[PDF] Top 20 Structural optimisation problem in support to building retrofitting decision

... able to accurately assess irregular ...damping) in order to meet specific performance requirements, in terms of maximum inter-storey drift for a given seismic demand ...presented in ... See full document

... due to economic restrictions. Special attention should be paid to the financing of an elevator index ...operations. In fact, the WPi increases in people over 60 years old, which demonstrates a ... See full document

... contribute to achieve a carbon neutral building 17 , a shift is needed from conventional heat-only gas or direct-electric heating and electric chillers towards systems that make use of passive sources, ... See full document

... already in the past by a number of authors published and verified (Vanthienen, 1995, Wets 1998, Ziarko, 2005, Vostrovský, ...being in accordance with its database component (for example. in ArcView ... See full document

... is to collaborate in civil protection missions and tasks related to the satisfaction of basic needs and improving the quality of life of the ...due to a presence of a rigid, well-structured ... See full document

... integration in Low Voltage (LV) and Medium Voltage (MV) ...encouraged in order to progress towards the Kyoto agreement. Bearing in mind this agreement and considering each country ... See full document

... shorter to 10 minutes) customers arrive roughly uniformly at the bus ...typically, to pick up more customers, increasing the delay after the previous bus even ...tends to go faster because it will ... See full document

... system in a ...mainly in suburban stations; a station layout that allows fast and comfortable transfers between feeder buses and trains; and, finally, connection with taxi services, are the main ... See full document

... strangers in these electronic networks is not well understood. In a previous study, Wasko and Faraj (2005) demonstrated a weak evidence that online social network users enjoy helping other users as a ... See full document

... system to work discontinuously; e) speed or efficiency of the repair and revision actions; f) taking into account restrictions on workers timetable to perform the repair and revision actions; g) taking into ... See full document

... entities. In the upstream part of the chain the first entity is the primary manufacturing ...is to produce the Active Ingredient (AI), which involves either the several chemical synthesis and separation ... See full document

... also in- fluence the ...lifetime. In current nowcast systems cells usually do not dissolve, but are extrapolated in the future for the duration of the nowcast time ...that in the summer of ... See full document

... the retrofitting system was performed ignoring the ...presented in section 3. Section 4 focuses in the non-linear analyses and corresponding ... See full document

... methodology to provide in- formation for decision-making toward the alternatives of in- vestments in distribution system ...related to economic costs and en- ergy efficiency are ... See full document

... 0 to 3 were adopted, with an interval of one unit. In this case, it should be noted that the lower and upper limits and the intervals can be changed to other values without compromising the end ... See full document

... referred to as interactive ...common in this ...process. In addition, if the preferences are changed, the process has to be ...D-STEM, to overcome the methodological limitations of ... See full document

... existing building representative of modern architecture style is ...original building, a low intrusive retrofitting solution with dissipative devices was tested to improve its seismic ... See full document

... resistance to their use (Chen, 2015b). Acceptance of technology has been defined in the literature as the result of psychological processes experienced by users for decision-making about technology ... See full document

... access to a storage space in a private cloud, it still has no selection criterion to determine to which cloud node it will send a particular ...wants to share files with other users, it ... See full document

... regard to specifying our way of concei- ving teaching practice in initial teacher training, we agree with Schön (1987) in considering it a type of reflection-in-action in which there is ... See full document