A healthy living community within an old vacant building: The implementation of a double-skinned façade and its influence on health and well-being in intergenerational residential buildings

This project aims to transform an old vacant office former tax building in Leeuwarden into a healthy living community, enhancing the health and well-being of its residents. By creating a welcoming environment with green spaces and amenities, the project promotes physical and mental well-being, community engagement, and high quality of life. The...

Tranquilitree: the Potential of Trees to Mitigate Aircraft Noise Pollution from Schiphol Airport

Flying has become increasingly accessible in the last few decades, leading to enormous growth in aircraft traffic worldwide. Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is the fourth-busiest airport in Europe based on passenger traffic, and noise pollution from the airport affects over 63,000 individuals daily. This study aims to determine if the presence of...

Noise robustness improvement of reset control systems using measurement line filtering

Inherent limitations of linear control, including PID, are Bode's phase-gain relationship and the waterbed-effect. Literature showed that reset control can overcome these limitations. The 'Constant in Gain, Lead in Phase' (CgLp) reset element was developed, which can be used in combination with a conventional PID approach. The benefit is that...

AI supported noise analyses for structure design requirements definition

The artificial intelligence (AI) field has encountered a turning point mainly due to advancements in machine learning, which allows systems to learn, improve, and perform a specific task through data without being explicitly programmed. Machine learning can be utilized with machining processes to improve product quality levels and...

Pneumatically-actuated acoustic metamaterials based on helmholtz resonators

Metamaterials are periodic structures which offer physical properties not found in nature. Particularly, acoustic metamaterials can manipulate sound and elastic waves both spatially and spectrally in unpreceded ways. Acoustic metamaterials can generate arbitrary acoustic bandgaps by scattering sound waves, which is a superior property for...

Surface-wave separation and its impact on seismic survey design

Surface waves in seismic data are often dominant and mask primaries in land or shallow-water environments. Separating them from the primaries is of great importance either for removing them as noise for reservoir imaging and characterization, or for considering them as signal for near-surface characterization. However, their complex properties,...