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Amir, S. (author), Van der Veen, C. (author), Walraven, J.C. (author), De Boer, A. (author)In the Netherlands, most of the bridges were built more than 50 years ago and it is essential for designers to find out if these bridges are safe for modern traffic especially in shear since that was not considered in design recommendations before 1976. Detailed experiments have been carried out in the laboratory to investigate punching shear...conference paper 2014
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Getrouw, N.A.S. (author)The countries who have signed the Malta convention in 1992 are committed to preserve in situ archeological sites instead of excavating them and wasting them for future generations. Unfortunately there are no tools available to predict the impact of civil engineering constructions on buried archeological sites. This report is focused on the...bachelor thesis 2014
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Hu, K. (author)Near-field source localization is an important aspect in many diverse areas such as acoustics, seismology, to list a few. The planar wave assumption frequently used in far-field source localization is no longer valid when the sources are in the near field. Near-field sources can be localized by solving a joint direction-of-arrival and range...master thesis 2014
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Lahuerta, F. (author), Westphal, T. (author), Nijssen, RPL (author), van der Meer, F.P. (author), Sluys, Lambertus J. (author)The aim of this work is to study the thickness effect in static and fatigue tests of glass-fibre unidirectional compression coupons. For this purpose, the self-heating effect, the effect of specimen geometry, and the influence of the manufacturing processes have been minimized. A scaled thickness compression coupon has been designed with the...conference paper 2014
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De Boeck, J. (author)Tensegrity corresponds to a structural principle consisting of strut and tie elements forming a 3D ensemble. The amazing, impressive and unusual character of tensegrities leads to the wondering of structural and functional performance of tensegrity. This results in interest concerning possibilities of applying tensegrity as load carrying...master thesis 2013
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Petropoulou, G.D. (author)Introduction Many researchers have been discovered that bridge deck slabs which were designed to fail in bending, mostly fail under punching shear mode at a higher load than the expected for bending, because of the effect of in-plane compressive membrane forces, induced by the lateral restrained boundary conditions. Punching and bending failure...master thesis 2013
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Li, Z. (author)Authorship verification is one subfield of authorship analysis. However, the majority of the research in the field of authorship analysis is on the authorship identification problem. The authorship verification problem has received less attention than the authorship identification problem. Thus, there is a demand for a study on the authorship...master thesis 2013
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Zegov, L.T. (author)Compressive sensing (CS) provides a new paradigm in data acquisition and signal processing in radar, based on the assumptions of sparsity of an unknown radar scene, and the incoherence of the transmitted signal. The resolution in the conventional pulse-compression radar is foreseen to be improved by the implementation of CS. An unknown sparse...master thesis 2013
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Narayanasamy, R. (author), Alvarado, A. (author), Sanchez Medrano, J. (author), Betancourt Hernandez, J. (author), Balagurusamy, N. (author)Sustainability or environment friendly green technology is based on the use of agents of biological origin that can mimic nature in their process applications. The production and use of conventional Portland cement is significant contributor to emission of greenhouse gases and the resultant global warming. Microbial induced carbonate...conference paper 2013
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Ishikawa, Y. (author)In recent studies, it has been recognized that concrete deterioration is accelerated by the growth of fine cracks of a few micron meters in width induced by dry shrinkage and/or freezing damage. There have been great expectations for research on concrete that self-heals these fine cracks. Recent research (for example, Taniguchi et al. in the 3rd...conference paper 2013
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- Koenders, E.A.B. (author), Pepe, M. (author), Caggiano, A. (author), Martinelli, E. (author), Toledo Filho, R.D. (author) conference paper 2013
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Weijs, S.V. (author), Van de Giesen, N. (author), Parlange, M.B. (author)From algorithmic information theory, which connects the information content of a data set to the shortest computer program that can produce it, it is known that there are strong analogies between compression, knowledge, inference and prediction. The more we know about a data generating process, the better we can predict and compress the data. A...journal article 2013
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Doulgeris, P. (author)The recording and storage capacity of modern seismic acquisition systems is continuously growing, enabling denser sampling and the acquisition of better-quality data. One big hurdle is survey time, since the duration of a survey is directly proportional to the number of sources fired. The proposed way forward is to deploy nearly simultaneous...doctoral thesis 2013
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Souverein, L.J. (author), Bakker, P.G. (author), Dupont, P. (author)A model based on mass conservation properties is developed for shock-wave/boundarylayer interactions (SWBLIs), aimed at reconciling the observed great diversity in flow organization documented in the literature, induced by variations in interaction geometry and aerodynamic conditions. It is the basis for a scaling approach for the interaction...journal article 2013
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Van der Put, T.A.C.M. (author)The derivation is given of the combined bi-axial bending, compression and shear strength of timber beams. As for other materials the elastic–full plastic limit design approach applies, which is known to precisely explain and predict uniaxial bending strength behaviour. The derivation is based on choosing the location of the neutral line. This...journal article 2012
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Türkmen, Ö.S. (author)Newly build buildings in the Netherlands are quite sustainable but are currently less that 5% of the total amount of buildings. Cooperative building societies are getting requirements from the European Union which they have to meet in a few years (Action Plan for Energy Efficiency: Realising the Potential). The target is to reduce the current...master thesis 2012
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Anitori, L. (author)In most modern high-resolution multi-channel radar systems one of the major problems to deal with is the huge amount of data to be acquired, processed and/or stored. But why do we need all these data? According to the well known Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem, real signals have to be sampled at at least twice the signal bandwidth to prevent...doctoral thesis 2012
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Harding, B.T. (author)Dutch developers are thought to have been able to outcompete the owners of existing office space on rental pricing (the phenomenon). For tenants it was more inexpensive to move to newly proposed (not yet existent) office space than to remain where they are, or move to other existing office space. Three theoretical reasons were identified for the...master thesis 2012
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Shakeri, S. (author)In this work a new location fingerprinting-based localization algorithm is proposed for an underwater medium by utilizing ultra-wideband (UWB) signals. In many conventional underwater systems, localization is accomplished by utilizing acoustic waves. On the other hand, electromagnetic waves haven't been employed for underwater localization due...master thesis 2012
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- Kuisch, H.P. (author), Gard, W.F. (author), Botter, E. (author), Van de Kuilen, J.W.G. (author) conference paper 2012