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Barriers to domestic retrofit quality: Are failures in retrofit standards a failure of retrofit standards? [PDF]
Indoor and Built Environment, 2021 Thermal retrofits of homes are central to the UK's fuel poverty and net zero carbon policies but there are concerns about poor quality installation and so new standards are to be introduced (PAS2035). We have explored retrofit installers' perceptions of the barriers to installing internal wall insulation (IWI) and of current regulations and standards ...
Fiona Fylan, David Glew
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Retrofitting Typestates into Rust [PDF]
25th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages, 2021 As software permeates our lives, bugs become increasingly expensive; the best way to reduce their cost is to reduce the number of bugs. Of course, this is easier said than done and, at best, we can go after their root causes to mitigate them. One of such causes is state, whether it is the state of a light bulb (i.e.
José Duarte, António Ravara
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Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2022 With the goal of ''low cement, low cost, high environmental protection and high performance'', building solid wastes are applied to concrete manufacture. This study investigated the mechanical properties of fiber-reinforced recycled powder concrete (FRPC)
Shuai Song +3 more
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Buildings, 2023 During construction, newly cast concrete exerts lateral pressure on the steel plates of concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) columns, resulting in non-negligible initial circumferential stresses. Finite element analysis, in which lateral pressure is applied
Huizhong Xue +4 more
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Postfire Safety Investigation on Prestressed RPC Beams after Exposure to Elevated Temperatures
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2020 Since the postfire safety of prestressed RPC beams after exposure to elevated temperatures needs to be studied and proved, this paper prepares eight smart prestressed RPC beams with intelligent sensors built in to monitor the internal temperature, force,
Yan Kai +4 more
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Performance analysis of a retrofitted refrigerator using eco-friendly refrigerant [PDF]
The Holistic Approach to Environment, 2023 The use of refrigerants with a global warming potential (GWP) greater than 150 is banned in small and medium-sized refrigerators in accordance with the European F-Gas policy. Therefore, the suitability of retrofitting an existing refrigerator using a low
Bukola Olalekan Bolaji +3 more
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Advances in Civil Engineering, 2022 This paper is concerned about seismic performance evaluation of precast shear wall structure with Rabbet-unbonded Horizontal Connection (RHC). RHC is composed of rabbets and unbonded rebar segments.
Chongfang Sun, Zhiqiang Zhao
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Study on Influence of Joint Locations and Hydraulic Coupling Actions on Rock Masses’ Failure Process
Energies, 2022 Distribution of joints and fissures under hydraulic coupling condition is particularly critical to the stability of surrounding rock masses in underground engineering construction. In this paper, DDARF (Discontinuous Deformation Analysis for Rock Failure)
Yunjuan Chen +4 more
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Gravity mediation retrofitted [PDF]
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013 Most discussion of metastable dynamical supersymmetry breaking (MDSB) has focussed on low energy breaking, as in gauge mediation. It is of interest to consider possible implications for intermediate scale breaking ("gravity mediation"), especially as the early LHC results suggest the possibility that supersymmetry, if broken at relatively low energies,
Bose, Milton, Dine, Michael
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Europe’s constitutional retrofit [PDF]
Global Constitutionalism, 2023 AbstractThe various and diverse academic responses to the Conference on the Future of Europe’s efforts at democratic renewal, including those by Ben Crum, Markus Patberg and Sandra Seubert, speak not only to the lack of a clear institutional locus or pathway associated with the Conference, but also to differing understandings of the basic conditions of
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