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DOI: 10.12755/jgsee.res.2014.69
title: Availability and market barriers to energy efficient technologies for household in Cambodia

description: The 2012 World Energy Outlook highlights the importance of energy efficiency (EE) in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades. The objective of this study is to explore the available energy efficient technologies for using in households, with a focus on low income households and to assess market barriers to EE products. The study is conducted with household appliance retail shops in Phnom Penh City and Siem Reap province. The information on availability and market barriers to EE products is collected using questionnaire. 100 retailers in Phnom Penh City and 65 retailers in Siem Reap province are randomly selected for face to face interviews. Results of the study show that EE products for households are available in market in Cambodia with more than 80% of sampled retail shops selling EE products such as air conditioner, refrigerator, washing machine, iron, water boiler and water pumping The study also indicates that the key barrier indicated by retain shop is that customers don't care about environment, they care about the price of EE technology. Other key barriers are that customers and shop staff are lack of awareness and the information on EE products. Regarding to policy barrier, financial incentives to EE products and environmental policies and regulations are also key barrier.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11973930
title: Supporting metadata for a study of HBV serology among hospital in-patients in Bangladesh

description: The attached data file (.xslx) is supporting metadata on 201 patients recruited in Bangladesh for a study on fever, and screened for hepatitis B virus (HBV). A key for the data is provided in the second spreadsheet. Patients were recruited at two sites in Dhaka and were eligible for inclusion if they were ≥18 years of age with a history of fever &gt;38°C for over 48 hours. In additional to blood work for the fever study, patients were screened for HBsAg and total anti-HBc. All patients that were anti-HBc positive were then further tested for HBV DNA.
DOI: 10.12755/jgsee.res.2014.70
title: New modern energy consumers in the Greater Mekong subregion

description: This study aims to examine a particular income group of energy consumer in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), which includes Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. This income group, referred as MECON, is defined as those who are those who connect to electricity grid with daily income of $2-5 (2005 PPP). This target group is important for the future energy demand in this region as they are likely to earn higher incomes, own more household appliances, and consume more energy in the near future. This paper discusses on the definition of MECON, and its application. The study, then, uses the method reviewed from literatures, and PovcalNet, World Bank's poverty analysis tool to test if the income range is usable to capture the target group. The result shows the percentage headcount of MECON to national populations in this region, and its trend. The finding suggests that this target group tends to decline in Thailand which is opposite to other GMS countries. Also, MECON group will become more important to residential energy consumption in this region in the future.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11973930.v1
title: Supporting metadata for a study of HBV serology among hospital in-patients in Bangladesh

description: The attached data file (.xslx) is supporting metadata on 201 patients recruited in Bangladesh for a study on fever, and screened for hepatitis B virus (HBV). A key for the data is provided in the second spreadsheet. Patients were recruited at two sites in Dhaka and were eligible for inclusion if they were ≥18 years of age with a history of fever &gt;38°C for over 48 hours. In additional to blood work for the fever study, patients were screened for HBsAg and total anti-HBc. All patients that were anti-HBc positive were then further tested for HBV DNA.
DOI: 10.12755/jgsee.res.2014.71
title: A survey of housing features and thermal comfort of medium and low income earners in Thailand

description: House design is influenced by the climate and the culture of people at a location. Thailand is located in tropical climate with low wind velocity and ambient air is humid .Climate of each region is different due to their location. This paper aims to study typical house design of low and medium income in rural area of each region of Thailand including interviewing and measuring parameters required for thermal comfort assessment. Each houses type features are showed and analyzed comparing with living style, climate and tradition of people in each region. Thermal environment and comfort are also recorded and calculated for each region. Results indicate that typical houses features of low and middle income earners of each region are different up to their life style, climate and traditional. Neutral temperature of each region is also different. People in the southern feel comfort under higher operative temperature than other regions. And neutral temperature of Thai people is different from PMV assessment scale.
DOI: 10.12755/jgsee.res.2014.72
title: Reducing energy consumption cost and greenhouse gas emission for tropical low-income housing: Thailand contribution

description: Recently, there is insufficient effort and insufficient body of studies into the issues of low-energy housing for low-income and medium income earners. Even fewer studies have touched on the issue of thermal comfort for low-income housing. Modern housing design does not adequately attempt to utilize daylight fully nor to provide sufficient but energy-efficient electric lighting during night time. This project is carrying out to study on reducing energy consumption cost and greenhouse gas emission for tropical low-income housing in Thailand. Recent progress is on the survey process in lowincome housing to collect the data of electric appliances, building configurations and energy uses in household, and establish the baseline for each household type in low-income housing in Thailand.
DOI: 10.12755/jgsee.res.2014.73
title: Energy consumption and GHG emission of Thailand's residential sector

