Projects
Safe and qualitative dry aging of beef Flanders' FOOD
Advanced bearing modelling for the numerical analysis of system-level machine dynamics KU Leuven
The last few decades have seen a growing trend towards lightweight and high performance mechanical systems. Meanwhile, the average time-to-market has been drastically reduced. These recent developments are driving the manufacturer's need to predict the dynamic machine behaviour more accurately and at an early design stage. Due to the advent of modern computational capabilities, numerical simulation tools can be used for this ...
Behaviour and Design of Built-up Structural Elements Composed of Thin-walled Cold-formed Steel Profiles KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis addresses an increasing demand from the cold-formed steel production industry for more stable load-bearing elements. As buildings constructed entirely from cold-formed steel profiles and sheeting increase their spans, heights and bays, light steel frames not only become more impressive, but the applications of light-steel framing widen.
The limited stability of standard cold-formed steel elements is resolved in the ...
Essays in Development Economics: Evidence from East Africa KU Leuven
This dissertation is divided into four chapters, each built around a different research paper that falls under the broad field of `development economics'. The analysis in all chapters is mostly empirical, relying on primary data collected in recent years from East Africa. Of course, theory plays a key role in directing the analysis. Chapters 1 and 2 study different aspects of female empowerment and household decisions in Tanzania. Chapters 3 ...
A Cultural Psychological Approach to Acculturation KU Leuven
In the current research program, I further develop and empirically test a cultural psychological approach to acculturation. This approach centers on the notion of ‘cultural fit’ – i.e., the extent to which an individual’s pattern of psychological functioning is similar to the typical pattern of others in the socio-cultural context. I start from the cultural psychological insights that people are socially ‘wired’ to fit their socio-cultural ...
The German Federal Constitutional Court as guardian of normative sovereignty in a complex European legal order. KU Leuven
The EU-legal order is a complex Legal order. Interactions and possible conflicts between its different components (EU-law in the strict sense, national constitutional law and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms/ECHR) make up for the dynamic nature of the EU-legal order, characterized by the simultaneous validity of different, partly overlapping constitutions. Constitutional courtsare among the ...
Strategic Research Programme: Molecular Imaging and targeting of macrophages in Inflammation (ITARMI) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Tilting-Pad Gas Bearings for High-Speed Applications: Analysis, Design and Validation KU Leuven
High-speed bearing technology is essential for the development of small-scale turbomachines, such as micro gas turbines, turbo compressors, and micro expansion turbines. These devices are only energy efficient when they rotate at high speeds, typically beyond 100,000 rpm and at temperatures of a few hundred degrees Celsius. Unfortunately, such high rotational speeds and temperatures are impossible to obtain with conventional bearings. ...
Greenways as a New Planning Strategy in the Pearl River Delta, China KU Leuven
The term of greenway is a derivation from greenbelt and parkway, which refer to linear green open spaces that serve for ecological, recreational, cultural, aesthetic, or other purposes compatible with the concept of sustainable land use. In the 1990s, the greenway movement in the world arose as a response, driven by basic human needs, to urbanization. In the diverse contexts, greenways have been an adaptive ...