Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Foundations and Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780415691611 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 378 str.

Michael Humphreys

Opis

There has been widespread dissatisfaction with accepted models for predicting the conditions that people will find thermally comfortable in buildings. These models require knowledge about clothing and activity, but can give little guidance on how to quantify them in any future situation. This has forced designers to make assumptions about people s future behaviour based on very little information and, as a result, encouraged static design indoor temperatures.

This book is the second in a three volume set covering all aspects of Adaptive Thermal Comfort. The first part narrates the development of the adaptive approach to thermal comfort from its early beginnings in the 1960s. It discusses recent work in the field and suggests ways in which it can be developed and modelled. Such models can be used to set dynamic, interactive standards for thermal comfort which will help overcome the problems inherited from the past. The second part of the volume engages with the practical and theoretical problems encountered in field studies and in their statistical analysis, providing guidance towards their resolution, so that valid conclusions may be drawn from such studies."

Spis treści

Part I: Foundations  1. Introduction to adaptive behaviour  2. Adaptive Beginnings  3. The emergence of the adaptive point of view  4. Summertime Overheating in Schools  5. The first international conference on thermal comfort  6. Adapting to enforced changes of temperature  7. The First Meta-analysis  8. Clothing outdoors and during sleep  9. Meta-analysis 2: relating climate to indoor comfort  10. The origin of the Oxford Thermal Comfort Unit  11. Fieldwork in Pakistan  12. Raising awareness of the adaptive approach  13. Beginning fieldwork at Oxford Brookes University  14. PMV and the results of field studies  15. Adaptation and the ASHRAE RP-884 database  16. Going international: the SCATs project  Part II: Analysis  17. Introducing part 2  18. Using the Method of Successive Categories to explore the properties of thermal comfort scales  19. Developing, adapting and testing thermal subjective scales  20. A Simple Heat Exchange Model for Thermal Comfort Conditions  21. Regression analysis: general features and effects of data-selection and binning  22. The effects of error in the predictor-variable  23. Mutual relation between room temperature and subjective warmth  24. The relation between regression analysis and probit analysis  25. The dependence of subjective warmth on within-day changes in room temperature  26. Constructing Bell-shaped Curves for Comfort and Temperature  27. Tolerance of seasonal drift of indoor temperature  28. Estimating Neutral Temperatures from Survey Data  29. The adaptive relation between indoor neutral temperatures and the outdoor climate  30. Do people like to feel neutral? Semantic offsets and zero-errors  31. Clothing and thermal behaviour  32. Interactions among environmental variables, adaptation and overall comfort  33. Drawing the threads together