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Yielding behavior and traffic conflicts at cyclist crossing facilities on channelized right-turn lanes Hasselt University KU Leuven
Channelized right-turn lanes (CRTLs) improve traffic flow efficiency, enabling right-turning drivers to bypass traffic lights at signalised intersections (for right-hand drive countries). Many CRTLs provide crossing facilities for pedestrians and cyclists. Previous studies examining the safety performance of CRTLs indicate that they increase overall safety levels but hint that safety issues regarding vulnerable road users exist. This study ...
Do detection-based warning strategies improve vehicle yielding behavior at uncontrolled midblock crosswalks? Hasselt University
Pedestrians being the most vulnerable road users account for a large proportion of injuries and fatalities from road traffic crashes. Pedestrians are involved in around one-third of the whole fatalities coming from the road traffic crashes in the state of Qatar. In areas with uncontrolled midblock crosswalks, it is very crucial to improve drivers' alertness and yielding behavior. The objective of this driving simulator study is to investigate ...
A hygrothermo-mechanical model for wood: Part B. Parametric studies and application to wood welding COST Action FP0904 2010-2014: Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical wood behavior and processing KU Leuven
© 2015 by De Gruyter. The correct prediction of the behavior of wood components undergoing environmental loading or industrial process requires that the hygric, thermal and mechanical (HTM) behavior of wood are considered in a coupled manner. A fully coupled poromechanical approach has been used to perform a parametric study on wood HTM behavior, and the results have been validated with neutron imaging measurements on a moist wood specimen ...
Influence of welding current on RW machine follow-up behaviour, a practical test method KU Leuven
Machine dynamics of resistance spot welding (RSW) machines significantly influence process capability and performance. Integrated mechanical, electrical and thermal models of the RSW process also require accurate specification of machine dynamics. The influence of specific machine configurations is extremely difficult to predict starting from individual component specifications, and it has also been difficult in the past to accurately measure ...
Characterisation of dynamic mechanical behaviour of resistance spot welding machines KU Leuven
Machine dynamics of resistance spot welding (RSW) machines significantly influence process capability and performance. Integrated mechanical and thermal models of the RSW process also require accurate specification of machine dynamics. The influence of specific machine configurations is extremely difficult to predict starting from individual component specifications, and it has also been difficult in the past to accurately measure dynamic ...
Disk-like Particles under Shear Flow: Understanding the physics behind yielding of colloidal disks in the nematic phase and the mechanics of red blood cell (dis)aggregation KU Leuven
In this thesis, the relation between the tumbling motion of disk-like particles in shear flow and the structure that the particles form is studied for two systems: Gibbsite platelets in the nematic phase and aggregates of two red blood cells. Using time-resolved small-angle X-ray measurements, we investigate the dynamic nonlinear response to Large Amplitude Oscillatory stress and strain of a nematic dispersion of colloidal Gibbsite platelets. By ...