A procedure has been developed for the preliminary selection of high-performance systems for office buildings in hot and humid climates. High-performance building systems and components were surveyed for buildings in the U.S., which were applicable for office buildings in hot and humid climates. This research developed a calibrated DOE-2.1e simulation model of a prototypical large office building. In addition, a Simplified Geometry DOE-2.1e (SGDOE-2.1e) model, was also developed, which used a simplified geometry to demonstrate the use of a proposed easy-to-use tool. The calibrated DOE-2.1e simulation model and the SGDOE-2.1e were compared and showed a good match with each. The SGDOE-2.1e model was then further modified based on the ASHRAE Standard 90.1-1999 commercial building energy code. A code-compliant (ASHRAE Standard 90.1-1999) SGDOE-2.1e simulation model was then used as a baseline for the evaluation of the high-performance measures. A total of 14 high-performance measures were implemented including the energy savings, while the comfort level was maintained based on the ASHRAE comfort zone. In addition to the 14 high-performance measures, solar thermal and solar PV system analysis were integrated with the SGDOE-2.1e simulation model to further reduce the annual energy use. Finally, specifications of the proposed easy-to-use simulation tool were developed. This tool includes options to choose systems from the 14 high-performance measures and solar systems. The proposed easy-to-use systems selection tool can be used for new building practitioners and existing building owners as well to evaluate the performance of their new buildings compared to the ASHRAE Standard 90.1-1999 code-compliant building, and to assess the feasibility of implementing high-performance measures to their existing buildings in terms of energy and cost savings.

The Mural Limestone, located in the Mule Mountains to the northeast and southeast of Bisbee, Arizona provides an exceptional outcrop analog for time-equivalent productive reservoirs in the Albian Glen Rose patch-reef play of the Maverick Basin. The Mural Limestone is exposed in a number of folds and east-dipping fault blocks in the Grassy Hill and Paul Spur localities in the Mule Mountains and represents a remnant of a south-facing distally-steepened carbonate ramp that prograded into the Chihuahua Trough in Albian time. This study documents the detailed facies architecture and sequence stratigraphic setting of a multicyclic patch-reef and its associated ramp interior facies at the Paul Spur and Grassy Hill localities, respectively. Small mud-dominated coral-algal buildups (~5 m thick) and tabular biostromes (up to 1.5 m thick) consisting of rudist floatstones are common in the bedded ramp interior carbonates at the Grassy Hill locality in the Mule Mountains 10 km landward of the Paul Spur reef. Buildups in this area are flanked by weakly-cyclic and well-bedded skeletal mud- and grain-dominated packstones. At the Paul Spur locality, Mural facies consist of a 10-35 m thick patch-reef with four distinct reef communities: microbial-Microsolena framestone, algal-Actinastrea boundstone, branching coral-skeletal framestone and caprinid-requienid floatstone. Measured reef dimensions show a distinct windward-leeward margin with reef frame facies extending ~70 m from the margin and extensive leeward rudstone debris and grainstone shoal facies extending a distance of 870 m. Reef and backreef shoal facies exhibit low preserved porosity but petrographic analysis of backreef grainstones shows that primary porosity and permeability was present. These extensive reservoir-prone shoals may be a suitable reservoir target similar to flank rudstones and grainstones of the Maverick Basin reefs. Three aggradational to retrogradational cycles of reef growth are evident at the Paul Spur locality. Retrogradational stacking is consistent with that of time-equivalent Lower Glen Rose patch-reefs in the Maverick Basin of Texas, which suggests a eustatic driver for stratigraphic architecture along the Bisbee/Comanche shelf. Backstepping of reef frame facies in Cycle 3 is interpreted to be time-equivalent to patch-reef development at the Grassy Hill locality. / text

En Afrique de l'Ouest, les sols de savanes humides se caractérisent par des concentrations extrêmement basses de matières organiques, d'azote minéral, de phosphore et de cations basiques, ce qui limite la production primaire. Ce travail a analysé comment des changements particuliers dans les utilisations des terres peuvent influencer le fonctionnement et la fertilité des sols, pour in fine soutenir la production des agroécosystèmes dans cette zone de savane. Six différents types d'utilisation des terres sur 9 parcelles expérimentales répartis à l’échelle du paysage du centre-sud de la Côte d’Ivoire ont été comparé : (i) le brûlis comme pratique traditionnelle ; (ii) la fertilisation chimique comme pratique conventionnelle ; et le mulching comme pratique innovante, testé (iii) sans insertion de légumineuses ou (iv et v) avec insertion de haricot ou soja dans des cycles de rotations culturales ; (vi) le sol nu était considéré comme une situation de référence (le témoin). Le sol a été prélevé dans 54 sous-parcelles, avant et 3 fois après la mise en place des traitements. Sept activités enzymatiques (activités dénitrifiante, nitrifiante, β glucosidase, N-acétyl-β-D-glucosaminidase, phosphatase acide et alcaline, déshydrogénase) du sol, les principales variables du sol (humidité, carbone organique, azote total, pH et Phosphore assimilable), l'abondance et la diversité des communautés microbiennes impliquées dans le cycle de l’azote (bactéries et archées oxydatrices de l’ammonium ; les genres Nitrobacter et Nitrospira qui jouent un rôle clé dans la production de nitrate ; les bactéries réductrices du nitrite porteuses des gènes nirS ou nirK ; et les bactéries réductrices du N2O porteuses de gènes nosZI ou nosZII). Les résultats ont montré que (i) le C. org, le K, le Mg et les activités enzymatiques du sol ont diminué avec la profondeur du sol, indiquant un faible taux d’accumulation des nutriments dans les profondeurs les plus importantes du sol. Par ailleurs, les durées de jachère (0 à 10 ans) n’ont pas significativement affecté la majorité des propriétés du sol, à l'exception de l’Ntot et du K du sol qui étaient élevés dans les vieilles jachères. De plus, le C. org a diminué en fonction de la durée de la jachère tandis que le Mg a suivi une tendance inverse ; (ii) le type d'utilisation des terres a affecté fortement la plupart des activités enzymatiques du sol et les communautés microbiennes impliquées dans le cycle de l’azote; (iii) les pratiques de mulching pourraient avoir un impact positif sur les caractéristiques du sol et les communautés microbiennes, avec pour conséquence le renforcement du maintien de la fertilité des sols et la durabilité de la production agricole à long terme. D’après les résultats obtenus, la pratique de paillage, possiblement avec insertion de légumineuses, pourrait être moins onéreuse et plus adaptée pour augmenter progressivement et de façon durable la disponibilité en azote dans ces agroécosystèmes / In West Africa, humid savanna soils are characterized by extremely low concentrations of organic matter, mineral nitrogen, phosphorus and basic cations, which limit primary production. We analyzed how particular changes in land-uses can influence the functioning and fertility of soils, to support the production of agroecosystems in this savanna zone. We compared six land-use types at 9 experimental plots across a landscape: traditional slash-and-burn; conventional chemical fertilization; and innovative use of mulching (tested with or without inserting legumes in the crop rotation). Bare soil was also considered as a reference situation. Soil was sampled on the 54 sub-plots, before and 3 times after treatment inception. We surveyed seven soil enzyme activities (denitrification, nitrification, β glucosidase, N-acetyl-β-D-glucosaminidase, acid and alkaline phosphatase, dehydrogenase), key soil variables (moisture, organic C, mineral and total N, pH, and available P) and the abundances and diversity of microbial communities involved in the N cycle (bacterial and archaeal ammonia oxidizers; Nitrobacter; Nitrospira; and nirS-, nirK- and nosZ-like denitrifiers). Our results showed that (i) C. org, K, Mg and soil enzymes activities decreased with soil depth, reflecting a low rate of nutrient accumulation in soil depth. In contrast, fallow periods (0 to 10 years) did not significantly affect the majority of soil properties, excepted soil Ntot and K, which were high in old fallows. In addition, C. org decreased as a function of the fallow period, but Mg follow-up an inverse trend; (ii) the land use type strongly affects most soil enzymatic activities and the microbial communities involved in nutrient cycling; (iii) innovative mulching practices have a positive impact on soil characteristics and microbial communities, thereby maintaining the maintenance of soil fertility and the sustainability of agricultural production in the long term. According to our results, the practice of mulching, possibly with the insertion of legumes, could be less expensive and more appropriate to progressively and sustainably increase nitrogen availability in these agro-ecosystems

L'utilisation extensive des matériaux composites dans l'industrie aéronautique nécessite une compréhension étendue de leur comportement mécanique et mécanismes d'endommagement. La prise en compte des effets environnementaux, température et vieillissement humide, dans la prévision du comportement à l'impact, des endommagements et des mécanismes associés reste un sujet encore peu traité actuellement. Dans ce travail différentes conditions de vieillissement humide (dénommées ci-après état neuf, 65% VH, et 90%VH) ont été appliquées au matériau de l'étude. La caractérisation des propriétés du pli et de l'interface ont été effectuée à température ambiante et 80°e. Une attention particulière a été portée à l'identification des propriétés en cisaillement plan. Un modèle d'endommagement progressif basé sur la mécanique de l'endommagement dans les milieux continus est proposé afin