scholarly journals Adjustable Internal Shading for Home Office Daylighting in Tropical Climates

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 609-624
Author(s):  
Seyed Mohammad Mousavi ◽  
Tareef Hayat Khan ◽  
Amin Mohammadi
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Tropical Regions ◽  
High Solar Radiation ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Design Variables ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Tropical Climates ◽  
Pearson Correlations

Home-based workspaces have considerably increased all over the world. Besides, the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 disease forced many people to work from their homes. However, existing residential apartment buildings (ERABs) had been designed for accommodation but not for office works. Low-quality visual environments in ERABs, which have no shading controls on their windows, are evident in tropical climates with extremely high solar radiation. Thus, interior retrofit is significant to provide visual comfort for users in ERABs with low flexibility for modification of their facades. Different interior design variables were simulated by the Radiance-based program to analyse daylighting in a closed-plan room. Before the simulation experiments, field measurement of daylight was performed under a tropical sky to validate the results, and the findings revealed significant Pearson correlations. This paper showed that ERABs are confronting extremely high indoor daylight quantity, up to 10,228 lx, and low quality with intolerable glare. An adjustable model of internal shading, including an integrated Venetian blind with a horizontal light shelf and the window films, was proposed to improve quantitative and qualitative performances of daylighting in tropical regions. This dynamic model could be adjusted to various positions based on daylighting conditions in the buildings. By comparing the simulation results of this model with the base model, indoor illuminance levels could successfully reduce from 32% to 86%; Illuminance Uniformity Ratio (IUR) and Target Daylight Illuminance (TDI) significantly improved up to 180% and 300%, respectively; Daylight Glare Probability (DGP) and CIE Glare Index (CGI) changed from intolerable to imperceptible status. Accordingly, the proposed model can considerably improve daylight quantity and quality in the test room during different times. This study concludes that the dynamic model of internal shadings could provide efficient daylighting, by decreasing the extremely high indoor illuminance and glare in the ERABs in tropical climates.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF INTERNAL SHADING CONTROLS ON EFFICIENT DAYLIGHTING IN HOME-OFFICE WORKSPACES IN TROPICAL CLIMATES

2021 ◽  
Vol 83 (6) ◽  
pp. 141-156
Author(s):  
Seyed Mohammad Mousavi ◽  
Tareef Hayat Khan ◽  
Yaik-Wah Lim ◽  
Amin Mohammadi
Keyword(s):  
Field Measurement ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Tropical Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Window Film ◽  
Shading Devices ◽  
Tropical Climates

Home office workspaces have significantly grown in residential sectors throughout the world. Nowadays, many people worldwide are forced to work from their housing units due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the existing residential buildings were only designed for living activities, not for desk-related tasks. This is more critical in tropical regions with the overabundance of indoor daylight and lack of external shadings on existing buildings. Despite the limitations for modifying the external facades, interior retrofit plays a major role in improving visual environments. Daylighting performances of various configurations, including internal shading devices, interior surfaces, and window films, were experimented with the Radiance-IES program. A field measurement of daylight was conducted in a home office room under the Malaysian tropical sky to validate the simulated results. This research proved that the existing residential buildings in the tropical climates had poor daylighting performance where the mean indoor illuminance could be over 10,000 lx. The combination of a light shelf, a partial blind, and the tinted window film could effectively 85% alleviate the excessive indoor daylight level. This configuration recorded a significant improvement in Useful Daylight Zone (around 300%), and Daylight Glare Probability was considerably reduced from 0.46 to 0.34.

scholarly journals Heat Stress and Goat Welfare: Adaptation and Production Considerations

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1021
Author(s):  
Veerasamy Sejian ◽  
Mullakkalparambil V. Silpa ◽  
Mini R. Reshma Nair ◽  
Chinnasamy Devaraj ◽  
Govindan Krishnan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
Body Condition Score ◽  
Heat Exposure ◽  
Stocking Density ◽  
Production Performance ◽  
Farm Animals ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Important Species ◽  
Tropical Regions ◽  
Tropical Climates

