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Developments in the Built Environment, 2023 Satisfying consumers is an important task in the design of residential floor plans. However, the design of residential floor plans with the aim of improving consumer satisfaction and energy performance has not been fully explored.
Ting-Kwei Wang, Weina Duan
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A Performance-Based Design Framework for Enhanced Asphalt Concrete in the Caribbean Region
Buildings, 2023 The majority of recent research in has been focused on the introduction, development, and evaluation of performance-based specifications for the design of asphalt concrete mixtures. In the Caribbean, most laboratories only use the Volumetric Marshall Mix
Lee P. Leon +4 more
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Buildings, 2023 In the constantly changing field of architectural design and meeting the evolving demands of the space tourism industry, this study presents a case study focused on the design of a space tourism building in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Aref Maksoud +4 more
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Optimal distribution of viscous dampers(VDs) in direct displacement-based design (DDBD) of controlled structures [PDF]
Journal of Structural and Construction Engineering, 2020 In this paper to increase the efficiency of direct displacement based design (DDBD) in designing structures equipped with viscous dampers (VDs), a method has been proposed to determine optimal distribution of VDs.
S. Moradpour, Mehdi Dehestani
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Performance-Based Structural Fire Engineering of Steel Building Structures: Traveling Fires
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2022 Many studies and observations of large building fires show that in large compartments, fires do not burn uniformly. Rather, fires will burn locally and move across a floor plate as fuel is consumed.
Erica C. Fischer +2 more
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GenFloor: Interactive generative space layout system via encoded tree graphs
Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2021 Automated floorplanning or space layout planning has been a long-standing NP-hard problem in the field of computer-aided design, with applications in integrated circuits, architecture, urbanism, and operational research.
Mohammad Keshavarzi +1 more
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Performance Based Seismic Design
International Journal of Advance Innovations, Thoughts & Ideas, 2015 Performance-based seismic design, which is a relatively new concept, came into existence as a means to ascertain the likely performance of an existing building structure during an earthquake. However, this approach is equally applicable to new buildings being designed.
Sharad Manohar, Suhasini Madhekar
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Seismic Performance of Special Structural Walls Using Overlapping Hoops Instead of Closed Hoops
International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials, 2019 In this study repeated cyclic loading tests were carried out on seven shear wall specimens, which were fabricated in a real scale. The purpose of these experiments is to investigate the difference on the seismic performance of the wall depending on two ...
Jin-Kyu Song +4 more
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Acoustics, 2020 Current development in digital design, combined with the growing awareness of the importance of building performance, had drawn attention to performance-based design (PBD) in architecture.
Elena Badino +2 more
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Performance-Based Fibre Design for Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC)
Applied Sciences, 2022 The paper presents a method to establish a performance-based fibre design of high-strength micro steel fibres for ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC). The performance-based fibre design considers effects of fibre layout, fibre orientation, and type of
Jan-Paul Lanwer, Martin Empelmann
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