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Agante de Carvalho, José Rui (author)Waveriders are high-lifting hypersonic configurations with great potential to become a future reusable launch vehicle concept. However, in a re-entry flight scenario, standard waverider designs face challenges such as stability, controllability, heat load management, and performance at off-design conditions. In this research, a baseline...master thesis 2023
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Martorelli, Luca (author)The use of CFD-based optimizations is becoming a standard for turbomachinery design. Although the use of such optimizations can lead to great improvements of the machine performances, there are still several shortcomings in the common design procedure of turbomachines. In fact, this entails the optimization of the component shape, and only a...master thesis 2023
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Chandra, Anant (author)A Low-Pressure Micro-resistojet (LPM) is a type of in-space electrothermal propulsion system for satellites that works by heating low-pressure (50 to 300 Pa) fluid flowing through microchannels/slots (typically <1 mm diameter) using resistive heating elements like thin-film Molybdenum. This thesis delineates a response surface based method to...master thesis 2021
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Qian, Yichen (author), Hou, F. (author), Fan, J. (author), Lv, Quanya (author), Fan, X. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)A new panel-level silicon carbide (SiC) metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) power module was developed by using the fan-out and embedded chip technologies. To achieve the more effective thermal management and higher reliability under thermal cycling, a new optimization method called Ant colony optimization-back...journal article 2021
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Dolron, Pieter (author)In order to perform a reassessment of existing structures or design new structures in a more efficient and economical way non-linear finite element (NLFE) models are used to take into account all non-linear behavior in reinforced concrete structures. The Model Code 2010 (fib, 2012) suggest several safety formats to perform non-linear finite...master thesis 2018
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Otake, Y. (author), Honjo, Y. (author), Hiramatsu, Y. (author), Lee, K. (author), Kodaka, T. (author)A design scheme is proposed to evaluate the safety of continuous linear structure i.e. river levee. The scheme is developed to establish a procedure to continuously evaluate the stability failure of embankment during flood runoff by seepage, and to identify locations for reinforcement of river levee. A 20km stretch of a fairly large river...conference paper 2015
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Vásconez, P.A. (author)Reliability-based design is an approach currently gaining more popularity for geotechnical engineering. Neverthless, its implementation poses several challenges, one being the additional time (usually significant) in order to perform it. An important portion of this additional time comes from the need to perform many scenarios to compute the...master thesis 2013
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Xuan, D.X. (author), Houben, L.J.M. (author), Molenaar, A.A.A. (author), Shui, Z.H, (author)Due to environmental reasons and the shortage of natural resources, it is greatly valuable to recycle construction and demolition waste (CDW) as much as possible. One of effective ways to reuse more CDW is to produce a cemented road base material. The recycled CDW however is a mix of recycled masonry and concrete with a wide variation in...journal article 2011
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- Gurav, S.P. (author) doctoral thesis 2005
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Vervenne, K. (author)The research presented in this thesis deals with gradient-enhanced approximate design optimization. This research has been carried out as part of the ADOPT project (Approximate Design OPTimization), a joint STW project with the Eindhoven University of Technology. In structural optimization, sensitivity analysis is often performed by means of the...doctoral thesis 2005