Abstract: Energy conservation is an important issue in building design. Therefore, it is logical to apply the principle of energy costing to building projects and to look for ways to minimize the total energy consumed during the ...

Abstract: In Japan, the number of houses available exceeds the demand in all prefectures. Improving housing quality has gained importance over building new dwelling stock. The thrust of housing policies and programs in Japan is to ...

Abstract: Adequate shelter for all is one of the most pressing challenges faced by developing countries. Based on its census of 1991, India had a shortage of 18.5 million houses in 1991, and this number would have swollen since then. ...

Abstract: Effects of condensing cover inclination and water depth on the convective heat transfer coefficient and yield have been studied for a passive solar still. Three solar stills with an effective ...

Abstract: Established theories have identified multiple sociopsychological variables that contribute to improving behavior predictions. Researchers have tested their application in explaining travel behavior. This study uses descriptive ...

Abstract: This study aims to assess the safety effect of the paved shoulder width of a 175-km six-lane rural highway in India. First, the applicability of the matched case-control (C-C) method in the case of highway segments with ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel concept of the modeling, active control of transverse vibration responses, and identification of fault parameters in a geared-rotor system integrated with active magnetic bearings (AMBs). The ...

Abstract: Vibration characteristics of a cracked Jeffcott rotor with an offset disk under the action of an active magnetic bearing (AMB), implemented to improve the radial positioning of the rotor, has been studied. Presence of the ...

Abstract: Compressibility of a soil mass is among the most important geotechnical properties that is widely used during the design of geotechnical structures. Various regression equations have been proposed by numerous researchers ...

Abstract: The paper considers the surface roughness effects in hydrodynamic porous bearings. On the basis of stochastic theory of hydrodynamic lubrication of rough surfaces developed by Christensen, different ...