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Influence of Ambient Air Pollution on Natural Ventilation Potential in Europe
Dusan Licina, Evangelos Belias
When designed and operated adequately, natural ventilation (NV) can improve the buildings' energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality. There is a plethora of factors that limit the effectiveness of NV, such as the climate, surrounding buildings, no ...
AMER SOC HEATING, REFRIGERATING AND AIR-CONDITIONING ENGS2022Insect-Inspired Mechanical Resilience for Multicopters
Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Sébastien Douglas de Rivaz
The ease of use and versatility of drones has contributed to their deployment in several fields, from entertainment to search and rescue. However, drones remain vulnerable to collisions due to pilot mistakes or various system failures. This paper presents ...
Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017A Simulation-Based Workflow to Assess Human-Centric Daylight Performance
Marilyne Andersen, María Lovísa Ámundadóttir, Siobhan Francois Rockcastle
This paper will present an annual simulation-based workflow for assessing human perceptual and non-visual responses to daylight across a series of view positions in an architectural case study. Through the integration of mathematical models used to predict ...
2017Updated braking forces for the assessment of road bridges
João Miguel De Oliveira Durães Alves Martins
Safety assessments of road bridges to braking events combine the braking force, acting along the longitudinal axis of the deck, with a vertical load that accounts for the vertical component of the traffic action. In modern design standards the vertical loa ...
EPFL2016Modeling work zone crash frequency by quantifying measurement errors in work zone length
Work zones are temporary traffic control zones that can potentially cause safety problems. Maintaining safety, while implementing necessary changes on roadways, is an important challenge traffic engineers and researchers have to confront. In this study, th ...
Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013Real-Time Identification of Risk-Prone Traffic Patterns Taking into Account Weather Conditions
André-Gilles Dumont, Minh Hai Pham
This paper presents the concept of a methodology for identifying in real time risky motorway traffic conditions. This research effort is to automate the extraction of traffic patterns from large data archives using advanced computing techniques. These patt ...
2011A novel GIS method to determine an urban centrality index applied to the Barcelona metropolitan area
Events occurring in a city, such as car accidents, attacks on the security or activities locations are channelled in the urban network. The goal of this report is to provide a GIS tool able to compute densities and diversities in a network space rather tha ...
2009Stochastic Simulation of Occupant Presence and Behaviour in Buildings
Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jessen Page, Darren Robinson
While most current building simulation tools consider occupants as predictable robots the true nature of human behaviour is more complex. This article describes a set of stochastic models aimed at capturing this complexity by decoupling occupant presence f ...
2007Infrared laser isotope separation in a van der Waals cluster beam
Hubert van den Bergh, Matthieu Philippe Emmanuel Zellweger
Efficient laser isotope sepn. is demonstrated in 2 distinct schemes. Irradn. of the collisional zone of the gas expansion provokes an isotopically selective condensation, as well as changes in the velocity distributions of the free jet. The resulting large ...
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