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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"roof structure"”.
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Design of a tension roof structure for the Rockewll Cage
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000.
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A natatorium for M.I.T. : a spatial experience defined by a roof structure, light and movement
… exploratory method for relationships of light, structure of a roof, to experience. The design as a primary understanding the movement and the defining a spatial for the facility serves as an exploration o f spacial experience analogous to nature; and it intends to evoke the visual sensation of …
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Jeddah Auto Mall
… cars and address their competition under one roof which would be convenient for customers to compare cars. The building has twelve show room units. Each unit has a display area, offices, and a service area. The roof structure system facilitates a large open span beneath it. A series of …
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Design of Stick-Framed Wood Roofs Under Extreme Wind Loads
… industry inCanada and the United States. The roofs of these houses can be constructed eitherentirely on site or using prefabricated trusses. Assembling the roof structure on site,otherwise known as stick-framing, is a framing technique with current code guidelinesthat are based on past …
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Additions, extensions, transformations : new architecture to old
… the same window and doors, and a similar roof structure. Essential formal issues are often not addressed. Four case studies are made, each being either an addition, an extension, or a transformation. Differing sizes and scales are explored. Accesses and circulation options are studied, as …
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Thermal Performance Comparison of Three Integrated Thermal Solar Roof Collectors
The integrated solar roof collector system can bring the house year-round energy saving benefit. In heating season, part of the space heating and preheating domestic hot water demand can be met by this integrated system. In the cooling season, cooling load reduction and preheating domestic hot …
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Collapse behaviour of double layer grid structures in steel
Flat double layer grid (DLG) structures are efficient modular, structural systems which span in two or more directions and consequently develop their resistance in three dimensions. Although such structures offer many structural, constructional and aesthetic advantages over alternative planar …
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Study and design of a synagogue
… century Eastern Europe have the ribbed vaulted roof structure typical of period churches. The bimah of a venetian synagogue of the middle seventeenth century has features typical of Italian renaissance architecture. The Rococo ark from another synagogue in Venice but built in the eighteenth …
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The Design of Post-Disaster Housing Units For The East Boston Community
… level of skilled-labor required for assembly. Roof structure allows for more light to encourage healing post-disaster, extra ceiling space to double as storage, and for optional placement of photovoltaic panels. At the end of 18 months, these units can be repurposed as affordable housing.
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Analysis of Thermal Energy Collection from Precast Concrete Roof Assemblies
… collection by casting collector tubes into the roof structure. A design is presented for a precast solar water heating system used to aid in meeting the space and domestic water heating loads of a single family residence. A three-dimensional transient collector model is developed to characterize …
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Three-Dimensional Building Reconstruction from Raw LIDAR Data
… provided by the data makes building boundary and roof structure extractions become essential tasks when analysing the data.<br/><br/>This research examines the limitations of different algorithms for extracting building outlines and remodelling roof structures from the LIDAR data solely, and …
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Plant growth under photovoltaic arrays of varying transparencies – a study of plant response to light and shadow in agrivoltaic systems
… arrays. In a separate study, a simulated green roof structure was constructed around an existing PV array at CSU's Foothills Campus to explore the feasibility of rooftop agrivoltaics. A one-year study of six native pollinator plant species was conducted to assess differences in establishment, …
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Using the medical treatment contract as an instrument for replacing the tort liability system in England.
… of information and complicated requirements of proof in litigation, especially with demonstrating whether the doctor acted negligently. This further leads to long litigation and high costs. Moreover, courts do not interpret negligent behaviour as one of the conditions for medical liability, in …
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An Addition to the Virginia Tech School of Architecture
… Cowgill Hall is a 4 story concrete and glass structure, built in 1969, with a dry moat-like hardscape on three sides around it and a wide bridge connecting the building at the second level to the campus via a large plaza. My solution was to use the bridge as the way to connect an addition to …
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Konstrukčně materiálová diagnostika existujícího stavebního objektu
Diplomová práca sa zaoberá diagnostikou a stavebno-technickým prieskumom pamiat- kovej stavby s cieľom identifikovať jej aktuálny technický stav a navrhnúť vhodné úpravy a rekonštrukčné zásahy. Diagnostika stavby zahŕňa hodnotenie existujúcich porúch a po- škodení, ktoré môžu ohrozovať jej …