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Teaching construction thinking in architecture through materiality and craftsmanship
Published in Paulo J.S. Cruz, Structures and Architecture: Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders, 2019
For the successful performance of the students, a few major aspects have been identified which were used as a guideline for all workshops. It is important to choose design tasks which the students can easily connect to, such as common objects of their daily life. The objects they are developing should become eventually personal objects resulting in a much better identification with the design scenario and a greater overall commitment. Also, the scale of the objects should be in some way relate to the human body which allows for more intuitive design process and a permanent possibility of functional verification. The tools must be well understood to incorporate their rules and potentials as a design guidance. In the overall process, the continuous exposure to physical models and materials can allow to extend digital design concepts through a thorough material thinking, which will not limit but deepens the conceptual design thinking. Studying historical construction practices and techniques not to reproduce or hail them but to contextualize the materials, products, tools and techniques we are using today contributes to the broad understanding of necessities, rules and constructional conditions. Eventually, teaching construction thinking in architecture through materiality and craftsmanship raises awareness and reflection for a more competent material design and a deeper and more complex general design thinking.
Design of a Low-Power Dual-Mode MUX-Based Transmitter for Biomedical Applications
Published in Iniewski Krzysztof, Integrated Microsystems, 2017
The physical sizes of many biomedical instruments are scaled down significantly, owing to advances in various areas of technology. The miniaturization of these devices has brought convenience and efficiency in many medical applications. Coupled with the rapid progress of semiconductor and wireless communication technologies, the small form factor also opens up new opportunities for developing implantable medical devices. This implanted device demands bidirectional wireless data telemetry for signal transmission as well as command reception.
Errors in arithmetic
Published in Breach Mark, Essential Maths for Engineering and Construction, 2017
As the saying goes, ‘size is not everything’, but in practical applications of mathematics you will need to understand representations of size. Scale is just the ratio of the size of an object’s representation to the object’s size in the real world.
Scaling Methodology for Integral Effects Tests in Support of Fluoride Salt–Cooled High-Temperature Reactor Technology
Published in Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2020
Nicolas Zweibaum, Edward Blandford, Craig Gerardi, Per Peterson
The design of experiments that will scale to prototypical reactor size and conditions for fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and fluid-solid thermal interactions is important to validate the models and simulation tools used to design and license nuclear reactors. For the design activities, scaling from prototypical conditions down to laboratory scale ensures that the relevant behavior of structures, systems, and components will be similar between both scales. For safety analysis, proper scaling ensures that appropriate safety-related phenomena are captured in experiments and important phenomena that may affect safety are not missed.1
A consistent method to design and evaluate the performance of Anti-Roll Tanks for ships
Published in Ship Technology Research, 2023
Geert Kapsenberg, Nicolas Carette
The accuracy of model experiments can suffer from scale effects. The response of FS-tanks is driven by the dynamics of the bore. The speed of the bore is related to shallow water wave theory, which scales according to Froude’s law. Flow obstruction effects are believed to be dominated by pressure drag and flow separation at the gates. These effects do not suffer from noticeable scale effects at the Reynolds numbers of interest. The air flow in a FS-tank is not a driving factor in the tank’s response.