Heating,Ventilation,andAir Conditioning(HVAC)systems are critical formaintaining thermal comfort in office environments which also crucial for occupant well-being and productivity.This study investigates the impact of...Heating,Ventilation,andAir Conditioning(HVAC)systems are critical formaintaining thermal comfort in office environments which also crucial for occupant well-being and productivity.This study investigates the impact of integrating ceiling fans with higher air conditioning setpoints on thermal comfort and energy efficiency in office environments.Field measurements and questionnaire surveys were conducted to evaluate thermal comfort and energysaving potential under varying conditions.Results show that increasing the AC setpoint from 25○C to 27○C,combined with ceiling fan operation,reduced power consumption by 10%,achieving significant energy savings.Survey data confirmed that 85%of participants reported consistent thermal sensations across all conditions,with ceiling fans effectively compensating for higher setpoints through enhanced air circulation.CFDsimulations revealed that mediumspeed ceiling fan operation produced the most uniformairflowdistribution,with an average air velocity of 0.45 m/s,and minimized temperature variations,ensuring balanced thermal conditions.Temperature analysis showed a reduction in hotspots and cold zones,maintaining an average temperature deviation of less than±0.5○C.Predicted Mean Vote(PMV)evaluations at a 27○C setpoint indicated improved thermal comfort,with average PMV values around−0.3,corresponding to a“neutral”thermal sensation.These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of integrating ceiling fans with HVAC systems in achieving energy efficiency and occupant comfort,offering a sustainable approach to reducing AC energy consumption in office environments.展开更多
This paper proposes modifications to the tradional Ceiling Bounce Model and uses it to characterize diffuse indoor optical wireless channel by analyzing the effect of transceiver position on signal propagation propert...This paper proposes modifications to the tradional Ceiling Bounce Model and uses it to characterize diffuse indoor optical wireless channel by analyzing the effect of transceiver position on signal propagation properties. The modified approach uses a combination of the tradional ceiling bounce method and a statistical approach. The effects of different transmitter-receiver separations and height of the ceiling on path loss and delay spread are studied in detail.展开更多
This paper presents an image-based mobile robot guidance system in an indoor space with installed artificial ceiling landmarks. The overall system, including an omni-directional mobile robot motion control, landmark i...This paper presents an image-based mobile robot guidance system in an indoor space with installed artificial ceiling landmarks. The overall system, including an omni-directional mobile robot motion control, landmark image processing and image recognition, is implemented on a single FPGA chip with one CMOS image sensor. The proposed feature representation of the artificial ceiling landmarks is invariant with respect to rotation and translation. One unique feature of the proposed ceiling landmark recognition system is that the feature points of landmarks are determined by topological information from both the foreground and background. To enhance recognition accuracy, landmark classification is performed after the mobile robot is moved to a position such that the ceiling landmark is located in the upright- top corner position of the robot’s camera image. The accuracy of the proposed artificial ceiling landmark recognition system using the nearest neighbor classification is 100% in our experiments.展开更多
This work focuses on the estimation of a duty cycle of a radiant ceiling heating system with a panel surface temperature of 35℃and a heat flux of 65 W/m2 that corresponds to a thermal comfort for sedentary occupants....This work focuses on the estimation of a duty cycle of a radiant ceiling heating system with a panel surface temperature of 35℃and a heat flux of 65 W/m2 that corresponds to a thermal comfort for sedentary occupants.The results obtained are based on the theoretical heat transfer equations that govern the radiant and natural convection heat exchange mechanisms,and experimental heat transfer coefficients available in the literature.The results of the examined radiant heating system with specific conditions showed that a duty cycle of 6.46 min alternated by 13.36 min in shutting-down position is required to assure an acceptable thermal comfort for the enclosure space occupants.In addition,the study showed that for extremely cold-temperature conditions the heating system requires a daily operating load of about 61.2%which clearly proves the efficiency of these radiant heating systems in terms of energy consumption.展开更多
Severe damage to suspended ceilings of metal grids and lay-in panels was observed in public buildings during the 2013 M7.0 Lushan earthquake in China. Over the past several years, suspended ceilings have been widely u...Severe damage to suspended ceilings of metal grids and lay-in panels was observed in public buildings during the 2013 M7.0 Lushan earthquake in China. Over the past several years, suspended ceilings have been widely used practice in public buildings throughout China, including government offices, schools and hospitals. To investigate the damage mechanism of suspended ceilings, a series of three-dimensional shake table tests was conducted to reproduce the observed damage. A full-scale reinforced concrete frame was constructed as the testing frame for the ceiling, which was single-story and infilled with brick masonry walls to represent the local construction of low-rise buildings. In general, the ceiling in the tests exhibited similar damage phenomena as the field observations, such as higher vulnerability of perimeter elements and extensive damage to the cross runners. However, it exhibited lower fragility in terms of peak ground/roof accelerations at the initiation of damage. Further investigations are needed to clarify the reasons for this behavior.展开更多
