Our household seems to be receiving more and more telephone calls from persons unknown trying to sell anything from insurance to double glazing. The calls are carefully timed to coincide with the evening meal, and the chagrin this causes is considerable. Doctors are particularly vulnerable to this annoyance, as they can't take the phone off the hook, and its particularly frustrating that one is...

in this study, ice-glazing process of frozen shrimp by chitosan was applied to protect the frozen shrimp from undesirable chemical and physical changes. the effects of 2% chitosan solution glazing on quality of whole, raw and cooked (without head, tail and shell) shrimps stored at -18±2ºc for 6 months were investigated and compared with water glazing, sodium metabisulfite treatment control. gla...

Vacuum-photovoltaic (VPV) glazing has attracted much attention due to its excellent thermal insulation performance and ability utilize solar energy. However, few simulation models have been established based on actual products rarely validated by experiments. In this paper, a four-layer CdTe-based VPV was developed the corresponding numerical heat transfer model with integration of dynamic powe...

The aim of this paper is to introduce guidelines as aid for early stage architectural design of public and office buildings with large glazed surfaces in connection with the impact of some solutions on energy demand of the building. Relation between key parameters of architectural glazing (thermal transmission, solar heat gain coefficient and light transmission) has been analysed first using pr...

Adaptive façades are gaining greater importance in highly efficient buildings under a warming climate. There is an increasing demand for adaptive designed to regulate solar and thermal gains/losses, as well avoid discomfort glare issues. Occupants developers of office ask healthy energy-neutral working environment. appropriate dynamic solutions controlled automatically or through occupant inter...

The windshield is one of the major components in a vehicle that determines the injury to a pedestrian’s head. Therefore, it is critical to study the damage to windshield glazing so as to promote the protection structure for pedestrians. In this paper, classical plate theory in combination with the Green strain and the von Karman assumption is used to develop constitutive relations to describe t...