Modification of soil properties induced by suffusion: mechanical and X-ray tomography characterization: (Abstract)

Infections

This paper covers two workshops that are instances of a research on the feedbacks between parametric patterning and material behavior. Infection sets the conceptual background of these workshops utilizing pattern deformations as a generative technique. Gridal Infection workshop focus on real-time dynamic patterns while Reflex Patterning workshop...

Connecting Dwellers to Building Performance and Weather Data through Sustainable Automation Systems

The paper presents a prototype for a Home Automation and Information Systems (HAIS) applied to an existing dwelling, the Florianopolis House, with the potential to address building performance and user behavior towards a more sustainable way of living. Home information and automation systems based on a great variety of sensors, associated with...

The smart releasing behavior of a microcapsule based on chemical self-healing system caused by chemical trigger activation

A novel chemical self-healing system based on microcapsule technology for cementitious composites is established in Guangdong Key Laboratory of Durability for Coastal Civil Engineering, Shenzhen University. The key issue of this system is how to release the healing material and how to activate the healing mechanism. In this paper, the study is...

Mechanism for abnormal thermal shock behavior of MAX ceramics

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Seismic behaviors of earth-core, concrete-faced-rock-fill, and composite dams

The investigation on the seismic behavior of dams becomes crucial but is limited due to lack of experimental or field data. This paper aims to experimentally simulate the seismic behavior of three types of dams; earth-core rock-fill dam (ECRD), concrete-faced rock-fill dam (CFRD), and composite dam which combines concrete dam and CFRD. A series...

Gaming for energy conservation in households

This paper presents a study about a ‘serious game’, “Energy Battle”, as a means to influence energy-related behavior in households. The Energy Battle is designed to engage home occupants in a fun way in energy conservation via a competition with other households. The challenge enabled home occupants to gain insight in their energy consumption...

Electrical and electronic equipment waste considerations: Case study: Tv sets in Colombia

In Colombia the increasing trend in the consumption habits of electrical and electronic equipment, EEE, is notable, though it is not as high as in developed countries due to the population´s socio-economic and cultural conditions. Those conditions make the reuse as well as storing, a predominant practice. In this paper the question of which...

The role of environmental education in sustainable consumption and lifestyle: Survey results in Hungarian higher education and high schools

Environmental education is expected to have significant influence on environmental awareness, everyday lifestyle and consumer behavior of the participants. Our paper aims to explore how content, intensity and ways of environmental education reflect in the knowledge, values, attitudes and actual behavior of university students and high school...

Personality factors at the base of sustainable behavior: A first approach across two universities

The theoretical framework on the cognitive information processing holds that mental processes such as formation of beliefs, attitudes, or perceptions are impossible to directly observe and measure. This condition is resolved by implementing questionnaires integrated with hypothetical variables which can measure individual responses as real...

Sustainable, user behaviour centered design applying linked-benefit strategies: The Logi Desk Lamp

Design for sustainable behaviour implies applying design strategies that have been proposed to realize sustainable products that take into account human behavior, thereby minimizing user-related environmental losses. In addition, the application of linked-benefit strategies has been suggested to ensure the design of commercially interesting...

Factors affecting materials recovery from municipal waste

According to the 2008 data, recycling rates in 60 municipalities in Bologna Province vary in a very wide range from 15% to over 60%. In order to promote sustainable practices of resource (in this case, materials) recovery, it is important to identify factors that influence the attitudes and behaviour of citizens in this regard and clarify the...

Understanding the complexity of consumer behaviour and implications for the sustainable consumption discourse

Addressing climate change and the collapse of ecosystems without threatening the economy, while simultaneously improving the well-being of all people, and ensuring social justice and equality seems to be the largest challenge in the history of mankind. So far, all the efforts to address growing environmental and human problems through...

Nonlinear Aeroelastic Study of Stall Induced Oscillation in a Symmetric Airfoil

In this paper the aeroelastic stability of a wind turbine rotor in the dynamic stall regime is investigated. Increased flexibility of modern turbine blades makes them more susceptible to aeroelastic instabilities. Complex oscillation modes like flap/lead-lag are of particular concern, which give way to potential structural damage, see...

Changing environment-behavior interactions in a Bosphorus settlement: The Kurucesme case

Workshop 1. Session 1.2: Segregation and strategies of gating and withdrawal. Abstract: Kurucesme, a village on the Bosphorus, reflects the particular characteristics of its own as well as those of both the Bosphorus and the city of Istanbul. Accommodating different cultural and social layers is the most discriminating feature of the Kurucesme...