Projects

Adult Spinal Deformity (ASD) has been identified in 68 % of the population older than 60 years. It is caused by asymmetric degeneration of the spinal joints, inducing varying degrees of trunk deformity, with an impact on the quality of life even larger than arthritis, lung disease, diabetes and heart failure. Despite advances in instrumentation, diagnostic tools and surgical techniques, up to 70% of spinal deformity patients continue to ...

With the advent of autonomous vehicles, Smart Cities, Industry 4.0 and many more Internet-of-Things related applications, our future society and lives become highly dependent on high-tech electronics. Unfortunately, all high-tech electronics are sensitive to ElectroMagnetic Interference (EMI), while the increasing electrification of, amongst others, vehicles and machines unavoidably means a much harsher electromagnetic environment. In ...

The research presented in this dissertation treats the subject of efficient gear contact simulation and is applied to the contact analysis of spiral bevel gears.

Within the current development cycle of mechanical transmissions, computerized tooth contact analysis (TCA) has proven to be an invaluable tool to predict a gear pair’s key contact performance characteristics, while reducing the need for expensive physical prototyping ...

Linear regression is the most famous type of regression analysis in statistics. A statistical analysis of a linear regression model usually begins with estimation of the regression coefficients and continues with measuring the accuracy of the estimators. Unfortunately, it is well known that a traditional statistical analysis based on the least squares principle is very sensitive to outliers in the data. Although many robust estimators have ...

Robust estimators are indispensable tools in statistics. Frequently, a (small) part of the data sample follows a different pattern as the majority of the data or even no pattern at all. Such atypical observations are called outliers. They may be simple gross errors such as measurement errors or copying mistakes. However, they may also be observations governed by different laws or indicate subgroups or structures in the data sample.

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SCIENTIFIC SUMMARY (English)

The research in this PhD dissertation contributes to the non-life insurance reserving literature. We focus on two specific research questions: (1) the development of the actuarial techniques to appropriately handle the unpredictable medical inflation in context of private health insurance contracts with transferable reserves and (2) the development of micro-level claims reserving techniques that provide an ...

In recent years, the engineering and manufacturing industry has been reshaped by technological forces and the pursuit of sustainable development. The rise of computing power has enhanced the role of numerical modelling and simulation to the extent that they represent an everyday solution for engineering problems. Numerical modelling facilitates design validation in an early stage and enables testing different configurations in the virtual ...

The physical interaction between vibrating structures and acoustics is of paramount importance in modern society. It is encountered in many products of daily use, such as vehicles, home appliances, and musical instruments but also in industrial environments, such as an assembly line in a factory. On the one hand, sound can be considered pleasant or useful in the context of music or communication. On the other hand, undesired sound, or noise, ...