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Thermal comfort guidelines for production spaces within multi-storey garment factories located in Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2019 This research presents extensive field data on indoor thermal conditions along with workers' comfort votes taken at their workstations within three existing multi-storied garment factories during the three seasons (cool-dry, hot-dry and warm-humid) of ...
Ford, B. +7 more
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BuildingsThe design and construction of adaptive façades have garnered increasing attention as a means to enhance the energy performance and sustainability of high-rise residential buildings.
Ayrin Assadimoghadam +4 more
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Seismic assessment of masonry “Gaioleiros” buildings in Lisbon, Portugal [PDF]
, 2009 This paper presents a numerical study for the seismic assessment of a Portuguese building masonry typology - “Gaioleiro”. Numerical analysis was performed using a finite element model calibrated with experimental results obtained in 1:3 reduced scale ...
Lourenço, Paulo B., Mendes, N.
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Movable Thin Glass Elements in Façades
Challenging Glass Conference Proceedings, 2018 Façades play an important role in the control of energy flow and energy consumption in buildings as they represent the interface between the outdoor environment and the indoor occupied space.
Jürgen Neugebauer +4 more
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Examining Facade Adaptability: A Study of Adaptive Facade Classification Criteria
Kent AkademisiIn this research, the facade classification of three different buildings located in Europe, Asia and Australia is carried out by using a classification model developed by utilising the criteria of some adaptive facade classification models in the literature.
Nazlı Nisa Güney, Ümit Arpacıoğlu
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Rethinking Adaptive Building Skins from a Life Cycle Assessment perspective
Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2019 Adaptive building technologies have opened up a growing field of research aimed at ensuring indoor comfort while reducing energy consumption in buildings.
Manuela Crespi +1 more
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, 2012 This paper analyzes the possibility of increasing the acoustic transmission loss of sound transmitted through planar or curved glass shells using attached piezoelectric macro fiber composite (MFC) actuators shunted by active circuits with a negative ...
Mokry, Pavel +2 more
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Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios +4 more
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Framework for the implementation of urban big screens in the public space [PDF]
, 2009 In the last decade, big urban screens have appeared in town squares and on building facades across the UK. The use of these screens brings new potentials and challenges for city regulators, artists, architects, urban designers, producers, broadcasters ...
Boddington, G. +2 more
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Review on the use of FRP composites for fa\ue7ades and building skins [PDF]
, 2016 Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composites represent a class of materials typically able to offer excellent mechanical, thermal and insulation properties, taking advantage of a combination of their constitutive fibers and polymers.
Bedon, Chiara
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