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Stories of Science: Meltwater from the Austrian Alps

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Stories of Science: Climate technology you hope you’ll never need

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Digital water

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Sand on the horizon

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Stories of Science: Safety in numbers in times of Corona? There can be.

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Stories of Science: Sweet solutions to a salty problem

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Student Stories: Building sand castles for your graduation

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Stories of Science: Getting it straight: bridges are becoming circular

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Stories of Science: Good vibrations? Not for bridges

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Stories of Science: Help from on high to solve earthly problems

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‘We are showing how we can take something as dramatic as Covid-19 and use it to develop world-class scientific research’

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Stories of Science: Understanding complex coral reef coasts

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Stories of Science: Creating order in the chaos of sand and wind

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Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Making concrete more ductile

With an ERC Starting grant, Branko Šavija investigates auxetic cementitious composites.

The Netherlands’ most intelligent bicycle lane at TU Delft Campus

An interactive map of how busy the North Sea actually is

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Availability of clean water Climate change Energy transition Resource availability Urbanisation and Mobility

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The landslide forecast coming to you from space

Catching the breeze may bring you gold but sail too close to the wind and you’ll miss the boat. Combined with a sailor’s intuition meteorologist Sukanta Basu’s highly detailed wind forecast may well help the Dutch sailing team secure a win at the Olympics this year.

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Meltwater from the Austrian Alps

It’s a decade since the creation of the Sand Motor, an artificial sand bank off the North Sea coast. What happens to a natural system following human intervention on such a large scale? That question has been the focus of professor of Coastal Engineering Stefan Aarninkhof’s research for the last ten years. The results, he hopes, will pave the way to a full-scale experimental climate lab.

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Climate technology you hope you’ll never need

Could clouds be modified to slow global warming? Cloud expert Herman Russchenberg is investigating climate intervention but hopes his theories will never be put to the test.

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Digital water

Overstroomde riolen, plastic afval, lekkages van waterleidingen… Ook onder de grond kent Nederland grote wateruitdagingen. Met menselijke kracht alleen kunnen we dat niet oplossen, zegt professor Zoran Kapelan. Daarom schakelt hij de hulp in van kunstmatige intelligentie en machine learning.

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The wind app which puts the wind in your sails

Catching the breeze may bring you gold but sail too close to the wind and you’ll miss the boat. Combined with a sailor’s intuition meteorologist Sukanta Basu’s highly detailed wind forecast may well help the Dutch sailing team secure a win at the Olympics this year.

Reading time: 7 min

Sand on the horizon

It’s a decade since the creation of the Sand Motor, an artificial sand bank off the North Sea coast. What happens to a natural system following human intervention on such a large scale? That question has been the focus of professor of Coastal Engineering Stefan Aarninkhof’s research for the last ten years. The results, he hopes, will pave the way to a full-scale experimental climate lab.

Reading time: 3 min

Safety in numbers in times of Corona? There can be.

When did we last dance at a pop festival, cheer on our favourite football team or get together with friends for a meal at a restaurant? It all seems an eternity ago. Dorine Duives misses the crowds as well, and not just for the atmosphere. As a TU Delft researcher Duives studies pedestrian crowd behaviour and the arrival of coronavirus and the 1.5 metre society has made her expertise more relevant than ever. As the crisis developed, the focus of her research became firmly centred on safe ways of opening up society again.

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Sweet solutions to a salty problem

Fringing coral reefs provide a sheltered habitat for many sea animals and are a snorkelers’ paradise. But they also form a natural barrier which protects the shoreline and the area further inland. Experiments using 3D printed replicas of a coral are helping Marion Tissier gain an insight into how coral reefs influence and dampen wave energy.

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Getting it straight: bridges are becoming circular

A large number of bridges in the Netherlands are scheduled for large-scale maintenance work or replacement. In order to minimise the effect on the environment and bring down costs researcher Wenjun Cao is working on a model to assess the potential for circularity of these bridges. This will help the Netherlands to achieve its aim of a fully Circular Economy (CE) by 2050.

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Good vibrations? Not for bridges

Due to poor monitoring, many structures are not maintained properly or on time. This results in safety risks and high costs for overdue maintenance. Researcher Alice Cicirello is working on better design and monitoring tools to ensure the secure construction of structures to extend their service life.

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Help from on high to save earthly problems

The ground beneath our feet is constantly moving and that can compromise the stability of buildings and infrastructure. Satellite data are helping Giorgia Giardina to chart the impact of subsurface activity on buildings in great detail so efficient measures to limit damage, cost and safety risks can be taken before it’s too late.

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Campus Mobility Dashboard to monitor crowd behavior at TU Delft

For years, Distinguished Professor Smart Urban Mobility Serge Hoogendoorn had been dreaming of a sensor network for research into traffic flows. The fact that it would happen on the TU Delft campus was never part of the dream. A perfect case of “never waste a good crisis”.

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In the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences we all work on a daily basis to understand, intervene and improve the world we live in. This image visualises our research and educational programmes.

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In the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences we all work on a daily basis to understand, intervene and improve the world we live in. This image visualises our research and educational programmes.

Ground and Satellite measurements for atmosphere research

Aerosol particles cool the climate less than we thought

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Agenda

January

Thesis defence D.V. Psychas

Thesis defence J.D. Munoz Sierra

Thesis defence Y. Feng

Thesis defence M. Liu

Thesis defence K. Li