de décrire au mieux le comportement du pli élémentaire en prenant en compte les comportements fortement non-linéaires identifiés pour le cisaillement plan de ce matériau. Ce modèle matériau de comportement du pli est combiné avec des lois cohésives d'interface inter-laminaire utilisés dans des simulations numériques d'impact à faible vitesse afin de prédire la réponse mécanique à l'impact et les dommages. Le modèle de matériau a été implémenté dans le code de calcul explicite LS-Dyna. Des essais d'impact à différentes énergies ont été effectués afin de valider par comparaison essais-calcul l'approche utilisée. Une bonne adéquation est observée entre les résultats numériques et expérimentaux du matériau non-vieilli et testé à température ambiante pour ce qui concerne l'historique de la réponse globale et les dommages internes (rupture de fibre, fissures de matrice et délaminages). / The extensive application of composite laminates in aeronautical industries demands a thorough understanding of their mechanical behaviours and damage. The prediction of impact behaviour, impact damage and the associated mechanisms under complex environmental effects remain still an open issue. The effects of various humid ageing conditions (No ageing, 65% relative humidity and 90% relative humidity ageing) and environ mental temperatures (room temperature and 80°C) on the intra-Iaminar and inter-Iaminar properties are characterized. A particular emphasis is laid on the study of different non linear behaviours of in plane shear. A progressive damage model based on continuum damage mechanics is proposed to describe intra laminar mechanical behaviour by taking into account the identified in-plane shear nonlinear phenomenon. This model is then applied in numerical simulation on low velocity impact combined with cohesive law in interface to predict the impact response and associated damage (ie. Fibre failure, matrix cracks and delaminations). The damage model is implemented in LS Dyna as user defined material laws.lmpact tests on laminate coupons with different stratifications are performed to validate the numerical simulation. Good agreement is achieved especially for nonaged material under room temperature between numerical and experimental results in terms of contact force history, platedeflection and impact duration. By means of non-destructive inspection, the impact damage is coherent with predicted results concerning fiber damage location, matrix cracks especially the through thickness delamination.

Orientadores: Lucila Chebel Labaki, Osmar Jose Romeiro de Aguiar / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-09T16:01:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maciel_MarcelaMarcale_M.pdf: 8664428 bytes, checksum: e52526c64f777e95f16bd6ea68926ca8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Exame de Qualificação (Mestrado em Engenharia Civil) - Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas-SP. Na Amazônia estão concentradas grandes riquezas naturais brasileiras, porém muitas vezes não são preservadas ou exploradas de maneira sustentável. Com a arquitetura ocorre o mesmo. Um dos grandes desafios para os profissionais atuantes na área da construção civil e arquitetura é o desenvolvimento de produtos e sistemas construtivos que, juntamente com a prática do uso racional dos recursos naturais, incrementem a produtividade, reduzam o tempo de execução, incentivem o uso de matéria prima local, gerando menor custo final ao consumidor. Especialmente em Belém, capital do Estado do Pará, a arquitetura busca, há algum tempo, uma identidade com a região em que está inserida, e isso vem acontecendo, graças ao esforço de alguns arquitetos que se preocupam em fazer edificações adequadas ao clima quente-úmido da região. Nesse contexto, surge a madeira como um material de um potencial altíssimo, tanto pela abundância com que é encontrada na natureza, como pelo fato de ser proveniente de fonte renovável. Essa pesquisa teve enfoque na região Amazônica, e em especial na cidade de Belém-Pará. Avaliou o conforto térmico e o desempenho térmico de diferentes alternativas de painéis de fechamento em dois protótipos de madeira construídos na Embrapa - Amazônia Oriental, através de medições dos parâmetros ambientais - temperatura, umidade, temperatura do globo e velocidade do ar, a fim de verificar qual painel de fechamento possui maior eficácia no controle das exigências climáticas. Foi realizada, ainda, uma pesquisa acerca de aplicação da madeira em projetos habitacionais de interesse social, por órgãos públicos ou privados. Essa pesquisa visou contribuir com informações técnicas para a melhoria do conforto ambiental das habitações em madeira na região de clima quente-úmido e, discutir alternativas que visem a valorizar a madeira como material de construção de maneira de maneira sustentável / Abstract: In the Amazonian Region there is a great concentration of natural resources, however in most cases they are not preserved or explored in a sustainable way. In architecture things are not different. One of the great challenges for the active professionals in architecture