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Julie, Desarnaud (author), Vanhellemont, Yves (author), Lubelli, B. (author), de Bouw, Michael (author)Rising damp is a very common phenomenon and one of the most important threats for historical buildings. In this paper two non-invasive systems are studied, the first one is based on the interaction of pulsed electromagnetic waves with the porous materials and the second one is based on the active electro-osmosis principle where the natural...abstract 2021
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Kupski, J.A. (author), Teixeira De Freitas, S. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author), Benedictus, R. (author)The goal of this study is to explore new topologies for adhesively bonded composite overlap joints in order to improve their strength under tensile loading. Multiple stacked overlaps, also referred as finger joints, are compared with single overlap topologies. The quasi-static tensile behaviour of single lap joints with two overlap lengths 12...journal article 2020
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Rajashekharuni, Pawan (author)Bainitic steels are the type of steels which are widely in use, especially in automotive industries, for its good mechanical behavior, i.e., with coexistence of strength, ductility and fatigue resistance. A better understanding on the mechanism and transformation kinetics of bainite are necessary in order to improve the performance of the...master thesis 2020
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Drybrough, Ben (author)An inclusive and sustainable transport network allows people the opportunity to access their daily needs. When there is a discrepancy between someone’s transport needs and their supplied network, they are at the risk of experiencing transport poverty. This study looks to define the transport needs for clusters of neighbourhoods of different...master thesis 2020
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Westrik, Lucas (author)Over the recent years, flood risks and losses have been increasing for coastal cities due to climate change, subsidence, population and economic growth. Hong Kong and Macau are two cities located in the Pearl River Delta that experience a significant flood risk due to storm surges. The increased losses and risks has sparked interest around the...master thesis 2020
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Vummidi, Narayanee (author)In the Krafla region in North East Iceland, a change in the deformation pattern was observed in 2018. Since the 1975-1984 rifting event, there was subsidence seen in the Krafla caldera and along the fissure swarm. This subsidence was explained by deflation which decreased exponentially along the years. In 2018, this deformation pattern reversed,...master thesis 2020
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Swinnen, Jan (author)In recent years, a growing amount of movable highway bridges with a timber deck are approaching the end of their service life. Since these bridges have opened, the traffic intensity has increased yearly and environmental effects had the opportunity to deteriorate the bridges slowly. Inspections revealed that the main load-carrying elements are...master thesis 2020
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Khastieva, D. (author)Environmental and political factors determine long-term development for renewable generation around the world. The rapid growth of renewable generation requires timely changes in power systems operation planning, investments in additional flexible assets and transmission capacity. The development trends of restructured power systems suggest that...doctoral thesis 2020
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Wittekoek, Britt (author)Geogrids are commonly used for reinforcement of soils in construction of railway and road embankments and bridge abutments. A relatively new application of geogrids is the anchorage of sheet pile walls, in which one or more layers of geogrid are attached to the sheet pile wall. This type of anchorage is particularly suitable for projects with...master thesis 2020
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Yang, M. (author)Multi-epoch Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) is widely used to estimate displacements of selected scatterers from phase observations. However, their interpretation needs a connection to objects in the real world. <br/><br/>To associate InSAR scatterers to their corresponding geo-objects, it is necessary to (i) accurately estimate...doctoral thesis 2020
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Broekmeulen, Kees (author)This graduation project is on behalf of TU Delft and Zimmer Biomet in collaboration with Orthopedic surgeons from Bergman Clinics, Orthopedic Clinic, in Naarden. The aim of this master thesis was to design a product which could reduce the pollution of harmful noise during hip replacement surgery. Noisy workplaces and especially within this...master thesis 2020
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Tinwala, Sakina (author)Flat plate heat exchangers are widely used in industrial and domestic applications. Industrial plate type heat exchangers generally operate in the turbulent flow regime. Although, increase in flow speeds leads to higher transport of heat, it also causes a rise in the pressure loss which is undesirable. Therefore, to combat the problem of high...master thesis 2020
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Ritchie, M. (author), Capraru, R. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)Radar sensors have a new growing application area of dynamic hand gesture recognition. Traditionally radar systems are considered to be very large, complex and focused on detecting targets at long ranges. With modern electronics and signal processing it is now possible to create small compact RF sensors that can sense subtle movements over...journal article 2020
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Besnea, Irina (author)With increasing UAV operations, tailored measures need to be implemented to integrate the massive employment of these vehicles in day-to-day operations. One of the current issues of UAVs is the noise emitted by these vehicles. The purpose of this research is to offer a doorway towards understanding the behavior of drone noise with changing...master thesis 2020
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Sun, B. (author), van Kampen, E. (author)A novel adaptive dynamic programming method, called incremental model-based global dual heuristic programming, is proposed to generate a self-learning adaptive flight controller, in the absence of sufficient prior knowledge of system dynamics. An incremental technique is employed for online local dynamics identification, instead of the...journal article 2020
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Raimondo, A. (author), Doesburg, S.A. (author), Bisagni, C. (author)In this work, an approach based on the Virtual Crack Closure Technique, included in the commercial finite element code ABAQUS, is adopted to study the propagation of delamination in composite structures under quasi-static and fatigue loads. The methodology, originally capable of simulating only delamination under quasi-static loads, has...journal article 2020
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Weijers, Wessel Niek (author)Physical systems in the continuous domain are often solved using computer-aided software because of their complexity. Preserving the physical quantities from the continuous domain in the discrete domain is therefore of utmost importance. There is however a broad range of techniques that can accomplish the translation between the continuous and...master thesis 2020
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Möller, M. (author), Jaeschke, Andrzej (author)High-performance computing platforms are becoming more and more heterogeneous, which makes it very difficult for researchers and scientific software developers to keep up with the rapid changes on the hardware market. In this paper, the open-source project FDBB (Fluid Dynamics Building Blocks) is presented, which eases the development of...conference paper 2020
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Marynets, K. (author)We present some new results on the approximation of solutions of a special type of fractional boundary-value problem. The focus of our research is a system of three fractional differential equations of the mixed order, subjected to the so-called "interpolation" type boundary restrictions. Under certain conditions, the aforementioned problem is...journal article 2020
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Visser, P.M. (author), Mol, M.A. (author)Context. A double planet system or planet binary undergoes eclipses that modify the reflective light curve. In the time domain, the eclipse events are fast and weak. This would make their signal difficult to find and recognize in the phase light curve, even for small inclinations when eclipses happen frequently. However, due to the quasiperiodic...journal article 2020