Pointcloud based anatomy: Synthesis project report

The declining availability of practical hours for medical anatomical education has prompted Enatom to develop a digital anatomical platform, utilizing the open-source WebGL-based point cloud renderer Potree. This platform, which employs detailed point cloud scans of anatomical structures, aims to offer a dynamic and interactive educational...

Meeting in Educational Architecture: Research into design principles on meeting in school buildings for secondary education in the Netherlands during the 1970s

This history thesis contains the research question; What are the design principles of the architects H.A. Maaskant, H. Dam and B.F.A. Dirkse, and Van Klingeren for secondary education buildings on the aspect of meeting in the Netherlands during the 1970s? This question is answered via a literature review together with analyses of archival...

Supporting public life through architecture: The parallel histories of Spaarndammerhart’s and Het Schip’s contribution to public life

The literature about public life is mainly focused on the city as a whole. This research applies the literature about public life to architecture by analyzing two case studies. The design elements of two building in The Spaarndammerbuurt neighborhood in Amsterdam, Het Schip (1921) and The Spaarndammerhart (2020) are related to the literature...

Quantifying sensitivity of aerosol-cloud interactions to atmospheric state through cluster analysis

Cloud droplet number concentrations change due to perturbations in aerosol concentrations. The strength of this correlation covaries with meteorology. Using polarimetric aerosol estimates and MODIS-2 cloud retrievals we compute the interaction strength per meteorological regime, which we determined using clustering techniques on MERRA-2...

The impact of the changing private and public situation at home by the use of video communication – and how this influences our values of home

It began with a shelter, the first 'building', a safe environment for a family named by us as a home. However, with the change of technology, lifestyle, work and social life throughout history, the values of a home environment changed. From a public space in society (archaic time) to a space for privacy (industrial time), where families live...

1D source term interactions for shallow lakes in SWAN

During the calibration of SWAN for shallow water lakes in the Netherlands, problems have been encountered. Especially the emergence of an unnatural, secondary peak in the low frequency part of the energy density spectrum poses problems. Therefore, this investigation aims to address the nonlinear shallow water source terms in SWAN that may...

Gate Driving Mechanisms and Dynamics

Vertical sliding valves that are part of a filling and emptying system of a lock are often subjected to an underflow of water during emptying and filling. The flow induces time varying forces on the structure which leads to dynamic behaviour of the valve. Whether the structure is in the range of resonance and what the amplitude of the vibrations...

Kathmandu Valley Multidisciplinary Project

Globally, growing demand for fresh water and declining water availability puts significant pressure on water resources. Due to rapid urbanization and insufficient water resource planning and waste water management, the Kathmandu Valley (Valley) is facing both a water quantity and quality crisis. Annually, groundwater extractions in the Valley...

A study on the environmental state of the Caribbean Sea in relation to the rapid intensification of tropical cyclone Matthew

Tropical cyclones have the ability to very quickly increase in strength. This process is called rapid intensification and as a result, tropical cyclones can transform into hurricanes. Rapid intensification is related to the availability of heat and the amount of negative feedback of the ocean on the tropical cyclone. Negative feedback results in...

Measuring wave transformation in a tidal inlet using Wave Resolving Drifters

In the coastal defence of the Netherlands, sand nourishment is a common practice. Part of the Dutch coastal system, the Wadden Sea coast, is a very complicated coastal system in terms of hydrodynamics and morphodynamics. Many different processes are playing a role in the coastal dynamics in the Wadden Sea area. The execution of a mega...

Structure-soil interaction for horizontally polarised shear waves: Formulating SH-waves in a homogeneous elastic continuum with generalised boundary conditions

When modelling a structure-soil system, interaction stresses at the interface of the structure and the surface of soil layer influence the dynamic behaviour of the system. These interaction stresses are not accounted for in many simplified models that evaluate the behaviour of the soil layer and the structure separately. Modelling a fully...