Sentence examples for behaviour of the envelope from inspiring English sources

Afterwards, a regional building type has been defined for further use by an energy simulation program in order to measure the hygrothermal behaviour of the envelope.

A lot of this is back-of-the-envelope stuff".

That back-of-the-envelope figure isn't disastrous.

Let's try back-of-the-envelope calculations.

In Mediterranean climate, passive houses have to be designed to contrast overheating, considering the dynamic behaviour of the opaque envelope, the effect of shading devices and free-cooling.

For traditional solid walled structures, conditions such as wind driven rain (WDR) and rising ground water can have a significant impact on the environmental behaviour and in particular the moisture behaviour of the building envelope.

A dramatic example of this unique salt dependence is the behaviour of the cell envelope of the halobacteria, when the salt concentration is lowered.

The aim of this research is to investigate the thermophysical behaviour of building envelope multi-layer components and assess the whole building plant response.

Then the thermal behaviour of the building with an optimized envelope by regulating its glazed areas was simulated for the same period of autumn.

Open image in new window Fig. 8 a Hysteretic behaviour of the masonry infill wall, b base shear top displacement, c shear-drift envelope and d energy dissipated results of experimental test and the numerical model.

In order to ensure consistency throughout the database, the actual hysteretic behaviour of the walls was approximated by the linear elastic, ideal plastic bilinear envelope illustrated in Figure 1 (Tomazevic 1999).