Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Newsletter (Fall 2015), 2015 Western Kentucky University
Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Newsletter (Fall 2015), Cheryl Stevens, Dean
Ogden College of Science & Engineering Publications
No abstract provided.
The Bridge Newsletter Winter 2015, 2015 Missouri University of Science and Technology
The Bridge Newsletter Winter 2015, Missouri University Of Science And Technology
The Bridge Newsletter
-S&T’s Solar House Design Team sets out to redefine the American housing market
-A monumental anniversary
-Academy awards Sneed
-ASCE honors Holmes
Bim; Postgraduate Multidisciplinary Collaborative Education, 2015 Technological University Dublin
Bim; Postgraduate Multidisciplinary Collaborative Education, Malachy Mathews
Conference papers
BIM Technologies and Process are steadily increasing in the design and construction industry. The amount of undergraduate courses delivering BIM based applied and theory courses is also on the rise. These students will be entering a job market where their skillsets in digital modelling and collaborative practice will be in demand. However, existing AEC (architectural, engineering, construction) professionals are recognising the changes happening in the industry. Each domain is influenced and challenged by BIM. The traditional process and workflows will change as BIM adoption grows. Tobin [1] states the long-term impact of any innovation is often not understood when it …
Pigs Feet, 2015 St. Margaret's
Pigs Feet, Jesse W. Standlea
The STEAM Journal
My sculpture “Pigs Feet” has literal foundations upon casts of live pig’s feet. I locally sourced the pig’s feet before casting them. My sculpture makes use of a once cutting edge casting technology, alginate. Alginate molds were once the standard in dentistry. Alginate is an appealing casting material as it is refined from brown seaweeds, is both food and skin safe, it is suitable for educators, for artists and engineers alike.
Physical Models In The Reinforced Concrete Design Classroom, 2015 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Physical Models In The Reinforced Concrete Design Classroom, Anahid A. Behrouzi
Architectural Engineering
An overview is presented of various physical demonstration tools intended to supplement lectures in topic areas that students consistently identify as being troublesome. The article describes the design, fabrication, and implementation of classroom models to help explain flexural behavior and detailing of beams, slabs, and frame systems.
Design Guideline To Select Systems And Strategies To Achieve Adequate Indoor Air Quality In The Mojave Desert Climate Region, 2015 University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Design Guideline To Select Systems And Strategies To Achieve Adequate Indoor Air Quality In The Mojave Desert Climate Region, Nicholas Robert Williams Inouye
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The awareness of climate change has led to many energy-related changes in
building behavior and space conditioning systems. Unfortunately, these changes often
led to the degradation of indoor air quality (IAQ) in residential construction. In an effort
to improve IAQ, a design guideline was developed for homeowners in the Mojave
Desert. A case study designed for the U.S. Department of Energy, Race to Zero
Student Design Competition was used to develop the design guideline. The design
guideline and compilation of codes and standards that affect both IAQ and space
conditioning shall be used in tandem by Mojave Desert homeowners to …
The Effect Of Classical Order On The Seismic Behavior Of Ancient Masonry Columns, 2015 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Effect Of Classical Order On The Seismic Behavior Of Ancient Masonry Columns, Cody M. Buckley
Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Dissertations, Thesis, and Student Research
The design and erection of columns in classical Greece and Rome was a deceptively complicated task. Ancient engineers were not guided by a set of building codes, resulting in several regional design variations. The writer Vitruvius condensed these variations into three archetypes or “orders” defined by proportions based on an arbitrary “module”.
