Increasing awareness and adoption of low-carbon technologies through demonstration homes: Testing installation of technologies through demonstration exemplars

The Triple-A project aimed to install demonstration exemplars of a variety of low-carbon technologies to increase awareness and adoption of these (building/construction) technologies by homeowners. Through this, the adoption of low-carbon technologies became normalised and created ambassadors for the technologies who can influence other...

Evaluation of the use of Home Energy Monitoring and Management Systems (HEMS) to support adoption of renovation measures: D2.3.1. Evaluation report HEMS

In the current context of energy transition, practices for reducing energy consumption are encouraged by many local authority schemes, in particular for households. Homeowners are called upon to change their energy practices to save money, while ensuring better comfort in the home.<br/>Home Energy Monitoring or Management Systems (HEMS) are...

Local authority web portals for the adoption of low-carbon technologies by homeowners: Evaluation report Triple-A

Through the Interreg2Seas Triple-A project, seven Local Authorities (LAs) identified and developed a set of modules for strengthening LA web portals for increasing awareness and easy access for housing retrofit, to encourage homeowners across four European Countries (Belgium, France, Netherlands and UK) to adopt different low-carbon technologies...

Impact of Home Energy Monitoring and Management Systems (HEMS): Triple-A: Stimulating the Adoption of low-carbon technologies by homeowners through increased Awareness and easy Access D2.1.1. Report on impact of HEMS

This report answers the question: How can HEMS be used to influence energy-saving behaviour of homeowners? Lessons regarding the feedback from HEMS to influence energy-saving behaviour have been explored and specifications of HEMS to influence energy saving by households are given.<br/>Generally, the implementation of the Triple-A HEMS should...

Spectrum-based Fault Diagnosis for Service-Oriented Software Systems

Preprint of paper published in: 5th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), 17-19 December 2012; doi:10.1109/SOCA.2012.6449440 Due to the loosely coupled and highly dynamic nature of service-oriented systems, the actual configuration of such system only fully materializes at runtime, rendering many of...

Evaluating Scour at Bridges - Fifth Edition

This document is the fifth edition of HEC-18. It presents the state of knowledge and practice for the design, evaluation and inspection of bridges for scour. There are two companion documents, HEC-20 entitled "Stream Stability at Highway Structures", and HEC-23 entitled "Bridge Scour and Stream Instability Countermeasures". These three documents...

On the Performance of Fault Screeners in Software Development and Deployment

Preprint of paper published in: ENASE 2008 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, 4-7 May 2008 Fault screeners are simple software (or hardware) constructs that detect variable value errors based on unary invariant checking. In this paper we evaluate and compare the...

Local Scour: Flow simulation by the 2-D turbulent model ODYSSEE

The general purpose of this research project is to model mathematically the local scour downstream of a structure (2-D). The model has to simulate the development of the scour as a function of the time. Basically two models are necessary namely a flow model and a morphological model. The latter model has to describe the bed and suspended load...

Local Scour: Damping of turbulence parameters in relaxation zone

The general purpose of this research project is to model mathematically the scour-hole downstream of a structure (2-D). The model has to simulate the development of the scour as a function of time. Basically two models are necessary namely a flow model and a morphological model. The latter has to describe the bed- and suspended load and the...

Local Scour: Influence of an exponential eddy viscosity distribution on the longitudial flow velocity

The general purpose of this research project is to model mathematically the local scour downstream of a structure (2-D). The model has to simulate the development of the scour as a function of the time. Basically two models are necessary namely a flow model and a morphological model. The latter model has to describe the bed and suspended load...

Local Scour: Flow model with prescribed eddy viscosity

A two dimensional mathematical model DUCT, which is based on a parabolic boundary layer technique, using finite elements, is proposed to predict the flow and turbulence field in complicated geometrical conditions, where recirculating flow may occur. Numerical results of the DUCT-model are compared with k-eps-predictions as well as laboratory...

Afsluiting Oosterschelde - plaatsing pylonen: Verzakking van de bestorting rond de pylonen en hefeiland-poten

Gewichtsankers werkschepen Oosterschelde: Ontgrondingen en stabiliteit stortingen

Closure of estuarine channels in tidal regions

Considerations on fluid motion in and around closure gaps, two-dimensional local scour in loose sediments, local scour caused by vortex streets, behaviour of dumping material when exposed to currents, results of model tests applied to an actual project *** The closure of the final gaps is the most difficult part of the construction of the dams...