Journal of Architectural Engineering: Recent submissions
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Review on Fire Safety Objectives and Application for Airport Terminals
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Residential Energy-Efficiency Upgrades in Phoenix, Arizona
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003)With worldwide energy consumption rising, there is a need to reduce energy use of the housing stock. While this general idea is well-known, there is an overwhelming amount of product data and manufacturers claims through ... -
Measuring Air Leakage Characteristics with Flexible Double Air Chambers
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)The fan pressurization method for measuring air leakage through the building envelope relies on the assumption that the extraneous air leakage (EAL) through paths other than those through the specimen being tested is ... -
Economic Analysis of Thermal Energy Storage Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)This paper describes an investigation of the economic performance of a central chiller plant with thermal energy storage (TES) operating in a hotel in California and an office building in Wisconsin for the following three ... -
Design Guidelines for Community Shelters for Extreme Wind Events
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)The design of shelter structures has received little attention from the engineering community since the days of nuclear fallout shelters, until the development of guidance for community shelters for cases of extreme wind ... -
Proposed Fire Safety Ranking System EB-FSRS for Existing High-Rise Nonresidential Buildings in Hong Kong
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)A Fire Safety Ranking System (EB-FSRS) is proposed for assessing the fire safety provisions in existing high-rise nonresidential buildings in Hong Kong. The objective is to investigate how far the fire safety provisions ... -
Variations of Thermal Conductivity of Insulation Materials Under Different Operating Temperatures: Impact on Envelope-Induced Cooling Load
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)The thermal and energy performance of buildings depends on the thermal characteristics of the building envelope, and particularly on the thermal resistance of the insulation material used. The performance of the thermal ... -
Impact of Floor Planning on Airflow Patterns in Designated Refuge Floor in High-Rise Building
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)Refuge floorspace is implemented as a temporary place for high-rise-building evacuees to take a short rest before further evacuating in the case of a fire. It is specified as a requirement in the Fire Code of Hong Kong to ... -
Dynamic Wind Uplift Performance of Thermoplastic Roofing System with New Seaming Technology
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)Wind dynamics, on a conventional roofing system, lift the membrane and cause fluttering, introducing stresses at the attachment locations. To identify the component of the system that has the weakest resistance against ... -
Geometry in Architectural Engineering Education Revisited
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)Geometric conceptualization has always been among the essential mental tools required for the invention, modeling, and visualization of spatial building structures. Furthermore, without an understanding of the geometric ... -
Reviewers
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Review of <i>Forensic structural engineering handbook</i> by Robert T. Ratay
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Vulnerability of Fully Glazed High-Rise Buildings in Tropical Cyclones
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)This paper examines some of the features of the built environment that are most likely to be related to the potential for damage causation in the event of a tropical cyclone strike in a densely populated urban area. The ... -
Wind Pressures on Parapets of Flat Roofs
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)A wind-tunnel study has been carried out to assess wind pressures acting on parapets, including their top surfaces. Local and area-averaged pressure coefficients were measured on parapets of flat-roof models with a length ... -
Formal Engineering of Residential Buildings
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)The performance of residential buildings during hurricanes is as important as the performance of other buildings. Buildings where people live and where they are likely to be when a hurricane strikes must survive. If this ... -
Evaluation of a Fast Large-Eddy-Simulation Model for Indoor Airflows
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)A three-dimensional large-eddy-simulation computational fluid dynamics (CFD) program, developed for studying the transport of smoke during a fire in an enclosure, is applied to four flow problems relevant to nonfire ... -
Damage, Shelter, and Other Performance Issues for Buildings in High Wind Regions
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Partial Demolition and Extension of Kuwait Medical College Building
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Engineering of Architectural Systems
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)Different aspects of architectural systems are discussed in this study. The definitions of architectural systems and their importance to the building community are presented. The functions of architectural systems are ... -
Case for Enhanced In-Home Protection from Severe Winds
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2002)This paper presents the results of a study to investigate methods for providing low-cost protection from hazards associated with tornado strikes or other severe wind events. Included are discussions of physical wind damage, ...