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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"building model"”.
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Efficient 3D building model generation from 2D floor plans
3D building models are beneficial to architects, interior designers, and ordinary people in visualizing indoor space in three dimensions. 3D building models appear to be more aesthetic to ordinary people than architectural drawings. Architects can benefit from such models in detecting any …
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Building model generation project : generating a model of the MIT campus terrain
… automatically generated and frequently updated model of the MIT campus leads the way to many valuable applications, ranging from three-dimensional navigation to virtual tours. In this thesis, we present a set of application tools for generating a properly labeled, well-structured …
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Case study of a 39-story building : model verification and performance comparison with a semi-active device
Implementing viscous dampers in high-rise buildings has proven to be an efficient structural way to control interstory drift and accelerations in buildings undergoing wind and earthquake excitations. However, the cost of this implementation sometimes turns to be prohibitive or too high. As a …
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An Approach to 3D Building Model Reconstruction from Airborne Laser Scanner Data Using Parameter Space Analysis and Fusion of Primitives
… laser scanner data in order to generate 3D building models. These 3D building models may be used for technical and environmental planning. The approach has to follow certain requirements such as working automatically and robust and being flexible in use but still practicable. The approach …
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Building model systems to understand Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in heme : spectroscopic investigation of charge transfer to axially bound diimide acceptors
… reactive Fe(IV)=O species. The bidirectional model is prepared using a hangman porphyrin with an axially coordinated to the metal center, and the electron transfer event is triggered by excitation of the porphyrin. The synthesis of this motif is discussed as well as initial studies into the …
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BUILDING GRANTEE CAPACITY THROUGH AN INNOVATIVE-PROCESS-DRIVEN, PEOPLE-CENTERED-EVALUATION FRAMEWORK
… people-centered--grantee capacity building model. The intent of the framework was to build individual and organizational capacity to perform and sustain program evaluation. The Golden LEAF Grantee Capacity Building Model (GLF-GCB Model) was examined using an action research design …
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The Integration of Architectural Design and Energy Modelling Software
… carbon dioxide emissions from energy used in buildings. However, architects need new tools to help them to design enjoyable, comfortable, attractive and yet technically rigorous, low energy buildings. This thesis investigates, by means of a Research Through Design approach, how architectural …
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A simplified software architecture for self-updating Building Information Models (BIM)
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an emerging software technology that is revolutionizing the architecture, engineering, and construction (A/E/C) industry. BIM technology employs "object-based 3D models-containing the physical and functional characteristics of a facility-that serve as a …
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Building Temperature Control with Intelligent Methods
… Matlab is used as the tool to make models and process calculations. The building model is one simple room in Akwesasne in New York State and the target is to keep the temperature indoor around 22 degree Centigrade from 12/29/2013 to 12/31/2013. Heat pump is used to provide or absorb …
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Towards a hypermedia approach of data organization in building-modeling CAD systems
… systems implies a trend of using a comprehensive building model as the storage space for all relevant data about one design project. Instead of a set of drawing files, a building is represented as a collection of building object data and their relationships. In order to create and manipulate this …
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Exploring Knowledge Transfer and Knowledge Building at Offshore Technical Support Centers
… into knowledge transfer and knowledge building processes observed at offshore Technical Support Centers (TSCs) in China. Utilizing a multiple case study approach, the study examines how knowledge was transferred from the US-based support center to the China-based offshore support …
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System identification of dynamic structural systems using continuous-time domain methods
… to ambient vibration by fitting a mathematical model. The objectives of this study are to: (1) investigate the use of existing system identification methods, and (2) develop new system identification methods, in order to evaluate both loading and structural modal parameters of ambient excited …
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Mathematical modelling studies of human locomotion
… theoretical considerations in respect of model building, model testing and practical work concerned with the collection of pertinent data.
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Building Partnerships With Indigenous Communities
… to oppress. While existing research shows building partnerships with indigenous communities, requires researchers to work “with” not “for” communities and walk side-by-side, and to do so with reciprocity, respect, relevance, responsibility and reverence, this research study identified an …
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Optimization of residential buildings and renewable energy integration in small island developing states: the Bahamas as a case study
… Optimal solutions are compared to a building model developed from audited data. The results indicate that design alternatives presented here can be feasibly implemented that possibly achieve net zero energy and carbon negative status. The peak reduction in life cycle costs is 42%, in …
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A Framing Analysis and Model of Barack Obama in Political Cartoons
… and overarching frames. It then proposes a model of the frame building process in political cartoons based on framing influences, first-order frames, rhetorical themes, framing devices and overarching frames. This model of frame building is tested in a content analysis of 496 political …
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Mechanical design, control and optimization of a hybrid solar microgrid for rural electrification and heat supply in sub-Saharan Africa
… and assembly of the parts. – The detailed model of an organic Rankine cycle with the purpose of evaluating the improvement brought by the high expansion ratio scroll expander and mapping the ORC performance. – A building model developed to predict the thermal loads of a health clinic in …
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Disturbance Attenuation in Mass Chains with Passive Interconnection
… The problem arises in the design of multi-storey buildings subjected to earthquake disturbances, but applies in other situations such as bidirectional control of vehicle platoons. It is shown that the scalar transfer functions from the disturbance to a given intermass displacement can be …
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Air leakage of Insulated Concrete Form houses
Air leakage has been shown to increase building energy use due to additional heating and cooling loads. Although many construction types have been examined for leakage, an exploration of a large number of Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) houses has not yet been completed. This thesis first collects 43 …
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INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (IEQ) AND BUILDING ENERGY OPTIMIZATION THROUGH MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL (MPC)
… a novel and systematic approach to apply Model Predictive Control (MPC) to improve energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality in office buildings. Model predictive control is one of the advanced optimal control approaches that use models to predict the behavior of the process …
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