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Schouten, David (author)One of the preferred features of plastic is its high durability. This merit is its main disadvantage in the natural environment. When poorly disposed of, plastic waste can enter rivers from surface waters and subsequently end up in the ocean. Here, plastic spreads out over the entire ocean and ultimately ends in ocean gyres....master thesis 2021
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Bijvoets, Christian (author)Origami structures are found in mechanical technology more and more often. A less strict derivative of origami are Hinging Rigid Panel Structures, which are not bound to be developable from a single flat sheet of planar material. These Hinging Rigid Panel Structures can be applied to many fields of mechanical design, and moreover are interesting...master thesis 2021
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de Lint, Tjebbe (author)Over the past decades the diamagnetic effect has been used for a variety of applications. This ranges from levitating a living frog to stabilizing a force sensor, designing an acceleration sensor and determining the power of a laser. Diamagnetic levitation is the only method in which a passive stable levitation of an object can be achieved....master thesis 2021
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van der Weerd, Joost (author), Holshuijsen, Joris (author)In a world with limited resources and a growing awareness of the destructive effects greenhouse gasses, the concept of sustainability is becoming more and more prominent in research. Some of the biggest polluters are the aerial shipping and travel industries, for this reason it is vital that they become more sustainable. Therefore a transition...bachelor thesis 2021
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Eppenga, Kevin (author)In previous research, the necessity of non-rigid body simulators was stated to be a requirement for long, slender bodies. However, it remains unclear for which vehicle design parameters non-rigid body effects become destabilising. A set of 2+N linearly independent equations of motions can be combined in a single matrix to determine the motion of...master thesis 2021
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Matser, Abel (author)For more than 130 years there have been efforts to automate human services. One such automation is the use of computer-based solving methods to aid engineers in their search for their ideal goal, such as automated planar mechanism design. Contrary to creating mechanisms manually, automatic methods are able to create and evaluate mechanisms in...master thesis 2021
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Goudarzi, M. (author), Dal Corso, F. (author), Bigoni, D. (author), Simone, A. (author)A dispersion of stiff and thin (‘rigid line’) inclusions (RLIs) in a matrix material may result beneficial for stiffening in the elastic range, but might be detrimental to strength, as material instabilities may be triggered by inclusions when the matrix is brought to a viscoplastic-damaging state. This dual role of RLIs is investigated by...journal article 2021
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Moghaddam, E.M.C. (author), Foumeny, E.A. (author), Stankiewicz, A.I. (author), Padding, J.T. (author)This paper investigates the validity of azimuthal averaging of 3D temperature fields in the analysis of lateral heat transfer in dense particle packings. This is conducted by synthetic generation of 3D packing surrogates of spheres, cylinders and Raschig rings with tube-to-pellet diameter ratio, 3 < N < 6, using an in-house Rigid Body...journal article 2021
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Mohammadzadeh Moghaddam, E. (author), Foumeny, Esmail A. (author), Stankiewicz, A.I. (author), Padding, J.T. (author)We investigate forced convective heat transfer in packings of spheres, cylinders and Raschig rings, made of glass, steel and alumina, in relatively narrow tubes. A detailed comparison is made between resolved pellet-scale, azimuthally-averaged temperature profiles, and 2D-axially-dispersed pseudo-homogenous plug flow (2D-ADPF) predictions....journal article 2021
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Wang, H. (author), Wang, Lizhong (author), Hong, Yi (author), Askarinejad, A. (author), He, Ben (author), Pan, Hualin (author)The large-diameter monopiles are the most preferred foundation used in offshore wind farms. However, the influence of pile diameter and aspect ratio on the lateral bearing behavior of monopiles in sand with different relative densities has not been systematically studied. This study presents a series of well-calibrated finite-element (FE)...journal article 2021
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Kluba, M.M. (author), Li, J. (author), Parkkinen, Katja (author), Louwerse, Marcus (author), Snijder, Jaap (author), Dekker, R. (author)Several Silicon on Insulator (SOI) wafer manufacturers are now offering products with customer‐defined cavities etched in the handle wafer, which significantly simplifies the fabrication of MEMS devices such as pressure sensors. This paper presents a novel cavity buried oxide (BOX) SOI substrate (cavity‐BOX) that contains a patterned BOX...journal article 2021
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de Jong, J. J. (author), Müller, A. (author), Herder, J.L. (author)Dynamic balance eliminates the fluctuating reaction forces and moments induced by high-speed robots that would otherwise cause undesired base vibrations, noise and accuracy loss. Many balancing procedures, such as the addition of counter-rotating inertia wheels, increase the complexity and motor torques. There exist, however, a small set of...journal article 2021
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van Parijs, Vincent (author)Hydrostatic bearings are superior in terms of performance to contact based bearings, but non-usable in applications with non-constant curvature counter surfaces. A solution to this would be the introduction of deformable hydrostatic bearings components to cope with these required deformations. To reduce the required deformation of a bearing pad,...master thesis 2020
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Goudarzi, M. (author)Reinforced composites are used in many industrial and multi-functional applications. The efficiency of the reinforcements depends mainly on the aspect ratio, material properties, and the adhesion between matrix and reinforcement. Particularly, high aspect ratio fillers and inclusions have gained popularity due to their unique material and...doctoral thesis 2020
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Li, J. (author), Naaborg, Jeroen (author), Louwerse, Marcus (author), Henneken, Vincent (author), Eugeni, Carlo (author), Dekker, R. (author)Our work presents embedded high-density oxide-nitride-oxide (ONO) trench capacitors for power supply decoupling in the next generation of smart catheters. These millimeter-scale smart catheters are using a novel integration platform, Flex-to-Rigid (F2R). In the F2R platform, various functional modules are fabricated or assembled on thin silicon...conference paper 2020
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Mohammadzadeh Moghaddam, E. (author), Foumeny, E. A. (author), Stankiewicz, A.I. (author), Padding, J.T. (author)The local flow structure and pressure drop in random packings of Raschig rings are analyzed using sequential Rigid Body Dynamics (RBD) method and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation. Tube-to-pellet diameter ratios, N, between 3 and 6 are investigated for laminar, transitional and turbulent flow regimes (5 ≤ Re<sub>p</sub> ≤ 3,000)....journal article 2020
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Chen, X. (author), Keşkekler, A. (author), Alijani, F. (author), Steeneken, P.G. (author)Diamagnetic levitation is a promising technique for realizing resonant sensors and energy harvesters since it offers thermal and mechanical isolation from the environment at zero power. To advance the application of diamagnetically levitating resonators, it is important to characterize their dynamics in the presence of both magnetic and...journal article 2020
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Yun, Joongsup (author), Anderson, David (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)This paper presents parametric investigation results on a staring FMCW radar system which targets drone swarms. The parametric investigation has been carried out by using the RAPID-SIM which facilitates system-level analysis of drone swarms' radar signatures. This paper explains concepts of the simulator's each module and also covers two...conference paper 2020
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Broeren, F.G.J. (author), van der Wijk, V. (author), Herder, J.L. (author)In this paper, a pseudo-rigid body model is proposed for the analysis of a spatial mechanical metamaterial and its application is demonstrated. Using this model, the post-buckling behavior of the mechanical metamaterial can be determined without the need to consider the whole elastic structure, e.g., using finite-element procedures. This is done...journal article 2020
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Niño Romero, David (author)During the early stages of the construction process of a building, the potential impact of design decisions is at its greatest. One of the reasons is the lack of computational tools at these stages. The main objective of this research project was the expansion of StructuralComponents by the development of a parametric real-time computational...master thesis 2019