Resilience has been used as a building performance metric that measures the building’s capability of absorption, response, and recovery from one or a series of disruptive events, e.g., extreme weather events or power outage events. With respect...
Wind-driven rain (WDR) is recognized as a primary source of moisture intrusion in exterior wall assemblies. However, China’s national code for thermal design of wall assemblies predominantly relies on temperature criteria classified by thermal...
Phase change material (PCM)-enhanced building envelopes can control indoor temperatures and save energy. However, PCM needs to undergo a phase change transition from solid to liquid and back to be fully effective. Furthermore, most previous research...
In the pursuit of low-impact and renewable construction materials, various by-products from agriculture, forestry, and the wood processing industry are being explored as potential bio-based infill materials for wall assemblies. This study presents an...
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is increasingly used in multi-story timber construction, but its combustible nature requires reliable fire protection, particularly in layered wall assemblies with concealed cavities. This study compares two medium-scale...
Although the behavior of the confined semi-dilute solutions of self-assembling copolymers represents an important topic of basic and applied research, it has eluded the interest of scientists. Extensive series of dissipative particle dynamics simulat...
Corrugated steel plate shear walls (CSPSWs) exhibit excellent energy dissipation capacity and lateral resistance performance due to their unique “accordion structure”, making them a highly promising seismic component in prefabricated buil...
To reduce the modeling effort and computational cost of assembled composite shear walls with C-shaped steel frames in global structural analysis, this study proposes an engineering-oriented simplified mechanical analysis method. Three representative...
Bridging the gap between Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven generative design and robotic fabrication remains a critical challenge in architectural automation. While Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools have advanced conceptual design wo...
A curtain wall system (CWS) is one of the most popular elements for the external walls of large, multistory buildings. Applying the design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) principles to the design of a CWS aims to increase the quality, sustainabil...
In this study, we present a method for the rapid evaluation of thermal performance of building envelopes without the need of using sophisticated and time-consuming computational modeling. The proposed approach is based on the prediction of monthly en...
In this paper, a series of experiments assessing the moisture buffer value (MBV) of four internal wall assembly samples made from hygroscopic materials was performed. A modified Nordtest protocol was used. Moisture buffer values of all the investigat...
High-performance flexible pressure sensors have great application prospects in numerous fields, including the robot skin, intelligent prosthetic hands and wearable devices. In the present study, a novel type of flexible piezoresistive sensor is prese...
While externally insulated wall assemblies are widely recognized for their hygrothermal performance, few research projects have focused on the impact of shifting the entire wall insulation to the exterior side of a structural cavity in cold or subarc...
A counter-balanced mass measurement system was constructed to allow measurement of water loss from a full-scale wood-framed wall assembly. Water was injected onto a localized area of paper towel adjacent to the oriented strand board (OSB) wall sheath...
It is challenging to obtain wafer-scaled aligned films for completely exploiting the promising properties of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (s-SWCNTs). Aligned s-SWCNTs with a large area can be obtained by combining water evaporation a...
Designing an effective targeted anticancer drug delivery method is still a big challenge, since chemotherapeutics often cause a variety of undesirable side effects affecting normal tissues. This work presents the research on a novel system consisting...
To systematically investigate the effects of C-shaped and rectangular steel frames on the seismic performance of assembled composite shear walls, this paper, based on the validation of existing pseudo-static test results, employs ABAQUS software to e...
This study examines decay risks in cross-laminated timber (CLT) wall assemblies with built-in moisture, aiming to develop a simulation-based methodology to assess moisture dynamics during the construction phase. Differing from previous research, this...
Plant cell walls are dynamic structural matrices that provide mechanical support while regulating growth, transport, environmental sensing, and defense. Their properties emerge from the coordinated biosynthesis, deposition, assembly, and remodeling o...
The fungal cell wall serves as the interface between the cell and the environment. Fungal cell walls are composed largely of polysaccharides, primarily glucans and chitin, though in many fungi stress-resistant cell types elaborate additional cell wal...
Microassembly is one of the key techniques in various advanced industrial applications. Meanwhile, high success rates for axial hole assembly of thin-walled deep-cavity-type items remain a challenging issue. Hence, the flexible assembly approach of t...
A study was realized to assess the effects of historical and projected future climates on the hygrothermal performance of cross-laminated timber wall assemblies in 12 Canadian cities belonging to several climate regions and zones and for two cladding...
Phenylpropanoid metabolism yields a mixture of monolignols that undergo chaotic, non-enzymatic reactions such as free radical polymerization and spontaneous self-assembly in order to form the polyphenolic lignin which is a barrier to cost-effective l...
The noise pollution issue along elevated urban rail transit lines has attracted considerable attention; however, research on the sound insulation characteristics of buildings during operational train noise remains limited. In this study, a field test...
In this paper, the self-assembly process of diblock copolymers confined in multi-walled cylindrical nanotubes is systematically investigated using a molecular dynamics (MD) method. The dependence of resultant morphologies on the degree of confinement...
