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Hooimeijer, F.L. (author)The planning culture in the Netherlands is based on the experience of building cities on very wet and soft soils. The design of Dutch polder cities was from early on a balance between land and water: building site preparation. The relation between technological development and urban development can be ordered in six phases: natural (-1000),...journal article 2010
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Ehrenfreund, P. (author), Röling, W.F.M. (author), Thiel, C.S. (author), Quinn, R. (author), Sephton, M.A. (author), Stoker, C. (author), Kotler, J.M. (author), Direito, S.O.L. (author), Martins, Z. (author), Orzechowska, G.E. (author), Kidd, R.D. (author), Van Sluis, C.A. (author), Foing, B.H. (author)Several robotic exploration missions will travel to Mars during this decade to investigate habitability and the possible presence of life. Field research at Mars analogue sites such as desert environments can provide important constraints for instrument calibration, landing site strategies and expected life detection targets. We have...journal article 2011
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Lloret Cabot, M. (author), Hicks, M.A. (author), Van den Eijnden, A.P. (author)Spatial variability of soil properties is inherent in soil deposits, whether as a result of natural geological processes or engineering construction. It is therefore important to account for soil variability in geotechnical design in order to represent more realistically a soil’s in situ state. This variability may be modelled as a random field,...journal article 2012
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Letema, S. (author), Van Vliet, B. (author), Van Lier, J.B. (author)Urbanisation of poverty and informality in East Africa poses a threat to public health and environmental protection, perpetuating social exclusion and inequalities, while it creates service gaps. Neither conventional on-site sanitation nor modern centralised off-site sanitation provisions are tenable citywide, giving rise to the emergence of...conference paper 2012
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Dinh, V.N. (author), Basu, B. (author), Brinkgreve, R.B.J. (author)Stochastic seismic wavelet-based evolutionary response of multispan structures including wave-passage and site-response effects is formulated in this paper. A procedure to estimate site-compatible parameters of surface-to-bedrock frequency response function (FRF) by using finite-element analysis of the supporting soil medium is proposed. The...journal article 2013
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Fraguada, L. (author), Girot, C. (author), Melsom, J. (author)Ambient Terrain explores the application of large-scale, sensor-based site analysis. The research develops various techniques dealing with the logging, storage, retrieval, analysis, and representation of sensor and image-based data. These techniques could be utilized in concert with traditional site preparation and site information gathering...conference paper 2013
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Romano, D. (author), Pinzger, M. (author)Version: Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2013, IEEE Computer Society. Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2013.49 Q&A sites have become popular to share and look for valuable knowledge. Users can easily and quickly access high quality answers to common questions. The...report 2013
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Advances in reliability analysis of the piping failure mechanism of flood defences in the NetherlandsSchweckendiek, T. (author), Kanning, W. (author), Jonkman, Sebastiaan N. (author)Piping is one of the main failure mechanisms for flood defences. This paper gives an overview of recent developments in the reliability analysis for this mechanism in the Netherlands. These comprise new approaches in the treatment of heterogeneity of the subsoil with respect to the failure process, the inclusion of information from field...journal article 2014
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Schweckendiek, T. (author)Dikes and levees play a crucial role in flood protection in deltaic areas such as the Netherlands. Internal erosion piping or under-seepage is a major cause of levee failures and a main contributor to the probability of failure of river levees due to the large (mostly geotechnical) uncertainties. The present thesis investigates how geotechnical...doctoral thesis 2014
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Nyenje, P. (author)This study investigates the generation, transport and fate of sanitation-related nutrients in groundwater and surface water in an urban slum area in sub-Saharan Africa. In excess, nutrients can cause eutrophication of downstream water bodies. The study argues that nitrogen-containing rains and domestic wastewater from slum areas were important...doctoral thesis 2014
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Durucan, S. (author), Korre, A. (author), Shi, J.Q. (author), Idiens, M. (author), Stanczyk, K. (author), Kapusta, K. (author), Rogut-Dabrowska, A. (author), Kempka, T. (author), Wolf, K.H.A.A. (author), Younger, P. (author), Zavsek, S. (author), Poulsen, N.E. (author), Bojda, D. (author), Franzsen, S. (author), Muresan, M. (author), Gao, J. (author), Beath, A. (author), Mastalerz, M. (author)The TOPS project takes a radical and holistic approach to coupled UCG-CCS, and thus the site selection criteria for the coupled processes, considering both geological, reservoir and process engineering aspects and different end-uses of the produced synthetic gas in order to optimise the whole value chain. In particular, the experimental research...journal article 2014
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Norrman, J. (author), Volchko, Y. (author), Maring, L (author), Hooimeijer, F.L. (author), Broekx, S. (author), Garcao, R. (author), Beames, A. (author), Kain, J.H. (author), Ivarsson, M. (author), Touchant, K. (author)Land take as a result of urbanization is one of the major soil threats in Europe. One of the key measures to prevent further urban sprawl and additional land take, is redevelopment of urban brownfields: underused urban areas with, in many cases, soil and groundwater pollution. The latter issue can be a bottleneck for redevelopment of brownfields...report 2015
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Lundberg, A.B. (author), Li, Y. (author)A full geotechnical risk analysis includes site investigation, model simplification and analysis. The site characterization forms the basis for the choice of the soil parameters used in the subsequent analysis, but the soil data is normally analyzed with crude methods that do not include the effect of the soil variability. A case study is here...conference paper 2015
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De Visser, M.M. (author), Kanning, W. (author), Koopmans, R. (author), Niemeijer, J. (author)Research to the failure mechanism piping (internal, backward erosion) in the Netherlands shows that the dikes require costly berms to meet the required safety standards. According to the Sellmeijer piping-formula, the d70 (70%-quantile of the grain size distribution by weight) is an important parameter in the resistance against piping. Therefore...conference paper 2015
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Nadim, F. (author)This paper presents an overview on how uncertainty and variability of mechanical soil properties are dealt with in offshore site investigation and presents some ideas for utilizing the reliability tools in a more optimal manner for this purpose. Two types of problems are addressed. First, how to extract the maximum amount of information from...conference paper 2015
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Ching, J. (author), Wu, S.-H (author), Phoon, K.-K. (author)Due to limited information in site investigation, it is not possible to obtain the actual values for the mean, standard deviation, and scale of fluctuation of a soil property of interest. The deviation between the estimated values and actual values is called the statistical uncertainty. There are two schools of thoughts on how to model the...conference paper 2015
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Mota, Nelson (author)In the 1970s and 1980s the politics of international development aid keenly promoted planned progressive development strategies as the primal method to produce affordable housing for the urban poor. Through this period, the World Bank used the so-called “sites and services” program to encourage staged development, flexibility, and the use of...conference paper 2016
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Kaliarnta, S. (author)In a special issue of “Ethics and Information Technology” (September 2012), various philosophers have discussed the notion of online friendship. The preferred framework of analysis was Aristotle’s theory of friendship: it was argued that online friendships face many obstacles that hinder them from ever reaching the highest form of Aristotelian...journal article 2016
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Ruben, P.A. (author)Dutch and French construction law show fundamentally different approaches. This internship report aims to illustrate the impact which legislation has on building site interactions. Part of the research was a 5 week internship for Garcés-de Seta-Bonet, the Catalan architect office awarded with the renovation and partial reconstruction of the...report 2016