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Ranjan, R. (author), Chen, Z. (author), Ayas, C. (author), Langelaar, Matthijs (author), van Keulen, A. (author)Overheating is a major issue especially in metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes, leading to poor surface quality, lack of dimensional precision, inferior performance and/or build failures. A 3D density-based topology optimization (TO) method is presented which addresses the issue of local overheating during metal AM. This is achieved...journal article 2023
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Carrasco Grau, J. (author), van Campenhout, O.W.G. (author), Hartog, F.H. (author), van Nesselrooij, M. (author), Baars, W.J. (author), Schrijer, F.F.J. (author)Chevron-shaped protrusions have been proposed in the literature for turbulent skin friction reduction. However, there is no consensus on the performance of this passive flow control technique; both an increase and a decrease in drag have been observed in previous studies. There is also no experimental evidence to support the working mechanism...journal article 2023
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Jouyaeian, A. (author), Fan, Q. (author), Brito Zamparette, R.L. (author), Ausserlechner, Udo (author), Motz, Mario (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)This article presents a hybrid magnetic current sensor for galvanically isolated measurements. It consists of a CMOS chip that senses the magnetic field generated by current flowing through a lead-frame-based current rail. Hall plates and coils are used to sense low-frequency (dc to 10 kHz) and high-frequency (10 kHz to 5 MHz) magnetic fields...journal article 2023
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Conradie, Peter (author), Van Hove, Stephanie (author), Pelka, S. (author), Karaliopoulos, Merkouris (author), Anagnostopoulos, Filippos (author), Brugger, Heike (author), Ponnet, Koen (author)Reducing heating-related energy consumption is vital in Europe, where it accounts for a significant portion of domestic energy usage. We studied the factors that influence reduced heating-related consumption by using three theoretical frameworks: the Theory of Planned Behaviour, the Value Belief Norm theory, and the Prototype Willingness Model....journal article 2023
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Yang, Shengnan (author), Ruangpan, L. (author), Torres, Arlex Sanchez (author), Vojinovic, Zoran (author)Urbanization and climate change are producing an escalation in the prevalence of urban problems, particularly those connected to flooding, prompting authorities and stakeholders to recognize the need for sustainable solutions. Nature-Based Solutions are progressively replacing traditional engineering solutions as an alternative since they are...journal article 2023
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Chang, Xiwen (author), Long, Yongshuang (author), Yi, Mingwei (author), Wang, C. (author), Xiao, Yue (author)Due to the complex organic properties of asphalt materials, the heating process during asphalt pavement construction will lead to the release of asphalt VOCs‧ Asphalt VOCs volatilization will cause irreversible harm to both the environment and health of construction workers‧ Researchers in the field of road construction have carried out...review 2023
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Zhang, Shizhe (author)Alkali-activated Materials (AAMs), including those classified as geopolymer, are obtained through the reaction between a solid precursor and an alkaline solution. Compared with ordinary Portland cement (OPC) binders, these materials maintain comparable mechanical properties but have the advantage of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and...doctoral thesis 2022
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Chandrashekar, S. (author)The development of carbon dioxide sequestration and conversion technologies can help set up additional loops in the naturally occurring carbon cycle. It presents the unique opportunity to transition from a fossil fuel based industry to a CO2 based industry. Life cycle analysis of CO2 conversion processes which take into account the entire...doctoral thesis 2022
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Lin, J. (author)Estuaries are the core area of land-sea interactions and have significant ecological and economic value. In estuaries, hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics are the crucial processes governing geomorphology, navigability, and primary production. Since the turn of the 20th century, increased human activities (e.g., damming, dredging, and...doctoral thesis 2022
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Han, C. (author)In the efficiency-driven photovoltaic (PV) industry, the market dominating crystalline silicon (c-Si) technology has been developing towards PV devices with carrier-selective passivating contacts (CSPCs). Especially, the silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell, based on hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) contact stacks, and the poly-Si...doctoral thesis 2022
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Bunea, S. (author)Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) water electrolysis represents a promising technology for the sustainable, emission-free hydrogen production from renewable energy, as it is able to quickly respond to fluctuations in the renewable energy supply. Nevertheless, natural scarcity of iridium, which is used as catalyst for the anodic water oxidation...doctoral 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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Nasikun, A. (author)Research in geometry processing concerns the design of algorithms and mathematical models for the analysis and manipulation of geometric data. Examples of its applications are shape projection (e.g. smoothing and filtering), shape correspondence (e.g. functional maps), shape descriptors (e.g. heat and wave kernel signatures), segmentation, and...doctoral thesis 2022
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Tiggeloven, Timothy (author), de Moel, Hans (author), van Zelst, V.T.M. (author), van Wesenbeeck, B (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Eilander, Dirk (author), Ward, Philip J. (author)Due to rising sea levels and projected socio-economic change, global coastal flood risk is expected to increase in the future. To reduce this increase in risk, one option is to reduce the probability or magnitude of the hazard through the implementation of structural, Nature-based or hybrid adaptation measures. Nature-based Solutions in...journal article 2022
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Shao, X. (author), Yao, Weiran (author), Li, Xiaolei (author), Sun, Guanghui (author), Wu, Ligang (author)This letter investigates the direct trajectory optimization of the free-floating space manipulator (FFSM). The main purpose is to plan the joint space trajectories to reduce the spacecraft motion due to the joint rotation during the FFSM performing tasks. To improve the calculation efficiency, the adaptive Radau pseudospectral method (A-RPM)...journal article 2022
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Burdyny, T.E. (author), Sassenburg, M. (author), de Rooij, R. (author), Nessbit, Nathan (author), Kas, R. (author), Chandrashekar, S. (author), Firet, N.J. (author), Yang, K. (author), Liu, K. (author), Blommaert, M.A. (author), Kolen, M. (author), Ripepi, D. (author), Smith, W.A. (author)Continued advancements in the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 (CO 2RR) have emphasized that reactivity,selectivity, and stability are not explicit material properties butcombined effects of the catalyst, double-layer, reaction environ-<br/>ment, and system configuration. These realizations have steadily built upon the foundational work...journal article 2022
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Tielen, R.P.W.M. (author), Möller, M. (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author)The use of sequential time integration schemes becomes more and more the bottleneck within large-scale computations due to a stagnation of processor’s clock speeds. In this study, we combine the parallel-in-time Multigrid Reduction in Time method with a p-multigrid method to obtain a scalable solver specifically designed for Isogeometric...journal article 2022
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Pronk, Arno (author), Brancart, S. (author), Sanders, Fred (author)In 2018, the construction sector was responsible for 39% of the worldwide energy and process-related carbon dioxide emissions (Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction et al., 2019). This is partly due to the embodied carbon, which represents the carbon emissions related to building construction and material production (LETI, 2020). While...journal article 2022
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Sanders, Fred (author), Overtoom, M.E. (author)A “community of knowledge” of representatives of the housing sector in the Netherlands investigated the impact of the behaviour of residents in sustainable housing, both newly constructed and renovated stock. For this, grey scientific data were used, i.e., data and reports from non-university agencies reflecting research commissioned by civil...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Yu (author), Wang, Yue (author), Tian, Zhi (author), Leus, G.J.T. (author), Zhang, Gong (author)This paper proposes an efficient direction of departure (DOD) and direction of arrival (DOA) estimation method for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems. For uncorrelated scenarios, the redundancy of the covariance matrix is first exploited by establishing its concise representation through redundancy reduction, which transforms the...journal article 2022