Abstract Recent research suggests that households increase their electricity consumption after installing photovoltaic (PV) panels, a behavioral change commonly referred to as the solar rebound. Using panel data originating from German Residential Energy Consumption Survey (GRECS), we investigate existence of rebound effect. Our empirical results suggest PV adoption does not amount tak...

Low weight and high load capacity are remarkable advantages of sandwich panels with corrugated core, which make them more considerable by engineering structure designers. It’s important to consider the limitations such as yielding and buckling as design constraints for optimal design of these panels. In this paper, multi-objective optimization of sandwich panels with corrugated core is carried ...

Effects were studied of 200 ppm silver and copper nano-suspensions, with size range from 20 to 80 nm, on the hardness of particleboards produced at an industrial scale at the Iran-Choob Factory, Iran. Metal nano-suspensions were added to the mat at two levels of 100 and 150 milli-liters/kg dry weight wood particles, and the results were compared with those of the control panels. Results showed ...

Masonry infill walls are often used as non-structural elements. According to the past structural failure, ignorance of interaction between infill walls and enclosed frame may lead to the different seismic response for non-ductile building frames. The main contribution of this paper is to analytically investigate the behavior of reinforced concrete with masonry infill panels as participating str...

The objective of this paper is to present a method for the design of solid wood panels with cross layers. The stress distribution in and the deformation behaviour of solid wood panels were analysed using the composite theory. The shear influence in solid wood panels was determined using the shear analogy method. A strength class system is proposed for the design of solid wood panels with cross ...

Presence of a transformer in grid connected photovoltaic system provides galvanic isolation between the panels and grid. However, it increases overall cost, makes circuit bulky reduces efficiency system. Hence, transformerless inverters have gained significant importance owing to its low light weight increased efficiency. due absence transformer, there is no always threat flow leakage current. ...

In a solar micro-grid, hybrid renewable energy system generates electricity for building’s onsite use. The battery storage and the main power grid connection are used to facilitate matching between demand production. To control flows optimally, an accurate day-ahead prediction of photovoltaic (PV) panels output is required. However, this challenging task due fluctuating nature radiation availab...

grid computing is an emerging computing paradigm that will have significant impact on the next generation information infrastructure. due to the largeness and complexity of grid system, its quality of service, performance and reliability are difficult to model, analyze and evaluate. this paper proposes a virtual tree-structured model of the grid service. this model simplifies the physical struc...

The main purposes of a transformerless grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) system consist of the reduction of leakage current, extraction of maximum power point (MPP), tracking of MPP (MPPT), controlling the active and reactive powers, and having the unity power factor. To achieve the above-mentioned aims, the following actions have been performed in this paper. First of all, a brief analysis of t...