i Abstract Nowadays, with increasing concern on environmental protection, energy crisis, and quality of life, in the context of the lighting industry, Solid-state Lighting (SSL) is considered as the next generation green lighting source, following the conventional lighting sources (like incandescent bulbs and fluorescent lamps). As a type of SSL, High Power White Light-emitting diodes (HPWLEDs)...

This study aims to investigate how lighting design can be used as an environmental design feature within historic sites in cities to turn a space into a place through placemaking processes. Accordingly, the research question is: What artificial lighting design aspects need to be taken into account in historic sites within cities through a placemaking process? Naghshe-Jahan Square’s in Isfahan, ...

A disentanglement puzzle consists of mechanically interlinked pieces, and the puzzle is solved by disentangling one piece from another set of pieces. A string puzzle is a type of disentanglement puzzle, which consists of strings entangled with one or more wooden pieces. In this paper, we consider the generalized string puzzle problem whose input is the layout of strings and a wooden board with ...

Abstract—The structural system of wooden house by two-by-four method is widely adopted in any countries, and a various type of vibration control system for building structures has been developed on country with frequent earthquake. In this study, a vibration control device called “Scaling Frame” (SF) is suggested, and which is applied to wooden two-by-four method structures. This paper performs...

The application of triangulation laser displacement sensors to the continuous in-situ monitoring of the response of wooden cultural objects to variations in temperature and relative humidity in their environment is reported. The sensors are robust, fast, and precise, provide non-contact measurements, and are capable of operating in the field. They have been applied to monitor the response of th...