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Glimskär, Bo. "The Adoption of Ergonomic Innovations for Injury Prevention : Examples from the building construction and health care industries." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Centrum för hälsa och byggande, CHB, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-158523.
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A good work environment is important for the individual, for industry and for society. The work environment research has, predominantly, targeted identification of problems and the measurement of the size of these problems. Innovations to reduce the incidence of musculoskeletal disorder, MSD, have been introduced in different branches of industry, but with limited success. Few of the ergonomic innovations developed for the building and construction industry have reached a sufficient level of adoption. Ergonomic innovations in the health care sector are of an incremental character and seem to have similar problems of adoption as the ones in the building and construction industry. Three examples of ergonomic innovation are examined in the thesis: a glue spreader for floor layers a four-wheel walker with a lifting device a sonographer’s scanning support device The studies show that an ergonomic innovation is not adopted for prevention of occupational injury unless the innovation also has other relative advantages apart from the ergonomic ones. For the group who already has sustained an injury, it is enough that the ergonomic problems are solved, while the other, symptom-free group, requires other advantages in order to adopt the innovation; increased production economy seems to be the most prominent potential advantage.QC 20150114
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Raška, Jiří. "Ubytovací zařízení pro studenty středních škol." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-265670.
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This diploma thesis focuses on a development of the executive documentation of a dormitory for secondary school students, namely a youth home located in the cadastral area of Nové Sady u Olomouce. The project as well as the addenda is elaborated according to the current legislature and standards. The youth home is located on the plot number 132/23, in the cadastral area of Nové Sady u Olomouce in the district of Olomouc. There are all necessary infrastructures near the plot and the plot is well accessible via the local road. The youth home is a four-floor building without a cellar and with a saddle roof. The bed capacity of the youth home is 31 and the number of accommodation units is 12.
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Kociánová, Nikol. "Mateřská škola." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-227205.
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Diploma thesis is focused on the nursery schools project, which has two floors with a partial basement. Project documentation is at the level of construction execution. The building is located in the district of Frýdek-Místek, in the cadastral Palkovice. Part of the nursery are four units for children and facilities for the operation of the school. Nursery school is a brick of ceramic shaped Porotherm Profi on a masonry foam DRYFIX. The perimeter and interior bearing walls has a thickness of 300 mm, indoor walls are made of bricks PTH 11.5 Profi TL. 115 mm. On the basement walls are concrete block used shuttering tl. 300 mm. Foundation line are made of plain concrete. Ceiling creates the filigree plate with over concrete and the total thickness. is 250 mm. The roof of the buildding is a single-layer flat-lined brick parapet height of 500 mm. There are three prefabricated double staircase and a passenger lift. Lots of flat character is located at an altitude of 314,000 m above sea level Access to land is from the north side. The two main entrances to the building on the north and east facade. In the central part of the building are located facilities for staff and kitchen facilities. Staff entrance is on the south side. Preparing meals is two floors with windows facing north. Between the first and second above ground floor are designed 3 lifts. At the central part directly linked to the two wings of the building. In each wing there are two departments that can accommodate 20 children. The total capacity of the nursery school will therefore be 80 childdren.
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Teplý, Jan. "Polyfunkční dům." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-265671.
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The dissertation contains the project and working out of the designing documentation for execution of a multifunctional building. The project deals with a new multifunctional building in the marginal part of the Olomouc city. The object is a brick building with no cellar and four above-ground floors. The ground plan of the building is regular and mainly rectangular. There are balconies at the corner and in the middle of the eastern part of building in above-ground floors. The last floor is partially receding and there are two terraces here. There is the flat roof construction. The horizontal and vertical supporting and non-supporting constructions are suggested from the Heluz´s brick system. There are three places of business on the ground floor and ten flats on the above-ground floors. The building site has a plane terrain.
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Walek, Jakub. "Polyfunkční dům." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-391993.
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The purpose of this diploma thesis is processing of ducumentary for mixed-use building in cadastre unit of village Vendryně. This building plot is situated on the outskirts of Vendryně. New building is designed as detached building, without cellar, with four floors. Wall structural system of building is made by sand-lime block. Floor and roof structure is consists of prestressed concrete floor. Roofing of house is made by flat green roof. On the first floor there are café, travel agency, dental laboratory, technical place and storage. The second floor is stated for administrative purposes. There are some offices, staff facilities, sanitary and technical places. On the third and fourth floors is situated dwelling unit. Three flats are in third floor and two flats are in fourth floor. Size of flats is designed as 2+KK and 3+KK.
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Plachetský, Jiří. "Polyfunkční dům." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-226204.
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Master’s thesis describes project documentation of a multifunctional house in Velké Meziříčí. It is the four storey basementless detached house. There are two shops, cafe and flat facilities on the first floor and 10 flats on the other 3 floors. The brick-built building consists of Diton and Heluz brickwork system insulated with Baumit external thermal insulation system. The house is covered by single ply roofing.
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Ernst, Oliver. "Knihovna v Českých Budějovicích." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-240042.
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Diploma thesis deals with a project of a new building of a new science library building. The building has four floors and basement. The building will be located in České Budějovice town. The building fulfills the function of the study of books and technical standards. There is designed spaces for organizing lectures and refreshments in cafeteria in the first floor of the building. Library space made available barrier free. Its architectural design resembles the shape of an open book. The structural system meets modern trends in construction and architecture, and it does not interfere with the surrounding buildings.
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Hrachovec, Matěj. "Horský hotel." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-265387.
