Public buildings such as libraries consume a vast amount of cooling energy for maintaining a comfortable and stable indoor environment in summer,especially in the hot-humid climate.This study used a case study approac...Public buildings such as libraries consume a vast amount of cooling energy for maintaining a comfortable and stable indoor environment in summer,especially in the hot-humid climate.This study used a case study approach to discuss the effect of low-energy strategies that can be applied to improve indoor thermal environment and cooling energy consumption of library buildings in hot and humid cities like Nanning City(a southern city,China).The use of cooling window shutters(a shutter with the effects of shading and evaporative cooling)and ceiling fans for generating airflow was considered as applicable energy-saving measures in this study,and a university library was selected as the study building in which the two energy-saving measures were employed.The SET*and annual cooling load before and after the adoption of the proposed measures were quantitatively investigated with a building energy consumption simulation software(DesignBuilder).Simulation results showed that the daytime SET*values can be reduced by 3.0℃and 4.5℃respectively on a typical summer day after the use of the cooling shutters and ceiling fans.Moreover,the cooling loads can also be decreased by 8.4%and 16.6%respectively.Particularly,the combination of these two measures enabled the daytime SET*value and annual cooling load lower by 7.0℃and 60.8%respectively.展开更多
As the complexity of flight missions continues to increase,sending a timely warning or providing assistance to pilots helps to reduce the probability of operational errors and flight accidents.Monitoring pilots’physi...As the complexity of flight missions continues to increase,sending a timely warning or providing assistance to pilots helps to reduce the probability of operational errors and flight accidents.Monitoring pilots’physiological data,real-time evaluation of mission load is a feasible technical way to achieve this.In this paper,a set of flight tasks including aircraft control,humancomputer interaction and mental arithmetic tests are designed to simulate five mission loads at different flight difficulty levels.A sensitivity analysis method based on a comprehensive test is proposed to select a set of sensitive physiological factors.Then,based on the SVM hierarchical combination classification method,the pilot mission load real-time evaluation model is established.The test results show significant differences in EMG,respiration rate(abdomen),heart rate,blood oxygen saturation,pupil area,fixation duration,number of fixations,and saccades.The high accuracy obtained from experiments proved that the proposed real-time evaluation model is applicable to meet the requirements of real working environments.The findings can provide methodological references for mission load evaluation research in other fields.展开更多
基金supported from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51968003)the Guangxi Science and Technology Project(No.AB16380193).
文摘Public buildings such as libraries consume a vast amount of cooling energy for maintaining a comfortable and stable indoor environment in summer,especially in the hot-humid climate.This study used a case study approach to discuss the effect of low-energy strategies that can be applied to improve indoor thermal environment and cooling energy consumption of library buildings in hot and humid cities like Nanning City(a southern city,China).The use of cooling window shutters(a shutter with the effects of shading and evaporative cooling)and ceiling fans for generating airflow was considered as applicable energy-saving measures in this study,and a university library was selected as the study building in which the two energy-saving measures were employed.The SET*and annual cooling load before and after the adoption of the proposed measures were quantitatively investigated with a building energy consumption simulation software(DesignBuilder).Simulation results showed that the daytime SET*values can be reduced by 3.0℃and 4.5℃respectively on a typical summer day after the use of the cooling shutters and ceiling fans.Moreover,the cooling loads can also be decreased by 8.4%and 16.6%respectively.Particularly,the combination of these two measures enabled the daytime SET*value and annual cooling load lower by 7.0℃and 60.8%respectively.
基金co-supported by the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China(No.2020Z023053002)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61305133。
文摘As the complexity of flight missions continues to increase,sending a timely warning or providing assistance to pilots helps to reduce the probability of operational errors and flight accidents.Monitoring pilots’physiological data,real-time evaluation of mission load is a feasible technical way to achieve this.In this paper,a set of flight tasks including aircraft control,humancomputer interaction and mental arithmetic tests are designed to simulate five mission loads at different flight difficulty levels.A sensitivity analysis method based on a comprehensive test is proposed to select a set of sensitive physiological factors.Then,based on the SVM hierarchical combination classification method,the pilot mission load real-time evaluation model is established.The test results show significant differences in EMG,respiration rate(abdomen),heart rate,blood oxygen saturation,pupil area,fixation duration,number of fixations,and saccades.The high accuracy obtained from experiments proved that the proposed real-time evaluation model is applicable to meet the requirements of real working environments.The findings can provide methodological references for mission load evaluation research in other fields.
