This paper investigates the architectural turn of largest Buddhist cave complex in late-medieval Dunhuang (in Northwest China) with a focus on contemporaneous exterior structures. The structures include timber facades that cover caves’ antechambers cut out from vertical cliff, timber-structured ante-halls ground, and earthen shrines pagodas cliff top. These structures, albeit mostly non-extant,...

Nowadays the global trend is integration of new materials, constructions and technological principles, which are simultaneously implemented in individual scientific engineering disciplines. Reducing energy intensity buildings will increasingly resonate political professional circles. As a result, fragments building envelopes field facade being developed tested. Testing envelope carried out eith...

In this study, thermal fatigue properties of 400 series ferritic stainless steels have been evaluated in the temperature ranges of 200-800C and 200-900C. Systematic methods for control of temperatures within the predetermined range and measurement of load applied to specimens as a function of temperature during thermal cycles have been established. Thermal fatigue tests were conducted under ful...

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its neighbours, above and below. A good rule is that the space between any two pavilions should be about equal to 1^ times the height of such pavilions?thus if a pavilion be 75 feet high, the distance between it and its neighbour should be not less than 90 to 100 feet. The pavilions may be built radiating like the spokes of a wheel (like several of the Central Jails in India) or in form of a ho...