• Accessibility to Transylvania's cultural heritage through BIM-Heritage and community involvement 

      Chionu, G.C.; Rolfsen, C.N.; Deaconu, O. (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering;Volume 789, 012010, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The rural areas of Transylvania offer important resources for developing research in diversity of the cultural heritage. Many of these communities have seen great changes in demographics over the last 30-50 years, and ...
    • Capacity of Concrete Structures with Corroded Reinforcement and Prestressing Tendons 

      Sigvaldsen, Marie; Ersdal, Gerhard; Markeset, Gro; Samarakoon, Mudiyansele Samindi Manjula K; Langeteig, Magne (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering;Volume 1201, Third Conference of Computational Methods & Ocean Technology (COTech 2021), Stavanger, Norway and Second Conference of Oil & Gas Technologies in Cold Climate (OGTech 2021) 25th-26th November 2021, Moscow, Russia, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The main degradation mechanism for concrete structures is corrosion of the reinforcement and prestressing tendons. Management of structures with such degradation requires detailed understanding of their remaining strength ...
    • Demand-controlled ventilation: do different user groupsrequire different CO2-setpoints? 

      Haugland, Martine Borgen; Yang, Aileen; Holøs, Sverre Bjørn; Thunshelle, Kari; Mysen, Mads (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering;Volume 609, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The aim of this study is to investigate whether children's bioeffluent generation rate is proportional to their carbon dioxide (CO2) generation rate. Consequently, to assess if there is a need to differentiate the CO2- ...
    • Effect of time dependent corrosion rate on residual capacity of corroded RC beam 

      Kioumarsi, Mahdi; Hajmohammadian Baghban, Mohammad; Imperatore, Stefania (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering;Volume 652, Number 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Corrosion is the most commonly severe defect in reinforced concrete (RC) structures and it mainly causes reduced rebar cross-section. The corrosion rate is the determining parameter of the progress of corrosion-induced ...
    • Effect of ventilation on perceived air quality in 18 classrooms 

      Holøs, Sverre Bjørn; Yang, Aileen; Thunshelle, Kari; Mysen, Mads (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering;Volume 609, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The aim of this paper is to assess whether reducing the minimum ventilation airflow rate (Vmin) has any negative impacts on perceived air quality (PAQ) upon entering an unoccupied room. Seventeen healthy young adults were ...
    • Experimental investigation into the failure process of exterior beam-column joints with high-strength reinforcements 

      Arshadi, Hamed; Kheyroddin, Ali; Naderpour, Hosein; Kioumarsi, Mahdi (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering;Volume 910, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Although using high-strength reinforcements (HSRs) have economical and execution benefits, their possible negative effects on the performance of structures such as ductility, energy dissipation, and damage process caused ...
    • Improving the Energy Performance Certificate recommendations accuracy for residential building through simple measurements of key inputs 

      Gonzalez Caceres, Alex; Vik, Tor Arvid (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering;Volume 609, Issue 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) allows building users to be informed and aware of the quality of the buildings in terms of energy needs. Additionally, the EPC includes a future for existing buildings, which is the ...
    • Improving the Energy Performance Certificate recommendations' accuracy for residential building through simple measurements of key inputs 

      Gonzalez Caceres, Alex; Vik, Tor Arvid; Granheim, Philippe; Fælth, J.P.; Berg, L. (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering;Volume 609, Issue 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) allows building users to be informed and aware of the quality of the buildings in terms of energy needs. Additionally, the EPC includes a future for existing buildings, which is the ...
    • Lateral displacement capacity of reinforced concrete elements damaged by corrosion 

      Imperatore, Stefania; Kioumarsi, Mahdi (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering;Volume 652, Number 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The aim of this work is to evaluate the influence of corrosion on the lateral displacement capacity and on the global ductility of reinforced concrete (RC) elements, using finite element (FE) analysis. The corrosive ...
    • Predicting compressive strength of CRM samples using Image processing and ANN 

      Waris, M.I.; Mir, J.; Plevris, V.; Ahmad, A. (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering;volume 899, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Quality of concrete is majorly ascertained through its compressive strength which has a significant role in the stability of concrete structures. In this study, artificial neural network (ANN) and image processing (IP) ...
    • A study into prevention of antibiotics resistance through enhanced building infrastructure design and management strategies 

      Rolfsen, Christian Nordahl; Rønning, Per Ola; Bull, Jack Lie; Chițonu, Cristina (IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering;Volume 789, International Conference CIBv2019 Civil Engineering and Building Services 1-2 November 2019, Brașov, Romania, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      This study is part of a larger research project, which looks at how modern hospitals are built in Norway, and what can be done to make hospitals more user friendly and purpose built. It looks at how medical facilities can ...