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Yeshou Xu, Qi He, Ying-Qing Guo, Xing-Huai Huang, Yao-Rong Dong, Zhong-Wei Hu and Jinkoo Kim
Viscoelastic dampers are conventional passive vibration control devices with excellent energy dissipation performance. The fractional derivative has a simple form and high accuracy in the modelling of viscoelastic materials/dampers. The internal variable...
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Jingtao Wu, Zhe Kang and Zhijun Wu
For the requirements of rigorous CO2 and emissions regulations, steam assist technology is an effective method for thermal efficiency enhancement. However, few studies apply steam assist technology in modern internal combustion engines. Stimulated by its...
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Francesco Barreca and Pasquale Praticò
The sustainability of agri-food products is an increasingly pressing need. It is fundamental to consider the various needs related to the factors of production and to workers, which are different from those of products and plants, as well as new requirem...
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Jiashen Teh, Chia Ai Ooi, Yu-Huei Cheng, Muhammad Ammirrul Atiqi Mohd Zainuri and Ching-Ming Lai
Electric power utilities across the globe are facing higher demand for electricity than ever before, while juggling to balance environmental conservation with transmission corridor expansions. Demand side management (DSM) and dynamic thermal rating syste...
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Joshua Fong, Jerry Edge, Chris Underwood, Andy Tindale, Steve Potter and Hu Du
This research investigates the overall heating energy consumptions using various control strategies, secondary heat emitters, and primary plant for a building. Previous research has successfully demonstrated that a dynamic distributed heat emitter model ...
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Amir M. Horr
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During the past two decades, problems of material process simulations and also dynamic and crash simulations have been considered for the design of safer lightweight roadside and gantry structures. Recently, large lattice space structural systems using s...
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Zulfikar A. Adamu and Andrew D.F. Price
In temperate countries, heat recovery is often desirable through mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR). Drawbacks of MVHR include use of electric power and complex ducting, while alternative passive heat recovery systems in the form of roof or...
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Yahya Lavafpour and Steve Sharples
This study uses numerical thermal simulation to investigate the potential use of building geometry to eliminate or reduce current and future thermal discomfort overheating risk in UK Passivhaus dwellings. The study focused on the optimum inclination of a...
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