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The Dynamics and Mechanism of Human Thermal Adaptation in Building Environment

Part of the Springer Theses Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-1165-3

ISBN: 978-981-15-1164-6

Publisher: Springer Singapore - Springer Journals

Nov 7, 2019

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Chapter 1Introduction

Luo, Maohui

Pages: 1 –30

[China building sector has been growing rapidly in recent years. From 2000 to 2013, the urban residential area increased from 9.5 to 23.4 billion m2. Figure 1.1 shows that Chinese total building energy consumption increased from 320 to 756 million tce. Under this context, how to effectively...
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Chapter 2Indoor Climate Experience and Thermal Comfort Expectation in Buildings

Luo, Maohui

Pages: 31 –57

[Climate change is one of the urgent issues we humans must face in this century. But when talking about climate change most people will think of outdoor global warming while few can notice the changes in indoor climates we experience. In fact, our living places have always been ‘evolving’, from...
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Chapter 3The Timescale of Thermal Comfort Adaptation in Heated and Unheated Buildings

Luo, Maohui

Pages: 59 –80

[In the previous chapter, we investigated the mutual relationships between occupants’ indoor thermal experience and comfort expectation through an online survey. The results showed an asymmetrical phenomenon and the ‘demand factor’ was proposed to describe it. However, due to it was an online...
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Chapter 4Indoor Climate and Physiological Acclimation

Luo, Maohui

Pages: 81 –110

[In the previous two chapters, we investigated the mutually dependent relationships between indoor climate and human thermal adaptation through comparative online surveys and field studies. However, both the online survey and field study often accompany with complicated cofounding factors which...
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Chapter 5Personal Control and Its Phycological Effects on Thermal Adaptation

Luo, Maohui

Pages: 111 –130

[In previous chapters, we discussed the physiological acclimation effects on building occupants’ thermal adaptation. However, psychological adaptation, as an important approach for thermal adaptation, has great controversy, so further exploration is needed.]
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Chapter 6Adaptive Heating Balance Comfort Model

Luo, Maohui

Pages: 131 –144

[Human thermal comfort is influenced by both external environmental attributors and personal factors. The environmental attributors include air temperature (TA), radiant temperature (TR) (Zhou et al. in Energy Build 188:98–110, 2019 [1]), air movement (VEL) (Zhu et al. in Build Environ 91:5–14,...
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Chapter 7Summary

Luo, Maohui

Pages: 145 –147

[Thermal comfort research aims to meet the health and comfort needs of building occupants meanwhile reducing the energy consumption of building environment conditioning. Since the 1990s, many efforts have been paid on building occupants’ thermal adaptation. But there remain some unclear...
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Chapter 8Correction to: Adaptive Heating Balance Comfort Model

Luo, Maohui

Pages: C1 –C1

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