Sentence examples for roof layers from inspiring English sources

In this paper, dynamic energy modelling that considers the complexity within the green roof layers is adopted to guide policy makers in China on the relationship between using specific thicknesses of roof insulation against green roof layers.

In the case of green roof designs, it is essential that the assessment mechanisms should not ignore the complex heat and moisture balances within the green roof layers.

The study led to suggestions of modifications in the design of the roof layers, which are out of the scope of present paper.

The individual and joint contribution of the non-living green roof layers, namely soil, rockwool (water storage) and plastic drainage layers, to thermal performance of green roof has seldom been assessed.

As a result, temperature variations of different roof layers during the day and night time were recorded and the thermal isolation effect of the water-reserved roof against the building internal space was assessed.

Three experimental green roof platforms (1 m × 2 m) with heated boxes and three identical bare roof platforms (without substrate, vegetation and other green roof layers) were equipped with thermocouples that continuously measured a vertical temperature profile through the roofs.

The flow shows an obvious intermittent feature in the street canyon and the flapping of the shear layer forms near the roof layer under real-time wind conditions, resulting in the expansion or compression of the air mass in the canyon.

Instead, it has congealed into more of the same old, same old — on the ground, pedestrians pick their way on narrow icy paths through cinder-caked mounds of snow; on the roofs, layers of ice and snow create ice dams that can back up underneath shingles and lead to cracks, leaks and cave-ins.

Temperature sensors were installed along a holistic vertical profile from outdoor air to green-roof layers and indoor ceiling and air.

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are performed to investigate the roof-layer effect on damping behavior and structural deformation of the coated and uncoated VACNTs under nanoindentation.

Ms. Bowe added that having watched the construction of the roof, with layers of drainage, irrigation and planting materials, she was shocked that the result was a big lawn like she grew up with in Minnesota.