scholarly journals VISUAL COMFORT EVALUATION METHOD AND PREDICTION MODEL RELATING TO DISCOMFORT GLARE: A MOCK-UP STUDY OF LUMINOUS ENVIRONMENT IN AIRPLANE COCKPIT

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunze WU ◽  
Xiaofeng YUAN ◽  
Jian LI ◽  
Biao YANG
Keyword(s):  
Prediction Model ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Visual Comfort ◽  
Comfort Evaluation ◽  
Discomfort Glare

Development of a ride comfort evaluation method with a laboratory testing system

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Yuan Lin ◽  
Jiun Ren Hwang ◽  
Jung Ming Chang ◽  
Ji Liang Doong
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Testing ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Testing System ◽  
Comfort Evaluation ◽  
Ride Comfort Evaluation

A dynamic vertical shading optimisation to improve view, visual comfort and operational energy

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Valitabar ◽  
Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad ◽  
Henry Skates ◽  
Peiman Pilechiha
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Parametric Design ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Building Energy ◽  
Natural Light ◽  
Visual Comfort ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Operational Energy ◽  
Discomfort Glare ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe aim of this paper is to present a parametric design method to generate optimum adaptive facades regarding occupants' comfort and building energy criteria. According to the literature review, the following questions have arisen to address the research gaps: Is it possible to have the outside view throughout the whole year without discomfort glare by utilising adaptive solar facades (ASFs)? How can architects integrate both view quality and quantity into ASF design? What is the impact of dynamic vertical shading systems mounted on south facades on the outside view, occupants' visual comfort and operational energy? How can we evaluate the view quantity through multi-layer shading systems?Design/methodology/approachIn recent years, there is a surge in demand for fully glazed buildings, motivating both architects and scholars to explore novel ideas for designing adaptive solar facades. Nevertheless, the view performance of such systems has not been fully explored especially when it comes to the effect of dynamic vertical shading systems mounted on south facades. This fact clarifies the need to conduct more research in this field by taking into account the window view and natural light. Consequently, a simulation research is carried out to investigate the impact of a dynamic shading system with three vertical slats used on the south facade of a single office room located in Tehran, on both view quality and quantity, visual comfort and operational energy. The research attempts to reach a balance between the occupant's requirements and building energy criteria through a multi-objective optimisation. The distinctive feature of the proposed method is generating some optimum shading which could only cover the essential parts of the window area. It was detected from the simulation results that the usage of a dynamic vertical shading system with multi slats for south facades compared to common Venetian blinds can firstly, provide four times more view quantity. Secondly, the view quality is significantly improved through enabling occupants to enjoy the sky layer the entire year. Finally, twice more operational energy can be saved while more natural light can enter the indoor environment without glare. The final outcome of this research contributes toward designing high-performance adaptive solar facades.FindingsThis paper proposes a new metric to evaluate the view quantity through a multi-layer shading system. The proposed method makes it clear that the usage of dynamic vertical shading systems with multi-layers mounted on south facades can bring many benefits to both occupants and building energy criteria. The proposed method could (1) provide four times more view quantity; (2) improve view quality by enabling occupants to watch the sky layer throughout the whole year; (3) slash the operational energy by twice; (4) keep the daylight glare probability (DGP) value in the imperceptible range.Research limitations/implicationsThe research limitations that should be acknowledged are ignoring the impact of the adjacent building on sunlight reflection, which could cause discomfort glare issues. Another point regarding the limitations of the proposed optimisation method is the impact of vertical shading systems on users' visual interests. A field study ought to be conducted to determine which one could provide the more desirable outside view: a vertical or horizontal the view. Research on the view performance of ASFs, especially their impact on the quality of view, is sorely lacking.Originality/valueThis paper (1) analyses the performance of dynamic vertical shadings on south facades; (2) evaluates outside view through multi-layer shading systems; and (3) integrates both view quality and quantity into designing adaptive solar facades.

Research on commercial vehicle sound quality objective evaluation

2021 ◽  
Vol 263 (2) ◽  
pp. 4526-4531
Author(s):  
Kun Qian ◽  
Zhichao Hou ◽  
Ruixue Liu ◽  
Dengke Sun ◽  
Rongkang Luo
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Commercial Vehicle ◽  
Objective Evaluation ◽  
Sound Quality ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Commercial Vehicles ◽  
Comfort Evaluation ◽  
Quality Design ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
And Control

With the increasing demand of users for the acoustical comfort of commercial vehicles, the sound quality has become one of the important indicators of comfort evaluation. The research focuses on the objective evaluation method of the subjective perception of the sound quality in commercial vehicle. The interior noises of commercial vehicle with an inline six diesel engine are measured. The five psychoacoustic parameters (loudness, roughness, sharpness, fluctuation strength, tonality and articulation index) are applied to the evaluation and analysis of the interior noises of the commercial vehicle. Using psychoacoustic parameters to evaluate the noises in commercial vehicle, it is of great significance for the analysis and control of the noises in commercial vehicle. The research results provide a theoretical basis for guiding the sound quality design and development of commercial vehicles.

