Using the foundation piles for heat exchange promises huge advantages in heating and cooling. So why are ‘energy piles’ so rarely used?
The Impact Factor is so important for journals that some of them use tricks to inflate it. An indicator has been developed to spot such fraud.
When people currently hear the term ‘augmented reality,’ Pokémon Go immediately springs to mind. Dr. Stephan Lukosch and Dr. Heide Lukosch from the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management think that it has much more to offer.
A miniaturised and mass-producible gas sensor is in development. It will allow household burners to adjust to changes in gas composition.
Now that the Olympic games are over, what can be done with the stadiums and guest houses that were built? Dr. Yawei Chen (Architecture) studies Olympic legacies.
Radio astronomers want to deploy swarms of nanosatellites in outer-space to explore the earliest cosmos. Delft researchers brought this ambition a step closer by developing algorithms for navigation and time-keeping.
Team Forze Delft unveiled its hydrogen electric racing car at the Gamma Racing Day on August 7, 2016. Team members expect to hit the road before September.
The ocean floor, the last frontier of earth, will reveal itself thanks to swarms of robots talking to one another with acoustic pulses. Or so Delft researchers believe.
The process has been debated for over a decade but now special X-ray tomography has revealed how crystals form within steel.
Steel, the combination of iron with up to two per cent carbon, is one of the materials featuring phase transitions in solids, said Dr.