• Understanding the IKEA Warehouse Processes and Modeling using Modular Petri Nets 

      Behzad, Behfar; Farzad, Maryam; Davidrajuh, Reggie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Nowadays, large warehouses handle a huge number of products. Handling the enormity and different types of (range) products also demand complex warehouse processes. In this paper, the IKEA warehouse in Stavanger, Norway, ...
    • Understanding the impact of sustainable energy transition on risk acceptability and tolerability 

      Bukhari, Syed Muhammad Danish Haider (Masteroppgave/UIS-SV-ISØP/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-06)
      Risk analysis helps to estimate the level of risk of a given situation, and to determine if the risk is acceptable, tolerable, or unacceptable. At this stage, the consideration of individual or societal factors becomes ...
    • Understanding the implications of low knowledge and high uncertainty in risk studies 

      Thekdi, Shital; Aven, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-11)
      Risk analysis has existed for thousands of years and will continue to grow in importance across professions and industries. Of special importance is the need to understand and manage risk when there is low knowledge and ...
    • Understanding the Importance of Efficient Visitor Flow within Tokyo Skytree 

      Haraldsen, Eirik Solland; Østrådt, Karl Meisland; Davidrajuh, Reggie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Tokyo Skytree is the tallest freestanding tower in the world. The tower is a popular tourist attraction with two observational decks at an altitude of 350 and 450 meters. This paper aims to understand the importance of the ...
    • Understanding the role of the shrimp gut microbiome in health and disease 

      Holt, Corey; Bass, David; Stentiford, Grant D.; van der Giezen, Mark (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04)
      With rapid increases in the global shrimp aquaculture sector, a focus on animal health during production becomes ever more important. Animal productivity is intimately linked to health, and the gut microbiome is becoming ...
    • Understanding the uncertainty sources in IKM’s risk-based inspection and suggestion of improvements 

      Eddafi, Abderrahim (Master thesis, 2021)
      RBI (risk-based inspection) is an inspection scheduling method that relies on risk to produce inspection intervals for equipment. RBI is done by producing a risk characterization for the equipment in question and based on ...
    • Understanding variation in national climate change adaptation: securitization in focus 

      Rhinard, Mark Charles Thomas; Morsut, Claudia; Angell, Elisabeth; Neby, Simon; Englund, Mathilda; Barquet, Karina; Mees, Heleen; Surian, Jana; Vashishtha, Swapnil; Segnestam, Lisa; Engen, Ole Andreas Hegland (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-12)
      Climate change is recognized today not just as a pressing and prominent issue on government agendas but also one that has been increasingly ‘securitized’ in a variety of national and global settings. We know little, however, ...
    • Understanding, assessing, comparing, and managing risks related to the energy transition from fossil fuel to renewables – for Norway and India 

      Joshi, Siddharth Digambar (Master thesis, 2022)
      There is growing worry about the future supply of fossil-fuel-based energy and its environmental consequences. There is call for the globe to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. (Teles et al., 2015). On ...
    • Undersøkelse av Bidraget fra Lymfe Endotelceller til in vitro 3D Sprouting av Blod Epitelceller 

      Berg, Sina (Bachelor thesis, 2023)
      The interrelationship between angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis is inadequately researched. Endothelial cells are key role players in both processes of vascular formations. The purpose of this project was to use in vitro ...
    • Undersøkelse av brønnverktøy 

      Hrustic Nermin (Bachelor thesis, 2022)
      Denne oppgaven er skrevet i samarbeid med Interwell Norway AS. Oppgaven bygger på en undersøkelse av deres nylig innkjøpte brønnverktøy som består av flere mekaniske, elektriske og hydrauliske moduler. Formålet med ...
    • Undersøkelse av de mekaniske egenskapene til CO2 herdet betong med naturlige aggregater. 

      Kvamme, Daniel; Tayyem, Yousef Bassam (Bachelor thesis, 2021)
      Betongproduksjon er en av industriene med størst CO2 utslipp i verden. En liten reduksjon i CO2 utslippene fra denne industrien kan derfor være svært gunstig for å nå klimamålene. Herding ved akselerert karbonatisering ...
    • Undersøkelse av metodikk for beregning av risikobaserte varmelaster 

      Holt, Ruben (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IØRP/2012;, Master thesis, 2012)
      Denne oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i Scandpower sine retningslinjer for beskyttelse av trykksatt prosessutstyr som utsettes for brann. Metodene som vurderes i denne rapporten er hentet fra retningslinjene. Oppgaven vurderer ...
    • Undersøkelse av passasjerens risikopersepsjon i forbindelse med helikopterreise offshore 

      Wasilewska, Maja (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-ISØP/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-08-01)
      Hverdagen til offshore ansatte består blant annet av helikopterreiser. De har ingen muligheter til å velge en annen type transport til jobben. Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg disse passasjerenes risikopersepsjon i forbindelse ...
    • Undersøking av egenskapene til Polyanionisk Cellulose blandet med vann som sirkulerer gjennom en strømningssløyfe 

      Ryningen, Gro. (Bachelor thesis, 2021)
      Denne oppgaven er strukturert i to hoveddeler. Den første delen omhandler noen fundamentale roller borevæske har under boring. Det er i hovedsak fokusert på sirkulasjonssystemet i en boreoperasjon, hovedegenskapene til ...
    • Underwater robotics in the future of arctic oil and gas operations 

      Kuzmicheva, Lina (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-15)
      Arctic regions have lately been in the centre of increasing attention due to high vulnerability to climate change and the retreat in sea ice cover. Commercial actors are exploring the Arctic for new shipping routes and ...
    • Unfrozen Skewed Turbulence for Wind Loading on Structures 

      Cheynet, Etienne; Daniotti, Nicolo; Jakobsen, Jasna Bogunovic; Snæbjørnsson, Jonas Thor; Wang, Jungao (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The paper introduces an algorithm to generate a three-variate four-dimensional wind turbulence field suited for yawed wind dynamic load simulation. At large yaw angles, a relaxation of Taylor’s hypothesis of frozen turbulence ...
    • Uniform Corrosion and Its Effect on Tubing Simulation Study 

      Puspitarini, Nikka (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-07-13)
      The API Barlow and the Tri-axial equations cannot be applied to predict burst pressure in the case of pitting corrosion. The main reason for this is that these models are derived from continuum mechanics, but fracture ...
    • Uniform Sampling of Band-limited Signals 

      Tallaksen, Levi André (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IMF/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-06-15)
      This master thesis presents a short introduction into the field of sampling of functions of one variable. It is not meant to come up with any new theory, just to give an overview over known material, and to prove most of ...
    • Universal Black Holes 

      Hervik, Sigbjørn; Ortaggio, Marcello (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-02)
      We prove that a generalized Schwarzschild-like ansatz can be consistently employed to construct d-dimensional static vacuum black hole solutions in any metric theory of gravity for which the Lagrangian is a scalar invariant ...
    • Universal p-form black holes in generalized theories of gravity 

      Hervik, Sigbjørn; Ortaggio, Marcello (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-10)
      We explore how far one can go in constructing d-dimensional static black holes coupled to p-form and scalar fields before actually specifying the gravity and electrodynamics theory one wants to solve. At the same time, we ...