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Hageman, Rico (author)The Port of Antwerp is the second-largest container port in Europe. The rising demand for container transport requires significant investments in infrastructure projects. Macomi helps the Port of Antwerp to determine the effect of different projects on the throughput of the port using simulation. In this thesis, the aim is to create algorithms...master thesis 2021
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Luijten, Mirra (author)A large part of the Dutch plastic waste is currently incinerated, with a high amount of greenhouse gas emissions as a consequence. If recycling is done efficiently, it could provide environmental benefit over energy recovery through incineration, especially in a low carbon economy where renewable energy generation becomes the new status quo....master thesis 2021
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Gasman, Danny (author)Interactions between tidal migration and the encounter of mean motion resonances (MMRs) have widely been used in attempts to explain unexpectedly young surfaces and high free eccentricities of moons. A driving variable in this process is the planetary quality factor (Q$), which has so far been assumed to be constant throughout the system....master thesis 2021
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Brenninkmeyer, Talitha (author)“<i>A ruptured AAA [Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm] is the 15th leading cause of death in the country, and the 10th leading cause of death in men older than 55</i>” in the United States, states Singh (n.d.), in the Society for Vascular Surgeons. Such Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA, see Figure 2.2) are increasingly treated by...master thesis 2021
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Akkerman, Bootsy (author)The ever growing world population - 10 billion by 2050 - brings many challenges to the table. One of the most imminent is the way we handle and take care of our planets natural resources. More people means more needs. How do are we going provide for all these people? Over the past decades, we have reached a general consensus that our planet is a...master thesis 2021
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Huijsman, Douwe (author)There is a lot of uncertainty in climate change developments, and therefore in its consequences. For the flood defence system of the Netherlands, an important consequence of climate change is the sea level rise. Marine locks are large, rigid, and intricate structures, with a required lifespan of at least 100 years, for which often design...master thesis 2021
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Knoop, V.L. (author), van Lint, J.W.C. (author), Yuan, K. (author), Zwaal, B.A. (author)In het Nederlandse wegverkeer is veel vertraging. Een vermindering van het verkeer zorgt ook voor een vermindering van die vertraging. Dit kan bereikt worden door maatregelen als beprijzing of spitsrechten. Het verkeerssysteem is één samenhangend systeem over grote afstanden. Om de effecten van deze maatregelen op netwerkschaal te beoordelen,...journal article 2021
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Pimenta, Matheus (author), Gürleyük, C. (author), Walsh, Paul (author), O’Keeffe, Daniel (author), Babaie, M. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)This article presents a low-power eddy-current sensor interface for touch applications. It is based on a bang-bang digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) that converts the displacement of a metal target into digital information. The PLL consists of a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) built around a sensing coil and a capacitive DAC, a...journal article 2021
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Liu, Bangan (author), Zhang, Yuncheng (author), Qiu, Junjun (author), Ngo, Huy Cu (author), Deng, Wei (author), Nakata, Kengo (author), Yoshioka, Toru (author), Emmei, Jun (author), Pang, Jian (author), Someya, T. (author)In this paper, a fully-synthesizable digital-to-time (DTC)-based fractional-N multiplying delay-locked loop,(MDLL) is presented. Noise and linearity of synthesizable DTCs are analyzed, and a two-stage synthesizable DTC is proposed in which a path-selection DTC is used as the coarse stage and a variable-slope DTC is used as the fine stage. To...journal article 2021
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Beloqui Larumbe, L. (author), Qin, Z. (author), Wang, L. (author), Bauer, P. (author)This article presents a small-signal model for power-electronics converters that use a typical control structure in wind energy applications: the double synchronous reference frame current control. The article considers the presence of unbalanced currents and voltages, and analyzes their impact on the frequency couplings of the converter. In...journal article 2021
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Abramian, Andrei K. (author), Vakulenko, Sergei A. (author), van Horssen, W.T. (author)This paper presents a mathematical analysis of an extended model describing a sea ice-induced frequency lock-in for vertically sided offshore structures. A simple Euler–Bernoulli beam as model for the offshore structure is used, and a moving boundary between an ice floe and the structure itself is introduced. A nonlinear equation for the beam...journal article 2021
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Cantarelli, Chantal C. (author), Oglethorpe, David (author), van Wee, G.P. (author)Lock-in is defined as the tendency to continue with an inefficient decision or project proposal. The front-end phase is critical to project success, yet most studies have focused on lock-in in the implementation phase. Moreover, little is known about the way in which decision-makers perceive the risk of lock-in. In this paper we identify...journal article 2021
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Bouchaut, B.F.H.J. (author), Asveld, L. (author), Hanefeld, U. (author), Vlierboom, A.C.E. (author)Although both the Inherent Safety Principles (ISPs) and the Safe-by-Design (SbD) approach revolve around the central value of safety, they have a slightly different focus in terms of developing add-on features or considering initial design choices. This paper examines the differences between these approaches and analyses which approach is more...journal article 2021
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Adatrao, S. (author), Bertone, M. (author), Sciacchitano, A. (author)A novel approach is devised for the quantification of systematic uncertainty due to peak locking in particle image velocimetry (PIV), which also leads to correction of the peak-locking errors. The approach, applicable to statistical flow properties such as time-averaged velocity and Reynolds stresses, relies on image recordings with multiple...journal article 2021
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Li, Chao Chieh (author), Yuan, Min Shueh (author), Liao, Chia Chun (author), Chang, Chih Hsien (author), Lin, Yu Tso (author), Tsai, Tsung Hsien (author), Huang, Tien Chien (author), Liao, Hsien Yuan (author), Staszewski, R.B. (author)In this article, we introduce a fractional-N all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) architecture based on a single LC-tank, featuring an ultra-wide tuning range (TR) and optimized for ultra-low area in 10-nm FinFET CMOS. Underpinned by excellent switches in the FinFET technology, a high turn-on/off capacitance ratio of LC-tank switched...journal article 2021
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Cañizares Gaztelu, J.C. (author), Copeland, S.M. (author), Doorn, N. (author)While resilience is a major concept in development, climate adaptation, and related do-mains, many doubts remain about how to interpret this term, its relationship with closely overlap-ping terms, or its normativity. One major view is that, while resilience originally was a descriptive concept denoting some adaptive property of ecosystems,...journal article 2021
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Huijsman, Nino (author)The Netherlands has always been threatened by water. To protect flood-prone areas flood defenses have been constructed. To guarantee that they keep meeting the requirements systematic assessments take place. Since 2017, these assessments are performed according to the ‘Wettelijke beoordelingsinstrumentarium’ resulting in a safety judgment...master thesis 2020
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Thakur, Kartik (author)The demand for using thin-walled composite structures for instance, in aircraft and ships are rising in the industry. These structures contain material interfaces, and at these interfaces, the structure exhibits non-smooth field behavior which is known as weak discontinuity. It is essential to study the effects of such discontinuities on the...master thesis 2020
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Verschuren, Ties (author)In pursuit of extremely sensitive sensors, the dimensions of these sensors get smaller and smaller. Small scale resonators are commonly used as sensors by relating changes in the dynamic behaviour to a sensed quantity. Conventionally, the dynamics used for sensing are in the linear regime. But at smaller scales the dynamic range of the linear...master thesis 2020
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Koreman, Dion (author)With the Paris climate accords signed in 2016, most countries have committed themselves to ambitious climate targets during the next decades. One of these targets is a dramatic increase in the overall energy portfolio's market share of renewable energies. This increase in renewable market share will, for a large part, consist of newly built...master thesis 2020