The units themselves resemble flat-screen TV panels in terms of form factor at this point, according to Adams, but she says the team is also researching alternative multi-layered configurations to be able to build devices with other form factors in the future — such as the box-shaped units typical of existing air purifier products, so it could potentially be portable.
The pile penetrated 7D (D=pile diameter) into a multi-layered soil configuration composed of a stiff uppermost crust overlying a saturated loose sand layer and a lower dense layer of sand.
Good agreement between the experimental and simulated velocities and sound pressures resulted for all the multi-layered panel configurations examined.
The analytical technique can be easily extended to multi-layered hybrid configurations and provides quick means of finding efficient strain-energy absorbing hybrid designs.
The transient thermal analysis is obtained via a thermal circuit that models accurately the fundamental heat transfer mechanisms on both boundaries and through the multi-layered wall configurations.
As a result, the dependence of the storage capacity on the PCMs temperatures, the total energy and exergy stored/released, as well as the efficiencies of the storing process are compared for the different thermocline, single PCM, cascaded PCM and the proposed multi-layered solid-PCM (MLSPCM) configurations.
The model is validated versus a layerwise finite element model and used to study damping and rigidity of a laminated glass configuration with a multi-layered visco-elastic core composed of acoustic PVB and PVB.
With a novel packed-bed configuration proposed recently, multi-layered solid-PCM (MLSPCM) thermocline TES is regarded as a more cost-effective alternative for current TES due to its lower thermocline degradation, which results in a higher energy utilization during the cyclic operation of the system comparing to other thermocline TES patterns.
To demonstrate its relevance, the proposed analytical solution has been compared to numerical simulations on the case of a multi-layered electronic board submitted to different configurations of heating sources.
Noticeably, HSA-NLP were less likely to form multi-layered structures.
