Inflate any form and it will naturally tend toward a sphere. Unless it is one of Francois Geuskens’ pressure vessels, which come in essentially all shapes imaginable.
It may sound like an oxymoron, but the inductive power transfer technology that PhD student Frank van der Pijl developed really does allow for a power cable that is fully insulated.
The number of small aircraft soaring in the skies is expected to have nearly doubled by 2020. To prevent accidents, it’s time to equip these planes with fly-by-wire systems, says Wouter Falkena (AE faculty).
Name: Maxim Segeren (29)
Nationality: Dutch
Supervisor: Professor Andrei Metrikine (Civil Engineering and Geosciences)
Subject: Modeling a slip joint connection for monopile support structures for offshore wind turbines
Thesis defense: In two years
“Since the first offshore wind farms were built, virtually all turbines have had the same support structure: the monopole, which is driven into the seabed, and, after that, a transition piece is grouted on top of it.
Nog maar anderhalf jaar geleden verwoestte de Japanse tsunami land en mensenlevens. Ondanks de hoge keermuren langs de kust, die bestand zouden moeten zijn tegen zulk natuurgeweld. Maar als die niet werken, hoe wapen je je dan tegen een vloedgolf, vroeg civielstudent Defne Osmanoglou zich af?
Grondstoffen worden schaars. Mijnbouw in de diepzee lijkt daarom een steeds realistischere optie om mineralen en andere bodemschatten te winnen. De nieuwe minor deep sea (3mE) die deze maand is gestart, ontrafelt het mysterie van de peilloze diepten.
Nooit eerder werd zo weinig drijfijs gemeten op de Noordpool. Hoogleraar Ocean Physics Peter Wadhams (Cambridge) waarschuwt dat het ijs over vier jaar is verdwenen.
Frogs produce chemicals in their skin glands that can be of great interest for the pharmaceutical industry. During her PhD research Geisa Evaristo developed techniques to better analyze these compounds.
Unique recordings of DNA by TU researchers show tightly wound fragments or ‘supercoils’ moving along the strand. This reveals that DNA molecules routinely change shape within a 100th of a second.