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The thesis focuses on a project of a mountain hotel. Hotel is located in the area Jeseník, altitude of 550 m. It is detached hotel with a rectangular ground plan with one underground floor and four above ground floors. In the basement is the engine room ventilation, bikes room and in the second part of the underground is wellness center. On the first floor is a restaurant. In the other floors are hotel rooms for 1 to 3 person. On the fourth floor are two apartments. The hotel is based on the monolithic footings.In the basement the vertical supporting are from concrete. Other vertical supporting are built from bricks Porotherm 30, which is insulated and ventilated facade with laggin 150 mm. Supporting horizontal structures are made of monolithic reinforced concrete. The building is covered with a double skin roof structure made of wooden trusses.
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Telezhenko, Evgenij. "Measurements of trackways as a method for assessing locomotion in dairy cows /." Skara : Department of Animal Environment and Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2005. http://epsilon.slu.se/9981450.pdf.
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Salač, Petr. "Dům s pečovatelskou službou." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-410086.
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My diploma thesis occupies with project documentation for building of house with the day care, with conformity of legal regulation and technical standards. My work solves the buildings dispositions with proposal of right construction system and supporting system with using right materials, important for me was the integration into near built-up area on the periphery of town. My diploma thesis evaluates the building from the point of view of building physics. It verifies warm-technical and sound-isolating properties of constructions, from the suggested materials and it verifies the materials with standards values.
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Šindlář, Josef. "Ubytovací zařízení." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-392244.
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The subject of this master thesis is a project for the construction of accommodation facility with a basement. The building is located in Ostrava close to the historical centre of the city. The building is a 4starcategory accommodation facility and will serve as temporary accommodation. There will be a restaurant and a gym designed for hotel guests only. The accommodation capacity is 68 guests. A car park for hotel visitors is situated close to the hotel. It is a brick structure made of sand-lime blocks,monolithic ceilings and a first underground floor. The building is insulated with ETICS system. Paste-like plaster and brick tapes were used for facade construction. The roof is made up of one roof surface and the foundation will be realized on the foundation strips. The building is situated on flat terrain. The project was developed in ArchiCad21, AutoCad 2016 and SketchUp.
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Lawler, Maureen E. (Maureen Elizabeth). "Improving shop floor visualization and metrics." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59163.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-57).
Within the Technical Operations division of Novartis Pharmaceuticals, there is an aggressive vision to be the "Toyota" of the Pharma Industry by 2010. To accomplish this, PharmOps Switzerland has embraced operational excellence, IQP (Innovation, Quality, and Productivity). Still, there is more that the site, and more specifically manufacturing, can do to fully realize the benefits of adopting all aspects of IQP. Currently, there is a lack of adequate visualization on the shop floor. The current status and schedule of production cannot be quickly seen at the tools where the work is being performed. This thesis focuses is on improving the visualization and creating a set of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and visual displays that will improve performance Change, especially cultural, is difficult and takes considerable time and effort. Even when changes are implemented slowly with small iterations, it might not be well received. Without a strong culture of continuous improvement, teams may not perceive that there are things that can be improved. Historical metrics are comfortable and useful to the shop floor. Visual metrics have improved communication.
by Maureen E. Lawler.
S.M.
M.B.A.
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Goehring, Alicia L. "Upper floor housing in downtown Burlington, Iowa." Virtual Press, 1992. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/835837.
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This thesis has evaluated if housing is a feasible alternative for vacant upper floor space in the central business district of small towns in general and in downtown Burlington, Iowa, specifically. The study required discussing the issue of housing in vacant upper floor spaces in general, establishing if there was a need for additional multi-use housing in the Burlington, Iowa housing market, and finally determining if there was vacant upper floor space that would fulfill this need.The analysis determined that housing was indeed a feasible and practical use for vacant upper floor space in downtown areas in general and in Burlington, Iowa specifically. The study provided a method that could be used to ascertain the feasibility of this type of housing in other towns as well.Department of Urban Planning
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Das, Durgesh. "Assessing sales floor capacity and replenishment strategy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126994.
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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, May, 2020Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2020
Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis. "May 2020."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 68-69).
Target stores (and the upstream supply chain) have been traditionally designed for a predominantly brick and mortar business, fed by a push supply chain model. With the growing need for omnichannel sales fulαllment, supply chain engineering has become signiαcantly more complex. Based on the traditional model, ideal inventory levels in the store, as well as the upstream replenishment logic are derived with a focus on the in-store customer experience. Two pain points of this design are: 1. The long tail, in the product assortment distribution, of low-velocity items carried in all stores. 2. Inβexibility to use dynamic unit of measure (deαned as the type of packaging an item is transported in - can be an each, case pack, pallet), because merchants set the unit of measure system-wide thus overpack items are overpack in all stores regardless of sales volume. Both are backroom space and labor intensive. In anticipation of stores becoming shipping hubs in the future and the need to fulαll Target's long-term planning, we will take a data driven approach to determine optimal sales βoor item capacity in order to αnd eciencies in upstream sortation leading to cost reductions in downstream, without impacting critical functions including customer reception and experience in store and demand signal fulαllment.
by Durgesh Das.
M.B.A.
S.M.
M.B.A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Kraus, Cynthia A. "Floor Vibration Design Criterion For Cold-Formed C-Shaped Supported Residential Floor Systems." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36612.