The goal of this thesis is to better understand the effect of these proportions on the seismic response of ancient columns through the use of Equivalent Lateral Force Procedure and finite element analysis software. To this end, a parametric study of linearly elastic, free-standing columns with homogeneous material …
Thermal Energy Storage In Building Integrated Thermal Systems: A Review. Part 2. Integration As Passive System, 2015 Technological University Dublin
Thermal Energy Storage In Building Integrated Thermal Systems: A Review. Part 2. Integration As Passive System, Dervilla Niall, Sarah Mccormack, Philip Griffiths, Luisa Cabeza, Lidia Navarro, Albert Castell, Alvaro De Grazia, Maria Brown
Articles
Energy consumption trends in residential and commercial buildings show a significant increase in recent decades. One of the key points for reducing energy consumption in buildings is to decrease the energy demand. Buildings envelopes are not just a structure they also provide protection from outdoor weather conditions always taking into account the local climate. Thermal energy storage has been used and applied to the building structure by taking advantage of sensible heat storage of materials with high thermal mass. But in recent years, researchers have focused their studies on the implementation of latent heat storage materials that if well incorporated …
City Of Felt And Concrete: Negotiating Cultural Hybridity In Mongolia's Capital Of Ulaanbaatar, 2015 Marshall University
City Of Felt And Concrete: Negotiating Cultural Hybridity In Mongolia's Capital Of Ulaanbaatar, Joshua Hagen, Alexander Diener
Joshua Hagen
Capital cities play an integral role in the construction of national identity. This is particularly true when the capital is the country's only major urban center. Over the course of its history, Mongolia's capital of Ulaanbaatar has been periodically reshaped to reflect competing trajectories of national culture. This article examines the evolving symbolism of architecture, urban design, and public space in Ulaanbaatar as a means of exploring Mongolia's complex negotiation between its traditional culture (mobile pastoralism and Shamanism/Buddhism), its socialist legacy, and globalization. Amidst the rampant social change of the last two decades, rather ambiguous national narratives have emerged in …
Conformity Of House Physical Condition And Socio-Economic Mobility In Post Disaster Resettlement, 2015 SelectedWorks
Conformity Of House Physical Condition And Socio-Economic Mobility In Post Disaster Resettlement, Anggraeni Puspitaningtyas, Happy R. Santosa, V. Totok Noerwasito
Innovative Research Publications IRP India
Mudflow disaster damage job opportunity, disrupt social life and settlement, thus requiring resettlement. Need to understand whether physical condition of resettlement is in accordance with background and housing preference of victim, due to significant differences of housing design. Aspects studied were characteristic of resettlement, physical condition of house and socio-economic mobility. Research was done using qualitative method. Technique of data collection was used retrospective interviews and observation. This research result indicates that most participants experienced conformity in house physical condition and socioeconomic mobility. Reason of unconformity condition is housing facility which has not meet housing standard.
Quantification And Subjective Perception Of Varying Reflection Densities In Measured Room Impulsed Responses, 2015 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Quantification And Subjective Perception Of Varying Reflection Densities In Measured Room Impulsed Responses, Hyun Hong, Lily M. Wang
Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications
This project focuses on quantifying and testing the subjective perception of reflection densities, or the number of reflections per second, from different room impulse responses. The widely used room acoustic metric, reverberation time, is linked to the perceived reverberation in a room. Two different rooms having the same reverberation time, though, can have different reflection densities in their room impulse responses, and this difference in reflection density may affect how listeners perceive spatial impression in rooms. To investigate how sensitive humans are to a change of reflection density, this paper first reviews assorted parameters for quantifying reflection density from measured …
Room Acoustic Effects On Speech Comprehension Of English-As-Second-Language Talkers And Listeners Versus Native-English-Speaking Talkers And Listeners, 2015 University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Room Acoustic Effects On Speech Comprehension Of English-As-Second-Language Talkers And Listeners Versus Native-English-Speaking Talkers And Listeners, Lily M. Wang
Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction: Faculty Publications
Approximately 21% of the children in the United States school system speak a language other than English at home, but are being taught in English at school. English is additionally being used more and more often as a common language in international settings, even though participants at these international events again are not native English speakers. How do adverse room acoustic environments, including higher background noise levels and longer reverberation times, impact English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) talkers and listeners versus native English-speaking talkers and listeners? This presentation focuses on two recent studies at the University of Nebraska that investigate how assorted room …
New Civil Engineering Program Criteria: The Rest Of The Story, 2015 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
New Civil Engineering Program Criteria: The Rest Of The Story, Allen Estes, Thomas A. Lenox, Richard O. Anderson P.E.
