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Climate based facade design for business buildings with examples from central London [PDF]

, 2015
There is a disconnection between commercial architecture and environmental thinking, where green features can be included as part of a strategy for gaining approvals and marketing projects, but those features are not reviewed after completion and ...
Napier, John D.
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MAGTWIST: A Magnetically‐Driven Rotary Actuator Using a Traveling‐Wave With Integrated Stiffness Tunability

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
MAGTWIST: A compact magnetic rotary actuator, enabling smooth, stepless rotation, and on‐demand locking. Inspired by peristalsis, a soft polymer belt generates a traveling‐wave, enabling 270° rotation when heated. Cooling stiffens the belt, locking it in position and enabling it to withstand high loads.
Simon Frieler, Jean‐Paul P.M. de Vries, Sarthak Misra, Venkatasubramanian Kalpathy Venkiteswaran   +3 more
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Hygrothermal response of a dwelling house. Thermal comfort criteria [PDF]

Constructii: Journal of Civil Engineering Research, 2015
The use of local natural materials in order to reduce the environmental negative impact of buildings has become common practice in recent years; such buildings are to be found in all regions of the planet. The high level of thermal protection provided by
Adrian IACOB, Marian PRUTEANU, Andreea HEGYI, Gabriela CALATAN   +3 more
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Evaluation of thermal comfort conditions in a classroom equipped with radiant cooling systems and subjected to uniform convective environment [PDF]

, 2011
The aim of this work is to evaluate numerically the human thermal response that 24 students and 1 teacher feel in a classroom equipped with radiant cooling systems and subjected to uniform convective environments, in lightly warm conditions.
Conceição, Conceição, de Dear, de Dear, Eusébio Z.E. Conceição, Fanger, Fanger, Jeong, Kima, Lima, Ma Manuela J.R. Lúcio, Olesen   +11 more
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Gourd‐Inspired Design of Unit Cell with Multiple Gradients for Physiological‐Range Pressure Sensing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Gourd‐shaped micro‐dome arrays with coordinated modulus, conductivity, and geometric gradients co‐optimize sensitivity and linearity in piezoresistive tactile sensors. Under pressure, a solid upper dome embeds into a porous lower dome, triggering rapid contact‐area growth and series‐to‐parallel conduction, enabling unsaturated, intensity‐resolved ...
Jiayi Xu, Ming Lei, Yuanzhe Liang, Biao Qi, Ziyi Dai, Yong Zhao, Bingpu Zhou   +6 more
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Impact of interior insulation on residential room with eliminated balcony in hot-humid climates: empirical study in Chengdu, China

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
This study evaluated the thermal performance of interior insulation retrofits in residential bedrooms with eliminated balconies in the hot-summer and cold-winter (HSCW) region.
Xin Ye, Quyi Gong, Jun Lu, Tao Zhang, Yupeng Wang, Hiroatsu Fukuda   +5 more
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Indoor thermal comfort comparison of stabilised latscrete and sandcrete blocks as walling materials in buildings in Port Harcourt Metropolis, Nigeria

Acta Structilia
Stabilised sandcrete (sand-cement) and latscrete (clay/mud-cement) blocks are the most commonly used materials for masonry building walling material in Port Harcourt metropolis. Despite the hot, humid tropical climate in this region, the interior thermal
Agha-Ejimole Okereke , Felix Ike
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Bioinspired Stabilization of Fluorescent Au@SiO2 Tracers for Multimodal Biological Imaging

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates a bioinspired stabilization strategy for fluorescent gold‐silica nanoparticles. Inspired by natural biosilica maturation, high‐temperature calcination transforms the silica shells, preventing dissolution in cell culture media and intracellular environments.
Wang Sik Lee, Henry Lee, Patricia Taladriz‐Blanco, Dimitri Vanhecke, Barbara Rothen‐Rutishauser, Alke Petri‐Fink   +5 more
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Using Long‐Chain Polymechanophores to Explore the Differences in Mechanoactivation During Nozzle Flow and Ultrasonication

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Flow through a nozzle is a common component of most fluid‐based polymer processing techniques such as spray drying, inkjet printing, extrusion. An ultrahigh molecular weight multi‐mechanophore system is used to probe the differences in the distribution of mechanical activation observed between nozzle flow and ultrasonication; the gold standard ...
Niamh Willis‐Fox, Maggie Horst, Etienne Rognin, Yan Xia, Ronan Daly   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Energy efficient renovation of heritage residential buildings using modelica simulations [PDF]

, 2015
Historic homesteads can be found on a large scale in Europe and particularly in Flanders. In Flanders there are hundreds of homesteads in desperate need of renovation.
Aertgeerts, Arnout, Janssens, Arnold, Laverge, Jelle, Van Kenhove, Elisa   +3 more
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