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Annoying floor vibration due to normal human activity was investigated for cold-formed C-shaped residential floors systems. Dynamic impact and static loading tests were performed on twelve full size laboratory floors and five two-joist line laboratory floors to determine the influencing characteristics of annoying vibrations in metal framed floors. Similar tests were conducted on eleven floors located in existing houses. Subjective evaluation, in terms of annoying vibration levels, of all floors was recorded. Four existing floor vibration criteria were investigated: 1) Australian Standard. Domestic Metal Framing Code, 2) Swedish Building Technology Design Guide developed by Professor Sven Ohlsson, 3) United States Proposed Timber Floor Vibration Criterion developed by James Johnson, and 4) Canadian Timber Floor Criterion developed by Donald Onysko. Data collected from testing was used to determine which of the four existing criteria best classified the perceived vibration level of the floors. One criterion is suggested as the most suitable for predicting the perceived vibration level of metal framed residential floors.
Three methods to predict the vertical deflection of a floor subject to a concentrated load at mid-bay were examined. The results of applying these methods to the laboratory floors were compared to the actual measured values. The method which correlated the best with the measured values was selected for use in the proposed criterion.Master of Science
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Horňáková, Veronika. "Polyfunkční dům Dělnická." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-265580.
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The subject of diploma thesis is processing of the desing documentation for new multifunctional building in the street Dělnická, cadastre unit Komín, Brno - Komin. The building is a 3 floors and one underground floor and is designed as a last building in the street on the nearly flat land. In the building is located non-residential space, dwelling units and studios. Non-residential space comprise seven parking spaces in a public underground garage, two stores barrier-free solution with the facilities and two studios 1 + 1. The residential part has two dwelling units 1 + kk, two dwelling units 2 +1 and two dwelling units 4 + kk. The building is based on a waterproof concrete structure "white tub". The vertical structure is built of clay blocks Porotherm, horizontal structures are cast-in-place reinforced concrete. The exterior building envelope is completed with thermal insulation. An internal staircase is cast-in-place reinforced concrete. The entrance to the garage for cars is possible by Autolift. The building is roofed with warm flat roof. The drawings are processed in AutoCAD software visualization are processed in Sketch Up
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Nárožný, Jakub. "Hotel Rákosníček." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-226763.
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The fivefloor building connected with the indoor staircase and the lift. The underground floor is composed of the storage spaces for the restaurant and the hotel, the engine rooms for the lifts and the air-conditioning system. On the first floor there is a restaurant with the kitchen, a reception office and sanitary facilities for the visitors and the staff. The second above-ground floor is composed of the offices, the conference room and the sanitary facilities for the staff and the public. The third floor is intended for accommodation. There are eight rooms. On the fourth floor you can find two suites. One two-room suite with the living room and the kitchenette. The second one one-room with the living room and the kitchenette. From the suites there is an entry to the terraces.
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Mobasherfar, Mir Kamran. "Disturbance management for shop floor scheduling." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359944.
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Sahney, Vikram Neal. "Scheduling and shop floor control in commercial airplane manufacturing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34861.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-75).
Boeing is the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners and a leader in defense and space systems. Competition in commercial aircraft production is increasing and in order to retain their competitive position, Boeing must strive to improve their operations by reducing costs. Boeing factories today still schedule and monitor the shop floor much as they have for the past 100 years. This thesis compares and contrasts several different methods for shop floor control and scheduling including Boeing's barcharts, Toyota production system, critical chain, and dynamic scheduling. Each system is will be analyzed with respect to how it handles variability in labor output required and how that affects which products are typically made under each system. In additional to qualitative comparisons, discrete event simulations comparing the various strategies will be presented. Areas for future simulation study are also discussed. The recommended approach for commercial airplane assembly is critical chain. A suggested implementation plan is presented along with methods to ease acceptance.
by Vikram Neal Sahney.
S.M.
M.B.A.
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Amlani, Ankur. "Floor entry task prioritization for highly automated fulfillment centers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126943.
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Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, May, 2020Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, May, 2020 7102 Sloan School of Management.
Cataloged from the official PDF of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-106).
As automation continues to gain prevalence within the retail industry, informed decision-making by users of robotic systems is critical for management of throughput and operating expenditures. On robotic fulfillment floors, obstructions such as fallen product and deactivated robots can degrade robotic floor throughput by blocking access to product, forcing robots to re-route, and increasing worker idle time. Workers can walk onto the floor to address obstructions during operation, but such entry affects robot movement and can undermine the original intention of restoring throughput. This project aims to provide insight into the cost-benefit tradeoff of resolving obstructions to enable task prioritization and reduce unnecessary floor entry during operation, thereby improving system performance and reducing operating costs. We introduce a novel framework for modeling floor entry to determine the "value" of resolving an obstruction and apply an agile approach to rapidly develop and pilot a software tool for delivery of model recommendations in the field. During the treatment shifts, z-scores of measured pick work unavailability (our chosen performance metric, for which a reduction is indicative of improved throughput), were -0.72, -1.04, and -0.16 as compared with a control sample of similar shifts. The approximate fraction of obstructions resolved during non-operation increased by a factor of three, with recommendation adherence measurements indicating that the increase was driven by elimination of unnecessary (as determined by the model) floor entries during operation. While the sample size was not large enough to achieve a statistically significant outcome, these results offer useful insights regarding future analytical work, testing, and associated organizational changes.
by Ankur Amlani.
M.B.A.
S.M.
M.B.A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Krejsa, Jan. "Bytový dům." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-227600.
