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Koid, Eunice (author)Law enforcement occurs in a complex environment that contains a variety of actors that interact with one another. These interactions create emerging collective behavior over time. For example, inspectors will try to influence non-compliant actors to become compliant, while inspectees may comply or thwart inspections. Inspection agencies such as...master thesis 2022
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van Driel, Tim (author)In this design study a new design is proposed for an in situ surface inspection tool that can rapidly detect micrometer sized water droplets on a silicon wafer. This surface inspection tool is part of a proposed redesign of the thermal conditioning stage of VDL-ETGs atmospheric wafer handler. A meticulous requirements study was performed, and...master thesis 2022
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Coherent Fourier scatterometry combined with synthetic optical holography for nanoparticle detectionYin, Haoyang (author)As demand for chips increases and critical dimension keeps shrinking, the inspection of wafer becomes one of the critical challenges in the high volume production of chips. Coherent Fourier scatterometry (CFS) is a scanning bright field technique that is capable to detect nanoparticles on Si surfaces. The optical readout of CFS consists of a two...master thesis 2022
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Klerk, W.J. (author)Many countries rely on flood defence systems to prevent economic damage and loss-of-life due to catastrophic floods. Asset managers of flood defence systems need to cope with the consequences of structural degradation, and changing societal and environmental conditions, in order to satisfy performance requirements and optimize societal value of...doctoral thesis 2022
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Meister, S. (author)In modern aircraft, structural lightweight composite components are increasingly<br/>used. To manufacture these components in a costeffective way, robust production systems for the manufacturing of complex fibre composite components are necessary. A rather novel but already established process for fibre material deposition is the Automated Fibre...doctoral thesis 2022
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Ansuinelli, P. (author)The importance of inverse problems is paramount in science and physics because their solution provides information about parameters that cannot be directly observed. This thesis discusses and details the application of a few inverse methods in optical imaging, metrology and inspection of lithographic targets, particularly patterned structures on...doctoral thesis 2022
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Dijksman, Rick (author)With the introduction of machine learning algorithms in industry came a new improvement to excising production line. Image recognisance can now be used to detect defects of the product made by these production lines. However these kinds of flaw detection can be fooled by mirror-like specular light effect on these products, which can reduce the...bachelor thesis 2022
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Tao, N. (author), Anisimov, A. (author), Elenbaas, Marcel (author), Groves, R.M. (author)The use of thick composites and sandwich structures is increasing rapidly in marine, aerospace, and wind energy industries [1–3]. For example in the marine sector, sandwich structures consisting of glassfiber laminate skins bonded to a foam core are attractive because of the advantages of being light-weight, resistant to corrosion and underwater...conference paper 2022
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Truong-Hong, Linh (author), Lindenbergh, R.C. (author)In construction projects, inspection of structural components mostly relies on classical measurements obtained by measuring tapes, levelling, or total stations. With those methods, only a few points on the structure can be measured, and the resulting inspection may not fully reflect the actual, detailed condition of the complete object. Laser...journal article 2022
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Allahabadi, H. (author), Amann, J. (author), Balot, I. (author), Beretta, A. (author), Binkley, C. (author), Bozenhard, J. (author), Bruneault, F. (author), Brusseau, J. (author), Umbrello, S. (author)This article’s main contributions are twofold: 1) to demonstrate how to apply the general European Union’s High-Level Expert Group’s (EU HLEG) guidelines for trustworthy AI in practice for the domain of healthcare and 2) to investigate the research question of what does “trustworthy AI” mean at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, we...journal article 2022
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Panasiuk, Oleksandr (author), Hedström, Annelie (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Viklander, Maria (author)Infiltration and inflow (I/I) into sanitary sewers causes numerous negative effects on the whole wastewater management system and ultimately, on the receiving waters. Consequently, a number of methods have been developed to analyse the performance of sewer systems with respect to I/I, including: distributed temperature sensing (DTS), closed...journal article 2022
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Guo, Y. (author), Wang, Shilei (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Yang, Fei (author), Liu, Guixian (author), Qiang, Weile (author), Wang, Yan (author)Ballast layer condition should be more regularly and accurately inspected to ensure safe train operation; however, traditional inspection methods cannot sufficiently fulfil this task. This paper presents a method of ground penetrating radar (GPR) application to reflect ballast layer fouling levels under diverse field conditions (annual gross...journal article 2022
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Guo, Y. (author), Liu, Guixian (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Qu, Jianjun (author), Wang, Shilei (author), Qiang, Weile (author)Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been applied for ballast layer inspection for two decades, mainly for the analysis of ballast layer fouling levels. However, some issues that affect the inspection quality remain unsolved, such as issues involving the GPR equipment quality (antenna) and the correlation between the GPR indicator and fouling...journal article 2022
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Andriotis, C. (author), Papakonstantinou, K.G. (author)Inspection and maintenance (I&M) optimization entails many sources of computational complexity, among others, due to high-dimensional decision and state variables in multi-component systems, long planning horizons, stochasticity of objectives and constraints, and inherent uncertainties in measurements and models. This paper studies how the...conference paper 2022
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Wei, Zilong (author), Sun, Xianfu (author), Yang, Fei (author), Ke, Zaitian (author), Lu, Tao (author), Zhang, P. (author), Shen, C. (author)The presence of rail corrugation enlarges the wheel-rail impact and exacerbates the failure of track components, and the situation becomes even worse under high train speed, which promotes the urgent need for an efficient and easily accessible inspection method. Conventional diagnosis approaches such as axle box acceleration (ABA) and image...journal article 2022
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Liu, Guixian (author), Peng, Zhan (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Wang, Shilei (author), Li, Yaonan (author), Guo, Y. (author)Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a popular technology for inspecting railway ballast layer, mainly on the ballast fouling level. However, different GPR antennas with different frequencies are suitable for different inspection emphasis and diverse railway lines (weather and sub-structure). In addition, the full-scale track model (with...journal article 2022
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Wang, Shilei (author), Liu, Guixian (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Feng, Qiankuan (author), Liu, Hengbai (author), Guo, Y. (author)In the past 20 years, many studies have been performed on ballast layer inspection and condition evaluation with ground penetrating radar (GPR). GPR is a non-destructive means that can reflect the ballast layer condition (fouling, moisture) by analysing the received signal variation. Even though GPR detection/inspection for ballast layers has...review 2022
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Fu, J. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)Natural disasters pose a tremendous risk to the reliability of distribution networks. In this paper, a novel real-time UAV routing strategy for coordination between monitoring and inspection for post-disaster restoration in distribution networks is proposed. With our proposed real-time UAV routing strategy, damages can be inspected by UAVs...journal article 2022
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Truong-Hong, Linh (author), Lindenbergh, R.C. (author)Three-dimensional (3D) geometric bridge models play an important role in bridge inspection, assessment, and management. Laser scanning nowadays offers a cost-efficient method to capture dense, accurate 3D topographic data of surfaces of the bridge. However, given the typical complexity of bridges, current workflows using commercial software...journal article 2022
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Hageman, R.B. (author), van der Meulen, F.H. (author), Rouhan, A. (author), Kaminski, M.L. (author)In order to obtain valuable information from an Hull Structure Monitoring system, a large data set and consistent analysis of that data is required. The monitoring requires significant efforts over multiple years and as a result, uncertainties obtained from in-service measurements are rarely published. Instead, researchers have to rely on...journal article 2022