description: In this study, historical energy data from various sources were compiled to evaluate the energy consumption in residential sector in Thailand. The energy consumption was characterized for houses located within and outside municipality and for different activities in the houses: lighting, cooking, entertainment, amenity and other. Under the business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, the electrical energy consumption in the sector will increase from 48,611 GWh in 2010 (base year) to 100,475 GWh in 2030 and the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission will increase from 13,368 to 30,330 kTon carbon CO2. However, under the energy efficient scenario, it was found that the GHG emission can be limited at 15,353 kTon carbon CO2 in 2030. The GHG emission reduction from power generation also plays an important role in the emission mitigation from the residential sector.
DOI: 10.12755/jgsee.res.2014.74
title: Energy efficiency indicators comparison in Thailand, OECD and EU 28 countries

description: Some energy efficiency indicators for Thailand and OECD and EU 28 countries are analyzed in the period from 1990 to 2012. Both Thailand and mentioned regions have enacted and implement energy policies which have many common elements and which are by all means devoted to the increase of energy efficiency and wider use of renewable energy sources for the purpose of reducing GHG emissions and to achieve sustainable development. However, the results of the implementation of these policies are very different and point out to the great influence of economic, social and political factors. Energy efficiency depends on numerous mutually independent factors but the greatest problem is in the fact that most important factors cannot be affected by individual countries. This leads to the need to constantly control the implementation of the energy efficiency policy and to make adjustments to it. Very often, these changes are imposed by rough effects of external factors which are the consequence of globalization and the pressure of those who enforce this globalization. This paper offers some answers to possible reasons for the deviation of values and trends of energy indicators in the most developed regions in relation to Thailand.
DOI: 10.5519/qd.3xe7vmrp
title: Query on the Natural History Museum Data Portal (data.nhm.ac.uk) (11062 records)
DOI: 10.12755/jgsee.res.2014.75
title: New modern energy consumers: a survey on energy consumption and energy efficiency of Cambodian households

description: A survey on socio-economic perspectives of Cambodian households related to energy efficiency and consumption was conducted in 2014. We focused on information about households, their current energy, and energy efficiency. A total of 503 electrified households living on an income between two and five dollars, defined as MECCON households, from six provinces and the capital city of Cambodia were selected for this study. A statistical analysis was done using MS-Excel. The study interestingly shows that among the chief wage earners, 13% have a university degree while 12% are government officials. Approximately 94% of the MECON households have access to electricity through the national and community grids. Aside from electricity, other sources such as LPG, charcoal, and biomass are commonly used. For lighting, it is seen that 29% of the studied households use incandescent, while 83.8% employ fluorescent lamp, 54.5% have compact incandescent lamp installed, and only 5.3% consider LED lamp. Finally, it is found that 35% of the MECON households intend to own a refrigerator, 13% are willing to have a washing machine, while about 52% wish to have irons, air conditioners, and so on equipped in their home. In terms of energy efficiency, limited knowledge on it is seen among the studied households. This requires a special attention from the government to widely promote energy efficiency awareness and to establish a strong policy that will contribute to economic development, energy efficiency and security, as well as environmental benefits of the country.
DOI: 10.12755/jgsee.res.2014.76
title: The effects of improved built form on urban cooling: review of passive strategies and urban design case studies

description: With the current rapid pace of construction in South East and East Asia, built form and blocks are changing significantly, having impact on the building physics and environmental performance of macro [urban] environments. Such change at macro scale has major impact on how spaces and blocks are shaped and developed. This has direct impacts on urban ventilation systems (both passive and active) and the built form or physics of the urban environments, including but not limited to, orientation, layout, massing and form. The paper reviews the various opportunities for macro cooling via improved built form for urban residential environments and will further explore possibilities of urban cooling for the context of Asia. This paper specifically includes tropical and the warming sub-tropical areas of Asia.
DOI: 10.12755/jgsee.res.2014.77
title: Reducing the energy use and the carbon footprint of tropical housing

description: Following some decades of effort to reduce the energy embodied in, or consumed in, temperate housing, focus is now shifting to a similar effort for tropical housing. Energy reduction is a well-established strategy for reducing GHG emissions. A research consortium 'ELITH' of six-partners (of whom two are East Asian) has been funded by the UK government to investigate how the energy use, carbon footprint and cost of 'low-income' tropical housing might best be reduced. The research combines engineering, building science, architecture, town planning and physical modelling. Examples of programme research topics are (i) examination of the relationship between 'active' and 'passive' cooling under humid tropical conditions and (ii) how to reduce the energy embodied in walling. This paper focusses on the latter.
DOI: 10.12755/jgsee.res.2014.78
title: Greenhouse gas emissions from low income house construction: case study in Baan Eua-Arthorn project in Thailand