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Diploma thesis "Block of flats" is processed in the form of project documentation for the construction, according to valid standards and regulations. Residential house is designed as a four-storey building with warm flat roof. It is a detached house on flat terrain. There is a workshop, storage and technical facilities of the building on the first floor, in the other floors are located 8 dwelling units. The whole building is made of the sand-lime brick blocks and reinforced concrete ceilings. The building is based on reinforced concrete strip foundations. Material and structural solutions were chosen so that the object is approaching to the passive standard. The project also includes specialization of the diploma thesis processing at the Institute of building services
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Barnett, Robert W. "Paraplegic standing and reciprocal gait using a floor reaction hybrid F.E.S. orthosis." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1990. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21284.
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The work presented in this thesis has two main themes. Firstly, it follows the development and initial evaluation of a new, hybrid FES orthosis for paraplegics. Secondly, it describes investigations which were intended to optimize the stimulus parameters used with the orthosis. One of the major limitations with pure FES standing and walking systems is rapid muscle fatigue. During quiet stance, chronic stimulation of support muscles is required which induces fatigue and significantly reduces their useful contraction time. Mechanical bracing provides safety, strength and protection of delicate joints but it lacks some of the features of FES. The "hybrid" orthosis, considered in this thesis, combines these two techniques so that the disadvantages of either technique alone are reduced. In the following chapters, the development of the mechanical braces, the sensors, the electrical stimulator and the controlling software are considered. Several preliminary investigations are reported which demonstrate the feasibility of the orthosis with regard to fatigue reduction and stability. In addition, tests are described which were designed to improve the characteristics of muscle and reflex activity for use with the system. The results of these tests showed that muscle dynamics could be improved by the addition of a single pulse to a regular stimulus pattern. Improvements were also obtained in reflex activity but to a less significant degree.
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Stinson, Emily(Emily Anne Matsushino). "Floor health predictive support for highly automated distribution centers." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122448.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2019Thesis: M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2019
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (page 53).
While automated mobile inventory systems have greatly increased productivity, it has also created a new set of operational challenges. Floor health events, such as fallen product, spills, disabled robots, and floor access can degrade overall floor performance by obstructing access to product, forcing robots to re-route to less efficient paths, exacerbating congestion, increasing idle time, and potentially reducing throughput. Floor health issues are interdependent and have cascading effects, making their impacts difficult to track, visualize, and address. Reactive support and reliance on training and adoption of best practices is not scalable. As the network continues to grow, there is a need to improve real-time visibility and preventative measures into floor conditions. This project consisted of five main phases: research, hypothesis, testing, evaluation, and implementation.
The research phase was dedicated to developing an understanding of the current processes and problem statement. Then a testable hypothesis was constructed based on observations and data exploration. The hypothesis was tested via simulations and statistical analysis. The evaluation phase included analyzing the implications and use-cases of the results. The last phase of the project included developing and implementing selected applications. The model development phase of the project included simulation experiments where the dependent variable collected was the percentage change in average throughput rate and a multitude of potential explanatory features were tracked. Analysis of this data revealed that some of the best predictors of degradation of throughput rate were the types of floor cells being blocked.
There is wide range of impactful applications of these findings, including diagnostic checks to help root cause issues, automated notifications that highlight deteriorating floor conditions, automated user path planning, actionable floor metrics, and prioritization of work. Automated notifications to proactively identify deteriorating floor conditions, real-time prioritization of tasks, and a diagnostic tool were the implementations focused on during this project.
by Emily Stinson.
S.M.
M.B.A.
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
M.B.A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
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Večeřa, Lukáš. "Víceúčelový objekt Brno." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-240308.
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This thesis solves new building multifunctional building in Brno in the form of documentation for construction. The work contains text, drawings and calculation part. The building is designed as a detached and located in a slightly sloping terrain. The new building is designed as a four-storey with basement and three floors. The facility is designed sixteen and four residential rental units. The structural system is a cross- walled ceramic fittings. Horizontal structures ceilings are made of precast filigree ceiling tiles with nadbetonovanou distribution plates. The roof is designed as a single-layer flat. Part of the main road in the building is designed passenger elevator. The work process basic assessment of building in terms of building physics and approximate calculation of the base area.
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Fayegh, A. David. "Flood advisor : an expert system for flood estimation." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25069.
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Expert computer programs have recently emerged from research on artificial intelligence as a practical problem-solving tool. An expert system is a knowledge-based program that imitates the problem-solving behaviour of a human expert to solve complex real-world problems. While conventional programs organize knowledge on two levels: data and program, most expert programs organize knowledge on three levels: data, knowledge base, and control. Thus, what distinguishes such a system from conventional programs is that in most expert systems the problem solving model is treated as a separate entity rather than appearing only implicitly as part of the coding of the program.
The purpose of this thesis is twofold. First, it is intended to demonstrate how domain-specific problem-solving knowledge may be represented in computer memory by using the frame representation technique. Secondly, it is intended to simulate a typical flood estimation situation, from the point-of-view of an expert engineer. A frame network was developed to represent, in data structures, the declarative, procedural, and heuristic knowledge necessary for solving a typical flow estimation problem. The control strategy of this computer-based consultant (FLOOD ADVISOR) relies on the concept that reasoning is dominated by a recognition process which is used to compare new instances of a given phenomena to the stereotyped conceptual framework used in understanding that phenomena. The primary purpose of the FLOOD ADVISOR is to provide interactive advice about the flow estimation technique most suitable to one of five generalized real-world situations. These generalizations are based primarily on the type and quantity of the data and resources available to the engineer. They are used to demonstrate how problem solving knowledge may be used to interactively assist the engineer in making difficult decisions. The expertise represented in this prototype system is far from complete and the recommended solution procedures for each generalized case are in their infancy. However, modifications may be easily implemented as the domain-specific expert knowledge becomes available. It is concluded that over the long term, this type of approach for building problem-solving models of the real world are computationally cheaper and easier to develop and maintain than conventional computer programs.Applied Science, Faculty of
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Kelley, Donald M. "The integration of nonstructural methods into flood loss reduction programs : an evaluation of a remaining obstacle /." This resource online, 1986. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08222008-063409/.