Architectural Engineering
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) organized the Civil Engineering Program Criteria Task Committee in October 2012 whose charge is to determine if the current ABET Civil Engineering Program Criteria (CEPC) should be changed to reflect one or more of the 24 outcomes of the second edition of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge published in 2008. After two years of work, a proposed CEPC has been approved by the relevant ASCE committees and forwarded to ABET for approval and incorporation into accreditation criteria. A paper chronicling the committee’s efforts through a review of the literature, the committee’s methodology …
Team Solar Sip, 2015 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
Team Solar Sip, Patrick Fillingham, Wesley Goodson, Kenneth Li
Mechanical Engineering
No abstract provided.
After The Solar Decathlon: Creating A New Design-Build Program, 2015 University of Nevada, Las Vegas
After The Solar Decathlon: Creating A New Design-Build Program, Eric Weber
Architecture Faculty Research
In Fall 2011, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas School of Architecture’s David G. Howryla Design Build Studio began development of UNLV’s entry into the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013, an international, university-based competition to design and build solar-powered housing prototypes. As a competition that requires collaboration between engineering, architecture, interior design, marketing, and communications, the Solar Decathlon is an effective tool for simulating teamwork on real projects. The School of Architecture’s intent was to use the Solar Decathlon as a catalyst for creating UNLV’s Design Build program. The project allowed the School to use support for the project …
The Design Build Experience In The Context Of A Self-Consolidating Grout Research Project, 2015 California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
The Design Build Experience In The Context Of A Self-Consolidating Grout Research Project, Tanner Blumenfeld, Jordan Delfino, Deryk Izuo, Matthew Josten
Architectural Engineering
The purpose of this project was to experience the design-build project delivery method in the context of a research-fueled, procedural testing investigation. Thus, this project consisted of 3 main components each of which will be addressed in this report.
The first aspect to be addressed is the research aspect. The goal of our research was to establish a chemical understanding of how replacement of cement with pozzolans in a grout mixture affects chemical processes and resulting structural characteristics within and of the grout. This research was then applied to formulation of potentially self-consolidating mix designs to be tested in the …
A Framework For Guiding The Briefing Process In Public-Private Partnerships In The Uae Construction Industry, 2015 United Arab Emirates University
A Framework For Guiding The Briefing Process In Public-Private Partnerships In The Uae Construction Industry, Rauda Saeed Ali Saif Al-Saadi
Dissertations
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a procurement method that employs a long-term contractual arrangement between public and private sectors with the intention of developing a public facility. A PPP brief must supply information that not only particularizes the project requirements but also specifies its program, risk management, expected performance output and payment mechanism. Many challenges currently face the briefing process of PPP projects in the UAE. A uniform briefing process has not been agreed, because there is no unified tender law or PPP procurement process in the country. The main aim of this research is to develop a framework for guiding …
Planning And Design For Hurricane Protection With Sea Level Rise, 2015 HNTB Corporation
Planning And Design For Hurricane Protection With Sea Level Rise, Bob Ivarson
May 22, 2015: Megaproject Protective Structures for Hampton Roads
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Healing Gardens, 2015 architecture
The Role Of Healing Gardens, Kalina K. Vander Poel
Student Research Symposium
The objective of this research is to observe the use patterns of a healing garden located on the oncology floor of a pediatric hospital. Use patterns recorded through behavior mapping and tracking focus on collecting data related to the type of user, length of stay, and activity. Three user groups (patient, provider, and visitor) stay an average of eight (8) minutes at Randall Children’s Hospital ranging in activity from sit and relax to actively play. Some findings are concurrent with past research while other findings are not. This research serves as an initial set of data to inform the production …
Portland State University School Of Business Administration (Sba) Renovation + Personal Comfort Investigation, 2015 Portland State University
Portland State University School Of Business Administration (Sba) Renovation + Personal Comfort Investigation, Abolfazl Mekanik, Corey Griffin, Louise Foster
Student Research Symposium
This poster discusses the results of a field study about indoor thermal comfort, based on investigations in Portland State University`s School of Business (SBA) classrooms. The field study was conducted by physical parameter monitoring and questionnaires. Both field monitoring and occupant surveys were performed at the same time during the regular class period.The measurement campaign consisted of measuring the environmental parameters such as temperature (Ta), relative humidity (RH), CO2, and sound levels. The outdoor air temperature, humidity, and sound were registered every 2 hour period during class time. The intention for this project is to investigate thermal comfort …