Abstract: Educators and practitioners have come to the consensus that building information modeling (BIM) has radically transformed how the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry practices and operates. The move ...

Abstract: Compared with well-studied techniques for reducing operational carbon in the building industry, studies on strategies for reducing embodied carbon, as well as their effectiveness, are limited. Therefore, this article aims ...

Abstract: This study aims to investigate the cost surcharges of green buildings. In this study, the green construction cost surcharge (GCCS) is defined as the additional capital costs associated with sustainable building features ...

Abstract: GaAs is known to have superior electronic properties and greater photovoltaic conversion efficiency compared to elemental semiconductors such as silicon and germaniumn. Mechanical properties of ...

Abstract: Wire bond connections are susceptible to fatigue failure as a result of various thermo-mechanical damage mechanisms during the component operation life. Because of uncertainties arising from the ...

Abstract: In AFM measurements of surface morphology, the locality is a traditional assumption, i.e., the load recorded by AFM is simply the function of the distance between the tip of AFM and the point ...

Abstract: Two mechanisms that enhance heat dissipation at solid-liquid interfaces are investigated from the atomistic point of view using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation. The mechanisms include ...

Abstract: Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations were performed to investigate schemes for enhancing the energy conversion efficiency of thermoelectric nanowires (NWs), including (1) roughening ...

Abstract: To improve the kinematic performance of the remote center mechanism for surgical robot, a double space index and kinematic accuracy reliability index are proposed to optimize the dimensional sizes of mechanism. First, the ...