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Bačina, Jan. "Horský penzion." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-240038.
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This diploma thesis solves the project of four-storey, partly cellared mountain pension situated in the plant number 645/2 in the cadastral area in Deštné in Orlické hory. The building has a capacity of 44 seats to accommodate 72 persons in the restaurant and 57 persons in the wellness center. There is a wellness center with fitness room and engine room of air-conditioning system in the basement. There is an entrance hall with hotel base, restaurant, sanitary facilities and utility room with boiler room on the first floor. The second and third floor is designed for accommodation. There is an outdoor terrace of restaurant. The building has a load-bearing wall system. The load-bearing walls and the partition walls are bricked up of the porous concrete YTONG bricks and sand-lime bricks SILKA. The walls are insulated of mineral wool thickeness 200 mm and EPS Perimeter thickeness 140 mm underground section and plinth area. The ceiling structure are made of the prestressed hollow core panels spiroll thickness 250 mm and wooden beamed ceiling. There is a saddle wooden roof. The windows and the doors are made by the company Progress. The part of facade of the building is ventilated. This project is designed by the computer software ArchiCAD.
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deMatos, Richard Bernard. "Floor limits and credit card fraud in the South African credit card industry." Thesis, University of South Africa, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/48.
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Credit card fraud losses within the South African credit card market in 2006 exceeded
R257M. A portion of these losses (R179M) are within the borders of South Africa and its
common monetary area partners. This represents a startling 70% of credit card fraud on
magnetic stripe cards used within the borders of South Africa.
The South African credit card industry adopts floor limits at certain merchants and
merchant categories. South Africa is one of a few countries in the world that still adopt
floor limits on credit cards within its payment card industry. Credit card transactions on
magnetic-stripe cards conducted below the merchant’s designated floor limit do not go to
the issuing bank for authorization. The first time the issuing bank acknowledges these
transactions is when they are settled on average two days later. The rationale for not
adopting zero floor limits within the South African credit card market is the supposed
inability of the existing telecommunications infrastructure to handle the volume and
frequency of data submitted by merchants for authorization. The impact of reduced fraud
and bad debt losses through adopting a zero floor limit in relation to merchant
operational costs is the basis of the research. The research also aims to examine the
Proposition that the existing telecommunications infrastructure is unable to support a
zero floor limit proposal.
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Zhang, Zhi Long. "Temperature control strategies for radiant floor heating systems." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ59301.pdf.
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Hillman, John R. "Innovative lightweight floor systems for steel framed buildings." Thesis, This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06082009-170953/.
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Huang, You Sen. "A control strategy for promoting shop-floor stability." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2615/.
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This research aimed to study real-time shop floor control problem in a manufacturing environment with dual resource (machine and labour), under impact of machine breakdowns. In this study, a multiperspective (order and resource perspectives) control strategy is proposed to improve effectiveness of dispatching procedure for promoting shop floor stability. In this control strategy, both order and resource related factors have been taken into account according to information on direct upstream and succeeding workcentres. A simulated manufacturing environment has been developed as a platform for testing and analysing performances of the proposed control strategy. A series of experiments have been carried out in a variety of system settings and conditions in the simulated manufacturing environment. The experiments have shown that the proposed control strategy outperformed the ODD (Earliest Operation Due Date) rule in hostile environments, which have been described by high level of shop load and/or high intensity of machine breakdowns. In hostile environments, the proposed control strategy has given best performance when overtime was not used, and given promising results in reduction of overtime cost when overtime was used to compensate for capacity loss. Further direction of research is also suggested.
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Bengtsson, Daniel, and Johan Melin. "Constrained procedural floor plan generation for game environments." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för kreativa teknologier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-13006.
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Background: Procedural content generation (PCG) has become an important subject as the demand for content in modern games has increased. Paradox Arctic is a game development studio that aims to be at the forefront of technological solutions and is therefore interested in furthering their knowledge in PCG. To this end, Paradox Arctic has expressed their interest in a collaborative effort to further explore the subject of procedural floor plan generation. Objective: The main goal of this work is to test whether a solution based on growth, subdivision or a combination thereof, can be used to procedurally generate believable and varied floor plans for game environments, while also conforming to predefined constraints. Method: A solution capable of generating floor plans with the use of growth, subdivision and a combination of both has been implemented and a survey testing the believability and variation of the generated layouts has been conducted. Results & Conclusions: While the results of the subdivision and combined solutions show that more work is necessary before the generated content can be considered believable, the growth based solution presents promising results in terms of believability when generating smaller to medium sized layouts. This believability does however come at the cost of variation.Bakgrund: Procedural content generation (PCG) har blivit ett alltmer viktigt ämne allteftersom kravet på mängden innehåll i moderna spel har ökat. Paradox Arctic är en spelutvecklingsstudio vars målsättning är att ligga i teknologins framkant och de är därför intresserade av att vidareutveckla sin kompetens inom PCG. Av denna anledning har de uttryckt intresse för ett samarbete inom området “procedurell generering av planlösningar”. Syfte: Det huvudsakliga syftet med detta arbete är att undersöka huruvida lösningar baserade på att växa ytor, fördela ytor i mindre delar eller en kombination av dessa, kan användas för att skapa trovärdiga och varierade planlösningar för spelmiljöer, utan att bryta förutbestämda krav. Metod: En lösning som procedurellt genererar planlösningar genom att växa och/eller fördela dem har implementerats och en undersökning, med syftet att utvärdera trovärdigheten och variationen i de genererade planlösningarna, har utförts. Resultat & Slutsatser: Lösningen som baseras på fördelning av ytor och den kombinerade lösningen, visades av resultaten kräva ytterliggare arbete för att anses generera trovärdiga resultat. Lösningen som baseras på att växa ytor däremot, visade positiva trovärdighetsresultat när små och medelstora planlösningar genererades. Detta goda resultat uppstod dock på bekostnaden av variation mellan de genererade planlösningarna.
