This paper addresses a number of problems relating to climatic change and human health. Following an introduction outlining the overarching issues, a short summary is given on climatic change and its anthropogenic causes. The rest of the paper then focuses on the direct and indirect impacts of global climatic change on health. Direct effects comprise changes in the hygrothermal stress response ...

For many years, the housing environment has been acknowledged as one of the main settings that affect human health. Living and housing conditions are the basis of many factors influencing residential health. Still, to date there is no commonly agreed upon definition of ‘healthy housing’, and there are still major gaps in the knowledge on how housing conditions may affect health. Epidemiological...

This paper introduces a procedure to model the dynamics of active slender structures with embedded actuators and sensors. The objective is to construct a loworder high-accuracy formulation for easy parameterization of the design space in nonlinear aeroelastic analysis. Main assumptions are small local strains and local rotations, large deflections and global rotations, quasielectrostatic behavi...

An accurate nonlinear hygrothermal-electro-elastic (HTEE) buckling analysis of piezoelectric fiber-reinforced composite cylindrical shells subjected to the coupled loading effects axial compression and hydrostatic pressure was established by considering nonuniform prebuckling effect. Nonlinear governing equations were derived based on higher-order shear deformation theory Novozhilov’s shell the...

Abstract Interest in sustainable building materials is recently growing up due to the environmental pollution and consequent need reduce energy consumption. The sector alone responsible of major share total expenditure mainly indoor heating cooling. This huge amount can be reduced by choosing efficient thermal insulators based on renewable natural sources. Among bio-based components by-products...