Search results for "ARCHITECTURE"

Experimental calibration of flat jacks for in-situ testing of masonry

2018

Flat-jack testing method is one of the most commonly used techniques for the structural assessment of existing masonry structures. Single and double flat jacks are usually adopted to evaluate the acting normal stress, or the compressive behaviour of masonry material. Test procedures are codified by international standards (e.g., A.S.T.M D4729-87; C1196-04; C1197-04, R.I.L.E.M TC 177–MDT D.4; R.I.L.E.M. TC 177–MDT D.5), which provide the preliminary calibration of an experimental coefficient (km) and of the effective area (Aeff), which determination influences significantly the reliability of the test. This article presents the result of an experimental study on the calibration of flat jacks…

La necessità di Incipit Lab.

2018

Quale è la linea di confine fra un insegnamento ex cathedra e un laboratorio? In cosa la didattica della progettazione architettonica differisce da altri tipi di insegnamento? In che modo la teoria dell’architettura è presente in un laboratorio di progettazione architettonica? E quale interazione si stabilisce con le altre discipline? L’elenco delle domande potrebbe essere infinito e, soprattutto, a ciascuna di esse si dovrebbe aggiungere un quid specifico, relativo alle peculiarità dell’anno in cui la materia è offerta. Tali quesiti assumono un particolare rilievo se l’attenzione si ferma sull’avvio del percorso universitario, periodo in grado di indirizzare e influenzare le annualità succ…

"Table 7" of "Studies of QCD in e+ e- --> hadrons at E(cm) = 130-GeV and 136-GeV."

2000

Distribution of Thrust.

On the Statistical Analysis of Equal Gain Combining over Multiple Double Rice Fading Channels in Cooperative Networks

2010

This article analyzes the statistical properties of narrowband mobile-to-mobile (M2M) fading channels with equal gain combining (EGC) under line-of-sight (LOS) propagation conditions. Here, we study a dual-hop amplify-and-forward (AF)relay network. It is assumed that there can exist LOS components in the transmission links between the source mobile station and the destination mobile station via K mobile relays. In order to cater for asymmetric fading conditions in the relay links, the received signal envelope at the output of the equal gain (EG) combiner is thus modeled as a sum of K double Rice processes. These processes are considered to be independent but not necessarily identically dist…

Improving RF Fingerprinting Methods by Means of D2D Communication Protocol

2019

Radio Frequency (RF) fingerprinting is widely applied for indoor positioning due to the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure present in most indoor spaces (home, work, leisure, among others) and the widespread usage of smartphones everywhere. It corresponds to a simple idea, the signal signature in a location tends to be stable over the time. Therefore, with the signals received from multiple APs, a unique fingerprint can be created. However, the Wi-Fi signal is affected by many factors which degrade the positioning error range to around a few meters. This paper introduces a collaborative method based on device-to-device (D2D) communication to improve the positioning accuracy using only fingerprin…

Experiment of Indoor Thermal Optimization of an Old Historic Building of Cluny through Digital Mock-up Simulation

2013

International audience; Improving energy efficiency is the first and most important step toward achieving sustainability in buildings. Buildings designed with sustainable solutions are usually energy-efficient because sustainable design is aimed at producing green buildings. In the case of historic buildings, however, this is quite challenging. Integrated building energy simulation programs have been used in various ways by building professionals to respond to these challenges and to improve building design with respect to sustainability. This poster presents a new approach toward optimizing thermal indoor energy using a digital mock-up simulation of a historical building to explore its pot…

Digital Inequalities: A Review of Contributing Factors and Measures for Crossing the Divide

2019

Part 8: Digital Divide and Social Inclusion; International audience; This literature review focuses on the digital divide in contemporary technologically and economically advanced societies. Prior research shows that the digital divide entails more than physical accessibility and points to issues of technology acceptance and actual use. Recurring digital divide factors outside socioeconomic characteristics were identified in the articles reviewed. These factors relate to personality traits, motivation and digital skills. The factors can be used as the basis for a personality model for understanding acceptance and use of technology complementing models related to economic and social resource…

Shaping inflorescence architecture -- A successful alternative to floral specialisation

2009

Una rappresentazione dell'architettura stratificata

2009

<p>La representación de una construcción y su restitución gráfica, es un código que permite conocer todas las informaciones que el edifico puede ofrecer.</p><p>En la época del levantamiento “no selectivo” por el escáner- laser, creemos que existe la posibilidad de considerar la tarea del levantamiento de planos, no solo como la organización de trabajos prácticos, si no como una filosofía metodológica.</p>

"Tea for two": the Archive of the Italian Latinity of the Middle Ages meets the CLARIN infrastructure

2020

This paper aims at showing how integrating the Archive of the Italian Latinity of the Middle Ages (ALIM) into the ILC4CLARIN repository can provide mutual benefits. Making ALIM available to a large community of scholars and researchers, on the one side, represents the first step to reduce the lack of resources for Medieval Latin in CLARIN and, on the other side, constitutes an unprecedented contribution to not only linguistic investigations, but also to the studies of the culture and science at the basis of the Western European society. The paper describes the adopted approach aiming to keep intact the structure of the archive and its metadata, which are both accurately mirrored into the IL…