This paper proposes the continuous assessment of energy efficiency in buildings using different energy rating factors.
Among them, five major factors are selected out from the 20 variables economic factor, interest rate factor, total energy demand factor, dollar factor and gas consumption factor.
Second comes the exchange rate factor.
Again, there is an exchange rate factor.
Numerical values on the stress intensity factor, energy release rate and energy density factor for piezoelectric composites are obtained to show the influence of applied electric fields.
Using the 2-D neutron transport code TWODANT, the 3-D Monte Carlo code MCNP-4B and the 1-D burn-up calculation code BISON3.0 and their associated data libraries to calculate the transmutation rate, the energy multiplication factor and the tritium breeding ratio of the transmutation blanket.
The two mode coupling factors denote the energy coupling rate; the two quality factors denote the loss rate.
The main objective of the study is the investigation of the influence of material nonhomogeneity, kinematic nonlinearity and plate approximation on the critical instability load and on such fracture mechanics parameters as strain energy release rate, stress intensity factors and crack opening displacements.
The use of J and M integrals together with the present equivalence are exemplified to obtain energy release rate, stress intensity factors, and T-stresses of interfacial cracks lying in the interface of anisotropic/anisotropic, isotropic/isotropic, or anisotropic/isotropic solids.
The combustion characteristics (burning rates, temperature profiles) and kinetic parameters (order of reaction, activation energy, pre-exponential factor of rate constants) for the thermal decomposition of GAP together with the composition of the products of both the combustion and decomposition of uncrosslinked GAP (with a molecular weight of 350 or 2000) and cured GAP were studied.