description: This study aims to evaluate greenhouse gas (GHG) emission in the unit of kgCO2e/m2 from construction materials of low income houses under the Baan Eua-Arthorn Project. The activity data of constructing materials were extracted from house plans and Bill of Quantities (BOQ) of 4 low income houses such as detached house (61.97 m2), twin house (109.67 m2), townhouse (552.20 m2), and condominium (2,121.15 m2). The greenhouse gas emissions in the unit of kgCO2 e/m2 were calculated in the scope of cradle to gate following the Thai national guideline for carbon footprint of product and Thai national life cycle inventory database (TGO, 2011). Results show that the highest greenhouse gas emission from constructing materials belongs to condominium (179.06 kgCO2 e/m2), followed by townhouse (118.73 kgCO2e/m2), twin house (107.53 kgCO2e/m2), and detached house (93.21 kgCO2e/m2), respectively. The largest greenhouse gas emission was emitted from condominium due to more concrete and cement used than other houses. Concrete, cement and steel were found to be significant emission hot spot which is consistent with the study of Aneksaen (2011). Thus, in order to reduce the greenhouse gas emission from construction materials, the conventional building envelops should be replaced by low carbon embedded materials, like lightweight concrete. It is found that the greenhouse gas emissions (kgCO2 e/m2) decrease to 28% for condominium, followed by 10.4% for townhouse, 6.4% for twin house, and 4.2% for detached house. The results of this study can be used as a guideline to reduce carbon footprint of residential buildings in the government housing project in the future.
DOI: 10.12755/jgsee.res.2014.79
title: Comfort assessment of radiant cooling in building in tropical climate

description: Radiant cooling is an alternative air-conditioning approach that has been successfully implemented in high latitude regions. In the tropics, radiant cooling is quite challenge due to its cooling performance being limited by high-moisture ambient air. This paper reports an investigation of radiant cooling in a tropical building. The study comprises physical experiments of a radiant cooling system with cooling panels installed in a room of a laboratory building. A dedicated outdoor air system using a fan coil unit was also installed to handle humidity of the room air through ventilation. A TRNSYS software was used to model the systems in order to determine the thermal comfort level in the room using predicted mean vote (PMV) index. The results show that the radiant cooling is able to use for air conditioning for human comfort in tropical buildings.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.18
title: A NEW METHOD TO DETERMINE TENSILE-STRAIN SOFTENING CURVE OF QUASI-BRITTLE MATERIALS

description: Based on weight integration to obtain a closed solution of cohesive crack problem, a new method is proposed to determine the tensile-strain softening curve (TSC) for quasi-brittle materials. The key technique is to determine the weight function by superposition of the solution with different fictitious crack lengths to satisfy a given crack opening displacement within cohesive crack surfaces. As an example, a central crack problem under uniform tension with given crack opening displacement in the fracture process zone (FPZ) was analyzed, the corresponding TSC was determined, and then the solution for stress and displacement field was obtained.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.19
title: NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS OF THREE-PINNED CIRCULAR ARCHES

description: Because a three-pinned circular arch is statically determinate, when it is subjected to a uniform radial load q, linear in-plane analysis has shown that the uniform load will produce quite simple internal actions: a uniform axial compressive force N = qR and zero-bending moment, where R is the radius of the arch. This is consistent with equations in textbooks for structural mechanics. However, the non-linear behavior and buckling of three-pinned arches are very different from their linear counterparts. The uniform radial load can produce significant bending moments in the three-pinned arches, and the value of the uniform axial compressive force in the three-pinned arches is greater than qR. In addition, it is also shown in this paper that the solutions for the in-plane elastic buckling load of three-pinned arches available in the open literature cannot predict their in-plane buckling loads correctly.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.20
title: RETROFIT STEEL CORRODING RC BEAMS USING CFRP COMPOSITES: NLFE ANALYSIS

description: Corrosion of steel reinforcement is one of the main durability problems facing reinforced concrete infrastructures worldwide. Steel degradation and/or cracking of concrete both cause severe reduction in bearing capacity, leading ultimately to failure. The potential of repairing corroded concrete beams with two configurations of carbon-fiber reinforced polymeric (CFRP) composites was investigated with a nonlinear finite Element (NLFE) model. CFRP composites were assumed to be either bonded directly to existing concrete or to a new concrete cover; replacing the old one. The data generated showed that the load-bearing capacity and stiffness for concrete beams, as long as corrosion levels were below 10%, can be fully restored. However, the ductility in terms of deflection at failure would be reduced, especially for repair techniques that involved anchoring with CFRP sheets. For corrosion levels greater than 10%, attaching CFRP composites to a new concrete cover contributed to additional improvements in load capacity and stiffness ranging from 10 to 15% of that achieved from similar repairing on existing concrete. The failure modes indicated that debonding failure prevailed, and that the extent of debonding prior to failure depended upon the corrosion level and on whether the concrete cover was replaced or not.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.21
title: LIMIT ANALYSIS UNDER LATERAL LOADS OF MASONRY VAULTS UPDATED BY Omega-WRAP