Numerous investigations have been conducted to understand the wall effects on rotors.The purpose of this study is to further investigate the aerodynamic performance of revolving wings,especially when it is very close ...Numerous investigations have been conducted to understand the wall effects on rotors.The purpose of this study is to further investigate the aerodynamic performance of revolving wings,especially when it is very close to the ground and ceiling(i.e.,less than half the wingspan)at low Reynolds numbers.Hence,the ground and ceiling effect for hovering micro revolving wings at low Reynolds numbers are investigated by improving the theoretical models.The theoretical model for the ground effect is established based on the wall-jet assumption,and that for the ceiling effect is improved by considering the uneven spanwise distribution of induced velocity.These two models are validated by comparing the results of experiments and CFD simulations with the Lattice-Boltzmann Method(LBM).Both ground and ceiling effects are found helpful to enhance the thrust,especially with small wing-wall distances,by making a difference to the induced velocity and the pressure distribution.By comparing the thrust generation and aerodynamic efficiency between the ground and ceiling effects,the former is found more helpful to the thrust augmentation,and the latter is more beneficial for the aerodynamic efficiency promotion.展开更多
In this paper,we present a novel algorithm for odometry estimation based on ceiling vision.The main contribution of this algorithm is the introduction of principal direction detection that can greatly reduce error acc...In this paper,we present a novel algorithm for odometry estimation based on ceiling vision.The main contribution of this algorithm is the introduction of principal direction detection that can greatly reduce error accumulation problem in most visual odometry estimation approaches.The principal direction is defned based on the fact that our ceiling is flled with artifcial vertical and horizontal lines which can be used as reference for the current robot s heading direction.The proposed approach can be operated in real-time and it performs well even with camera s disturbance.A moving low-cost RGB-D camera（Kinect）,mounted on a robot,is used to continuously acquire point clouds.Iterative closest point（ICP） is the common way to estimate the current camera position by registering the currently captured point cloud to the previous one.However,its performance sufers from data association problem or it requires pre-alignment information.The performance of the proposed principal direction detection approach does not rely on data association knowledge.Using this method,two point clouds are properly pre-aligned.Hence,we can use ICP to fne-tune the transformation parameters and minimize registration error.Experimental results demonstrate the performance and stability of the proposed system under disturbance in real-time.Several indoor tests are carried out to show that the proposed visual odometry estimation method can help to signifcantly improve the accuracy of simultaneous localization and mapping（SLAM）.展开更多
The architectural?complexes?of Hasan Basha Tahir?were suffering from many damages and deformation in different elements as load bearing walls, arches and wooden ceiling. Ground water, salt weathering, air pollution, b...The architectural?complexes?of Hasan Basha Tahir?were suffering from many damages and deformation in different elements as load bearing walls, arches and wooden ceiling. Ground water, salt weathering, air pollution, biological colonization and environmental aspects were the main degradation factors which caused a lot of damage and deterioration phenomena in the complexes. Horizontal and vertical cracks, salts, loss of decorations, and featured dark of the stone surface were noticed at the complexes elements. In addition, the celling of the complex was in a very bad condition;?it had lost a lot of decoration elements, cracking, soot deposition, insects’ holes, and fungi growth. This research will discuss the various deterioration phenomena that?have?effect on the main building materials and cause the damages and discuss the general scientific methodology of the architectural and structural conservation project which was?carried out.展开更多
One quarter scale experiment device of a typical L-shape architecture structure including a burning room and an adjacent hallway is established to carry out the research.The smoke characteristics at the sampling point...One quarter scale experiment device of a typical L-shape architecture structure including a burning room and an adjacent hallway is established to carry out the research.The smoke characteristics at the sampling points below the ceiling of the burning compartment and the roof of the hallway are studied systematically to find out the effects of different ceilings on the local fire origin compartment and the smoke transportation to a remote area.A series of tests is reported and the smoke residence time,the concentration peak and the concentration build up rate are investigated as functions of the type of the ceiling.The smoke residence time,the most important factor concerning smoke toxicity,is described by a novel concept,wavelength,in this study.Furthermore,it is worth emphasizing that the PVC ceiling exhibits a phenomenon of frequent collapse during the fire developing period.The single heat action is conducted to judge the smoke and the heat effect on the fire risk.展开更多
