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Eppenga, Sietse (author)The expansion of offshore wind farms in the North Sea has raised serious concerns about maritime safety, in particular the increased risk of collisions—or 'allisions'—where a ship adrift hits a stationary structure, such as a wind turbine. For Rijkswaterstaat, the executive agency of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, managing...master thesis 2024
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Bechan, Rushil (author)The abstract outlines a study focusing on improving the design approach for flexible dolphins, vital marine structures used for vessel berthing and mooring. Current design methodologies, particularly those outlined in the CROW C1005 handbook (2018), are questioned due to potential conservatism stemming from insufficiently calibrated partial...master thesis 2024
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Ren, X. (author), Nane, G.F. (author), Terwel, K.C. (author), van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (author)This study focuses on measuring the influence of critical Human and Organizational Factors (HOFs) on human error occurrence in structural design and construction tasks within the context of the Dutch construction industry. The primary research question addressed in this paper concerns the extent of HOFs’ contribution to human error occurrence...journal article 2024
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Khosravi, M. (author), Huber, Benjamin (author), Decoussemaeker, Antoon (author), Heer, Philipp (author), Smith, Roy S. (author)Model Predictive Control can cope with conflicting control objectives in building energy managements. In terms of user satisfaction, visual comfort has been proven in several studies to be a crucial factor, however thermal comfort is typically considered the only important aspect. Besides human well-being, visual comfort strongly impacts the...journal article 2024
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Budel, G.J.A. (author), Frasincar, Flavius (author), Boekestijn, David (author)Sequence data mining has become an increasingly popular research topic as the availability of data has grown rapidly over the past decades. Sequence clustering is a type of method within this field that is in high demand in the industry, but the sequence clustering problem is non-trivial and, as opposed to static cluster analysis,...journal article 2024
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Mares Nasarre, P. (author), van Gent, M.R.A. (author), Morales Napoles, O. (author)Rising sea levels caused by climate change are increasing the risk of overtopping on coastal structures. Moreover, there is a growing societal concern about the visual impact of these structures, which leads to the lowering of their crest freeboards. In previous studies, safety during overtopping events was assessed considering the...journal article 2024
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Boskos, D. (author), Cortes, Jorge (author), Martinez, Sonia (author)This paper builds Wasserstein ambiguity sets for the unknown probability distribution of dynamic random variables leveraging noisy partial-state observations. The constructed ambiguity sets contain the true distribution of the data with quantifiable probability and can be exploited to formulate robust stochastic optimization problems with out...journal article 2024
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Qin, Guojin (author), Li, Ruiling (author), Yang, M. (author), Wang, Bohong (author), Ni, Pingan (author), Wang, Yihuan (author)The estimation of failure probability is challenging in hydrogen embrittlement in steel pipelines due to the complexity of the synergistic effect of multiple factors. The present study proposed a hybrid methodology to estimate the failure probability of steel pipelines due to hydrogen embrittlement. The methodology integrates the fault tree...journal article 2024
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En-nadir, Redouane (author), El Ghazi, Haddou (author), Basyooni, Mohamed A. (author), Tihtih, Mohammed (author), Belaid, Walid (author), Abboudi, Hassan (author), Maouhoubi, Ibrahim (author), Rabah, Mohamed (author), Zorkani, Izeddine (author)Defects and impurities within semiconductor materials pose significant challenges. This investigation scrutinizes the response of a single dopant donor impurity located in nanostructured semiconductors, specifically quantum wells subjected to both harmonic and inharmonic confinement potentials. The primary focus of this inquiry centers on the...journal article 2024
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Zhou, Jianfeng (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)When a major chemical accident occurs, emergency response is an important measure to reduce accident losses. Some actions in an emergency response may be more important than others in reducing accident losses, so they need to be carried out as a matter of priority. The impact of the number of emergency personnel on the relationship between...journal article 2024
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Raja, A.A. (author), Pinson, Pierre (author), Kazempour, Jalal (author), Grammatico, S. (author)In many areas of industry and society, including energy, healthcare, and logistics, agents collect vast amounts of data that are deemed proprietary. These data owners extract predictive information of varying quality and relevance from data depending on quantity, inherent information content, and their own technical expertise. Aggregating...journal article 2024
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Teunissen, P.J.G. (author)In this contribution, we introduce, in analogy to penalized ambiguity resolution, the concept of penalized misclosure space partitioning, with the goal of directing the performance of the DIA-estimator towards its application-dependent tolerable risk objectives. We assign penalty functions to each of the decision regions in misclosure space...journal article 2024
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Ramousse, B.R. (author), Mendoza Lugo, M.A. (author), Rongen, G.W.F. (author), Morales Napoles, O. (author)Constructing Bayesian networks (BN) for practical applications presents significant challenges, especially in domains with limited empirical data available. In such situations, field experts are often consulted to estimate the model’s parameters, for instance, rank correlations in Gaussian copula-based Bayesian networks (GCBN). Because there is...journal article 2024
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Schuttenbeld, Maarten (author)This thesis investigates the estimation of option-implied probability density functions for inflation using inflation options, focusing not only on the expected value but the whole distribution. The aim is to identify the most effective method for measuring the market expectation of future inflation. The research explores both parametric and non...master thesis 2023
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de Haan, Laura (author)The frequent occurrence of catastrophic tailings dam failures underscores the urgent need to improve safety practices and minimise associated risks. This study introduces an advanced tool to evaluate the total Probability of Failure (PoF) of existing tailings dams systematically and effectively, supporting the rational prioritisation of...master thesis 2023
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Ma, H. (author)This thesis conducts a series of interrelated research studies on reach probability estimation of rare events for stochastic hybrid systems. Chapter 1 explains that the motivation for these studies stems from the need to assess safety and capacity of a design for a future Air Traffic Management (ATM) concept of operations (ConOps). The safety...doctoral thesis 2023
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DIAKOMOPOULOS, FAIDON (author)The projected increase in sea level is expected to increase the intensity of coastal flooding threatening communities living along the coast. This, in combination with population growth and urban expansion, calls for a better understanding of Extreme Water Levels (EWLs), the mechanisms generating them, and their components, i.e., astronomical...master thesis 2023
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Rang, Jugo (author)This paper presents a novel approach for the estimation of conditional multivariate cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) within a nonparametric framework. To achieve this, we introduce a binary random variable that indirectly represents conditional CDFs and construct a dataset by pairing input vectors with the binary variables. We developed...master thesis 2023
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Remmerswaal, G. (author)Flood protection infrastructure requires constant investments to cover the increasing flood risk. However, due to over-conservatism in (dyke) safety assessments, poorly targeted investments can be made. Over-conservatism can be avoided by understanding the entire failure process, from the initiation of failure until flooding. Dyke slope...doctoral thesis 2023