Candida albicans is an opportunistic microorganism that can become a pathogen causing mild superficial mycosis or more severe invasive infections that can be life-threatening for debilitated patients. In the etiology of invasive infections, key facto...
Elaeagnus moorcroftii Wall. (Elaeagnaceae) is an important tree species naturally growing in arid Northwest China that has great economic and ecological values in drylands. In this study, we de novo assembled a chromosome-level genome for E. moorcrof...
This study aims to provide information and theoretical support for the development planning of facility agriculture in desert areas. Using sensor monitoring, USB cable, and computer connection record, we measured the temperature, humidity, and heat t...
In response to the growing demand for sustainable and performance-driven building design, this study proposes an integrated digital methodology that combines Building Information Modeling (BIM), parametric scripting, and multi-criteria decision-makin...
To address the challenge of measuring the plate wall offset at the U-shaped groove positions after assembling large cylindrical shell arc segments, this paper proposes a measurement method based on multi-line-structured light vision sensors. The sens...
Fruit softening in Carica papaya L. is a significant postharvest limitation, primarily driven by the dynamic remodeling of cell wall polysaccharides. In this study, we conducted a genome-wide identification and in silico characterization of gene fami...
We report a simple, versatile, and rapid method for the fabrication of optically-transparent large-area carbon nanotube (CNT) films via flotation assembly. After solvent-induced assembly, floating films were transferred to a flat supporting substrate...
The growing challenge of antimicrobial resistance to antibiotics requires novel synthetic drugs or new formulations for old drugs. Here, cationic nanostructured particles (NPs) self-assembled from cationic bilayer fragments and polyelectrolytes are...
The moisture load in wall assemblies is typically considered as 1% of the Wind Driving Rain (WDR) load that is deposited on the surface of wall assemblies as specified in the ASHRAE-160 standard whereas this ratio has been shown to be inaccurate as c...
Current deformation modeling theories for aircraft thin-walled components in riveting assembly typically assume uniform rivet interference. However, engineering practice shows that rivet interference is non-uniform, and such interference directly aff...
Prefabricated panel-assembled wall systems, comprising a confining frame and infill lightweight panels of autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC), are widely employed in framed structures. Different from studies on a main frame with infill walls, this stud...
Field productivity of building trades is the focus of prefabricated construction practitioners as a path to greater profitability and competitiveness in the marketplace. Construction firms are struggling to meet the demand of the marketplace due to s...
For assembly deviation analysis of thin-walled parts, single surrogate models are suitable for cases with simple assembly processes and few design variables. For complex parts with high flexibility, nonlinear behavior, and variable spring-back effect...
The seismic performance of prefabricated reinforced concrete shear walls is a key point in the safety of the whole assembly structure under earthquake actions. In this study, six specimens of reinforced concrete shear walls were assembled with a cast...
Long-term moisture performance is a critical consideration for design and construction of building envelopes in energy-efficient buildings, yet field measurements of moisture characteristics for highly insulated wood-frame walls in mixed-humid climat...
To address the severe wear and galvanic corrosion of TC4/Mg three-dimensional interpenetrating composites caused by the potential difference and hardness disparity between the two phases, this work proposes a hybrid surface modification strategy comb...
Supramolecular hydrogels obtained from the self-organization of simple peptides, such as tripeptides, are attractive soft materials. Their viscoelastic properties can be enhanced through the inclusion of carbon nanomaterials (CNMs), although their pr...
To investigate the influence of dry connection methods on the seismic behavior of assembled composite walls, four assembled composite walls were designed and tested. Various dry connection techniques were adopted for the horizontal interfaces, namely...
One of the most effective ways to improve building energy efficiency and consumption is to increase the thermal insulation of the building envelope and reduce the heat loss through walls. A new type of thermal insulation wall panel, consisting of a l...
Adenosine, as a water-soluble active substance, has various pharmacological effects. This study proposes a layer-by-layer assembly method of composite wall materials, using hydroxypropyl-
The movement towards low-emission and sustainable building practices has driven increased use of natural, carbon-based materials such as wood. While these materials offer significant environmental advantages, their inherent flammability introduces ne...
The fire response of cross-laminated timber (CLT) sandwich wall assemblies depends on interactions among the structural core, lining, cavities and secondary timber members. This study examines the thermal roles of these layers under medium-scale radi...
Nanobrick wall hybrid coating with super oxygen barrier properties were fabricated on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film using a quadlayer (QL) assembly of polyelectrolytes and nanoplateles. A quadlayer assembly consists of three repeat units of p...
The objective of this study was to explore the effect of the assembly sequences of wall materials on the structure and properties of Antarctic krill peptide (AKP)-loaded ovalbumin (OVA)–chitosan (CS) nanoparticles (NPs). Two AKP-loaded NPs (CS/...
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