Increasing rainfall levels will force most Dutch riverside cities to augment their flood defences. Why not improve the urban quality at the same time, asks PhD student Bianca Stalenberg.
‘Recent floods in Pakistan’s Indus Valley are of truly Biblical proportions’, the BBC writes on its website. And it asks: ‘Will the Pakistan floods strike again?’
Delta and Delft Integraal often write about innovative ideas that offer big promises for the future. But what has happened to such ideas a couple years on? What for instance has happened to the inexpensive Rfid tags that could measure how much water is in a plant pot?
Name: Hemant Sharma (25)Nationality: IndianPromoter: Professor Jilt Sietsma (faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, section microstructure control in metals)Subject: Fabrication of high temperature resistant steelThesis defense: In two years“I broke my leg ten years ago, and it was repaired with a plate of titanium – a very thin piece.
The copy service which dr. Ellis van den Hende contracted to print her thesis prints both novels and theses on a daily basis. But printing a thesis that looked like a novel confused them.
Delft researchers develop gentle robot hands that curl around any object they encounter.
Gently a finger curls around my hand. It smoothly follows every movement I make. Only the cold metal touch reveals that this is a robotic finger.
TU Delft student Tim Zaman successfully completed a remarkable hobby project. Last summer he launched a helium balloon loaded with cameras and controls.
An architect aims to make an island out of the plastic rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean, reports Cobouw, a Dutch journal for the building industry.
Koolzaadolie kan het best samen met aardolie gekraakt worden tot diesel en benzine, schrijven Delftse onderzoekers. Door toevoeging van waterstof en nikkel verhoogden ze bovendien de benzineopbrengst met een derde.
Fysiotherapeut en autostoelontwerper dr. Matthias Franz besloot tijdens zijn promotieonderzoek naar het comfort van autostoelen bij Industrieel Ontwerpen om het helemaal andersom aan te pakken.
