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Pels, Jasper (author)The bending stiffness of a structure is highly dependent on its shape, and this relation can be utilized to allow for a structure to morph into different shapes during deformation. This paper focuses on shape-morphing into multiple shapes (Multi Shape-Morphing), and presents a design method for a parametric<br/>structure consisting of beams,...master thesis 2023
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de Boer, Lotte (author)Icebergs drifting through the Southern Ocean release fresh water and nutrients. This has local impacts on surrounding ecosystems and sea ice formation. On a global scale, salinity patterns and ocean circulation are affected. In addition, <br/> tudying icebergs as a proxy for ice shelves in a warming climate can help predict future climate...master thesis 2023
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Hedayati, R. (author), Roudbarian, Nima (author), Tahmasiyan, Sara (author), Bodaghi, Mahdi (author)Origami structures are a traditional Japanese art that have recently found their way into engineering applications due to their powerful capability to transform flat 2D structures into complex 3D structures along their creases. This has given a rise to their application as designer materials with unprecedented mechanical characteristics, also...journal article 2023
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Tjernshaugen, Aurora (author)That mechanical properties of the extracellular environment can influence cell behaviour has already been established. Recent studies indicate that human mesenchymal stem cells are affected by the surface curvature of the underlying substrate. However, how meso-scale substrate curvature affects cell behaviour is still not clear. This study...master thesis 2022
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Wu, Chu-Hsuan (author)Nature has always had randomness in many ways. Natural cellular structures, specifically, have used randomized microarchitectures to form mechanically efficient materials, such as wood, sponge, and trabecular bone. Mechanical metamaterials are a class of artificial microarchitected materials designed to carry tensions and compressions with...master thesis 2022
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Budd, J.M. (author)A large number of modern learning problems involve working with highly interrelated and interconnected data. Graph-based learning is an emerging technique for approaching such problems, by representing this data as a graph (a.k.a. a network). That is, the points of data are represented by the vertices of the graph, and then the edges linking...doctoral thesis 2022
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Tajdari, F. (author), Huysmans, T. (author), Yang, Y. (author), Song, Y. (author)Preserving features of a surface as characteristic local shape properties captured e.g. by curvature, during non-rigid registration is always difficult where finding meaningful correspondences, assuring the robustness and the convergence of the algorithm while maintaining the quality of mesh are often challenges due to the high degrees of...journal article 2022
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van Cappellen, Joost (author)The forming of double curvature shipbuilding steel plates is performed by experienced craftsmen at IHC Metalix. Their experience will get lost when they retire; therefore, it can be valuable for future metal workers to capture the forming process of a double curved plate theoretically. An analytical description and understanding of the forming...master thesis 2021
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Walraven, Bas (author)Droughts are considered to be one of the most damaging, yet least understood, natural hazards of all. Despite their prevalence, a thorough understanding of them lacks because they are such complex phenomena, and their manifestation can differ depending on the region they occur in. Monitoring hydrological variables and processes is imperative for...master thesis 2021
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Li, X. (author)A flexible riser is a multi-layered pipe device which enables deep-water production by connecting seabed facilities to floating vessels. To withstand huge hydro-static pressure, it is required to have strong collapse capacities. At present, the collapse capacity of a flexible riser is designed based on a "wet collapse'' concept, in which the...doctoral thesis 2021
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Doelman, Michiel (author)Background: Accessing targets through complex trajectories with multiple curves in series, remains challenging today in many application fields, like surgery, the Fukushima disaster, maintenance of complex tube networks, mining and space operations. Current steerable devices require control of an extensive amount of segments, while moving as a...master thesis 2021
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Mirzaali Mazandarani, M. (author), Ghorbani, Aref (author), Nakatani, Kenichi (author), Nouri Goushki, M. (author), Tümer, N. (author), Callens, S.J.P. (author), Janbaz, S. (author), Accardo, A. (author), Bico, José (author), Habibi, Mehdi (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)The design of advanced functional devices often requires the use of intrinsically curved geometries that belong to the realm of non-Euclidean geometry and remain a challenge for traditional engineering approaches. Here, it is shown how the simple deflection of thick meta-plates based on hexagonal cellular mesostructures can be used to achieve...journal article 2021
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Callens, S.J.P. (author), Tourolle né Betts, Duncan C. (author), Müller, Ralph (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)The organization and shape of the microstructural elements of trabecular bone govern its physical properties, are implicated in bone disease, and serve as blueprints for biomaterial design. To devise fundamental structure-property relationships and design truly bone-mimicking biomaterials, it is essential to characterize trabecular bone...journal article 2021
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Li, Z. (author), Dankelman, J. (author), De Momi, Elena (author)Purpose: Planning a safe path for flexible catheters is one of the major challenges of endovascular catheterization. State-of-the-art methods rarely consider the catheter curvature constraint and reduced computational time of path planning which guarantees the possibility to re-plan the path during the actual operation. Methods: In this...journal article 2021
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Li, X. (author), Jiang, X. (author), Hopman, J.J. (author)Flexible risers are designed with strong anti-collapse capacities which enable them to operate in deep-water reservoirs. However, this anti-collapse capacity is susceptible to the pipe curvature in the flooded annulus condition. For the curved riser sections within the touch-down zone, significant reduction of collapse capacity can occur once...journal article 2021
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Kalpakoglou, Alexandra (author)Marine pipelines are often operated at high internal pressure and temperature. This loading condition results in the development of axial compressive forces that can cause the pipeline to buckle globally. Global buckling occurs when significant lateral motion is present in the pipeline and excessive feed-in occurs at that specific location,...master thesis 2020
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Hong, Z. (author), Peeters, D.M.J. (author), Turteltaub, S.R. (author)In this paper, design strategies are developed to explore better approaches of enforcing local layer-wise curvature constraints in the optimization of variable stiffness laminates in order to ensure the manufacturability of optimized designs based on the limitations of automated fiber placement. The methods developed here aim to improve an...journal article 2020
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Kromhof, Oscar (author)An analysis of curve interpolation with splines as a means to recover the curvature of a ordered set of discrete data points that originate from a closed smooth planar curve, in the context of the levelset method.bachelor thesis 2020
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Uyttendaele, Raf (author)Almost every tissue in the human body is curved in a certain way. Examples are the extracellular matrix of different tissues such as trabecular bone, different acini and blood vessels. As such, the ability to create complex curved structures is crucial in the development of biomimetic biomaterials that could be used, for example, for tissue...master thesis 2020
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Hong, Z. (author)Reducing weight and improving strength of structures have always been major design goals in the aerospace industry since its inception. In particular, strength directly affects the safety and serviceability of an airplane and is therefore of great importance in structural design. Improving the strength of an airframe can effectively increase its...doctoral thesis 2020