Projects
MP Multi Use: Multi-(re)-use scenarios for existing offshore infrastructure: a conceptual, economical, legal and structural reliability study Ghent University
MP Multi Use project is a collaborative project of the Brussels free University (VUB), the Ghent University (UGent), the Marine, Dredging & Port Engineering (IMDC), Sirris and the Federal Public Service Economy (FOD Economie). Justification for this project comes from the question whether monopile wind turbines (MP) can be re-used as an alternative to their decommissioning. In the light of this rationale, MP Multi Use is studying the ...
Multi-(re)-use scenarios for existing offshore infrastructure: a conceptual, economical, legal and structural reliability study Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Resilience of (fiber) reinforced and precast concrete components and structures – experimental investigation and numerical reliability assessment KU Leuven
Resilience of (fiber) reinforced and precast concrete components and structures – experimental investigation and numerical reliability assessment KU Leuven
As the most widely used construction material, concrete is ever present in our built environment. Through advances in materials and constructions and with more emphasis being placed on circular construction, traditional in-situ cast reinforced concrete has been supplemented with precast elements connected with (high-performance) fiber reinforced concrete infills. Within this research project, the structural behavior of precast and fiber ...
Physical Modeling of Reliability Issues in Ordered and Disordered Systems Based on Consistent Carrier and Phonon Transport Treatment KU Leuven
Degradation mechanisms plaguing the modern metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistor (MOSFET) can substantially limit its lifetime and prevent introduction of novel device architectures and further MOSFET scaling. In 3D transistor architectures, such as fin, nanowire (NW), nanosheet (NC), forksheet (FS) FETs, a superposition of hot-carrier degradation (HCD) and self-heating (SH) was flagged to be the most detrimental reliability ...
Collective Knowledge in Mathematics: Proofs, Collective Justification, and Reliability Vrije Universiteit Brussel
is true, although we still do not know whether Goldbach’s conjecture
is. Obviously, such knowledge ascriptions are implicitly attributed to
the mathematical community or a subgroup thereof. But what is the
nature of such collective knowledge? Is it simply reducible to the sum
of the knowledge of individual mathematical agents, or shall the
...
BLEEPID - Towards improved reliability and reduced costs of offshore wind by Blade-Leading-Edge Erosion Prediction and Drone-based Inspection Ghent University
Leading edge erosion of offshore wind blades has drastic impact on maintenance costs and operational energy production and leads to unwanted microplastics in the environment. Herein, we will develop fundamental image capturing and camera techniques, combined with quantitative wear analysis from experimental erosion testing and multi-physics modelling combining CFD-FSI impact and subsurface fatigue modelling. These advances will enable ...
ML-BLUES: Multilevel Best Linear Unbiased Estimators for Sensitivity Analysis and Reliability Assessment KU Leuven
Mathematical models are widely used to make predictions. Nowadays, these models are becoming increasingly more complex, with a consequential growth in the number of sources of uncertainty, presenting new challenges for uncertainty quantification (UQ) techniques. To address these challenges, researchers have developed numerical simulation methods that exploit a hierarchy of models at different resolutions, where accuracy is traded for ...
Can we trust our numbers? Quantification of measurement reliability for intensive longitudinal data KU Leuven
I will discuss the new statistical approach to analyzing intensive longitudinal data (ILD), which is a growing research area in many research domains, such as psychology or medicine sciences. With the progress of technology, ILD, which records psychological or biological Information in real-time, is easily obtained by wearable devices or smartphones. However, we still know little about how to approach this huge amount of data, especially the ...