This review attempted to collate and synthesize information on goat welfare and production constraints during heat stress exposure. Among the farm animals, goats arguably are considered the best-suited animals to survive in tropical climates. Heat stress was found to negatively influence growth, milk and meat production and compromised the immune response, thereby significantly reducing goats’ welfare under extensive conditions and transportation. Although considered extremely adapted to tropical climates, their production can be compromised to cope with heat stress. Therefore, information on goat adaptation and production performance during heat exposure could help assess their welfare. Such information would be valuable as the farming communities are often struggling in their efforts to assess animal welfare, especially in tropical regions. Broadly three aspects must be considered to ensure appropriate welfare in goats, and these include (i) housing and environment; (ii) breeding and genetics and (iii) handling and transport. Apart from these, there are a few other negative welfare factors in goat rearing, which differ across the production system being followed. Such negative practices are predominant in extensive systems and include nutritional stress, limited supply of good quality water, climatic extremes, parasitic infestation and lameness, culminating in low production, reproduction and high mortality rates. Broadly two types of methodologies are available to assess welfare in goats in these systems: (i) animal-based measures include behavioral measurements, health and production records and disease symptoms; (ii) resources based and management-based measures include stocking density, manpower, housing conditions and health plans. Goat welfare could be assessed based on several indicators covering behavioral, physical, physiological and productive responses. The important indicators of goat welfare include agonistic behavior, vocalization, skin temperature, body condition score (BCS), hair coat conditions, rectal temperature, respiration rate, heart rate, sweating, reduced growth, reduced milk production and reduced reproductive efficiency. There are also different approaches available by which the welfare of goats could be assessed, such as naturalistic, functional and subjective approaches. Thus, assessing welfare in goats at every production stage is a prerequisite for ensuring appropriate production in this all-important species to guarantee optimum returns to the marginal and subsistence farmers.

scholarly journals Keputusan Pembelian dan Kepuasan Konsumen Dipengaruhi Variabel Lokasi, Pelayanan, Kualitas Produk, Nilai Emosional, dan Disain Interior yang Berdampak pada Tingkat Pembelian

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Bahri Bahri
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Department Store ◽  
Test Method ◽  
Purchasing Decisions ◽  
Location Service ◽  
Design Variables ◽  
Emotional Value

<em><span><em>This research is motivated by the growing of online businesses that have an impact on decreasing income of retail businesses. In order to survive, a retail  business have to implement strategies that can increase purchases and provide satisfaction to consumers. This study aims to determine the effect of location, service, product quality, emotional value, and interior design variables on purchasing decisions and also customer satisfaction for increasing purchases, and testing the effect of purchasing decisions on customer satisfaction at Gardena Department Store &amp; Supermarket. This type of research uses quantitative descriptive. The sampling method is non-probability sampling and using purposive sampling technique. The data that have been collected then analyzed using the statistical hypotheses test method consist of multiple linear regression analysis, t-test, and f-test. The partial results of the study indicate that the location, service, and product quality variables have positive and significant effects on purchasing decisions and customer satisfaction. While the emotional value and interior design variables have no partial effects on purchasing decisions and consumer satisfaction. Purchasing decisions has a significant positive effect on customer satisfaction. Simultaneously, the variables of location, service, product quality, emotional value, and interior design have positive and significant effects on purchasing decisions and customer satisfaction at Gardena Department Store &amp; Supermarket. The results of this study can be used as an implication for company management that should continue to improve service, product quality, and need to pay attention to location, especially access and large parking lots so that consumers decide to make purchases and get satisfaction from the products, resulting an increase in consumer purchases at Gardena Department Store &amp; Supermarket.</em></span></em>

scholarly journals Remote Work and the Environment: Exploratory Analysis of Indoor Air Quality of Commercial Offices and the Home Office

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamrie Sarnosky ◽  
Mark Benden ◽  
Leslie Cizmas ◽  
Annette Regan ◽  
Garett Sansom
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Indoor Air Quality ◽  
Indoor Air ◽  
Indoor Air Pollution ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Adverse Health Effects ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Co2 ◽  
Total Volatile Organic Compounds

