Search for dissertations about: "wind damage"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 36 swedish dissertations containing the words wind damage.

  2. 16. Markets, Interventions and Externalities : Four Essays in Applied Economics

    Author : Sara Fogelberg Lövgren; Mårten Palme; Mikael Priks; Helena Svaleryd; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : This Ph.D. thesis contains four independent essays summarized as follows. Effects of Competition between Healthcare Providers on Prescription of AntibioticsThe introduction of antibiotics as a medical treatment after World War II helped to dramatically increase life expectancy in the industrialized world. READ MORE

  4. 17. Environmental compensation is not for the birds : assessing social welfare impacts of resource-based environmental compensation

    Author : Scott Cole; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : The European Union (EU) recently implemented the Environmental Liability Directive (ELD), requiring that environmental damage be restored so that the affected environment returns to (or toward) its baseline condition and the public is compensated for the initial damage and the losses during the time it takes for the environment to recover (interim losses). Equivalency Analysis (EA) represents a method for scaling environmental compensation to offset interim losses. READ MORE

  5. 18. Compressive failure of glass fibre NCF composites

    Author : Claes Isaksson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIKVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : Compressive failure of polymer matrix compos ites is very much controlled by material heterogeneity (e.g. fibre waviness and gaps) and out-of-plane loadings (e.g. READ MORE

  6. 19. Extreme Storms in the North Atlantic and Europe

    Author : John Hanley; Rodrigo Caballero; Joaquim Pinto; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; atmosfärvetenskap och oceanografi; Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography;

    Abstract : A study of the most extreme cyclones affecting the North Atlantic and Europe is presented with particular focus on extreme windstorms over the densely populated area of Western Europe, whose associated high surface wind speeds are capable of causing extensive structural damage and occasionally a loss of life.A novel cyclone identification and tracking algorithm is presented which explicitly recognises ‘multi-centre cyclones’ (MCCs), defined as cyclonic systems which contain two or three sea-level pressure minima. READ MORE

  7. 20. On Thermomechanical Fatigue of Single-Crystal Superalloys

    Author : Mikael Segersäll; Johan Moverare; Jonathan Cormier; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Thanks to their excellent mechanical and chemical properties at temperatures up to 1000 °C, nickel-based superalloys are used in critical components in high-temperature applications such as gas turbines and aero engines. One of the most critical components in a gas turbine is the turbine blade, and to improve the creep and fatigue properties of this component, it is sometimes cast in single-crystal form rather than in the more conventional poly-crystalline form. READ MORE