Searched for: subject%3A%22Multi%255C-body%22
(1 - 20 of 24)

Pages

List view
Grid view
document
van Gent, Tjeerd (author)
Transition zones in railway tracks are locations with an abrupt change in stiffness in the vertical rail supporting structure. These locations are typically located as approaches near engineering structures where there is a sudden change in track substructure. Due to these abrupt changes the dynamic forces of the wheel-rail interaction on the...
master thesis 2024
document
Cuadrat-Grzybowski, Michal (author)
Mitigation strategies which eliminate existing space debris, such as with Active Space Debris Removal (ASDR) missions, are now more important than ever regarding the ever-growing space debris population problem. One of the considered ASDR approaches uses a net as a capturing strategy. The benefits of such strategy are to allow for a large...
master thesis 2023
document
Pargalgauskas, Skirmantas (author)
The main purpose of this report is to investigate flaws within Cornelis Tromp 25T lemniscate crane upper arm joint. This is done in order to figure out why the joint structure is experiencing significant crack propagation and what potentially could have led to a structural joint failure and death of an operator within a crane of the same model....
master thesis 2022
document
Bunk, Yannick (author)
The development of a high-fidelity fluid-structure interaction tool for the simulation of aircraft flight dynamics in the subsonic flow regime is presented. The tool combines a high-fidelity large-eddy simulation code with an immersed boundary method, a multibody solver and a loose coupling scheme between fluid and solid. The development of the...
master thesis 2022
document
Klifman, Boyan (author)
Existing wind load simulators such as wind tunnels and fans have multiple disadvantages, especially when used in a scaled-down environment. This paper proposes to simulate wind loads by using an admittance-controlled industrial robot arm rigidly attached to a research object. Admittance control should make it possible to simulate wind loads and...
master thesis 2021
document
Sluiter, Tim (author)
The Dutch government provides a calculation method to determine the risks to society outside the boundaries of institutions handling Dangerous Goods (the risk affecting External Safety). The current method to calculate the risk affecting External Safety for train marshalling yards is deterministic, outdated, and not transparent. This thesis aims...
master thesis 2021
document
de Klerk, Kasper (author)
The size of vessels has increased significantly over the last decades and will increase even further in the decades to come. This trend is mainly visible in the size of container ships. A decade ago the largest container ship had a capacity of 13.500 TEU, nowadays the largest container ship has a capacity of almost 24.000 TEU. The capacity of...
master thesis 2021
document
Liu, X. (author), Markine, V.L. (author)
This paper presents the development of a multi-body system (MBS) vehicle-crossing model and its application in the structural health monitoring (SHM) of railway crossings. The vehicle and track configurations in the model were adjusted to best match the real-life situation. By using the measurement results obtained from an instrumented...
journal article 2020
document
Peters, O.A.J. (author)
Dry transporting large heavy floating structures has been an important development in the innovative history of Heavy Marine Transport. This is done by carrying these type of cargoes on the deck of Heavy Transport Vessels. Loading and discharge is preformed by submerging the transport vessel, and positioning the cargo above the deck using tugger...
doctoral thesis 2019
document
van der Heiden, Joost (author)
When lifting operations are performed by a heavy lifting vessel, the motions of the vessel and cargo are predicted by conventional six degrees of freedom calculations. It is assumed that the cargo is attached to the crane top in order to decrease the stability of the vessel and perform accurate calculations. While these conventional calculations...
master thesis 2019
document
Pugliatti, Mattia (author)
The decision on the dynamical model used to design a spacecraft’s trajectory is a fundamental choice influenced by many factors. The complexity of such a model affects the accuracy of the designed trajectory but also the difficulty of the design process. One approach to simplify this task consists of splitting the trajectory design process into...
master thesis 2018
document
van der Wekken, Niels (author)
The CONTACT software created by Kalker and further developed by Vollebregt has recently been integrated in dynamical simulation software like RecurDyn and libraries usable in Matlab or C. When such larger packages impose small timesteps compared to the gridsize used, a wiggle-like phenomenon arises. Additionally, transient time-stepping appears...
master thesis 2017
document
Allegaert, Elias (author)
As the complexity of high-tech systems continuously increases, engineers look for possibilities to reduce time and cost of the development of these systems. Architecture-based design enables a front-loaded design process with knowledge reuse. By enabling the automatic synthesis of simulation models, different configurations of an architecture...
master thesis 2017
document
Buitendijk, L.G. (author)
Offshore wind turbines are growing significantly to become a cost-effective alternative for the offshore oil and gas market. This causes rapid growth of offshore wind turbine foundations (monopiles). Currently, monopiles are installed using jack-up vessels like Aeolus. However operations will be limited by crane capacity and its cost...
master thesis 2016
document
Idarraga Alarcon, G.A. (author), Burgelman, N.D.M. (author), Meza Meza, J. (author), Toro, A. (author), Li, Z. (author)
This work investigates the energy dissipation in a wheel/rail system through friction work modeling. In order to identify the effect of the friction coefficient on the energy dissipation in the wheel/rail contact, several simulations were performed using a 3D multibody model of a railway vehicle implemented in the software package VI-Rail Adams,...
conference paper 2015
document
Koole, M. (author)
The trend in Offshore Engineering is towards exploring in deeper waters and more harsh environments. As a consequence, topsides become larger and heavier. In order to keep up with the demand for more lifting capacity, Heerema announced a New Semi-submersible Crane Vessel (NSCV). This vessel will contain two 10 000mt Tub Mounted Cranes (TMC),...
master thesis 2015
document
Breukels, J. (author)
Kites have seen substantial development in the last 10 years, going from mostly toys to high-performance sports-related equipment for e.g. kite surfing. The design process of these kites, however, is mostly a trial-and-error affair. Ten years after the sports-related kite revolution a new development is is emerging: Industrial applications for...
doctoral thesis 2011
document
Arias-Cuevas, O. (author)
Adhesion, or adhesion coefficient, is given by the ratio of the longitudinal tangential (i.e., braking or traction) force over the normal force at the wheel-rail contact. The tangential force that a braking or tractive railway wheel can exert on a rail is limited by the friction coefficient available between the surfaces in contact for a given...
doctoral thesis 2010
document
Halim Saleh, A. (author)
Introduction This graduation project has been initiated to research the technical feasibility of floating bridges. The project has been done in co-operation with the FDN engineering company and Delft technical university. A design is made of a continuous pontoon floating bridge, which connects a mainland to an island. Floating bridges can be...
master thesis 2010
document
Kaspers, E.J. (author)
Feasibility study on a floating thoroughfare that is submitted to the dynamic loading of vehicles
master thesis 2010
Searched for: subject%3A%22Multi%255C-body%22
(1 - 20 of 24)

Pages

List view
Grid view