Abstract Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated an already existing trend of individuals increasingly working remotely. With the growing popularity of remote working, specifically in a home office, there is a critical need to better understand and characterize the potential environmental differences between these two spaces. Indoor air pollution can have adverse health effects and impair cognitive functioning. Methods: This small pilot cohort study (N=22) recruited home and office workers to better understand the indoor air quality between these spaces. Air contaminants collected and assessed included PM10 and PM2.5, carbon dioxide (CO2), and total volatile organic compounds (TVOCs). Results: Findings showed a strong statistically significant increase in all measured variables within homes in comparison to traditional offices (p<0.001). For instance, The mean PM2.5 level in the traditional office space was 1.93 µg/m3 whereas it was more than twice this amount (5.97 µg/m3) in home offices.Conclusion: These results indicate that those who work from home are at increased risk due to longer exposures to higher levels of certain contaminants, the importance to better develop interventions to mitigate this reality is underscored by the fact that many workers will be moving to home-based offices in the coming years.

scholarly journals Vibration analysis of multi-body dynamic model of combat vehicle gearbox

2019 ◽  
Vol 287 ◽  
pp. 03005
Author(s):  
Jan Furch ◽  
Cao Vu Tran
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Vibration Signal ◽  
Technical Condition ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Combat Vehicle ◽  
Failure Conditions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Multi Body ◽  
Material Wear ◽  
Body Dynamic

The combat vehicle gearbox, during the operation, generates vibration signals being related to the technical condition of gearbox. The analysis of the vibration signal could be used to determine accurately the behaviour of gearbox. Along with the development of the computer technology, the multi-body dynamic solution has been used widely to simulate, analyse, and determine the technical condition of gearbox. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the dynamic model of combat vehicle gearbox, and the simulation process based on the multi-body dynamic software, namely MSC.ADAMS. This proposed model allows the detection of failure conditions of individual gears and bearings in the gearbox. In this way, the fault conditions of the individual transmission components are identified. In the future, we would like to include a material wear module in the model, and we would like to model the life of the gearbox. We assume that we would also carry out accelerated tests of the gearbox to verify validity.

scholarly journals The use of tools and approaches of system dynamics in the analysis of the efficiency of BIM implementation and its impact on the management and planning of investments in the construction sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 279 ◽  
pp. 01011
Author(s):  
Martin Hotový
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Strategic Investment ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Investment Decision Making ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Impact

This paper presents the use of tools and approaches of system dynamics in the analysis of the efficiency of BIM tools implementation in relation to the management and planning of investments in the construction sector. The dynamic model based on the approach of system dynamics allows to simulate the impact rate (range) of BIM implementation in strategic investment decision-making in the construction sector. Based on the analysis, the key parameters critically affecting the large construction investment projects are determined. The proposed model is implemented as a submodel in the dynamic model designed for potential refinements in the strategic planning of the extent of investments into projects of civil infrastructure of the Czech Republic. The model allows to test different strategies in the virtual world before their implementation. The prediction of future developments based on the proposed model allows to streamline planning and decision-making processes.

scholarly journals Development of a dynamic model for photovoltaic modules and arrays

DYNA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 86 (210) ◽  
pp. 292-301
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Manuel Arias García ◽  
Ignacio Perez Abril
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Open Circuit Voltage ◽  
Open Circuit ◽  
Data Sheet ◽  
Order Effects ◽  
Influence Of Temperature ◽  
Photovoltaic Modules ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Optical Effects ◽  
Influence Of Temperature On

In the work, a dynamic model is proposed in Simulink, to model the behavior of photovoltaic modules and arrays. A novel methodology is proposed to obtain exactly the five parameters of the simple diode model, through the data provided by the manufacturer in the data sheet. The model proposes the calculation of the Volt-Ampere curve from environmental conditions, solar irradiance, ambient temperature and second-order effects, such as: the influence of temperature on the photocurrent generated and on the open circuit voltage, as well as the spectral and optical effects. The validity and accuracy of the proposed model is checked by comparing its results, with curves and experimental data from the manufacturer's data sheet. In addition, curves of the module are shown, allowing to evaluate its behavior taking in to account the optical and spectral effects.

Acoustic Response Synthesis Using Multiple Induced-Strain Actuators

2008 ◽  
Vol 130 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Lin ◽  
C. C. Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Inverse Problem ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Acoustic Impedance ◽  
Accurate Prediction ◽  
Impedance Method ◽  
Structural Acoustics ◽  
Acoustic Response ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Host Structure ◽  
Multiple Actuators

A methodology to synthesize a predesignated acoustic response using a structure driven by multiple induced-strain actuators, e.g., piezoelectric (PZT) patches, is presented. The proposed approach of solving the inverse problem of structural acoustics, e.g., how to produce a known acoustic response from a given PZT-driven baffled plate, is accomplished using the impedance method. A dynamic model that assembles the PZT patch impedance, the host structure impedance, and the acoustic impedance is developed and then is utilized to synthesize a predesignated acoustic response. The proposed model includes the mass and stiffness of the actuator and thus provides a more accurate prediction when a structure is bonded with multiple actuators.

scholarly journals Dynamic Characteristics of a Vibrating Flip-Flow Screen and Analysis for Screening 3 mm Iron Ore

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi Yu ◽  
Xinwen Wang ◽  
Kunfeng Pang ◽  
Guofeng Zhao ◽  
Wenpeng Sun
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Iron Ore ◽  
Coarse Particles ◽  
Screening Length ◽  
Screening Process ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Screening Performance ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Screening Efficiency ◽  
Multistage Sampling

Deep dry screening is the key unit in mineral processing. A vibrating flip-flow screen (VFFS) can provide effective solutions for screening fine-grained minerals, and it has been extensively used in many industrial fields. An accurate dynamic model of VFFS considering the influence of materials is significant for its dynamic analysis and screening process research, but it has rarely been studied in detail. In this paper, an improved dynamic model of VFFS is proposed and its dynamic equations are solved to find the reasonable operating condition, and experiments are carried out to verify the reasonability of the proposed model under no-load and loading materials conditions. Furthermore, the method of multistage sampling and multilayer screening is also applied to evaluate the screening performance of iron ore at 3 mm cut size on VFFS. Results show that when the mass of materials, relative amplitude, and operating frequency have values of 107 kg, about 6 mm and 80.79 rad/s, respectively, the screening efficiency gradually increases with an increase of screening length, reaching 89.05%; however, it does not change much when the screening length exceeds 1900.8 mm. Additionally, the misplaced materials of coarse particles will continue to increase as the screening length increases. This provides theoretical and technical support for the optimization of the length of the VFFS.

scholarly journals Nonlinear Dynamic Characteristic Analysis of a Landing String in Deepwater Riserless Drilling

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Jun Liu ◽  
Hongliang Zhao ◽  
Simon X. Yang ◽  
Qingyou Liu ◽  
Guorong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Condition ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Marine Environment ◽  
Lower Boundary ◽  
Dynamic Responses ◽  
Characteristic Analysis ◽  
Lower Boundary Condition ◽  
Response Characteristics ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Nonlinear Dynamic Characteristic

The landing string is an important component of deepwater riserless drilling systems. Determination of the dynamic characteristics of the landing string plays an essential role in its design for ensuring its safe operation. In this paper, a dynamic model is developed to investigate the dynamic response characteristics of a landing string, where a landing string in a marine environment is modeled as a flexible slender tube undergoing coupled transverse and axial motions. The heaving motion of the drilling platform is taken as the upper boundary condition and the motion of the drilling bit caused by the interaction between the rock and the bit as the lower boundary condition. A semiempirical Morison equation is used to simulate the effect of the load imposed by the marine environment. The dynamic model, which is nonlinearly coupled and multibody, is discretized by a finite element method and solved by the Newmark technique. Using the proposed model, the dynamic responses of the displacement, axial force, and moment in the landing string are investigated in detail to find out the influences of driving depth of surface catheter, platform motion, bit movement, and marine environment on the dynamical characteristics of the landing string.

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