Non-saturated Chloride Diffusion in Sustainable Cementitious Materials

Chloride-induced reinforcement corrosion, caused by chloride diffusion in the unsaturated concrete cover, is a major durability problem of concrete structures. Current concepts for concrete mixture design and for service life prediction are generally based on the understanding of the chloride diffusion coefficient of saturated concrete. This...

Self-Spacing Algorithms for Continuous Descent Approaches

The thesis describes the algorithms design required to perform in-trail self-spacing during continuous descent approaches. Both distance-based and time-based spacing is treated. The CDA-procedure that is investigated is the Three-Degree Decelerating Approach (TDDA). The results of various off-line and simulator experiments as well as test flight...

Random graphs: From static to dynamic

Many empirical studies on real-life networks show that many networks are small worlds, meaning that typical distances in these networks are small, and many of them have power-law degree sequences, meaning that the number of nodes with degree k falls off as kˆ (-τ) for some exponent τ>1. These networks are modeled by means of scale-free random...

Fundamental Properties of Wireless Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Wireless mobile ad-hoc networks are formed by mobile devices that set up a possibly short-lived network for communication needs of the moment. Ad-hoc networks are decentralized, self-organizing networks capable of forming a communication network without relying on any fixed infrastructure. Each node in an ad-hoc network is equipped with a radio...

On the Necessary Degrees of Freedom for Helicopter and Wind Turbine Low-Frequency Mode Modeling