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Jones, Keith (author), Mulder, Femke (author), Morga, Mariantonietta (author), Wanigarathna, Nadeeshani (author)
Background and aim - Improving the resilience of business organisations and critical infrastructure providers to disaster events is a major challenge facing many European organisations. Recent floods in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and earthquakes in Iceland, Italy, Romania and Greece have demonstrated the need for organisations to adopt...
conference paper 2022
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Kretzer, M. (author)
This paper questions the current use of materials in architecture, which furthers the preference of surface and form over inherent material properties. It then investigates recent advancements towards the notion of a Digital Materiality, comparing various international research activities and approaches. It concludes with the potentials of Smart...
conference paper 2013
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Biloria, N. (author), Chang, J.R. (author)
Hyper-Morphology is an on-going research outlining a bottom-up evolutionary design process based on autonomous cellular building components. The research interfaces critical operational traits of the natural world (Evolutionary Development Biology, Embryology and Cellular Differentiation) with Evolutionary Computational techniques driven design...
conference paper 2013
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Narahara, T. (author)
This paper studies computational methods for adaptive growth seen in human design processes through a relatively simple yet explicit example in the context of robotic fabrication. The proposed experiment uses an industrial robot arm to produce structures by stacking unit bricks without hard-coded instructions (“blueprints”) from the outset. The...
conference paper 2013
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Speck, T. (author), Speck, O. (author), Masselter, T. (author), Bohn, H. (author), Mülhaupt, R. (author)
Plants have inspired the development of numerous novel (self-)adaptive and selfhealing materials, structures and surfaces over the last decade. Examples include: (1) self-repairing elastomers for sealing gaskets and dampers inspired by self-healing processes in latex bearing plants, (2) self-adaptive biomimetic attachment systems inspired by...
conference paper 2013
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Detert, O. (author), Konig, D. (author), Schanz, T. (author)
Centrifuge tests are conducted to analyze the behavior of a new adaptive foundation system for embankments on very soft soils. The embankment is constructed in-flight in three stages. Various measurements are taken during the test, which are used for the calibration and verification of a numerical model. This paper describes the new adaptive...
conference paper 2012
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Kondratiev, A. (author), Tiumentsev, Y. (author)
A control problem is discussed for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as applies to its short-period longitudinal motion. The problem is formulated taking into account various uncertainty factors such as imperfect knowledge about UAV parameters and characteristics as well as environment exposure. One more class of the uncertainty factors includes...
conference paper 2011
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Wilkinson, S. (author)
Given the relationship between energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, the built environment has significant potential to lessen overall emissions. With around half of all greenhouse gas emissions attributed to the built environment; it has a significant role to play in mitigating global warming. With large percentages...
conference paper 2011
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Kelly, G. (author), Schmidt III, R. (author), Dainty, A. (author), Story, V. (author)
For many years the issue of how to design buildings which can adapt to changing demands has posed a considerable challenge. This debate has had renewed significance given the emergence of the sustainability agenda and the need to extract additional value from built assets through life. Developing a better understanding of how buildings change...
conference paper 2011
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Roders, M.J. (author), Straub, A. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)
A changing climate can have a large influence on the living quality of houses. A case study was carried out on the level of awareness of housing associations. This study forms the start of a research project on governance strategies for adaptation in residential buildings. A content analysis on climate change related topics was pursued on the...
conference paper 2011
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Alauddin, K. (author), London, K. (author)
Adaptive re-use can be a significant strategy for achieving sustainability as it ensures a continuous building life-cycle and prevents it from destruction. Adaptive re-use projects have their own unique environment and specific challenges to ensure success. There are complex designs and construction problems unique to adaptive re-use projects...
conference paper 2011
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Van Slobbe, E. (author)
Consensus in Dutch society is that the existing coastal defence regime is not sustainable. Adaptation is not only a technical challenge, but affects elements like ecology, cultural heritage, recreation, urban development, making the issue complex both from a political and from a scientific point of view. And innovations must cope with the actual...
conference paper 2010
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Meijer, S.A. (author), Crul, M.R.M. (author), Van Timmeren, A. (author)
Over time, humankind’s lifestyle became increasingly dependent on finite resources. It follows that such a system is unable to sustain itself indefinitely. Several studies show that in the near future the climate may radically change and oil production will peak. Changes in the natural environment will possibly be so overwhelming that man has to...
conference paper 2010
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van der Toorn, A. (a.vandertoorn@tudelft.nl) (author), de Jong, M. (m.dejong@tudelft.nl)) (author)
Although much attention is given to the consequences of climate change with respect to melting icecaps, starving polar bears, sea level rise and inadequate storm defense systems, there may be severe consequences for inland shipping too. Not only because of more frequent occurrence and longer durations of closed storm surge barriers, which may...
conference paper 2010
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Taneja, P. (p.taneja@tudelft.nl) (author), Ligteringen, H. (h.ligteringen@tudelft.nl) (author), Walker, W.E. (w.e.walker@tudelft.nl) (author)
Recently, flexibility has received much attention from port researchers, designers, and managers. That is because the stability of the competitive environment of the past has been replaced by increasing uncertainty. The current economic crisis and the recent trends in ports and shipping sectors are causing port planners to rethink their approach...
conference paper 2010
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Minh Nguyen, Q. (author)
The global economic crisis has left a negative impact on Vietnam’s economy since mid 2008. Consequently, the building industry – particularly the urban housing market as an integral part of it – has been strongly affected. However, it is also a “rare” occasion to reinvestigate the housing policy as well as the housing mechanism in a wider...
conference paper 2010
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Braack, M. (author), Richter, T. (author)
We describe recent developments in the design and implementation of finite element methods for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations modeling chemically reactive flows. The emphasize is on the low-Mach number regime including the limit case of incompressible flow. The most important ingredients are appropriate finite element discretizations,...
conference paper 2006
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Ern, A. (author), Stephansen, A.F. (author)
We present a residual a posteriori error estimate for the anisotropic advection diffusion equation with continuous or discontinuous diffusion tensor. Our numerical results show that the adapted mesh based on the residual is more refined in the region where anisotropy and heterogeneity effects create diffculties for the numerical solution.
conference paper 2006
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Müller, S. (author), Stiriba, Y. (author)
An implicit multilevel finite volume solver on adaptively refined quadtree meshes is presented for the solution of steady state flow problems. The nonlinear problem arising from the implicit time discretization is solved by an adaptive FAS multigrid method. Local grid adaptation is performed by means of a multiscale-based strategy. For this...
conference paper 2006
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Alauzet, F. (author)
This paper presents an accurate approach to simulate the sonic boom of a supersonic aircraft. The near field flow is modeled by the conservative Euler equations and is solved using a finite volume approach on adapted unstructured tetrahedral meshes. Then, from the CFD solution, the pressure distribution under the aircraft is extracted and used...
conference paper 2006
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