Browsing RPI Theses Online (Complete) by Subject "Architectural sciences"
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Additivity of discomfort glare
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Adorabilis - building energy modeling framework for early stage retrofit design
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-08)While the need to make existing buildings more energy-efficient continues to grow, current building energy modeling (BEM) tools do not support the early utilization of BEM as a design decision-making tool in the building ... -
Algae bioreactor building envelope - energy saving and CO2 sequestion information display shading system
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-12)In recent years, several algae-based facade systems have been integrated into buildings. They have high ecological performance, working as a multi-functional system to reduce energy use and capture carbon dioxide (CO2). ... -
An analysis of heat transfer in LED luminaires
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Analysis of sound propagation in an 8th scaled coupled volume system
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Application of Bayesian inference to room-acoustic modal analysis
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Architectural practice in an emergent paradigm: opportunities for the provision of built ecologies
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Audio and visual distance perception of familiar and unfamiliar objects using wave field synthesis and a stereoscopic display
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2019-08)Object distance perception can be influenced both by auditory and visual cues. This work seeks to examine the influence of both perceptual domains for familiar and unfamiliar auditory and visual stimuli. For example, a ... -
Auditory and tactile contributions to the perception of building noise
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2019-08)Due to the interdependent relationship between structural vibration and airborne sound, noise in buildings can often be simultaneously heard and felt, but perceptual noise studies usually take place in either the auditory ... -
Auditory virtual environment with dynamic room characteristics for music performances
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-08)A room-adaptive system was designed to simulate an electro-acoustic space that changes room characteristics in real-time according to the content of sound. In this specific case, the focus of the sound components is on the ... -
Augmenting collaborative immersive systems through cognitive technologies for educational scenarios
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-08)Virtual reality continues to proliferate in the classroom. Human-scale immersive virtual environments provide natural benefits and assuage many of the issues raised with head-mounted displays. While a headset removes a ... -
Auralization of concert hall acoustics using finite difference time domain methods and wave field synthesis
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2015-08)A finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulation on a three-dimensional face-centered cubic grid, combined at a crossover frequency of 800 Hz with a CATT-AcousticTM simulation, was found to have a reverberation time, ... -
Automatic music transcription of woodwind instruments
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Automatic recognition and immersive representation of environmental soundscapes
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2018-08)The amount of audio data required for bioacoustics monitoring and other applications is often too large to be manually sorted and analyzed. Consequently, automatic sound recognition techniques have to be applied to ... -
Bayesian characterization of micro-perforated panels and multi-layer absorbers
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-08)First described by the late acoustician Dah-You Maa, micro-perforated panel (MPP) absorbers produce extremely high acoustic absorption coefficients. This is done without the use of conventional fibrous or porous materials ... -
Bayesian framework for direction of arrival analysis using spherical harmonics
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2019-08)This work discusses a system of Direction of Arrival (DoA) analysis for an unknown number of sources using spherical beamforming and Bayesian inference with a spherical microphone array. In this system, sound pressure data ... -
Bayesian model selection for analysis and design of multilayer sound absorbers
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-12)Traditional porous materials are widely used as sound absorbers. Additionally, other substances such as soils or sediments may be modeled as porous materials. When studying and attempting to predict the acoustic properties ... -
Bayesian parameter estimation of porous materials
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Biomechanical controlled environment building envelope systems for urban food production
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Building integrated agriculture simulation (BIA-sim) development of a simulation based software for the implementation of building integrated agriculture in urban contexts
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-08)Since the world's population is growing at an alarming rate, scientists and researchers are trying to find ways to increase both the quality and quantity of food available. However, the current methods used in the agriculture ...