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Lafuente Arjona, Oscar (author)Military ground vehicles require protection against ballistic threats encountered in the battlefield. Traditionally used armour steel dramatically increases the weight of a vehicle, decreasing its mobility and hampering its capability of carrying payload. The development of new material and protection concepts, namely non-metallic armours, that...master thesis 2023
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Hemel, M. (author)Amsterdam faces the challenge of maintaining a domain of 200 km historic quay walls, which is a vital part of the city’s historical landscape. Many quays are currently in poor condition and require renovation or replacement in the near future, significantly impacting the city. The quay walls can be up to 300 years old and their structure...doctoral thesis 2023
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Arrieta Rodriguez, Ana (author)Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) is a metal additive manufacturing process in which a three-dimensional object is obtained by selectively melting and fusing a metallic powder with a heat source, such as a laser beam, in successive thin layers. This process allows to create lightweight parts with complex geometry. However, parts created by LPBF...master thesis 2023
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Kruithof, Odin (author)With FLASH proton radiotherapy, healthy tissue is spared more compared to conventional proton therapy. The FLASH effect is present at high fractional doses of more than 8 Gy, at ultra-high mean dose rates of more than 40 Gy per second and at dose delivery times of less than 200 milliseconds. However, particle accelerator intrinsic uncertainties...master thesis 2023
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Jørgensen, Anders (author)In Amsterdam, more than 30 steel-concrete composite bridges were constructed from 1880-1960 without mechanical connectors and transverse reinforcement. Currently, there are no simplified analytical methods to determine the bearing capacity of these bridges. Thus, the bearing capacity is verified using NLFEM or oversimplified analytical...master thesis 2023
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Rajora, A. (author)The primary objective of this work is to provide new analytical models to support the theoretical understanding of multiphase flows in various electrochemical systems. Most of the previous works in this field use either experiments or numerical simulations to understand the hydrodynamics of the multiphase flows. In this thesis, various new...doctoral thesis 2023
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Volakos, Efstratios (author), Davis, Chris (author), Teich, Martien (author), Lenk, Peter (author), Overend, M. (author)Embedded load-bearing laminated glass connections have gained popularity in recent years due to their mechanical performance and aesthetic appeal. However, there is a paucity of data on their structural behaviour across a range of temperatures that may arise in building applications and there is also no simplified mechanics-based model for...journal article 2023
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Bhadra, A. (author), Haverkort, J.W. (author)Microfluidic fuel cells, electrolyzers, and redox flow batteries utilize laminar flow channels to provide reactants, remove products and avoid their crossover. These devices often also employ porous flow-through electrodes as they offer a high surface area for the reaction and excellent mass transfer. The geometrical features of these...journal article 2023
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Aarts, Michiel J.M. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Knoop, V.L. (author)The traffic density of small aerial vehicles operating within urban environments is expected to increase significantly in the near future. This urban environment is highly constrained due to being limited to the low-altitude airspace directly above the existing road network. Multiple studies have addressed factors influencing the capacity of...journal article 2023
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Werlen, Vincent (author), Vocke, Richard (author), Brauner, Christian (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author), Michaud, Véronique (author), Rytka, Christian (author)A new model is proposed for the consolidation of hybrid textiles, in which air entrapment and dissolution are considered. One of the key parameters is tow permeability, which is described by the analytical model of Gebart and validated at very high fibre volume fractions by direct tow permeability measurement. The model also takes into...journal article 2023
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Valiya Valappil, S. (author), Krushynska, Anastasiia O. (author), Aragon, A.M. (author)The band-gap frequencies of elastic metamaterials are ideally determined by a metamaterial architecture; yet, in practical situations, are often dependent on the material damping in their constituent(s). The analysis of viscoelastic metamaterials requires however substantial computational resources and, except for oversimplified cases, is...journal article 2023
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de Jong, M.N. (author), Campana, Francesca Cala (author), Li, Pengfei (author), Pan, Qiuwei (author), Giordano, G. (author)In 2022, worldwide mpox outbreaks have called attention to mpox virus infection and treatment opportunities using the drugs cidofovir and tecovirimat, which target different stages of in-host viral proliferation, respectively production and shedding. We propose a new model of in-host viral infection dynamics that distinguishes between the two...journal article 2023
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Kockelkorn, Tycho (author)The Haringvlietbrug, which was delivered in 1964 and connects the island of Goeree-Overflakkee to the Dutch mainland, approaches the end of its lifetime. Rijkswaterstaat and Witteveen+Bos investigate the potential use of vibration-based structural health monitoring (SHM) to track deterioration. In vibration-based SHM, a change in the structure’s...master thesis 2022
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van Dam, Janice (author)For a global quantum communication network, we need to have long distance links over which we can distribute entangled photon pairs. Due to exponential losses, using optical fibres alone is unfeasible. Quantum repeaters extend the range of quantum networks, but intercontinental links are still unfeasible. Because of this, research has gone...master thesis 2022
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Cao, Zhi (author), Huang, Yunkai (author), Guo, Baocheng (author), Peng, Fei (author), Dong, J. (author), Hemeida, Ahmed (author)To facilitate the active magnetic bearing (AMB) design and analysis, an accurate and fast model that considers both rotor eccentricity and the saturation effect is necessary. In this article, a novel hybrid analytical model (HAM) for effective calculation of the magnetic field of the AMB is proposed. Eccentricity and local saturation are...journal article 2022
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Huo, L. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Sadighi, Mojtaba (author)To further investigate the effects of in-plane and out-of-plane stresses on the delamination initiation for composite laminates under out-of-plane loading, this paper reports a joint experimental and numerical study, in which the fully clamped rectangular CFRP composite laminates were subjected to out-of-plane quasi-static indentations. The...journal article 2022
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Bagemihl, I. (author), Bhatraju, C. (author), van Ommen, J.R. (author), van Steijn, V. (author)Electrochemical reduction of CO<sub>2</sub>using renewable energy is a promising avenue for sustainable production of bulk chemicals. However, CO<sub>2</sub>electrolysis in aqueous systems is severely limited by mass transfer, leading to low reactor performance insufficient for industrial application. This paper shows that structured reactors...journal article 2022
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Dalgic, O. (author), Puccinelli, Daniele (author), Zuniga, Marco (author)Advances in Visible Light Communication are enabling novel Internet of Things applications. Going forward, we expect that LED-to-Camera links will enable a wide range of body-centric computing applications. Up until now, most LED-to-Camera studies have been following a deploy-and-test approach instead of a principled methodology. This ad-hoc...conference paper 2022
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Ottun, Abdul Rasheed (author), Mane, Pramod C. (author), Yin, Zhigang (author), Paul, Souvik (author), Liyanage, Mohan (author), Pridmore, Jason (author), Ding, Aaron Yi (author), Sharma, Rajesh (author), Nurmi, Petteri (author), Flores, Huber (author)Federated learning (FL) is a promising privacy-preserving solution to build powerful AI models. In many FL scenarios, such as healthcare or smart city monitoring, the user's devices may lack the required capabilities to collect suitable data, which limits their contributions to the global model. We contribute social-aware federated learning...journal article 2022
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Stella, F. (author), Obayashi, Nana (author), Della Santina, C. (author), Hughes, Josie (author)The control possibilities for soft robots have long been hindered by the lack of accurate yet computationally treatable dynamic models of soft structures. Polynomial curvature models propose a solution to this quest for continuum slender structures. Nevertheless, the results produced with this class of models have been so far essentially...journal article 2022