This study provides fundamental data for optimal planning by analyzing key factors influencing microclimate and building energy loads. * to provide fundamental data for optimal planning. A total of 11 apartment layout types, including tower-type, fla...
The spatial organization of public service facilities within transit-oriented development TOD blocks is closely related to residents’ daily travel conditions and travel-related carbon emissions. This study examined all 172 operating metro stati...
Traditional container terminals usually use a horizontal yard layout, while automated container terminals usually use a vertical yard layout. The two types of yard layout perform differently in the vehicle travel routes, the handling interface points...
Order picking is the part with the highest proportion of operation cost and time in the warehouse. The characteristics of small-batch and multi-frequency current orders reduce the applicability of the traditional layout in the warehouse. Besides this...
The advances in the manufacturing industry make it possible to install wind turbines (WTs) with large capacities in offshore wind farms (OWFs) in deep water areas far away from the coast where there are the best wind resources. This paper proposes a...
The energy consumption of fast-growing data centers is drawing attentions from not only energy organizations and institutions all over the world, but also charity groups, such as Greenpeace, and research shows that the power consumption of air condit...
As an important public facility, the number, area, and scale of hospital buildings are growing rapidly. The efficiency of nurses’ rounds to beds is an important indicator of the efficiency of nursing units in ward buildings. Ward buildings occu...
The article focuses on the erection of residential buildings from large-sized volumetric blocks as a modern and progressive trend in housing construction. It is noted that one of the major tasks in the development of this promising area of constructi...
Offshore wind energy, as one of the featured rich renewable energy sources, is getting more and more attention. The cable connection layout has a significant impact on the economic performance of offshore wind farms. To make better use of the wind re...
Aiming to solve the problem of the low efficiency and single objective of low impact development (LID) layout, the objectives of stormwater control, water quality purification, and economic cost are selected to present the performance of LID practice...
This paper investigated the influence of diffuser layouts on the energy performance of stratified air distribution systems (STRAD). The energy saving potentials of STRAD systems are theoretically analyzed. The cooling coil load of a STRAD system is p...
Soil mapping plays a crucial role in optimizing agricultural production by providing spatially explicit information on soil types and properties, which supports decision-making in precision fertilization, irrigation, and crop selection. Traditional s...
In greenhouse management, maintaining optimal humidity is essential for promoting plant growth, including photosynthesis, and preventing diseases and pests. Addressing spatial variability requires sensor-based monitoring for informed decisions on hum...
The study of spatial layout in China is changing from land use/land cover to territorial spatial layout and is mostly carried out at the administrative division scale. However, the driving factors affecting the evolution of territorial spatial layout...
In the new-type clustered industrial park, the closer distance between enterprises leads to risk aggregation, and the layout of enterprises affects the safety and economy of the park. However, previous studies have often paid insufficient attention t...
Radiation tolerance improvements for advanced technologies have attracted considerable interests in space application. In this paper, the single event upset (SEU) hardened double interlocked storage cell (DICE) D-type flip-flops (DFFs) with abacus-ty...
The urban thermal environment has become a challenging issue. Streets, as an essential public space in cities, can be laid out in such a way to effectively alleviate a problematic urban thermal environment. In this study, we calculated the layout cha...
Dissolved oxygen (DO) is a crucial water quality characteristic in the cultivation of vannamei shrimp. Increasing the DO concentration in shrimp ponds can be carried out using the aeration method with a tool called an aerator. In this study, types of...
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In this research, the positive role of interface visual design in digital safety education was verified taking COVID-19 prevention and control knowledge as the content of public health safety education, where interface emotion (positive, negative, an...
The performance of an active control system, crucial for the co-phase maintenance of segmented mirrors, is closely related to the spatial layout of sensors and actuators. This article compares two types of edge sensor layouts, vertical and horizontal...
Microclimatic condition is a fundamental indicator for evaluating outdoor space livability and vitality. Research has shown that poorly designed building layouts can lead to discomfort; however, the mechanisms influencing outdoor microclimate based o...
Architectural space layout has proven to be influential on building energy performance. However, the relationship between different space layouts and their consequent energy demands has not yet been systematically studied. This study thoroughly inves...
Chalk lines are used to print layouts in construction sites to indicate the location of attaching or cutting objects; printing depends on the skills of workers and is suitable for small-scale work. Moreover, this type of work requires a precise measu...
Public rental housing complexes in South Korea have played a critical role in addressing housing needs since their introduction in 1989, initially prioritizing rapid quantitative supply. However, challenges such as limited housing quality and evolvin...
China’s urbanization process has entered the stage of mid-to-late transformation and upgrading, with the urbanization and population growth rates having passed the turning point. Urban renewal has become an increasingly important issue, among w...