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Krupka, Martin. "A rapid inundation flood cell model for flood risk analysis." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2219.
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Government flooding policy across Europe, and in the UK, has switched from flood defence to flood risk management. The approach requires the evaluation of the consequences of all possible asset failures over a range of flood probabilities. For a typical flood system this necessitates the simulation of thousands of inundation permutations. As a consequence, the speed of simulation is a significant factor in the practical implementation of this approach. This thesis reports on the development and testing of a Rapid Flood Inundation Model (RFIM) designed to satisfy this requirement. The model consists of a precalculation part, and a subsequent rapid flood inundation prediction. Three variations of the rapid inundation routine are presented. The algorithms differ in the way in which the flood depth on the communication links between the cells is calculated. The latter version also permits a spatially limited estimation of flow velocities. The RFIM was applied to the Greenwich and Thamesmead embayments on the River Thames in London. The main objectives of the RFIM testing were: to evaluate the predictive capabilities of the simple volume spreading method used. In order to undertake the task a Monte Carlo analysis was performed and the flood extent maps were compared to predictions produced by the two-dimensional hydrodynamic model, TUFLOW. The overall performance of the model was found to be acceptable, although some inaccuracies in the predictions, as a result of the oversimplification of the hydraulics, were observed. These were discussed and recommendations were given to improve model behaviour. The computational speeds were found to be acceptable and within the required limits. It is therefore suggested that the proposed Rapid Flood Inundation Model can be used for flood predictions in urban areas for the purpose of flood risk management.
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Gopalreddy, Sathya. "Object-oriented cell controller for a manufacturing shop floor." Ohio : Ohio University, 1994. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1176926228.
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Boniardi, Federico [Verfasser], and Wolfram [Akademischer Betreuer] Burgard. "Methods for mobile robot localization using architectural floor plans." Freiburg : Universität, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1218464003/34.
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Li, Jing Qiang. "Designing constraints for capacity analysis of residential floor areas." Virtual Press, 2004. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1292545.
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This thesis focuses on the development of design constraints for use in analyzing the capacity of the residential units' floor areas in Open Building projects. Two cases are used to demonstrate the use of these constraints: a vacant office building (Kales Building) being converted to residential occupancy; a new multi-story building the lower floors of which are hotel rooms and the upper floors are residential condominium units.The thesis suggests that these constraints and the capacity analysis of residential floor areas associated with them can assist design teams, at the beginning of similar projects; provide important "added value" to clients, and contribute to the long term "sustainability" or adaptability of buildings.The first part of the thesis addresses the question of how to design a residential base building which can accommodate an optimal number and variety of fit-out unit layouts. The answer to the question links to the need for design constraints and points to their use in capacity analysis.The second part of the thesis focuses on the deduction of "constraint-designing" for Open Building residential layout. Plumbing systems, which are one of the most significant barriers to the application of Open Building, are specifically and more deeply studied in this part. A series of constraints are developed, which can generally assist in designing and analyzing floor plate capacity. . It is akin to learning to know the rules before starting a game.The third part of the thesis focuses on the demonstration of the uses of constraints in the design process of the conversion of an abandoned office building to residential uses.The last part of the thesis demonstrates the use of constraints and capacity analysis in a new multi-story condo project.In short, the paper is initially concerned with both the design concept and its application into detail levels in one of the many issues. It is a study of methods and technical rules of designing floor plan layouts when capacity analysis is the aim.Department of Architecture
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Sarpkaya, Gokhan Evans John L. "A floor space valuation method for automotive electronics manufacturing." Auburn, Ala, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1600.
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Camozzato, Daniel. "A method for growth-based procedural floor plan generation." Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10923/7579.
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Previous issue date: 2015We present a procedural method to create floor plans considering user-provided requisites as well as the constraint of a building’s exterior walls. First, a grid is created in the available space. Then, each room is placed to occupy a single cell in the grid, and subsequently expanded, occupying adjacent cells to achieve its final size. This growth-based approach can generate different interior models which follow user requisites without relying on costly optimization steps. The proposed method handles a wide variety of building shapes, including non-convex polygons. Possible applications include architectural tools and digital content generation.
Neste trabalho apresenta-se um método procedural para criar plantas baixas levando em conta requisitos do usuário e também o limite das paredes externas de uma construção. Primeiro, uma grade é criada no espaço disponível. Então, cada aposento é posicionado de tal forma a ocupar uma célula da grade, e é subsequentemente expandido, ocupando células adjacentes para alcançar seu tamanho final. Essa abordadem baseada em crescimento pode gerar diferentes modelos de interior que atendem aos requisitos do usuário sem depender de passos custosos de otimização. O método proposto é capaz de lidar com uma variedade de formatos externos das paredes da construção, incluindo polígonos não convexos. Possíveis aplicações incluem ferramentas de arquitetura e a geração de conteúdo digital.
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Srinivas. "Data mining integrated architecture for shop floor control system." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2007. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/33808.
