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Indoor Comfort, Thermal Indices, and Energy Assessment of Multi-Family Colonial Revival Style Buildings

Energies, 2021
Colonial Revival style residences have unique architectural features amongst others. They are common multi-family residences in the United States with no or limited information about their performance.
Timothy O. Adekunle
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Indoor Summer Thermal Comfort in a Changing Climate: The Case of a Nearly Zero Energy House in Wallonia (Belgium)

Energies, 2022
While the potential impact of climate change mitigation measures is well documented in building sciences literature, there are only relatively sparse studies focusing on the efficiency of adaptation strategies. This paper aims to contribute to this topic
Olivier Dartevelle, Sergio Altomonte, Gabrielle Masy, Erwin Mlecnik, Geoffrey van Moeseke   +4 more
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Assessing the Magnitude and Likely Causes of Summertime Overheating in Modern Flats in UK

Energies, 2020
There has been increasing recognition that climate change may lead to risk of summertime overheating in UK dwellings with potentially adverse consequences for human comfort and health.
Rajat Gupta, Matt Gregg
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Passive heat recovery wind tower: Assessing the overheating risk in summertime and ventilation heat loss reduction in wintertime

, 2023
Wind towers are low-energy ventilation devices which can provide cooling and reduce buildings’ energy use. However, during unfavourable climate conditions, wind tower operation could cause thermal discomfort and ventilation heat loss. There also has been
Miaomiao Liu, John Kaiser Calautit, Carlos Jimenez-Bescos   +2 more
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Characteristic Differences of Thermal Runaway Triggered by Overheating and Overcharging in Lithium-Ion Batteries and Multi-Dimensional Safety Protection Strategies

Batteries
Overheating and overcharging are the core triggering conditions for the thermal runaway of lithium-ion batteries. Studying the behavioral differences of thermal runaway of lithium-ion batteries under these two conditions is crucial for the safety design ...
Yao Yao, Lu Liu, Juan Gu, Haozhe Xing, Huachao Liu, Yihao Cheng, Youning Wang, Songlin Yue, Yanyu Qiu, Zhi Zhang   +9 more
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Crystallization of Supercooled Liquid Elements Induced by Superclusters Containing Magic Atom Numbers

Metals, 2014
A few experiments have detected icosahedral superclusters in undercooled liquids. These superclusters survive above the crystal melting temperature Tm because all their surface atoms have the same fusion heat as their core atoms, and are melted by liquid
Robert F. Tournier
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Functional Recovery of a Resilient Hospital Type [PDF]

, 2014
Four adaptation options for ‘Nightingale’-type hospital ward buildings devised with practising clinicians are presented and evaluated. The adaptations recover functionality in an archaic ward configuration by delivering care to current UK National Health
Gilkeson, Carl, Fair, Alistair, Short, CA, Gilkeson, CA, Noakes, Catherine, Short, C Alan, Noakes, CJ, Fair, A   +7 more
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Survivability under Overheating [PDF]

, 2020
The present book discusses three significant challenges of the built environment, namely regional and global climate change, vulnerability, and survivability under the changing climate.

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An Evaluation on the Effect of Thermal Mass to Modulate Overheating in the Cold Climate in China and the Role of Shading Devices and Night Ventilation

, 2021
Overheating in buildings is a growing challenge in the context of climate change and global warming. Many researchers are focusing on developing different passive strategies to minimize overheating and cooling electrical consumption in buildings. Thermal
Hao Sun, John Calautit, Carlos Jimenez-Bescos   +2 more
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A Simplified Laminar Flow Model for the Pultrusion of Glass Fiber/Polyethylene Terephthalate Commingled Yarns

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A simplified thermoplastic pultrusion model is developed to predict thermal fields in glass fiber/polyethylene terephthalate (GF/PET) composites with reduced computational cost. By combining effective material homogenization, validation against literature data, and Gaussian‐process‐based optimization, the study reveals how heating limits, pulling speed,
Elder Soares, Nadège Bouchonneau, Christian Jochum, Donald Radford   +3 more
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