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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"building models"”.
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Building Models of Process Systems: Applications in Control and Design
Traditional or new methods for building models of process systems can combine physical understanding with statistical analysis so that models can be developed for use in many fields of engineering. This work focusses on developing models that can be used for system design (e.g., cementing of …
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Transformation of digital building models from boundary representation to tetrahedral space partitioning
… an algorithm designed to transform a digital building model from a Boundary Representation (B-rep) to a tetrahedral space partitioning. This transformation addresses the limitations of current digital building models, especially their lack of explicit spatial relationship information among …
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Sensitivity Study on Modification of Vertical Distribution of Strength and Stiffness in Wood Shear Wall Building Models
… performance of multi-story wood-frame shear wall buildings. In the prior FEMA P695 studies of these buildings, the non-simulated collapse limit-state was exceeded primarily in the first story. This observation raised interest in quantifying the influence of varying strength from story to story on …
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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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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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Mechanics of Random -Fiber Networks: A Direct Simulation
… the mechanics of random-fiber networks, and building models of composite materials processing.
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Thinking through making : the rural building workshop
… and making, and how designing and physically building or prototyping what is designed (or parts there of) aids in the generation of ideas, and has a potential for architectural education. The ideas that have transpired through the course of the year from building models and doing research for …
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Experiments in tunnel-soil-structure interaction
… non-linear behaviour of both the soil and the building. This thesis investigates the interaction between a surface structure and tunnelling-induced ground displacements. Specifically, novel three-dimensionally printed building models with brittle material behaviour, similar to masonry, were …
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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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Active one-shot learning for personalized human affect estimation
Building models that can classify human affect leads to the challenge of learning on data that is complex in features and limited in size and labels. How can these models balance being general and personalized, capturing both the commonalities and the individual quirks of people? While previous …
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Higgs family symmetry and supersymmetry
In this thesis we investigate building models of family symmetry that give the Higgs fields family structure. We construct several models, starting with 2 generation models then moving onto 3 generation models. These models are described sequentially in chapters 2 through 6. All of these models are …
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Autonomous 3D Urban and Complex Terrain Geometry Generation and Micro-Climate Modelling Using CFD and Deep Learning
Sustainable building design requires a clear understanding and realistic modelling of the complex interaction between climate and built environment to create safe and comfortable outdoor and indoor spaces. This necessitates unprecedented urban climate modelling at high temporal and spatial …
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3D Reconstruction of Building Interiors Using Point Clouds
The automatic modeling of as-built building interiors, known as indoor building reconstruction, is gaining increasing attention because of its widespread applications. With the development of sensors to acquire high-quality point clouds, a new modeling scheme called scan-to-BIM (building …
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End-to-End Artificial Intelligence Lifecycle Management
… understanding the data, preparing the data, building models, evaluating and finally deploying the AI technologies. In this thesis, we propose an AI Ecosystem that enables end-to-end AI lifecycle management. This ecosystem enables teams to easily transition from concept to prototype and from …
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Venture Studios: Analyzing a New Asset in the Venture Ecosystem
… venture studios are companies that apply venture building methodologies to systematically identify market opportunities, develop ideas for businesses that can pursue those opportunities, assemble founding teams to operate those businesses independently, and support the businesses’ growth from …
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Exploiting Building Demand Flexibility Through Machine Learning for Building-to-grid Integration
<p>Demand flexibility – the ability to adjust a building's load profile across different timescales – is a key aspect of the ongoing effort to increase interconnectivity between buildings and the power grid. By harnessing their demand flexibility, buildings can provide significant benefits to the …
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Negotiating place : community participation and design in the planning of public schools
… could develop. Ideas drawn from consensus building models and from urban design theorists address many of the challenges to which the cases provide no clear prescriptive guidance. These include the organization of a participatory process and the key physical design questions. Combining …
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Convex modeling with priors
… information about the system's structure when building data-driven models of complex behavior. This thesis provides a framework for building models that incorporate domain specific knowledge and glean information from unlabeled data points. I present a methodology to augment standard methods in …
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Inference and learning for rigid-body models of manipulation
… investigating the fidelity of rigid-body contact models and their identification. We evaluate the fidelity of the contact models by empirically studying their predictive performance and parameter identification properties in a planar impact task. Next, we address one approach to augmenting these …
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A Study on the Control, Dynamics, and Hardware of Micro Aerial Biomimetic Flapping Wing Vehicles
… the simplest possible model and subsequently building models of increasing complexity. This research finds that a proportional derivative feedback and feedforward controller applied to a nonlinear model is the most practical controller for a flapping system. Due to the complex aerodynamics of …
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