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Kiss, A.A. (author), Muthia, Rahma (author), Pazmiño-Mayorga, Isabel (author), Harmsen, G.J. (author), Jobson, Megan (author), Gao, Xin (author)Reactive distillation (RD) is a process intensification technique that offers major advantages over conventional technologies by enabling the integration of reaction and separation into a single apparatus. This integration introduces and exploits complex interaction between mass transfer, chemical reaction and hydrodynamics within an RD...review 2024
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Muthia, Rahma (author), Kiss, A.A. (author)Reactive distillation (RD) is a process intensification technology that offers opportunities in the chemical industry. However, designing RD columns remains a demanding task as reaction and separation phenomena occur simultaneously in the column. Moreover, in the early phase of conceptual process design, most of the physical and chemical...journal article 2023
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Dierker Viik, L.T. (author), Coenders, Jeroen (author), Pasterkamp, S. (author)This paper discusses the project StructuralComponents 6, a continuation of the ongoing project StructuralComponents which focuses on the development of computational tools for conceptual building design beginning with Breider [1]. The goal of StructuralComponents 6 is to develop a tool for the conceptual design of mid-rise concrete buildings...conference paper 2021
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Djokikj, Jelena (author), Rizov, Tashko (author), Jovanova, J. (author)Smart material graspers have shown potential for different applications in terms of functionality and actuation, especially in handling arbitrary shapes, fragile objects and complex 3D geometries. However, to take these initial designs further towards real applications, the challenge remains to determine the optimal size, shape, and passive...conference paper 2021
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Gonçalves, M. (author), Cash, Philip (author)Ideation is simultaneously one of the most investigated and most intriguing aspects of design. The reasons for this attention are partly due to its importance in design and innovation, and partly due to an array of conflicting results and explanations. In this study, we develop an integrative perspective on individual ideation by combining...journal article 2021
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Knudsen, L.S. (author), Haase, L.M. (author), Gonçalves, M. (author)A design rationale is a representation of the reasoning behind a design concept, explaining why the solution is designed the way it is. This makes design rationale a critical part of concept development. However, there is little exploration on how to build a design rationale. This study sheds light on professional designers’ reasoning in...conference paper 2020
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Gkoika, Maria (author), Coenders, Jeroen (author), Nijsse, R. (author), van Nederveen, G.A. (author), Pasterkamp, S. (author), Rutgers, Arend (author)This paper presents a novel approach to modelling and documenting design knowledge: to use parametric technology to explicitly store knowledge which exists in a group of people (such as a company), so that it can be reused over many projects and grow over time when more projects are designed. This approach has been applied and tested on a test...conference paper 2019
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Chiang, Y.-C. (author), Borgart, A. (author), Li, Q. (author)Membrane shells, which have minimized bending moments under certain load conditions, are regarded as ideal structural forms in terms of material efficiency. Most of the existing numerical form-finding methods are based on discretizing membranes into finite panels or funicular networks and focusing on gravitational loading only. In order to...conference paper 2019
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Horikx, M.P. (author)The subject of this academic research thesis is a methodical approach on the complex problem-solving process of structural conceptual design.<br/>For this relatively unexplored problem, an exploratory research is conducted by systematically zooming in from the whole to the part and from coarse to fine. The so explored methodical approach on...doctoral thesis 2017
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Eisenbart, B. (author), Gericke, Kilian (author), Blessing, Lucienne T. M. (author), MCAloone, Timothy C. (author)Function modelling is proposed in the literature from different disciplines, in interdisciplinary approaches, and used in practice with the intention of facilitating system conceptualisation. However, function models across disciplines are largely diverse addressing different function modelling perspectives and using different structures and...journal article 2017
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van Riel, W. (author), Post, J.A.B. (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Herder, P.M. (author), Clemens, F.H.L.R. (author)Operational decision-making processes for networked infrastructure management often occur as a multi-actor planning problem, implying these are based on negotiations between different stakeholders in addition to available system quality information. As such, does more accurate data about actual structural condition lead to other or better...journal article 2016
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Wan, J. (author), Pavel, M.D. (author)The Ornicopter concept is a single-rotor, tailless configuration. By actively flapping its blades, the Ornicopter rotor can propel itself to rotate, and hence does not need a tail rotor. In previous research, the Ornicopter concept has been compared with the Bo-105 conventional helicopter from various aspects, while the Ornicopter has the same...journal article 2016
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Eisenbart, B. (author), Gericke, Kilian (author), Blessing, Lucienne T. M. (author)Interdisciplinary system development requires the integration of diverse expertise to combine different engineering technologies and—increasingly often—services, in order to provide users with expected value and desired functionality in newly developed products. Failure to achieve integration of disciplines can result in design errors posing a...journal article 2016
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Jacobs, J.F. (author)Innovative engineering design shapes the development of novel technologies and is ethically as well as socially relevant, because it affects what kind of possibilities and consequences will arise. A major challenge in engineering design work on innovative technologies is the multitude of uncertainties in the form of known unknowns, unknown...doctoral thesis 2015
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Victoria Garcia, M. (author), Swinkels, P.L.J. (author)Hydrogen, if produced from clean and abundant sources, has the potential for solving the concerns on energy supply security, climate change and local air pollution. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting is a promising technology under development for the production of hydrogen from water by using sunlight. This design project aims to...report 2015
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Rolvink, A. (author), Coenders, J.L. (author), Mueller, C. (author)This paper presents a review of existing research, projects, developments and applications in the domain of design tools for conceptual structural engineering. The availability of these tools and research into software for conceptual structural design stages has shown a number of interesting developments over the last past few years. The purpose...conference paper 2014
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Coenders, J.L. (author), Rolvink, A. (author)This paper presents a proposal to employ the design computing methodology proposed as StructuralComponents (Rolvink et al [6] and van de Weerd et al [7]) as a method to perform a digital verification process to fulfil the requirements related to structural design and engineering as part of a building design. In current design and engineering...conference paper 2014
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Heidegger, V. (author), Coenders, J.L. (author), Rolvink, A. (author)This paper presents the results of the investigation into the possibilities for the implementation of a Building Performance Simulation design toolbox during the early stages of façade design, based on the sustainability-open framework [2]. The background and development of the EnergyFacade toolbox will be discussed which has been built on the...conference paper 2014
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Wan, J. (author)The tail rotor of conventional helicopters has always been considered a necessary 'evil'. It is necessary to counteract the reaction torque of the engine and to control the helicopter in yaw but it consumes substantial power, has only marginal control authority under unfavourable wind conditions, and it is noisy, vulnerable and dangerous. A...doctoral thesis 2014
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Turrin, M. (author), Chatzikonstantinou, I. (author), Tenpierik, M.J. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author)The paper tackles the integration of engineering performance simulations in the conceptual phase of architectural design, with specific focus on parametric design processes. A general framework is exemplified, in which the use of performance simulations and the learning process of the designer are discussed in relation to the parameterization...conference paper 2013