Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Yan, Wei"
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Muhm, Elizabeth Grace Nemmert (2012-02-14)In this thesis, I develop a program to automatically assemble collage sculptures, sets of arbitrary, non-overlapping elements arranged to fill out a recognizable target shape according to a set of procedural rules. A user ...
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Singh, Nishith (2017-08-01)Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been established as standard in the Architecture Engineering & Construction (AEC) industry. The ubiquity of the platform has significantly changed the way AEC industry works. BIM ...
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Zarrinmehr, Saied (2016-12-08)Evaluating design decisions is an important factor in a post-positivist design process. Understanding how people move in space is an important part of the evaluation processes. However, making accurate predictions of ...
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Mou, Xue (2019-11-26)Failing to keep track of the construction progress in time and making current construction progress falling behind the schedule will cause a significant loss of time and money. Monitoring the progress of the constructing ...
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Farias, Francisco (2013-04-05)This exploratory research examined the degree of adoption and impact of the concepts of Building Information Model (BIM), Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), Integrated Design Process (IDP) and Building Energy Simulation ...
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Butkowski, Trisha (2010-01-16)Video playback is a technique used to study the visual communication and behaviors of animals. While video playback is a useful tool, most experiments lack the ability for the visual stimulus to interact with the live ...
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Cai, Yunkun (2016-05-03)A building’s indoor environment has a significant impact on people’s work efficiency and quality of life. The amount of energy consumed to control the indoor environment comprises a large portion of maintenance costs. ...
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Sethi, Manmeetsingh (2015-02-24)One of the fast and economical ways of putting tunnels or stream crossings under roadways is to use box culverts. Box culverts are structurally rigid, easy to construct, and easy to add length when needed. Because of their ...
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Gottipati, Udaya Naidu (2011-10-21)Target costing is widely accepted across the automobile manufacturing industries such as the Toyota Corporation followed by other manufacturing companies such as Nissan, Chrysler, Boeing, Sony, etc. However, its use in the ...
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Shin, Minjae (2018-08-03)Although several of today’s Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools automatically produce default building thermal zoning in the required Building Energy Simulation (BES) electronic formats, these same models do not ...
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Kota, Sandeep (2020-05-21)The outcome of this study is the development of a prototype REVIT2RADIANCE add-in program for a Building Information Modeling (BIM) authoring tool Autodesk Revit to perform daylighting studies with ease by architects and ...
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Tanna, Hemali 1980- (2012-08-15)Dreamhome is a creative exploration of a prototype house designed with creative freedom using possible future technologies that may not be currently feasible. New and forthcoming technology in various scientific branches ...
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Dixit, Manish Kumar (2013-10-23)The sum of all energy embedded in products and processes used in constructing a building is known as embodied energy. According to the literature, the current state of embodied energy research suffers from three major ...
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Gajbhiye, Anand Dhanraj (2011-08-08)Building Information Modeling (BIM) has set up a mark in the construction industry over a decade. In order to gain benefit of BIM in estimating the project cost at the early stage of construction with the limited data ...
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Moosavi Tabatabaei, Seyed Farshid (2019-04-05)Nearly 48% of annual energy supply is depleted through building construction and operation processes. The entire life cycle energy consumption of a building is constituted of operating energy and embodied energy. To optimize ...
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Venkatraj, Varusha (2019-04-05)Buildings are known to consume around 48% of the world’s annual energy in their construction, operation and maintenance causing significant damage to the environment due to the resultant carbon emissions. During their ...
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Li, Wen (2014-06-27)As cameras become more and more popular in intelligent systems, algorithms and systems for understanding video data become more and more important. There is a broad range of applications, including object detection, tracking, ...
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Singh, Shashank (2017-07-12)Flooring materials have a considerable impact on the indoor environment of healthcare facilities. In recent years, flooring options such as vinyl flooring and vinyl composite tiles have emerged as a popular choice in such ...
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Al-Qattan, Emad Khaled (2019-04-05)The objective of this research is to address some of the challenges of parametric design associated with defining a model’s frameworks using mathematics and computer programming. This work proposes a tactile-based approach ...
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Jahangiri, Bardia (2016-05-05)The construction industry generates a substantial amount of solid waste. Cutting building materials into smaller pieces to fit the design is one of the sources of waste in new construction. This type of waste is known as ...