A cost and benefit analysis of future end-of-life vehicle glazing recycling in France: a system dynamics approach, " Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Each year, the lives of 8 million vehicles in Europe come to an end, of which France has a share of 1.8 million (ADEME 2008). Glass represents 2.9% of the weight of the typical European End of Life Vehicle (ELV) (ADEME 2007). It is a compone...

The modelling of consequences to built infrastructure when subject to blast loading is well developed; however, there is considerable uncertainty and variability with explosive loading and system response; which provides many challenges for collateral damage estimation. In this paper, structural facades are assessed – with a focus on glazing – as this is a structural and load-capacity system th...

This paper reports the simulation approach and prediction of annual energy performance of PV ventilated glazing systems with daylight saving as applying to typical office environment. Our computer model was developed via the ESP-r simulation platform in association with the RADIANCE lighting software. The new attempt of using indirect interaction between the two simulation programs through dayl...

in this study, ice-glazing process of frozen shrimp by chitosan was applied to protect the frozen shrimp from undesirable chemical and physical changes. the effects of 2% chitosan solution glazing on quality of whole, raw and cooked (without head, tail and shell) shrimps stored at -18±2ºc for 6 months were investigated and compared with water glazing, sodium metabisulfite treatment control. gla...

Thermochromic glazing theoretically has the potential to lead to a large reduction in energy demand in modern buildings by allowing the transmission of visible light for day lighting whilst reducing unwanted solar gain during the cooling season, but allowing useful solar gain in the heating season. In this study building simulation is used to examine the effect of the thermochromic transition h...

The aim of this paper is to introduce guidelines as aid for early stage architectural design of public and office buildings with large glazed surfaces in connection with the impact of some solutions on energy demand of the building. Relation between key parameters of architectural glazing (thermal transmission, solar heat gain coefficient and light transmission) has been analysed first using pr...

The windshield is one of the major components in a vehicle that determines the injury to a pedestrian’s head. Therefore, it is critical to study the damage to windshield glazing so as to promote the protection structure for pedestrians. In this paper, classical plate theory in combination with the Green strain and the von Karman assumption is used to develop constitutive relations to describe t...

Building materials have played a more and more important role in saving building energy since the central government of China set higher standards and requirements for new-constructed and retrofit buildings after 2005. Glazing units, especially energy-saving units including LOW-E coated glazing units and PVB laminated glass, are utilized nation-wide. This paper employs energy simulation to anal...

A new aperiodic tile set containing only 13 tiles over 5 colors is presented. Its construction is based on a technique recently developed by J. Kari. The tilings simulate behavior of sequential machines that multiply real numbers in balanced representations by real constants.

Numerical simulations and analytical models have been used to investigate the possible impact of various dielectric components of vehicles on internal electromagnetic field distributions. It is found that, apart from the window glazing, the dielectrics investigated have little impact on the internal field populations and average field levels, although there are localized field differences that ...