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Structural Engineering

2016

Structural engineering

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Selected Research And Development Projects, Advanced Structures & Composites Center, University Of Maine Jul 2016

Selected Research And Development Projects, Advanced Structures & Composites Center, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

Promotional flyer with summaries of a selection of research and development projects including VolturnUS 1:8, DeepCLiDAR, Composite Arch Bridge System, MAKO, Secure Hybrid Composite Shipping Container, Modular Ballistic Protection System, and NASA HAID.


Daylighting And Thermo-Electrical Performance Of An Autonomous Suspended Particle Device Evacuated Glazing, Aritra Ghosh Feb 2016

Daylighting And Thermo-Electrical Performance Of An Autonomous Suspended Particle Device Evacuated Glazing, Aritra Ghosh

Doctoral

Suspended particle device (SPD) glazing is an AC powered switchable glazing. PV powered SPD evacuated (vacuum) glazing was proposed with the potential of reducing the heating demand, cooling demand and artificial lighting demand of a building. To achieve an autonomous SPD vacuum glazing, semi empirical simulation and outdoor characterisation was explored in this thesis. Transmission of SPD glazing (area 0.058 m2) varied from 5% when opaque to 55% when transparent in the presence of 110 V, 0.07 W AC supply was characterised in outdoor test cell in Dublin. The SPD glazing has variable spectral transmission in the presence of variable …