Abstract: Thermal, visual, and acoustic comfort are among the major parameters of overall occupant comfort and indoor environmental quality in buildings. Early stage design and selection of building envelope parameters require due ...

Abstract: Thermal entrainment is important as it adversely affects energy consumption and evaporator humidity levels of refrigerated air curtain display cases, often at transitional Reynolds numbers. In ...

Abstract: We study a ball-beam impact in detail; and in particular, we study the interplay between dissipation and modal truncation. With Hertzian contact between a solid ball and an Euler–Bernoulli beam model, we find using detailed ...

Abstract: Digital microfluidic systems (DMSs) are emerging with high potential to serve as true labs-on-a-chip (LOCs) systems for various chemical and biochemical analyses. Significant research efforts have ...

Abstract: Water permeable porosities and thermal conductivity of ceramic construction materials have been experimentally determined in this work. The samples were selected so as to obtain a wide variation in their apparent porosity. ...

Abstract: The results of an experimental study conducted on specimens similar to ASTM G109 made with different types of cement and steel, and varying water/cement (w/c) ratios are reported in this paper. A portion of the top surface ...

Abstract: A study of the seismic behavior of rigid

Abstract: In this paper, a set-membership filtering-based leader–follower synchronization protocol for discrete-time linear multi-agent systems is proposed, wherein the aim is to make the agents synchronize with a leader. The agents, ...

Abstract: In this paper, the influence of different temperatures and ground-granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBFS) content on the compressive strength and shrinkage bahavior of roller-compacted concrete (RCC) was explored. For this ...