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Dilanka Chandrasiri, Perampalam Gatheeshgar, Hadi Monsef Ahmadi and Lenganji Simwanda
In the construction domain, there is a growing emphasis on sustainability, resource efficiency, and energy optimisation. Light-gauge steel panels (LGSPs) stand out for their inherent advantages including lightweight construction and energy efficiency. Ho...
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Rana Abdollahi Rizi, Hamed Sangin, Kiana Haghighatnejad Chobari, Ahmad Eltaweel and Robyn Phipps
The future of building envelope design lies in smart adaptation. The current literature overlooks the crucial integration of airflow, ventilation and daylighting in adaptive façade design. Moreover, it neglects the occupants? locations, activities and in...
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Maria Coutinho, Frederico Afonso, Alain Souza, David Bento, Ricardo Gandolfi, Felipe R. Barbosa, Fernando Lau and Afzal Suleman
The electrification of an aircraft?s propulsive system is identified as a potential solution towards a lower carbon footprint in the aviation industry. One of the effects of increased electrification is the generation of a large amount of waste heat that...
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Wei Jiang, Weicheng Xie and Shuai Sun
As the key mechanism of attitude control of micro/nano-satellites, the flywheel design is mostly based on empirical formulae that do not meet the requirements of lightweight and high-performance micro/nano-satellite platforms. In this paper, the structur...
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Ali Ashrafian, Naser Safaeian Hamzehkolaei, Ngakan Ketut Acwin Dwijendra and Maziar Yazdani
There has been a significant increase in construction and demolition (C&D) waste due to the growth of cities and the need for new construction, raising concerns about the impact on the environment of these wastes. By utilising recycled C&D waste,...
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Daoyi Lu, Gerasimos Theotokatos, Jundong Zhang, Hong Zeng and Keying Cui
Although the exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) technology has been proven effective to decrease the marine engine?s nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions, it is associated with a considerable fuel consumption increase and challenges to the engine?turbocharger ma...
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Bowen Li, Qiangqiang Sun, Dandan Xiao and Wenqiang Zhang
The aerodynamics of an aerofoil with surface heating was numerically studied with the objective to build an effective anti-icing strategy and balance the aerodynamics performance and energy consumption. NACA0012, RAE2822 and ONERA M6 aerofoils were adopt...
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Xiaoran Huang, Wei Yuan, Marcus White and Nano Langenheim
Urban design has been valuable in bringing the principles of transit-oriented development (TOD) into reality. However, a majority of recommendations summarized by scholars for promoting TODs through urban design have failed to promote the progress of the...
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Stefan Harries and Sebastian Uharek
The paper shows the application of a flexible approach of partially-parametric modelling on the basis of radial basis functions (RBF) for the modification of an existing hull form (baseline). Different to other partially-parametric modelling approaches, ...
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Nouha Dkhili, Julien Eynard, Stéphane Thil and Stéphane Grieu
In a context of accelerating deployment of distributed generation in power distribution grid, this work proposes an answer to an important and urgent need for better management tools in order to ?intelligently? operate these grids and maintain quality of...
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