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Hargrove, Brianne (author), Frecker, Mary (author), Nastevska, Angela (author), Jovanova, J. (author)While nonlinear-elastic materials demonstrate potential in enhancing the performance of compliant mechanisms, their behavior still needs to be captured in a generalized mechanical model. To inform new designs and functionality of compliant mechanisms, a better understanding of nonlinear-elastic materials is necessary and, in particular, their...journal article 2024
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Ren, Hao (author)The phenomenon of one element moving and progressively overlaying another is common in nature, such as waves swashing and backwashing, or eyelids moving over eyeballs while blinking. Folding Texture, which was proposed by Thorben, can simulate this texture “folding” visual effect in real-time without changing geometry.<br/>However, to date, no...master thesis 2023
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Carrillo Córcoles, X. (author), Mertens, C. (author), Sciacchitano, A. (author), van Oudheusden, B.W. (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Sodja, J. (author)This study presents an aeroelastic wind-tunnel experiment to identify the influence of the wing stiffness and hinge release threshold on the gust load alleviation performance of a folding wingtip design. Five models with different stiffness and tailoring properties are tested, and the wing root bending moment at different conditions is compared...journal article 2023
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van Manen, T. (author)An important goal of bone tissue engineering is the development of synthetic bio-scaffolds that would eliminate the need for bone transplantation, also known as bone grafting. Bone grafting is associated with some serious limitations such, as morbidity at the donor-site and shortage of donor tissue. Therefore, scientist have been trying to...doctoral thesis 2022
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Carrillo Córcoles, Xavier (author)The flared folding wingtip (FFWT) is a concept presented by Airbus to increase the aerodynamic efficiency and provide a means of load alleviation. A gate-to-gate demonstration of this concept has already been presented with the AlbatrossONE, a scaled aircraft featuring the FFWT concept. In this demonstration, the aircraft fold the wingtips...master thesis 2022
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Fetter Brücker Liserre, Marina (author)The research and project evolved from the analysis of nomadic patterns of mobile groups original to the Almaty region of Kazakhstan prior to Soviet rule, which was then led to an investigation of nomadic metaphysics. The conclusion of this analysis suggests that aspects of mobility such as ephemerality and informality – long deemed as...master thesis 2022
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Rooijers, C.T. (author), Huijsing, J.H. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)This article describes an auto-zero stabilized voltage buffer that achieves low offset and low noise with sub-pA input current. A high gain stabilization loop is used to periodically cancel the buffer’s offset. The loop itself is periodically disconnected from the buffer and auto-zeroed, during which its bandwidth is reduced to reduce the...journal article 2022
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Amory, Tijmen (author)Cephalopods (e.g. squids, octopuses, cuttlefish) are able to actively adapt their appearance in terms of color, texture or transparency. The goal of this project is to mimic this ability with a simple and mechanical solution and apply this technology to a product or environment. This resulted in a pneumatic mechanism which folds open after...master thesis 2021
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Smit, Freek (author)During this thesis, 2D modelling using the MOVE software suite is performed on a fold and thrust belt in the French Prealps. The area of interest is called the Couspeau area and is 72 km2. In this area, Vocontian basin sediments deposited during the Jurassic and Cretaceous can be found. The area contains well exposed fold and thrust structures....bachelor thesis 2020
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Potkamp, Storm (author)A Solar Electric Vehicle is a vehicle that receives a significant amount of its total energy consumption through sunlight gathered using solar arrays. The main objective of this thesis was to determine how the design of the rear low-speed crash structures should be different for a Solar Electric Vehicle, compared to conventional cars. This is...master thesis 2020
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Radman, A. (author), Kousoulas, Stavros (author), Djebbara, Z. (author), K., August (author)The philosophies of substance presuppose a subject which then encounters a datum. This subject then reacts to the datum. The process ontology presupposes a datum (firstness) which is met with feelings (secondness), and progressively attains the unity of a subject (thirdness). It is in this sense that our bodily experience is primarily an...conference paper 2020
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Abrishami, S. (author), Khakzad, Nima (author), Hosseini, Seyed Mahmoud (author)Bayesian Network (BN) has been increasingly exploited to improve different aspects of Human Reliability Analysis (HRA), resulting in a new generation of HRA techniques, known as BN-HRA models. However, validating and evaluating the accuracy of BN-HRA models is still a challenging task. In this study, we have assessed and compared the...journal article 2020
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Kwok, Kam Sang (author), Huang, Qi (author), Mastrangeli, Massimo (author), Gracias, David (author)Self-folding broadly refers to the assembly of 3D structures by bending, curving, and folding without the need for manual or mechanized intervention. Self-folding is scientifically interesting because examples of self-folded structures, from plant leaves to gut villi to cerebral gyri, abound in nature. From an engineering and technological...review 2019
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van der Graaf, Juriaan (author)In cochlear implantation surgery, the appropriate placement of the electrode array into the cochlea is vital. Suboptimal placement of the electrode array may lead to reduced hearing performance and speech recognition after the surgery. Currently, there are methods to confirm the electrode position post-operatively (e.g. through a CT scan), but...master thesis 2019
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Mittempergher, Silvia (author), Succo, Andrea (author), Bistacchi, Andrea (author), Storti, Fabrizio (author), Bruna, P.B.R. (author), Meda, Marco (author)The sedimentary succession exposed in the Northern Dalmatia Islands mainly consists of Cretaceous to Neogene shallow water carbonates, folded and imbricated within the External Dinarides thrust belt. During Cretaceous times, carbonate sediments were deposed on a heterogeneous, tectonically-influenced carbonate platform, which was then uplifted...review 2019
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Callens, S.J.P. (author), Tümer, N. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Origami-inspired folding methods present novel pathways to fabricate three-dimensional (3D) structures from 2D sheets. A key advantage of this approach is that planar printing and patterning processes could be used prior to folding, affording enhanced surface functionality to the folded structures. This is particularly useful for 3D lattices,...journal article 2019
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Daout, Simon (author), Sudhaus, Henriette (author), Kausch, T. (author), Steinberg, Andreas (author), Dini, Benedetta (author)Understanding the mechanisms by which earthquake cycles produce folding and accommodate shortening is essential to quantify the seismic potential of active faults and integrate aseismic slip within our understanding of the physical mechanisms of the long-term deformation. However, measuring such small deformation signals in mountainous areas...journal article 2019
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Marinus, tycho (author)While the sequencing era has greatly increased the amount of protein sequences, in the eld of protein structure this increase has not occurred, mostly due to the high cost and workload of protein structure determination. This has resulted in a large gap between the amount of protein sequences and protein structures. In the case of TB drug...master thesis 2018
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Roebroeks, Joppe (author)Geological surveying is a common practice performed by geologists nowadays. Determining layer orientation parameters and identifying folds are examples of features needed in order to create a geological map or model of the (sub) surface. Surveying is expensive and time consuming, therefore such survey is recently being investigated and...master thesis 2018
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Jiang, H. (author), Ligouras, C. (author), Nihtianova, S. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)When chopping is applied to a continuous-time sigmadelta modulator (CTΣΔM), quantization noise fold-back often occurs, leading to increased in-band noise. This can be prevented by employing a return-to-zero (RZ) digital-to-analog converter (RZ DAC) in the modulator's feedback path and arranging the chopping transitions to coincide with its RZ...journal article 2018