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Organizations are becoming increasingly complex with emphasis on decentralized decision making. Recent advances in the field of information systems and networking have greatly changed the characteristics of demands from shop floor of an enterprise. It is not only viewed as a production centre but is also considered as a nucleus of information and knowledge. This knowledge may consist of system's behaviour, limitation, capability, etc. Therefore, the manufacturing system must have an information system that facilitates generation, sharing and integration of knowledge for effective and efficient decision making. In the competitive environment, organizational knowledge is not perpetual, but has a lifecycle. Organizational knowledge value deteriorates with time due to changes in the competitive environment. Enterprises generate an avalanche of data and information that may be critical and valuable in nature but hard to manage and leverage properly. Effective decision making in a data-intensive environment is likely to determine future business activities and differentiate a company from its competitors. Knowledge generation, accumulation and maintaining knowledge bases are time-consuming processes but essential to development and successful application of a knowledge base system.
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Ferreira, Koyama Mauro. "Architecture for Shop Floor Control based on Generic Components." Metz, 2001. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/UPV-M/Theses/2001/Ferreira_Koyama.Mauro.SMZ0104.pdf.
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Ce travail de thèse consiste à mettre en place une architecture pour le pilotage d'ateliers dans le but de parvenir à I'intégration. Les blocs de construction élémentaires appelés Composants Génériques ont été développés. Ils peuvent être combinés pour créer des architectures de pilotage. Il est possible de définir une stratégie de construction, utilisant des composants génériques et une méthodologie de projet qui puisse être utilisée dans chaque cas industriel spécifique. En répétant plusieurs fois cette technique, des patrons architecturaux peuvent émerger, rendant possible l'élaboration de librairies de modèles partiels d'ateliers. Le processus d'élaboration de composants génériques et de leur méthodologie associée renforce la réutilisation des caractéristiques modulaires pour permettre la mise en place de telles librairies. Une application pratique sur "Plataforma Integrada de Pesquisa, Ensino e Formação - PIPEFA" qui comporte une cellule d'assemblage et de désassemblage est présentée, pour illustrer le processus du développement de l'architecture dans son ensembleThis work focuses on bulding architectures for shop floor control, aiming at enhancing integration of shop floor to the enterprise. Basic building blocks, called Generic Components, are developed. They cand be combined to create control architectures. It is possible to define a building strategy, using the generic components and a project methodology, that shall be used in each sepcific industrial case. From successive applications of the technique, architectural patterns may emerge, making possible to compose libraries of shop floor's partial models. The process of elaborating Generic Components and associated methodology, enforced reuse and modularity characteristics, to allow creating such libraries. One practical application, on "Plataforma Integrada de Pesquisa, Ensino e Formação - PIPEFA", that contains one assembly and disassembly cell, will be presented, illustrating the whole process of architecture development
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Ismail, Mohamed A. (Mohamed Abdelbagi). "Materially efficient structural floor systems for housing in India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123590.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2019Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-139).
.In 2015, the government of India launched the "Housing for All by 2022" initiative to build 20 million units of affordable urban housing for lower income groups. Thus far, they have built fewer than two million units. In India, it is estimated that material costs can constitute 60 to 80% of the total cost of residential construction. Nonetheless, their construction mimics the materially inefficient practices of developed countries, practices developed to reduce labor over material costs. As a result, prismatic beams and flat slabs are frequently used despite their structural inefficiency. In its current state, the construction industry is resource intensive and unsustainable. The mounting use of steel-reinforced concrete structures in Indian cities has also garnered concern for the environmental costs of construction; construction accounts for 22% of India's carbon emissions.
The impact of structural systems on a building's embodied energy are immediately apparent: cement and steel are responsible for nearly 90% of a multistory concrete frame building's total embodied energy, and at least 50% of that is in the horizontally-spanning elements alone. With no end to construction in sight, new practices are needed to curb the environmental and economic costs of India's construction. This thesis explores the design of materially efficient floor systems that can reduce the economic and environmental costs of construction. Utilizing computational structural design, this thesis presents several strategies for the structural optimization of one-way concrete floor systems. Designed for the constraints of India, the structural elements are optimized to reduce the necessary volume of concrete and steel while resisting the same loads of an equivalent solid prismatic beam or slab.
While structural optimization for material efficiency is not a new practice, it is technically challenging and often reserved for large-scale and exclusive architectural projects. Conversely, this research applies these principles to common residential construction.
by Mohamed A. Ismail.
S.M.
S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture
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Idrus, Arazi Bin. "Development of a procedure and tool for evaluating and selecting concrete floor systems for concrete frame buildings." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395935.
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Hermansson, Denise, and Olivia Nilsson. "Capacity and lifetime analysis of pre-stressed slatted floors." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för byggteknik (BY), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-53205.
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This study investigates the mechanical differences between old and newly produced slatted floors through a four-point bending test. To understand to what extent the actual environment has affected the slatted floors, the carbonation depth and corrosion will be examined. The tests showed no mechanical differences between slatted floors which had been in service for a certain amount of years and newly produces ones. Corrosion could be observed on some of the samples but it was not because of the carbonation process. When comparing the calculations of reinforced and pre-stressed concrete slatted floors, the result showed that the pre-stressed floor could carry up to double the load of what the reinforced slatted floor could. The conclusion of this study is, that the pre-stressed slatted floors will certainly hold for at least thirty years and will most likely hold for many years to come.
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Hopson, Thomas Moore. "Operational flood-forecasting for Bangladesh." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3165830.
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Traiger, Elizabeth A. "Statistical Techniques for flood estimation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504614.