Due to the vigorous development of the market, the demands of urban residents for interior decoration of buildings are increasing day by day. In the actual building decoration process, as the indoor suspended ceiling ...Due to the vigorous development of the market, the demands of urban residents for interior decoration of buildings are increasing day by day. In the actual building decoration process, as the indoor suspended ceiling and ceiling of the building are the key decoration parts, its construction quality will also directly affect the decoration quality in the building. Based on this, this chapter focuses on discussing and expounding the construction and handling skills of indoor suspended ceiling and ceiling decoration of buildings, with a view to promoting the development of China's architectural decoration industry.展开更多
A recent draft setting a mortality ceiling on Chinese hospitals as one of the criteria to assess their medical services has provoked widespread controversy among the public. Issued by the National Health and Family Pl...A recent draft setting a mortality ceiling on Chinese hospitals as one of the criteria to assess their medical services has provoked widespread controversy among the public. Issued by the National Health and Family Planning Commission （NHFPC） in late July, the draft stipulates that there should be no more than eight deaths per every 1,000 inpatients and no more than 1.4 deaths per every 1,000 inpatient operations in China＇s Class-3 genera hospitals. While for Class-2 general hospitals, the figures should remain less than four and 0.28 respectively.展开更多
Anti-hepatic fibrosis peptide from Carapax Trionycis was purified, characterized, and inhibitory effect was assessed. Carapax Trionycis extract peptide hydrolysates （CTEPHs） were separated by ultrafiltration, Sephad...Anti-hepatic fibrosis peptide from Carapax Trionycis was purified, characterized, and inhibitory effect was assessed. Carapax Trionycis extract peptide hydrolysates （CTEPHs） were separated by ultrafiltration, Sephadex G-15 gel chromatography and RP-HPLC. One novel anti-hepatic fibrosis peptide （CTEPH-I： Asn-Pro-Asn-Pro-Thr） was obtained and identified. MTS assay and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay were applied to evaluate the anti-fibrotic effect of CTEPH-1 on activated hepatic stellate cells （HSCs） in vitro. CTEPH-1 efficiently inhibited activation and proliferation of cultured HSC-T6 cells via lowering the contents of collagen and TIMP- 1 except for matrix metalloproteinase- 1 （MMP- 1）. The purified peptide might be beneficial as functional food or potential drug for treatment of liver fibrogenesis.展开更多
A non-noble metal oxygen reduction reaction （ORR） catalyst labeled as Co-C-N（800） was synthesized by heat-treating a mixture of urea, cobalt chloride and acetylene black for 2 h at 800 ℃ in an inert nitrogen atmo...A non-noble metal oxygen reduction reaction （ORR） catalyst labeled as Co-C-N（800） was synthesized by heat-treating a mixture of urea, cobalt chloride and acetylene black for 2 h at 800 ℃ in an inert nitrogen atmosphere. X-ray diffraction pattern indicates that a metallic β-Co is generated after the heat-treating process. The results from cyclic voltammograms show that the obtained Co-C-N（800） catalyst has good ORR catalytic activity in 0.5 mol/L H2SO4 solution. The catalyst is also good at methanol tolerance and stability in the acidic solution.展开更多
基金support by the National Science and Technology Council under Grant No.NSTC 112-2221-E-167-017-MY3.
文摘Heating,Ventilation,andAir Conditioning(HVAC)systems are critical formaintaining thermal comfort in office environments which also crucial for occupant well-being and productivity.This study investigates the impact of integrating ceiling fans with higher air conditioning setpoints on thermal comfort and energy efficiency in office environments.Field measurements and questionnaire surveys were conducted to evaluate thermal comfort and energysaving potential under varying conditions.Results show that increasing the AC setpoint from 25○C to 27○C,combined with ceiling fan operation,reduced power consumption by 10%,achieving significant energy savings.Survey data confirmed that 85%of participants reported consistent thermal sensations across all conditions,with ceiling fans effectively compensating for higher setpoints through enhanced air circulation.CFDsimulations revealed that mediumspeed ceiling fan operation produced the most uniformairflowdistribution,with an average air velocity of 0.45 m/s,and minimized temperature variations,ensuring balanced thermal conditions.Temperature analysis showed a reduction in hotspots and cold zones,maintaining an average temperature deviation of less than±0.5○C.Predicted Mean Vote(PMV)evaluations at a 27○C setpoint indicated improved thermal comfort,with average PMV values around−0.3,corresponding to a“neutral”thermal sensation.These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of integrating ceiling fans with HVAC systems in achieving energy efficiency and occupant comfort,offering a sustainable approach to reducing AC energy consumption in office environments.
