Building physics of the envelope : principles of construction / / Ulrich Knaack, Eddie Koenders (editors) ; Elena Alexandrakis [and 4 others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910796774303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Basel : , : Birkhauser, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 3-0356-0948-9; 3-0356-0949-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (136 pages)
• Disciplina: 698
• Soggetti: Siding (Building materials)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Thermal Energy -- 3 Moisture -- 4 Airtightness -- 5 Acoustics -- 6 Light -- 7 Building Physics in Practice -- 8 Building Physics and Materials -- 9 Building Physics and the Building Envelope -- Authors -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- Illustration credits
• Sommario/riassunto: Die Fassade ist die Schnittstelle des Gebäudes mit seiner Umwelt. Dort treffen bauphysikalische Parameter wie Wärme, Feuchte, Schall und Licht auf das Haus und wirken auf es ein. Alle diese Einflüsse bedürfen der Regulierung durch die Gebäudehülle, um Behaglichkeit für den Nutzer und Funktionstüchtigkeit der Architektur zu gewährleisten. Diese Einführung erläutert die wichtigsten Phänomene, um dann den Bezug zur Baupraxis herzustellen: Welche Materialien reagieren in welcher Weise auf diese Faktoren? Wie gehen Fassadensystemen mit Wärme, Feuchte, Schall und Licht um? Das praxisorientierte Buch, entstanden aus der Zusammenarbeit eines Architekten und eines Bauingenieurs, beschreibt die wichtigsten Fassadenmaterialien und -konstruktionen im Hinblick auf ihre bauphysikalische Performance.; The facade is the building's interface with its environment. It is here that building physics parameters such as heat, humidity, sound and light interact with the building. All these influences need to be controlled by the building envelope in order to ensure the comfort of the user and the functional performance of the architecture. This ; introduction explains the most important phenomena and then relates them to design and building practice - which materials react in which way to these factors? How do facade systems deal with heat, humidity, sound and light? This practice-oriented book, which is the result of cooperation between an architect and a structural engineer, describes the most important facade materials and constructions under the aspect of their building physics performance.

Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era : The Mechanical and Electrical Ages / / by Aristotle Tympas

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910255454403321
• Autore: Tympas Aristotle
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Springer London : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-84882-742-3
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2017.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XIV, 243 p. 23 illus.)
• Collana: History of Computing, , 2190-6831
• Disciplina: 004.09
• Soggetti: Computers; History of Computing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- The Delights of the Slide Rule -- Lighting Calculations Lightened -- Like the Poor, the Harmonics Will Always Be With Us -- The Inner Satisfaction That Comes With Each Use of the Alignment Chart -- The Appearance of a Neatly Finished Box -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Although it is popularly assumed that the history of computing before the second half of the 20th century was unimportant, in fact the Industrial Revolution was made possible and even sustained by a parallel revolution in computing technology. An examination and historiographical assessment of key developments helps to show how the era of modern electronic computing proceeded from a continual computing revolution that had arisen during the mechanical and the electrical ages. This unique volume introduces the history of computing during the “first” (steam) and “second” (electricity) segments of the Industrial Revolution, revealing how this history was pivotal to the ; emergence of electronic computing and what many historians see as signifying a shift to a post-industrial society. It delves into critical developments before the electronic era, focusing on those of the mechanical era (from the emergence of the steam engine to that of the electric power network) and the electrical era (from the emergence of the electric power network to that of electronic computing). In so doing, it provides due attention to the demarcations between—and associated classifications of—artifacts for calculation during these respective eras. In turn, it emphasizes the history of comparisons between these artifacts. Topics and Features: motivates exposition through a firm historiographical argument of important developments explores the history of the slide rule and its use in the context of electrification examines the roles of analyzers, graphs, and a whole range of computing artifacts hitherto placed under the allegedly inferior class of analog computers shows how the analog and the digital are really inseparable, with perceptions thereof depending on either a full or a restricted view of the computing process investigates socially situated comparisons of computing history, including the effects of a political economy of computing (one that takes into account cost and ownership of computing artifacts) assesses concealment of analog-machine labor through encasement (“black-boxing”) Historians of computing, as well as those of technology and science (especially, energy), will find this well-argued and presented history of calculation and computation in the mechanical and electrical eras an indispensable resource. The work is a natural textbook companion for history of computing courses, and will also appeal to the broader readership of curious computer scientists and engineers, as well as those who generally just have a yearn to learn the contextual background to the current digital age.