description: In this paper, the structural behavior under lateral load of a masonry-barrel vault, strengthened by new technology by applied Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Polymer (C-FRP), is discussed from both theoretical and experimental points of view. The C-FRP is applied such as to assume an ? shape around a concrete core at the vault extrados. A theoretical prediction of ultimate strength was derived in agreement with observations during the experiments (e.g., masonry crushing, FRP rupture, debonding, sliding along the mortar joint). A lower-bound limit-analysis approach was developed that can handle the shear strength of each ideal section given by the Mohr-Coulomb friction law (for the mortar joint). It can also handle other non linear Italian Code relations (for CFRP ?-Wrap reinforcement) at a given level of normal compressive stress resulting from the previous step.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.22
title: THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE PARAMETERS ON THE SURFACE OF BUILDINGS? WALLS

description: The durability of surface layers of enclosures (outside walls of buildings) is highly influenced by stresses occurring in the plane of contact between finishing materials and that of the enclosure. Damage to external walls depends on a high moisture content, which in turn depends on high water absorption during driving rains. One example of such damage is damage due to direct water penetration in homogeneous walls. The other negative effects of a high moisture content are impaired heat insulation and accelerated degradation. This article investigates the external layer of walls and the durability of different paints. In case of bi-laminar system ?paint film - the wall being painted? two opposite processes take place: the water flow rate from the outside towards the wall, and the water vapor flow rate of the wall to the outside. The optimum selection of paint is necessary. An investigation of the durability of wall surface paints in a climatic chamber is instructive only after intermediate investigations and measurements of the substrates? physical and mechanical properties that aid in predetermining durability. The influence of moisture deformations upon degradation of coatings depends on the porosity of surface materials being coated, and on the origin and macrostructure of the coating.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.23
title: COMPARATIVE EFFICIENCY BETWEEN STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS FOR COMPLEX-SHAPED TALL BUILDINGS

description: This paper presents various structural system design options for complex-shaped tall buildings?such as twisted, tilted, and freeform tall buildings?and evaluates their comparative structural efficiency. For each complex form category, tall buildings are designed with different contemporary tall building structural systems, e.g., diagrids, braced tubes, and outrigger systems. Comparative structural efficiency between these systems in conjunction with building forms and height is studied. The heights of the studied buildings range from 60 to 100 stories, and the corresponding height-to-width aspect ratios range from 6.5 to 10.8. Parametric structural models are generated with Rhino/Grasshopper to investigate the impacts of various important geometric configurations of complex-shaped tall buildings, such as the rate of twist, angle of tilt, and degree of fluctuation of free form. The parametric models are exported to structural engineering software SAP2000 for analyses and design. Based on the study results, comparative structural efficiency between different structural systems of each complex form category is presented.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.24
title: INTEGRATED MULTIPLE TUNED MASS DAMPERS FOR TALL BUILDINGS

description: As tall buildings become taller and more slender, wind-induced vibration is a serious design issue. Installing auxiliary damping devices, such as tuned mass dampers (TMD), is a very reliable solution. TMDs are usually large and located near the top of tall buildings for their effective performance. As a result, very valuable occupiable space near the top of tall buildings is sacrificed to contain large TMDs, and installing TMD systems results in adding additional masses to tall buildings. In order to address these issues, more integrated TMD systems for tall buildings are studied. First, distributing multiple small TMDs to multiple upper floors of tall buildings is investigated. The study results suggest this can be done without substantial loss of the effectiveness of the system. Second, designing existing masses in tall buildings to provide damping mechanism is studied. An emphasis is placed on studying the potential of double skin faเades (DSF) as an integrated damping system. For this, the connectors between the inner and outer skins of the DSF system are designed to have very low axial stiffness, and the outer skin masses of the DSF system is utilized as damping mass. Wind-induced vibration of tall building structure can be substantially reduced through this design. Finally, TMD/DSF interaction system is studied to synergistically enhance the performance of the TMD and DSF damping systems.
DOI: 10.12755/isec.res.2014.25
title: SEISMIC COLLAPSING ANALYSIS OF THREE-STORY WOODEN HOTEL

description: A 3-D collapsing-process analysis of an old Japanese-style 3-story wooden hotel under strong earthquake ground motions was carried out with three seismic intensity levels to investigate its seismic performance. Three earthquake ground motions were evaluated from three ground boring data around this wooden hotel, using the non-linear amplification characteristics of surface soil layer above the engineering base rock. As a result, this wooden hotel collapsed against a strong earthquake ground motion with JMA seismic intensity of a ?6 upper? level.