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Fouad Ismail Ismail, Syed Ahmad Farhan, Nasir Shafiq, Nadzhratul Husna, Muhammad Taufiq Sharif, Syed Uthman Affan and Arul Kamal Veerasenan
Silica aerogel possesses an ultra-low thermal conductivity by virtue of its nano-structure. Owing to the fragility of monolithic aerogel, the development and production of aerogel-based insulation materials involve the incorporation of granular aerogel w...
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Qi Zhou, Pin-Feng Liu, Chun-Ta Tzeng and Chi-Ming Lai
This study combines microencapsulated phase change materials (mPCMs) (core material: paraffin; melting points: 37 and 43 °C) and aluminum honeycomb boards (8 mm core cell) to form mPCM roof modules and investigates their heat absorption and release perfo...
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Ruey-Lung Hwang, Bi-Lian Chen and Wei-An Chen
Strategies to reduce energy consumption are presently experiencing vigorous development. Phase change materials (PCMs) are novel materials that can reduce indoor temperatures via the change in material phase. Regarding the situation in Taiwan, there is n...
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Shruti Bhairappanavar, Rui Liu and Reid Coffman
To maintain the navigational depth, 1.15 million cubic meters (1.5 million cubic yards) of sediment is dredged out from the federal harbors every year from Lake Erie, Ohio Coast. Treating this huge amount of dredged material is a major challenge due to t...
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Chirhakarhula E. Chubaka, Harriet Whiley, John W. Edwards and Kirstin E. Ross
Rainwater is consumed for drinking water in many parts of Australia, either preferentially over municipal water or in regional or remote areas, because rainwater is the primary source of water. Previous rainwater studies in other areas in Australia have ...
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Agnieszka Karczmarczyk, Anna Baryla and Agnieszka Bus
The main hypothesis of the presented study is that the negative effect of phosphorus leaching from a green roof substrate can be reduced by including P-reactive material in a drainage layer. In this work, different aggregates (Pollytag®, lightweight expa...
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Fatih Yazicioglu
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The Bosporus is a unique place with its traditional architecture. The construction of new buildings along the Bosporus coast line are forbidden and only reconstructions of demolished original historic buildings are possible. Since 1984 legal authorities ...
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Jair A. Baldovino, Carlos Millan-Paramo and Manuel Saba
Recently, studies that introduce alternative binders or wastes for created geo-materials that can be mixed with soil to give it greater strength, are of paramount importance. Roof tile residue, for example, has been widely used to create geopolymers in m...
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Roland Schregle, Christian Renken and Stephen Wittkopf
With the increasing adoption of building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), concerns arise about potential glare. While recommended criteria to assess glare exist, it is challenging to apply these in the spatial and temporal domains and communicate the com...
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Antoni Taraszkiewicz, Karol Grebowski, Karolina Taraszkiewicz and Jaroslaw Przewlócki
The basic urban tissue of medieval European cities consisted of brick townhouses. In the cities of northern Europe, these tenements were characterised by a block based on an elongated rectangular plan, covered with a gable roof with a ridge oriented perp...
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Mustafa Babanli,Ramin Karimov,Aydin Bayramov,Ibrahim Isa Abbasov
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When refining steel by blowing powders, the ladle lining material plays a serious role. The dependency graphs of the degree of desulfurization on the consumption of silicocalcium powder during blowing in ladles lined with various materials have been pres...
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Sojung Kim and Sumin Kim
Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) are becoming popular as building elements such as windows, roofs, and outer walls. Because BIPVs have both a construction material function and an electricity generation function, they are a promising alternative...
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Cunjin Lu, Jinpeng Xu, Qiang Li, Hui Zhao and Yao He
The accurate prediction of the height of the water-conducting fracture zone is essential for the prevention of roof damage by water disasters in coal mines. The development law of water-conducting fracture zone in combined mining of Jurassic and Carbonif...
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Khaled Galal Ahmed
The current ‘rigid’ construction systems and material of Emirati social housing leave little room for residents to undertake their desired adaptations and extensions of their turn-key houses, which have been designed, built and submitted to t...
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Khaled Galal Ahmed
The current ?rigid? construction systems and material of Emirati social housing leave little room for residents to undertake their desired adaptations and extensions of their turn-key houses, which have been designed, built and submitted to them by feder...
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Cristian Carmona, Gabriel Horrach, Carles Oliver, Francisco J. Forteza, Joan Muñoz
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The Balearic Islands? Housing Institute (Instituto Balear de la Vivienda-IBAVI), in collaboration with the Directorate General of Nature, Environmental Education, and Climate Change of the government of the Balearic Islands, has received a European grant...
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Birgitte Gisvold Johannessen, Tone Merete Muthanna and Bent Christen Braskerud
Climate change coupled with increasing urbanization has made extensive green roofs, both for retrofitting and new developments, an attractive way to bring nature back to cities, while managing stormwater. This study has investigated extensive green roof ...
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Yeng-Fong Shih, Chun-Wei Chang, Teng-Hsiang Hsu and Wei-Yi Dai
Wood?plastic composites (WPCs), abbreviated as WPCs, are typically composite materials made by mixing wood flour and thermoplastic resins, and then shaped through processes such as extrusion or compression. They have emerged as a viable and advanced alte...
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Gorjana Stanisavljevic, Darinka Golubovic Matic, Milorad Komnenovic, Ivana Vasovic Maksimovic and ?eljko Flajs
This paper focuses on the study of the strength of facade sandwich panels used in building construction. The paper describes the results of experimental and numerical research on the behavior of sandwich panels made of polyisocyanurate core (PIR) and the...
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Sana Dardouri, Ekrem Tunçbilek, Othmen Khaldi, Müslüm Arici and Jalila Sghaier
Energy conservation in buildings has been the focus of many studies since nearly one-third of global energy consumption is due to buildings. Phase change material (PCM) technology promises to be an attractive solution for energy saving in buildings since...
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