Building-Integrated Solar Thermal (BIST) systems are a new tendency in the building sector and provide multiple advantages in comparison with the Building-Added (BA) installations. The present paper is a critical review about solar system modelling with emphasis on BIST configurations. The...

The last ten years of the XX century has been the witnesses of the apparition of a new scientific field, which is usually defined as the study of “Complex adaptive systems”. This field, generic named Complexity Sciences, shares its subject, the general proprieties of complex systems across...

This study applies a new intelligent transportation methodology for transforming informal operations concepts for narrow passageway systems into system-level designs, which will formal enough to support automated validation of anticipated component- and system-level behaviours. Models and...

Bouc-Wen model possesses an appealing mathematical simplicity. It has the ability to portray the hysteretic behaviour of materials and devices. Using the Bouc-Wen equation for different values of loop parameters and imposed cyclic loading, typical shapes of hysteresis loops are obtained. Typical...