文摘This paper proposes modifications to the tradional Ceiling Bounce Model and uses it to characterize diffuse indoor optical wireless channel by analyzing the effect of transceiver position on signal propagation properties. The modified approach uses a combination of the tradional ceiling bounce method and a statistical approach. The effects of different transmitter-receiver separations and height of the ceiling on path loss and delay spread are studied in detail.
文摘This paper presents an image-based mobile robot guidance system in an indoor space with installed artificial ceiling landmarks. The overall system, including an omni-directional mobile robot motion control, landmark image processing and image recognition, is implemented on a single FPGA chip with one CMOS image sensor. The proposed feature representation of the artificial ceiling landmarks is invariant with respect to rotation and translation. One unique feature of the proposed ceiling landmark recognition system is that the feature points of landmarks are determined by topological information from both the foreground and background. To enhance recognition accuracy, landmark classification is performed after the mobile robot is moved to a position such that the ceiling landmark is located in the upright- top corner position of the robot’s camera image. The accuracy of the proposed artificial ceiling landmark recognition system using the nearest neighbor classification is 100% in our experiments.
文摘This work focuses on the estimation of a duty cycle of a radiant ceiling heating system with a panel surface temperature of 35℃and a heat flux of 65 W/m2 that corresponds to a thermal comfort for sedentary occupants.The results obtained are based on the theoretical heat transfer equations that govern the radiant and natural convection heat exchange mechanisms,and experimental heat transfer coefficients available in the literature.The results of the examined radiant heating system with specific conditions showed that a duty cycle of 6.46 min alternated by 13.36 min in shutting-down position is required to assure an acceptable thermal comfort for the enclosure space occupants.In addition,the study showed that for extremely cold-temperature conditions the heating system requires a daily operating load of about 61.2%which clearly proves the efficiency of these radiant heating systems in terms of energy consumption.
基金Research fund for earthquake engineering of China Earthquake Administration(201508023)a project of the National Science&Technology Support Program during the Twelfth Five-year Plan Period of China(2015BAK17B03)a general program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(51578515)
文摘Severe damage to suspended ceilings of metal grids and lay-in panels was observed in public buildings during the 2013 M7.0 Lushan earthquake in China. Over the past several years, suspended ceilings have been widely used practice in public buildings throughout China, including government offices, schools and hospitals. To investigate the damage mechanism of suspended ceilings, a series of three-dimensional shake table tests was conducted to reproduce the observed damage. A full-scale reinforced concrete frame was constructed as the testing frame for the ceiling, which was single-story and infilled with brick masonry walls to represent the local construction of low-rise buildings. In general, the ceiling in the tests exhibited similar damage phenomena as the field observations, such as higher vulnerability of perimeter elements and extensive damage to the cross runners. However, it exhibited lower fragility in terms of peak ground/roof accelerations at the initiation of damage. Further investigations are needed to clarify the reasons for this behavior.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11902017)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Nos.2020T130043,2019M650418).
文摘Numerous investigations have been conducted to understand the wall effects on rotors.The purpose of this study is to further investigate the aerodynamic performance of revolving wings,especially when it is very close to the ground and ceiling(i.e.,less than half the wingspan)at low Reynolds numbers.Hence,the ground and ceiling effect for hovering micro revolving wings at low Reynolds numbers are investigated by improving the theoretical models.The theoretical model for the ground effect is established based on the wall-jet assumption,and that for the ceiling effect is improved by considering the uneven spanwise distribution of induced velocity.These two models are validated by comparing the results of experiments and CFD simulations with the Lattice-Boltzmann Method(LBM).Both ground and ceiling effects are found helpful to enhance the thrust,especially with small wing-wall distances,by making a difference to the induced velocity and the pressure distribution.By comparing the thrust generation and aerodynamic efficiency between the ground and ceiling effects,the former is found more helpful to the thrust augmentation,and the latter is more beneficial for the aerodynamic efficiency promotion.
