TY - JOUR
T1 - Customizing insulation material properties for building retrofitting
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing, Pro-AM 2018
AU - Craveiro, Flavio
AU - Bártolo, Helena
AU - Duarte, José Pinto
AU - Bártolo, P. J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research work was supported by a grant (SFRH/BD/105404/2014) funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2018 by Nanyang Technological University
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The European Commission proposed a recast to the Energy Efficiency Directive with a target of 30% energy efficiency for 2030. Buildings are the largest energy consumers sector in EU. To reduce the energy consumption of existing buildings and promote energy efficiency retrofit, it is important to improve the thermal performance of the building envelope, acting on thermal bridges to enhance the optimal thermal comfort for building occupants. In this work, a customized solution is proposed combining IR thermography and a generative computer tool to design a functionally graded insulation layer tailored to specific conditions, resulting in a material efficient design reducing weight and material usage. AM technologies were then used to produce a scaled prototype.
AB - The European Commission proposed a recast to the Energy Efficiency Directive with a target of 30% energy efficiency for 2030. Buildings are the largest energy consumers sector in EU. To reduce the energy consumption of existing buildings and promote energy efficiency retrofit, it is important to improve the thermal performance of the building envelope, acting on thermal bridges to enhance the optimal thermal comfort for building occupants. In this work, a customized solution is proposed combining IR thermography and a generative computer tool to design a functionally graded insulation layer tailored to specific conditions, resulting in a material efficient design reducing weight and material usage. AM technologies were then used to produce a scaled prototype.
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U2 - 10.25341/D4MS3F
DO - 10.25341/D4MS3F
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85053640124
SN - 2424-8967
VL - 2018-May
SP - 31
EP - 37
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing
JF - Proceedings of the International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing
Y2 - 14 May 2018 through 17 May 2018
ER -
