What kind of tools need the buildings' designers to give optimus answers to climate change adaptation in projects?

The climate change presents a challenge to buildings designers, because they have to include responses to reduce this phenomenon. Do you believe that this idea is true?

04 May 2015 8,231 1 View

Should designers include the extreme heat events into the buildings design process?

The frequency and severity of extreme heat events is likely to increase as a result of climate change. How these events affect the buildings comfort? Designers should be prudent in their designs...

04 May 2015 4,047 2 View

Do you believe possible to develop a big energy interconnection grid that gives access to people in Latin America by using renewable energy?

When you use renewable energies to give energy in a building exist three way: individual, microgrid and interconnection grid. How do you believe these kind of ways could implement in Buildings...

10 November 2014 7,397 4 View

Is possible that buildings can control their energy consumption to give good answers to abrupt climate changes?

I'm working at Energy efficient research and the last information that I have is that the consumption will increase in 100% for the next 20 years. Do you know any strategy for reduce consumption?

10 November 2014 3,833 6 View

What is the best renewable energy solution to implement in buildings?

When you use renewable energies to give energy in a building exist three way: individual, microgrid and interconnection grid. I'm working at Energy efficient research and the last information that...

10 November 2014 9,744 14 View

How can we reduce the energy consumption in the next 20 years?

I'm working at Energy efficient research and the last information that I have is that the consumption will increase in 100% for the next 20 years. Do you know any strategy for reduce consumption?

10 November 2014 2,269 6 View

What are some strategies to answer climate change that give a good design to cities?

Cities have been affected by climate change and it is necessary give cities good strategies to answer that problem.

07 August 2014 8,303 3 View

What are new technologies to design buildings that will give a good answer to climate change?

I am working in a research to study resilient buildings. I would like to know if is possible develop a new technology that gives buildings some resilient property.

07 August 2014 136 3 View

Resilient models vs. a sustainable theory - any thoughts?

Is there an overarching resilient model which is based in sustainable theory? There is a resilience thesis on a "theory of sustainability" by the field of design theory or design philosophy, but I...

06 July 2014 2,390 7 View

Beyond automation, is it possible to apply artificial intelligence to the process of building design?

06 July 2014 9,734 5 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

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How climate change will influences human and animal behavioral change?

The role of climate change influencing the human behavior as well as economics interest

01 June 2021 0 0 View

what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 2021 0 0 View

what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

02 March 2021 0 0 View