文摘In this paper,we present a novel algorithm for odometry estimation based on ceiling vision.The main contribution of this algorithm is the introduction of principal direction detection that can greatly reduce error accumulation problem in most visual odometry estimation approaches.The principal direction is defned based on the fact that our ceiling is flled with artifcial vertical and horizontal lines which can be used as reference for the current robot s heading direction.The proposed approach can be operated in real-time and it performs well even with camera s disturbance.A moving low-cost RGB-D camera（Kinect）,mounted on a robot,is used to continuously acquire point clouds.Iterative closest point（ICP） is the common way to estimate the current camera position by registering the currently captured point cloud to the previous one.However,its performance sufers from data association problem or it requires pre-alignment information.The performance of the proposed principal direction detection approach does not rely on data association knowledge.Using this method,two point clouds are properly pre-aligned.Hence,we can use ICP to fne-tune the transformation parameters and minimize registration error.Experimental results demonstrate the performance and stability of the proposed system under disturbance in real-time.Several indoor tests are carried out to show that the proposed visual odometry estimation method can help to signifcantly improve the accuracy of simultaneous localization and mapping（SLAM）.
文摘The architectural?complexes?of Hasan Basha Tahir?were suffering from many damages and deformation in different elements as load bearing walls, arches and wooden ceiling. Ground water, salt weathering, air pollution, biological colonization and environmental aspects were the main degradation factors which caused a lot of damage and deterioration phenomena in the complexes. Horizontal and vertical cracks, salts, loss of decorations, and featured dark of the stone surface were noticed at the complexes elements. In addition, the celling of the complex was in a very bad condition;?it had lost a lot of decoration elements, cracking, soot deposition, insects’ holes, and fungi growth. This research will discuss the various deterioration phenomena that?have?effect on the main building materials and cause the damages and discuss the general scientific methodology of the architectural and structural conservation project which was?carried out.
文摘One quarter scale experiment device of a typical L-shape architecture structure including a burning room and an adjacent hallway is established to carry out the research.The smoke characteristics at the sampling points below the ceiling of the burning compartment and the roof of the hallway are studied systematically to find out the effects of different ceilings on the local fire origin compartment and the smoke transportation to a remote area.A series of tests is reported and the smoke residence time,the concentration peak and the concentration build up rate are investigated as functions of the type of the ceiling.The smoke residence time,the most important factor concerning smoke toxicity,is described by a novel concept,wavelength,in this study.Furthermore,it is worth emphasizing that the PVC ceiling exhibits a phenomenon of frequent collapse during the fire developing period.The single heat action is conducted to judge the smoke and the heat effect on the fire risk.
文摘Due to the vigorous development of the market, the demands of urban residents for interior decoration of buildings are increasing day by day. In the actual building decoration process, as the indoor suspended ceiling and ceiling of the building are the key decoration parts, its construction quality will also directly affect the decoration quality in the building. Based on this, this chapter focuses on discussing and expounding the construction and handling skills of indoor suspended ceiling and ceiling decoration of buildings, with a view to promoting the development of China's architectural decoration industry.
文摘A recent draft setting a mortality ceiling on Chinese hospitals as one of the criteria to assess their medical services has provoked widespread controversy among the public. Issued by the National Health and Family Planning Commission （NHFPC） in late July, the draft stipulates that there should be no more than eight deaths per every 1,000 inpatients and no more than 1.4 deaths per every 1,000 inpatient operations in China＇s Class-3 genera hospitals. While for Class-2 general hospitals, the figures should remain less than four and 0.28 respectively.
基金The Foundation of the Education Department of Hubei Province(Grant No.D20162004)
文摘Anti-hepatic fibrosis peptide from Carapax Trionycis was purified, characterized, and inhibitory effect was assessed. Carapax Trionycis extract peptide hydrolysates （CTEPHs） were separated by ultrafiltration, Sephadex G-15 gel chromatography and RP-HPLC. One novel anti-hepatic fibrosis peptide （CTEPH-I： Asn-Pro-Asn-Pro-Thr） was obtained and identified. MTS assay and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay were applied to evaluate the anti-fibrotic effect of CTEPH-1 on activated hepatic stellate cells （HSCs） in vitro. CTEPH-1 efficiently inhibited activation and proliferation of cultured HSC-T6 cells via lowering the contents of collagen and TIMP- 1 except for matrix metalloproteinase- 1 （MMP- 1）. The purified peptide might be beneficial as functional food or potential drug for treatment of liver fibrogenesis.
文摘A non-noble metal oxygen reduction reaction （ORR） catalyst labeled as Co-C-N（800） was synthesized by heat-treating a mixture of urea, cobalt chloride and acetylene black for 2 h at 800 ℃ in an inert nitrogen atmosphere. X-ray diffraction pattern indicates that a metallic β-Co is generated after the heat-treating process. The results from cyclic voltammograms show that the obtained Co-C-N（800） catalyst has good ORR catalytic activity in 0.5 mol/L H2SO4 solution. The catalyst is also good at methanol tolerance and stability in the acidic solution.