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Simpson, Katherine Hannah. "Public choice for flood defence." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/22596.
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Why do we want to value the environment? Environmental assets provide a flow of goods and services over time which benefit mankind. Valuing these services contributes towards their protection and enhancement, however many of these benefits cannot be valued in traditional markets and as such rely on non-market valuation techniques. One of these is contingent valuation (CV) which directly asks respondents whether they are willing to pay for an improvement in the good or service. This thesis seeks to explore methodological issues associated with this method by undertaking a CV survey to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) for a new type of flood defence (managed realignment) on the Tay Estuary, Scotland. One challenge for survey designers is to provide high quality, readily understandable information to mitigate bias in WTP estimates. This thesis contributes to the information provision literature by examining whether prior knowledge or new information has a greater effect on the WTP estimate when controlling for respondent experience and familiarity with the good. A field experiment was designed to test for respondent’s prior knowledge; allow for varying levels of information to be presented to respondents and identify information acquisition for each respondent. Specifically tested was the notion that respondents who learn the most about the good during the survey process will have a more robust WTP estimate. Results were mixed: a causal relationship between information provision and learning was established with respondents in the higher treatment groups scoring higher in the second quiz. However, there was no relationship identified between prior knowledge, information provision and WTP. Personal motivations were the strongest predictors of WTP: those who were most concerned about flood risk and who lived closest to the proposed flood defence were willing to pay the most. A second issue in CV is consequentiality. Carson and Groves (2007) argue that for a survey to produce meaningful information about respondent’s preferences the respondent must view their responses as potentially influencing the supply of the public good. This thesis seeks add to this relatively new literature by exploring the observable factors which may influence respondents perceived consequentiality; specifically the effects of familiarity and information. Respondents were asked to state how confident they were that the results of the survey would be used by policy makers on a Likert scale ranging from “very unconfident” through to “very confident”. Results conformed to the Carson and Groves knife edge result: consequential respondents had significantly different WTP distributions compared to inconsequential and unsure respondents and were willing to pay significantly more towards the scheme. Consequential respondents also conformed the theoretical considerations of construct validity whilst inconsequential respondents did not. Respondents with more prior knowledge also appeared to be more likely to perceive the survey as consequential, although this was not consistent across all treatment groups. There is a concern that WTP and consequentiality are endogenous: respondents who want the policy to go ahead may be more likely to state the survey is consequential and state a high WTP in the hope these responses combined contribute to the policy maker’s decision. From a policy perspective the high level of support for the new scheme was encouraging and in contrast to previous findings on preferences for managed realignment. From a flood risk management perspective a “miss-match” between actual and perceived flood risk was highlighted, with many respondents stating they were not at risk from flooding when they in fact were. This is potentially concerning as respondents may not be taking adequate steps to protect their home from future flood risks. Overall it is recognised that values derived from the CV survey form one small part of the planning process and while informative, the decision for a scheme to take place should not be based on these values alone.
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Gunarajah, Dharmindra Rajah. "Biomaterials for orbital floor blow-out fractures: a systematic review." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44661046.
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Al-Rumaih, Wail Saad. "A novel tuned visco-elastic damper for floor vibration abatement." Dayton, Ohio : University of Dayton, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1245387294.
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Brown, Cindy Christine. "Reliability of electromyography detection systems for the pelvic floor muscles." Thesis, Kingston, Ont. : [s.n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/948.
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Kwan, Henry K. "Innovative accessible sunken floor systems for multi-story steel buildings." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68346.
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With the demands of telecommunications and computer equipment, building owners and designers are facing an increasingly difficult problem for wire management in today's electronic workplace. This thesis is to investigate and design the accessible sunken floor systems for multi-story steel buildings with proliferating data cables and mechanical equipment. The terminology of an accessible sunken floor system or a dropped floor system is not new. Sunken floor has been used in reinforced concrete buildings with flat slabs and multi-story steel-framed construction with solid wide-flange beams. However, the design of an accessible sunken floor system with open-web steel joists and joist girders is an innovation, by leading steel design and construction industry into a new era. Sunken floors are sirniliar to raised floors, which are composed of removable square floor panels on metal pedestals to provide space for electrical or mechanical equipment or both. The removable panels provide easy access to the equipment below. These floors are commonly used in computer rooms, clean rooms and new office buildings which require extensive mechanical and electrical service. A clean room environment with air return through accessible plenums is essential in microelectronics and pharmaceutical facilities, in hospital operating rooms, in bio-genetic research laboratories and production areas, and in assembly plants for items such as computer disk drives and compact disks. Accessible sunken floor systems are used to avoid ramps or stairs as opposite to raised floor systems. Also, the finished floor-to-floor height in multi-story construction is less than the acceptable height for a raised floor, with subsequent savings on other more expensive building materials. Moreover, the construction cycle for steel buildings with open-web steel joists and joist girders is faster if the finished floor is composed of removable floor panels. One of the proposed systems is to substitute conventional concrete metal decks for fire-rated acoustical ceilings and horizontal bracings to cut down the construction cycle and costs. A second variation of the proposed systems permits economies in concrete slab finish by using lightweight concrete poured on corrugated metal decks, or by using pour- in -place or precast slabs below the finished floor panels, and the floor system is suspended 4 inches below the top chord of the steel joists as a horizontal diaphragm and fire barrier. This thesis will explore the building system integration and forecast the construction cycle and costs. An evaluation of the proposed systems will be presented with matrix diagrams to summarize the conclusion of this paper.
by Henry K. Kwan.
S.M.