and building area is the development of products and constructive systems which allow for the practice of the rational use of the natural resources, to increase the productivity and to reduce the time of execution, to incentive the use of local raw material, generating smaller final cost to the consumer. Especially in Belém, capital of the State of Pará, there are a number of professionals looking for an identity with the region, due to the effort of some architects concerned with appropriate constructions to the hot-humid climate. In this context, wood is a material with high potential, since it is abundant in the nature, and comes from a renewable source. This research has its focus in the Amazonian area, especially in the city of Belém-Pará. Thermal comfort and thermal performance of different alternatives of closing panels in two wood prototypes built in Embrapa - Amazonia Oriental are analyzed through measurements of environmental parameters - air temperature, humidity, globe temperature and air speed, in order to verify which panel is more effective in the control of the climatic demands. A research concerning the possibilities of use of wood in habitation projects of social interest was accomplished, for public or private organs. This research aims to contribute with technical information for the improvement of environmental comfort of wood houses in the hot-humid regions and to look for alternatives to discuss the use of wood as building material in a sustainable way / Mestrado / Edificações / Mestre em Engenharia Civil

O emprego da arquitetura bioclimática conduz à minimização dos impactos de uma intervenção no meio e à obtenção de uma relação mais harmoniosa entre paisagem e construção. Esta pesquisa evidencia o potencial da ventilação natural como recurso para resfriamento em climas quentes e úmidos, contribuindo para o aprofundamento no estudo de estratégias de projeto que auxiliem na maior integração do edifício com o clima e contexto locais. Analisa as estratégias de ventilação natural adotadas pelo arquiteto Severiano Porto em suas obras, dada a importância deste tipo de solução para obtenção de conforto térmico em clima tropical quente e úmido. Realiza-se por meio de discussão e análise de três obras do arquiteto, localizadas na cidade de Manaus-AM, e as diferentes soluções propostas, quanto à sua adeqüabilidade e eficiência. A análise se divide em duas etapas: primeiramente a análise qualitativa e descritiva, baseada em leitura de projeto, onde é verificada a incorporação de conceitos bioclimáticos nas edificações e são identificadas as soluções de ventilação natural propostas, através do desenho e caracterização dos sistemas encontrados; seguida da análise quantitativa, realizada através de pesquisa de campo e medições das variáveis ambientais temperatura, umidade relativa e velocidade do ar. A análise dos resultados foi realizada com base nos métodos de Mahoney e ASHRAE Standard 55-2004, assim como em alguns parâmetros obtidos em literatura especializada. Pôde-se identificar as estratégias de ventilação natural utilizadas, tanto cruzada como de efeito chaminé, avaliando-se detalhadamente seu desempenho nos três edifícios. A pesquisa contribui no aperfeiçoamento das soluções projetuais de ventilação natural, visando valorizar o uso de estratégias de energia passiva na arquitetura. Evidencia também a contribuição de Porto no desenvolvimento de uma arquitetura atenta a princípios bioclimáticos. / Bioclimatic architecture consists in minimizing the impacts of an intervention on the environment and obtaining a close relationship between building and nature. This research emphasizes the importance of natural ventilation as a cooling resource for hot and humid climates, contributing for the study of project strategies that adjust to local context and environment. Analyses the natural ventilation strategies used by the architect Severiano Porto in his buildings, since it is an important kind of solution to obtain thermal comfort in tropical hot and humid weather. It presents the discussion and analysis of three of his main works, placed in the city of Manaus, and the efficiency of the different solutions proposed. The analysis is divided in two steps: first a qualitative and descriptive analysis, based on project examination, where the incorporation of bioclimatic concepts in the buildings is verified and the natural ventilation solutions are identified; followed by a quantitative analysis, based on field studies and measurement of the variables temperature, humidity and air velocity. The result analysis was based on the Mahoney and ASHRAE Standard 55-2004 methods, and data obtained in specialized literature. Natural ventilation strategies could be identified, either cross as stack, allowing a detailed evaluation of performance of the three buildings. The research contributes on the improvement of the architectonic solutions on natural ventilation, on the purpose of valuing the use of passive energy strategies in architecture. Valorizes also Porto’s contribution to the development of an architecture that is attentive to bioclimatic principles.

