Projects
General behaviour and design of built-up stainless steel crosssections and members under combined loading. KU Leuven
The current stainless steel design provisions in the European code EN 1993-1-4 are overall rather inefficient and overly conservative. This has prompted research aimed at investigating the structural performance of stainless steel members over the last decade. Nevertheless, previous experimental and numerical studies mainly focused on the structural behaviour of closed tubular sections, made, overall, of austenitic grades, while built-up open ...
FWO travel credit for a long stay abroad at the University of Lodz Polen Hasselt University
The role of crossmodal correspondences in a multisensory setting on the evaluation of products and retail environments. Hasselt University
Travel Grant for foreign participation in a conference: XIII International Conference on Computational Plasticity (COMPLAS XIII) Barcelona Hasselt University
Flood insurance value of land use systems and its application in spatial planning KU Leuven
Floods with major impacts on insurance companies occur regularly in significant parts of Flanders and are expected to occur more frequently due to climate change and soil sealing. Through their hydrological traits and position along flow paths, certain land use systems (LUS) have a larger capacity to reduce the frequency, extent, depth and duration of floods downstream. The riskreducing capacity of LUS can be interpreted as a flood insurance ...
A model-based approach to unravel the driving forces in attrition-enhanced deracemization processess. KU Leuven
Molecular chirality is an important geometrical property with far-reaching implications in the pharmaceutical, food and agrochemical industries. Chiral molecules can exist in two non-superimposable mirror-image forms called enantiomers, which often possess substantially different biological effects. Since most chemical synthetic processes of chiral molecules result in an equimolar mixture of both enantiomers, referred to as a racemic mixture, ...
The numerical solution of large scale dynamic soil-structure interaction problems. KU Leuven
It is common practice in civil engineering to use computational models in order to understand and predict the behaviour of a wide variety of structural systems. The dynamic interaction between structures and the soil often plays a crucial role and should be accounted for in numerical models, for example for the assessment of damage to structures caused by earthquakes, the evaluation of annoyance in buildings due to vibrations originating from ...
Building resilience in Urban Food Systems. The challenge of scaling-up alternative food distribution networks. An exploration through comparative case-study analysis. KU Leuven
This dissertation focuses on the governance of alternative food networks (AFNs). The aim is to identify, conceptualize and empirically investigate the critical governance tensions conditioning the genesis and the life-course of alternative food initiatives. To this purpose this dissertation develops a Hybrid Governance Approach (HGA) which identifies three types of governance tensions - i.e. organizational, resource and institutional - and ...