Manual Assembly Workstation Redesign Based on a New Quantitative Method for Postural Comfort Evaluation

2013 ◽  
Vol 459 ◽  
pp. 368-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Naddeo ◽  
Nicola Cappetti ◽  
Rosaria Califano ◽  
Mariarosaria Vallone
Keyword(s):  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Manual Assembly ◽  
Posture Analysis ◽  
Comfort Evaluation ◽  
Work Cycle ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Postural Analysis

Main purpose of this work is to show how easy and economics an ergonomic/comfort based approach, in re-design a manual assembly workplace, can be; authors, using a new comfort/ergonomic evaluation criterion, analyzed a workstation and identified the critical issues under ergonomic/comfort point of view and finally gave several guidelines to re-design the workplace, implementing minor modification, and improve work-safety, work-quality and productivity. The postural analysis was performed by non-invasive and especially inexpensive methods, based on cameras and video-recorder use and by photogrammetric analysis; DELMIA® DHM software has been used to perform all simulations; comfort analysis was performed by the software developed by researchers of Departments of Industrial Engineering of Salerno: CaMAN®. The test case is an automatic assembly machine that has been modeled and used for virtual postural analysis. Main results of this work can be found in a very good numerical/experimental correlation between acquired/simulated postures and real ones, and on the powerful use of an objective comfort evaluation method, based on biomechanics and posture analysis, for giving to designers the guidelines to re-design a workplace and a work-cycle. This kind of approach seemed to be very powerful in re-designing the work-place and in re-scheduling the work time-sheet because it allowed to improve an ergonomic corrective action with minor costs for company. Obtained results demonstrated the validity of re-design hypotheses through the increase of all comfort indexes and the improvement of workstation/operator productivity.

Using Machine Learning Tools for Forecasting Natural Gas Market Demand

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Yang ◽  
Lei Hou
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Prediction Model ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
Prediction Methods ◽  
Error Evaluation ◽  
Pipeline Network ◽  
Natural Gas Pipeline ◽  
Gas Consumption ◽  
Gas Supply

Abstract Providing reliable and accurate forecasts of natural gas consumption can keep supply and demand of natural gas pipelines in balance, which can increase profits and reduce supply risks. In order to accurately predict the short-term load demand of different gas nodes in the natural gas pipeline network, a hybrid optimization strategy of integrated genetic optimization algorithm and support vector machine are proposed. Factors such as holidays, date types and weather were taken into account to build a natural gas daily load prediction model based on GA-SVM was established. A natural gas pipeline network in China includes three gas supply nodes of different user type gas is forecasted, and a variety of error evaluation method, the GA-SVM evaluation index compared with other prediction methods, and through different data set partition is discussed in the periods of peak gas and gas resources in the GA — the applicability of the SVM prediction model, the ends of a natural gas pipeline network in China includes four gas supply nodes of different user type gas is forecasted, and a variety of error evaluation method, the GA-SVM evaluation index compared with other prediction methods, The applicability of the method is also discussed by dividing different data sets. By predicting the gas load forecast of the three nodes, the results show that GA-SVM hybrid prediction model has high prediction accuracy compared with other single models, and the three gas nodes MAPE of GA-SVM is respectively 3.66%, 5.17% and 3.43%. Through further analysis, even with the data samples reduced, the winter gas peak of gas prediction can still maintain good prediction effects. The research shows that the GA-SVM model has high accuracy and strong applicability in predicting gas consumption at different nodes of the natural gas pipeline network. This study can provide a research basis for analysis of gas supply uncertainty and further gas supply reliability evaluation of pipeline network.

A LABORATORY STUDY ON VISUAL AND EMOTIONAL COMFORT EVALUATION OF LED WIDE BEAM ANGLE LAMPS : TAKING 3000K/ 4000K / 5000 K LINEAR LAMPS AS RESEARCH OBJECT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Feng ◽  
Luoxi Hao ◽  
Shujian Dai
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiment ◽  
Laboratory Study ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Light Pollution ◽  
Visual Comfort ◽  
Beam Angle ◽  
Wide Beam ◽  
Comfort Evaluation ◽  
Medium Speed ◽  
Negative Feelings

LED wide beam angle lamps have been widely used but might leading to glare or light pollution easily than traditional floodlighting lamps. Standards for wide beam angle products is not enough and a laboratory experiment was carried out in which visual and emotional comfort was used as evaluation items. 3 linear lamps (3000K/4000K/5000K) were used to evaluate emotional and visual comfort changes by performing different brightness or dynamic speed. Results showed that both brightness and dynamic speed could lead to negative feelings while emotional discomfort always occurs behind the eye’s discomfort. A higher brightness could leading to more negative evaluations, while some people think that medium brightness gives a more comfort feeling. A faster speed leads to more negative evaluation while some subjects prefer a medium speed (both in shading and erasure situations); In different lighting scenes, the significance of different indicators is different.

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