Les matériaux composites sont très étudiés depuis des décennies. En effet, l'alliance entre légèreté et résistance de ces structures entraîne le développement de leur utilisation. Leur caractérisation reste un point essentiel dans la plupart des études.Ce travail s’inscrit dans le projet Sollicitern qui vise à concevoir un camion d’hydrocurage en matériaux composites, financé par un fond unique interministériel. L’objectif est d’étudier la durabilité du matériau composite retenu sous chargements sévères. Elle permettra ainsi d’alimenter les modèles numériques des partenaires industriels afin d’ajuster les paramètres pour l’optimisation de la citerne et également d’estimer sa durée de vie face à ces diverses sollicitations.Dans un premier temps, l’attention se porte sur l’intégration de la courbure de la structure et donc du matériau dans l’étude. En effet, ce dernier est fabriqué par enroulement filamentaire, ce qui génère nécessairement une structure tubulaire. Dans un second temps, une caractérisation statique est menée. Cette partie comporte notamment des essais de compression radiale sur l’ensemble de la structure tubulaire où un protocole expérimental est mis en œuvre. En couplant les résultats de ces essais avec ceux d’une simulation numérique reproduisant l’essai, les propriétés élastiques du pli unidirectionnel sont accessibles grâce à une optimisation. Dans un troisième et dernier temps, la durabilité plus spécifique est abordée. Des campagnes d’essais de fatigue, d’impacts, d’usure et de vieillissement sont tout d’abord réalisées indépendamment les unes des autres. L’objectif final est de coupler ces différentes sollicitations et d’appréhender ainsi leur effet combiné. / Composites materials have been studied for decades. Indeed, the association between lightness and resistance of these structures leads to the development of their use. Their characterization remains an essential point in most researches.This work is part of Sollicitern project, which aims to design a composite water treatment truck, financed by a single interministerial fund. The aim is to study the durability of the composite material retained under severe loads. It thus offers tools to industrialists for adjusting parameters in the tank optimization and the estimation of the lifetime under these various loadings.In the first stage, attention is focused on the integration of the curvature of the structure and therefore of the material in the study. Indeed, it is manufactured by filament winding, which necessarily generates a tubular structure. In a second step, a static characterization is carried out. This part includes, in particular, radial compression tests on the whole tubular structure where an experimental protocol is developed. By coupling the results of these tests with a numerical simulation reproducing the test, the elastic properties of the unidirectional ply are obtained by optimization. In a third and final stage, more specific durability is discussed. Fatigue, impact, wear and aging tests are first carried out independently of one another. The final objective is to associate these different loadings and thus to apprehend their combined effect.

付記する学位プログラム名: グローバル生存学大学院連携プログラム / 京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(工学) / 甲第23163号 / 工博第4807号 / 新制||工||1752(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院工学研究科社会基盤工学専攻 / (主査)教授 立川 康人, 教授 田中 茂信, 准教授 佐山 敬洋 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering) / Kyoto University / DFAM

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As a strategy to conserve tropical rainforests of the East Usambara block of the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania, I developed a set of models that can identify above-average tree species richness areas within the humid forests. I developed the model based on geo-referenced field data and satellite image-based variables from the Amani Nature Reserve, the largest forest sector in the East Usambara. I then verified the model by applying it to the Nilo Forest Reserve. The field data, part of the Tanzanian National Biodiversity Database, were collected by Frontier-Tanzania between 1999 and 2001, through the East Usambara Conservation Area Management Program, Government of Tanzania. The field data used are rapidly collectible by people with varied backgrounds and education. I gathered spectral reflectance values from pixels in the Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper (Landsat ETM) image covering the study area that corresponded to the ground sample points. The spectral information from different bands formed the satellite image-based variables in the dataset. The best satellite image logistic regression and discriminant analysis models were based on a single band, raw Landsat ETM mid-infrared band 7 (RB7). In the Amani forest, the RB7-based model resulted in 65.3% overall accuracy in identifying above average tree species locations. When the logistic and discriminant models were applied to Nilo forest sector, the overall accuracy was 62.3%. Of the rapidly collectible field variables, only tree density (number of trees) was selected in the logistic regression and the discriminant analysis models. Logistic and discriminant models using both RB7 and number of trees recorded 76.3% overall accuracy in Amani, and when applied to Nilo, 76.8% accuracy. It is possible to apply and adapt the current set of models to identify above-average tree species richness areas in East Usambara and other forest blocks of the Eastern Arc Mountains. Potentially, managers and researchers can periodically use the model to rapidly assess, monitor, update, and map the tree species rich areas within the forest. The same or similar models could be applied to check their applicability in other humid tropical forest areas. / Ph. D.