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Roberto Fioretti and Paolo Principi
External walls made with hollow clay brick or block are widely used for their thermal, acoustic and structural properties. However, the performance of the bricks frequently does not conform with the minimum legal requirements or the values required for h...
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Roberto Fioretti and Paolo Principi
External walls made with hollow clay brick or block are widely used for their thermal, acoustic and structural properties. However, the performance of the bricks frequently does not conform with the minimum legal requirements or the values required for h...
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Abdullah A. AlZahrani, Abdulrahman A. Alghamdi and Ahmad A. Basalah
Three-dimensional printing technologies are transforming various sectors with promising technological abilities and economic outcomes. For instance, 3D-printed concrete (3DPC) is revolutionizing the construction sector with a promise to cut projects? cos...
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Robert Bu?ic, Ivana Milicevic, Tihomir Dok?anovic and Marin Grubi?ic
Waste rubber takes many years to decompose, and thus the increasing number of tires in the world can be characterised as an important environmental issue, which generated the idea of implementing crumb rubber in structural self-compacting concrete (SCC)....
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Yi Zhang, Xuancang Wang, Guanyu Ji, Zhenyang Fan, Yuchen Guo, Wenze Gao and Lei Xin
Lignin, as a bio-based waste, has been utilized in the asphalt industry due to various advantages. This study aimed to investigate the effects of two lignin products (lignin powder and lignin fiber) on the mechanical properties of asphalt mixtures. The r...
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Jan Fort, Jan Kocí, Jaroslav Pokorný, Lubo? Podolka, Michal Kraus and Robert Cerný
Ambient comfort maintenance accompanied by excessive energy consumption is hugely criticized concerning the limited sustainability of the building sector in the long-term. In this sense, the energy reduction strategies based on the employment of passive ...
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Bilin Cao, Minghua Liu, Dongsheng Su, Lijuan Wen, Maoshan Li, Zhiqiang Lin, Jiahe Lang and Xingyu Song
FLake has been one of the most extensively used lake models in many studies for lake thermal structure simulations. However, due to the scarcity of lake temperature observations, its applicability and performance on lakes over the Tibetan Plateau are sti...
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Prof. S. K. Paknikar
The invention of Compacted Graphite Iron and documentation of Compacted Graphite Iron (C.G.I.) were made during pioneering research on production techniques in the late 1940s. They found that when the residual magnesium or cerium content was insufficient...
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Emanuel Feru, Frank Willems, Bram de Jager and Maarten Steinbuch
This paper presents the modeling and control of a waste heat recovery systemfor a Euro-VI heavy-duty truck engine. The considered waste heat recovery system consists of two parallel evaporators with expander and pumps mechanically coupled to the engine c...
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Harry Giles, Kyoung-Hee Kim
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Buildings are large consumers of energy. In the United States of America; they constitute over 33% of the total annual energy consumption, produce 35% of the total carbon dioxide emissions and attribute 40% of landfill wastes. The building industry is al...
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Zhiyuan Yu, Xiaoxia Wu and Fuguo Wang
Active optics is a key technology in ground-based large-aperture telescopes. The active correction of the surface shape of the primary mirror is used to reduce the surface shape error and improve the imaging quality. At present, the structure of the acti...
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Amir A. Asif and Rajendra Singh
The demand for batteries for energy storage is growing with the rapid increase in photovoltaics (PV) and wind energy installation as well as electric vehicle (EV), hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). Electrochemical ...
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Saleh Ahmed, Katerina Lepkova, Xiao Sun, William D. A. Rickard and Thunyaluk Pojtanabuntoeng
Phenolic-epoxy coatings, which are designed to protect substrates from thermal damage, are widely applied in many fields. There remains an inadequate understanding of how such coatings change during their service life after exposure to various temperatur...
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Huile Zhang, Zeyu Sun, Pengpeng Zhi, Wei Wang and Zhonglai Wang
This paper develops a material-structure integrated design and optimization method based on a multiscale approach for the lightweight design of CFRP car doors. Initially, parametric modeling of RVE is implemented, and their elastic performance parameters...
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Jhih-Huang Gao, Shen-Chun Wu, Ya-Wei Lee, Ta-Li Chou and Yan-Chun Chen
The purpose of this paper is to develop SRF formulations for LHP performance enhancement. In this paper, the solute of SRF is prepared, and butanol and its isomer, 2-butanol, are selected. In this paper, concentrations of the 2-butanol aqueous solution (...
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Mahmoud Al-Faris, John Chiverton, David Ndzi and Ahmed Isam Ahmed
A wide range of techniques exist to help control the thermal comfort of an occupant in indoor environments. A novel technique is presented here to adaptively estimate the occupant?s metabolic rate. This is performed by utilising occupant?s actions using ...
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M. M. Sarafraz, Iskander Tlili, Mohammad Abdul Baseer and Mohammad Reza Safaei
In this article, an experimental study was performed to assess the potential thermal application of a new nanofluid comprising carbon nanoparticles dispersed in acetone inside an evacuated tube solar thermal collector. The effect of various parameters in...
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Tafadzwa Makonese, Christopher Bradnum
Many cookstove programmes implemented around the world aimed to reduce fuel consumption and pollutant emissions through the dissemination and adoption of improved cookstoves. A study was carried out for the design of wood-burning cookstoves for low-incom...
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Daniel Woldemariam, Andrew Martin and Massimo Santarelli
Exergy analyses are essential tools for the performance evaluation of water desalination and other separation systems, including those featuring membrane distillation (MD). One of the challenges in the commercialization of MD technologies is its substant...
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Prabu Arockiasamy, Ramachandran Bhagavathiammal Anand
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The effect of nanoparticle as additive in Jatropha biodiesel is experimentally investigated in a single cylinder DI diesel engine with the aim of diluting the level of pollutants in the exhaust and for the improvement of engine performance owing to its p...
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