Looking at the structural material used in buildings, Real et al. [59] studied the effect of normal weight concrete (NWC) on thermal bridging and the contribution of lightweight aggregates (LWAs) in concrete to the reduction of the thermal bridging effect in buildings. The results indicated ...
The result is the capacity curve of the entire structure, i.e., the base shear-displacement response curve constructed introducing the damage evolution in each element through the adequate modeling of the nonlinear behavior of the material or the elements, as already explained in the introduction....
A surface coating, for example, may transfer more long-wavelength radiation (infrared, IR) into a low emissivity material, or it might decrease its absorptivity and emissivity by increasing the overall reflectivity, and by prohibiting a material from radiating infrared energy. This is the reason ...