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  title info:
    title: Design optimization of energy conserving building envelopes
  name:
    name part: Al-Homoud, Mohammad Saad
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Boyer, Lester L.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Claridge, David E.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Degelman, Larry O.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Deurmyuer, Bryan L.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1994
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 172 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm
  abstract: The aim o f this dissertation is to present the framework, development, validation, and implementation o f a reliable thermal optimization model for the design o f the physical components o f buildings. The research was motivated by the need found for design information to aid building designers in their decision making purposes, especially in the early stages o f the design process. Available energy simulation models are powerful tools for the evaluation o f the thermal performance o f buildings. They can provide extensive performance information on the selected building. However, such models assume a predetermined solution, and different design alternatives can be evaluated only one at a time. The model developed, termed ENEROPT (ENERgy OPTimization), optimizes the thermal performance o f buildings based on hourly simulation o f the thermal behavior that minimizes reliance upon mechanical heating and air-conditioning systems. The building thermal optimization model couples a direct search optimization technique to the thermal analysis o f buildings. The focus o f the research was on the thermal optimization o f the physical components of the building envelope as the main design variables. The model was applied to the design optimization o f multi-zone air-conditioned office and residential buildings as well as a single zone unconditioned residence in four U.S. and two Saudi Arabian climatic regions. The optimization results revealed significant reductions, not only in the annual energy requirements, but also in the building peak heating and cooling loads, especially for skin-load dominated structures such as residences and small offices. Such improvements in building thermal performance result in less operating costs, as well as less initial system costs due to smaller HVAC system required in air-conditioned buildings. In the case o f the unconditioned building, the optimization procedures indicate a decrease in the number o f thermal discomfort degree-hours In bo…
  note: by Mohammad Saad Al-Homoud.
  note: "Major subject: Architecture."
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1994
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Major architecture
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-1549693
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 960510
    record change date: 20220103134957.0
    record identifier: in00001296431
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng