on the determination of optimum layouts for linear arrays of heaving Wave Energy Converters (WECs) in front of a vertical wall. Optimum layouts maximize the annual averaged absorbed energy at a given marine site and satisfy spatial constraints. For achieving this goal, we developed an efficient optimization numerical...journal article 2021
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Loukogeorgaki, Eva (author), Michailides, Constantine (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Chatjigeorgiou, Ioannis K. (author)In this paper, we determine optimum layouts of a cluster of oblate spheroidal heaving point absorbers in front of a wall, that maximize the annual averaged power absorbed by the cluster, while satisfying specific spatial constraints. An iterative optimization process is developed by coupling a hydrodynamic model with a genetic algorithms solver....conference paper 2021
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van der Weide, Tim (author), Deng, Q. (author), Santos, Bruno F. (author)Long-term heavy maintenance check schedules are crucial in the aviation industry since airlines need them to prepare the required maintenance tools, workforce, and aircraft spare parts. However, most airlines adopt a manual approach to plan the heavy maintenance check schedules in current practice. This manual process relies on the experience of...journal article 2021
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Horta Ferreira da Silva, F. (author), Torres-Knoop, Ariana (author), Coopmans, T.J. (author), Maier, D.J. (author), Wehner, S.D.C. (author)Long-distance quantum communication via entanglement distribution is of great importance for the quantum internet. However, scaling up to such long distances has proved challenging due to the loss of photons, which grows exponentially with the distance covered. Quantum repeaters could in theory be used to extend the distances over which...journal article 2021
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Derner, Erik (author), Kubalik, Jiri (author), Babuska, R. (author)Continual model learning for nonlinear dynamic systems, such as autonomous robots, presents several challenges. First, it tends to be computationally expensive as the amount of data collected by the robot quickly grows in time. Second, the model accuracy is impaired when data from repetitive motions prevail in the training set and outweigh...journal article 2021
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Koolman, George (author)The need for proper fast charging infrastructures is one of the key challenges for the wide adoption of elec- trical vehicles (EV). The high pulsating demand of fast charging stations (FCS) together with high demand tariffs can cause monthly DSO demand charges to account for a significant fraction of a station’s electric bill. Therefore,...master thesis 2020
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Chuang, Jia Shian (author)This research aims to develop a method to create a wind farm layout that is robust against the uncertainty source, the inter-year variation of Weibull parameters and wind direction sector probabilities. A wind farm layout optimisation problem under uncertainty corresponds to optimisation under uncertainty (OUU), which is computationally...master thesis 2020
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Cao Chiew, Daniel (author)The present research performed a design exploration of fast ferry catamarans with hard chined demihulls sailing in irregular head waves, to analyse the influence of the demihull shape (without appendages) on wet deck slamming, and identify the geometrical properties and their trends to reduce it. Wet deck slamming is a phenomenon known to cause...master thesis 2020
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Teeling, Jelle (author)During a previous research project, a parametric model for conceptual layout design has been developed. The model uses optimisation using genetic algorithms to approach the optimal breakwater layout for specific locations. <br/>The developed model serves as a successful proof-of-concept. In the model, several aspects of design have been...master thesis 2020