Offshore wind power currently shows the trend of a larger wind turbine capacity and deep-sea wind farm sites. Traditional wind farms with single-type wind turbines can hardly accommodate the dual requirements of high-efficiency power generation and w...
With the continued application of data visualization technology in sustainable development, the construction of carbon emission monitoring platforms is becoming increasingly popular in industrial parks. However, there are many kinds of such interface...
This paper presents a study of the effects of wind-induced airflow through the urban built layout pattern using statistical analysis. This study investigates the association between typically enclosed office building layout patterns and the wind envi...
The effects of gas flow rate and 22 kinds of nozzle layouts on the circulation flow rate were researched during the RH refining process using a water model and a mathematical model. Numerical simulations agreed with the water model experiment well. T...
Passive solutions for more energy-efficient buildings are critical to improving our odds in the current energy crisis. This work focuses on assessing the thermal performance of different envelope construction layouts in a tropical climate through pro...
With the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, many green spaces have been replaced by urban buildings, resulting in decreased green spaces in courtyard space. Nonetheless, as an enclosed green space integrated with the natural env...
Text entry remains a bottleneck for productivity-oriented Virtual Reality (VR), especially in scenarios where optical hand tracking is unstable because of self-occlusion, poor lighting, or out-of-view interaction. We present SlideRing, a dual-thumb w...
Ball grid array (BGA) is widely used in chip packaging, and the thermo-mechanical performance of its solder joints significantly affects the performance of packaged devices. To investigate and improve the thermo-mechanical performance of BGA solder j...
On numerous occasions, we often have very little information or must make a decision considering qualitative aspects that are difficult to evaluate. This study focuses on obtaining objective criteria to assist in decision-making in the design phase o...
With the continuous emergence of exam question types, accurate classification of knowledge points is crucial for intelligent exam analysis. Existing methods focus on text or text–image fusion but largely ignore spatial layout. To address this l...
Urban parks are important components of the urban green space system, providing residents with a variety of leisure options. The design’s focal point is the spatial layout of the different use scenarios within these parks. Previous studies have...
A factory layout is a decisive factor in the improvement of production levels, efficiency, and even in the sustainability of a company. Regardless of the type of layout to be implemented, they are typically designed to optimize the work conditions an...
The reasonable spatial layout of industries is crucial to carbon reduction and high-quality economic development. This paper establishes a research paradigm for optimizing the industrial spatial layout and high-quality development in the context of c...
The current study investigates the capacity of the proposed meta-material layout for the blast protection of above-ground steel pipes against explosions. The philosophy of the meta-material layout’s design is described adequately, and the 1D pe...
This study aims to investigate the influence of the current direction on the energy production of a tidal turbines array. It is based on a three-dimensional (3D) numerical simulation of the flow where the turbines are represented with actuator disks....
16 January 2023
Understanding how street spatial patterns are related to street vitality is conducive to enhancing effective urban and street design. Such analysis is facilitated by big data technology as it enables more accurate methods. This study cites data from...
2 November 2022
Indoor environment quality (IEQ) evaluation can help improve building satisfaction and productivity of residents. However, for more efficient analysis, it is necessary to gain a large amount of data on the differences between specific groups, such as...
Automated container terminals can achieve precise matching of equipment and space, thus forming the foundation for the terminals’ efficient operation. However, the increase in container volume requires the construction of more ACTs. Existing st...
In order to improve the level of the urban living environment and improve the comfort level of the microclimate, this paper investigates and simulates numerically the influence on the wind environment of different tree species in various tree array l...
Walking has become an indispensable and sustainable way of travel for college students in their daily lives and improving the walkability of the college campus will increase the convenience of student life. This paper develops a new campus walkabilit...
In summer, the urban heat island effect causes unbearable warmth in Shantou City, especially in the urban areas along the Inner Bay with densely populated neighborhoods. An investigation of the layout patterns of 100 residential neighborhoods along S...
The objective was to compare simplified pressure insoles integrating different sensor numbers and to identify a promising range of sensor numbers for accurate center of pressure (CoP) measurement. Twelve participants wore a 99-sensor Pedar-X insole (...
A good outdoor wind environment can guarantee the safety and comfort of student activities. It is also conducive to building energy-saving and low-carbon goals. In this study, the high-rise dormitory area of a university was selected as a research ob...
This study investigated the effect of layout order on the complexity of the dashboard interface based on screen-based eye trackers. By simplifying and abstracting dashboard interfaces and incorporating subjective ratings (symmetry and unity calculati...
In this study, we created metamaterials consisting of square unit cells—inspired by fractal geometry—and described the parametric equation necessary for their creation. The area and thus the volume (density) and mass of these metamaterial...
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