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Haschenburger, A.I. (author)Composites are increasingly used in the aerospace industry due to their lightweight potential and flexible design options. The most widespread manufacturing process for large components made of fibre composites is still the open mould process. In this process, a composite component is placed on a mould and hermetically sealed with a vacuum bag...doctoral thesis 2022
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Reinhard, Marko (author)To meet global market demands, it will remain important to further scale up photovoltaics (PV) production. During the production of solar cells, several defects can occur. Current approaches in quality inspection are reaching their speed limits. This thesis project evaluates the feasibility of faster quality inspection by using deep learning...master thesis 2022
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Koid, Eunice (author)Law enforcement occurs in a complex environment that contains a variety of actors that interact with one another. These interactions create emerging collective behavior over time. For example, inspectors will try to influence non-compliant actors to become compliant, while inspectees may comply or thwart inspections. Inspection agencies such as...master thesis 2022
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van Driel, Tim (author)In this design study a new design is proposed for an in situ surface inspection tool that can rapidly detect micrometer sized water droplets on a silicon wafer. This surface inspection tool is part of a proposed redesign of the thermal conditioning stage of VDL-ETGs atmospheric wafer handler. A meticulous requirements study was performed, and...master thesis 2022
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Coherent Fourier scatterometry combined with synthetic optical holography for nanoparticle detectionYin, Haoyang (author)As demand for chips increases and critical dimension keeps shrinking, the inspection of wafer becomes one of the critical challenges in the high volume production of chips. Coherent Fourier scatterometry (CFS) is a scanning bright field technique that is capable to detect nanoparticles on Si surfaces. The optical readout of CFS consists of a two...master thesis 2022
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Klerk, W.J. (author)Many countries rely on flood defence systems to prevent economic damage and loss-of-life due to catastrophic floods. Asset managers of flood defence systems need to cope with the consequences of structural degradation, and changing societal and environmental conditions, in order to satisfy performance requirements and optimize societal value of...doctoral thesis 2022
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Meister, S. (author)In modern aircraft, structural lightweight composite components are increasingly<br/>used. To manufacture these components in a costeffective way, robust production systems for the manufacturing of complex fibre composite components are necessary. A rather novel but already established process for fibre material deposition is the Automated Fibre...doctoral thesis 2022
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Ansuinelli, P. (author)The importance of inverse problems is paramount in science and physics because their solution provides information about parameters that cannot be directly observed. This thesis discusses and details the application of a few inverse methods in optical imaging, metrology and inspection of lithographic targets, particularly patterned structures on...doctoral thesis 2022
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Dijksman, Rick (author)With the introduction of machine learning algorithms in industry came a new improvement to excising production line. Image recognisance can now be used to detect defects of the product made by these production lines. However these kinds of flaw detection can be fooled by mirror-like specular light effect on these products, which can reduce the...bachelor thesis 2022
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Truong-Hong, Linh (author), Lindenbergh, R.C. (author)Three-dimensional (3D) geometric bridge models play an important role in bridge inspection, assessment, and management. Laser scanning nowadays offers a cost-efficient method to capture dense, accurate 3D topographic data of surfaces of the bridge. However, given the typical complexity of bridges, current workflows using commercial software...journal article 2022
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Andriotis, C. (author), Papakonstantinou, K.G. (author)Inspection and maintenance (I&M) optimization entails many sources of computational complexity, among others, due to high-dimensional decision and state variables in multi-component systems, long planning horizons, stochasticity of objectives and constraints, and inherent uncertainties in measurements and models. This paper studies how the...conference paper 2022
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Truong-Hong, Linh (author), Lindenbergh, R.C. (author)In construction projects, inspection of structural components mostly relies on classical measurements obtained by measuring tapes, levelling, or total stations. With those methods, only a few points on the structure can be measured, and the resulting inspection may not fully reflect the actual, detailed condition of the complete object. Laser...journal article 2022
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Fu, J. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)Natural disasters pose a tremendous risk to the reliability of distribution networks. In this paper, a novel real-time UAV routing strategy for coordination between monitoring and inspection for post-disaster restoration in distribution networks is proposed. With our proposed real-time UAV routing strategy, damages can be inspected by UAVs...journal article 2022
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Bernardi, P. (author), Cantoro, R. (author), Coyette, A. (author), Dobbeleare, W. (author), Fieback, M. (author), Floridia, A. (author), Gielenk, G. (author), Guerriero, A. M. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author)Electronics employed in modern safety-critical systems require severe qualification during the manufacturing process and in the field, to prevent fault effects from manifesting themselves as critical failures during mission operations. Traditional fault models are not sufficient anymore to guarantee the required quality levels for chips...conference paper 2022
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Guo, Y. (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Markine, V.L. (author)Railway ballast is normally made of crushed rocks with grading (particle size distributions). Ballast is inevitably suffering from more rapid degradation. Because ballast keeps undergoing and dissipating most of the train loadings, furthermore, the train speed and freight weight are increasing, causing more intensive loadings to ballast. To...book chapter 2022
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Retike, Inga (author), Bikše, Jānis (author), Kalvāns, Andis (author), Dēliņa, Aija (author), Avotniece, Zanita (author), Zaadnoordijk, W.J. (author), Jemeljanova, Marta (author), Popovs, Konrāds (author), Babre, Alise (author), Zelenkevičs, Artjoms (author), Baikovs, Artūrs (author)Groundwater level time series are of great value for a variety of groundwater studies, particularly for those dealing with the impacts of anthropogenic and climate change. Quality control of groundwater level observations is an essential step prior to any further application, e.g., trend analysis. Often the quality control of data is limited to...journal article 2022
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Wang, Shilei (author), Liu, Guixian (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Feng, Qiankuan (author), Liu, Hengbai (author), Guo, Y. (author)In the past 20 years, many studies have been performed on ballast layer inspection and condition evaluation with ground penetrating radar (GPR). GPR is a non-destructive means that can reflect the ballast layer condition (fouling, moisture) by analysing the received signal variation. Even though GPR detection/inspection for ballast layers has...review 2022
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Tao, N. (author), Anisimov, A. (author), Elenbaas, Marcel (author), Groves, R.M. (author)The use of thick composites and sandwich structures is increasing rapidly in marine, aerospace, and wind energy industries [1–3]. For example in the marine sector, sandwich structures consisting of glassfiber laminate skins bonded to a foam core are attractive because of the advantages of being light-weight, resistant to corrosion and underwater...conference paper 2022
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Wei, Zilong (author), Sun, Xianfu (author), Yang, Fei (author), Ke, Zaitian (author), Lu, Tao (author), Zhang, P. (author), Shen, C. (author)The presence of rail corrugation enlarges the wheel-rail impact and exacerbates the failure of track components, and the situation becomes even worse under high train speed, which promotes the urgent need for an efficient and easily accessible inspection method. Conventional diagnosis approaches such as axle box acceleration (ABA) and image...journal article 2022
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Guo, Y. (author), Liu, Guixian (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Qu, Jianjun (author), Wang, Shilei (author), Qiang, Weile (author)Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has been applied for ballast layer inspection for two decades, mainly for the analysis of ballast layer fouling levels. However, some issues that affect the inspection quality remain unsolved, such as issues involving the GPR equipment quality (antenna) and the correlation between the GPR indicator and fouling...journal article 2022