About the editors

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. About the editors XI
5. Part I: Future cities
6. Biopotent social technology: occupations park and university extensions 1
7. Performance potentials: the optimization of buildings in operation 21
8. Climate culture building: comparison of different computer generated building envelope designs for different Brazilian climate zones 35
9. Electrical energy efficiency in urban infrastructure systems: nonintrusive smart meter for electrical energy consumption monitoring 47
10. Distinct approaches to reproduce hygrothermal behavior of building materials based black-box models 61
11. Part II: Modern urban agriculture
12. Investigating the challenges and opportunities of urban agriculture in global north and global south countries 95
13. Social technology and urban agriculture in Brazil: the social technology network and the social technology DataBank project 111
14. Orchards from the forest: Urban agriculture as a lab for multiple learning 121
15. Part III: Renewable energy
16. The challenges of the new energy revolution 137
17. Synthesis of inorganic energy materials 159
18. Part IV: Sustainable smart materials
19. Nature-inspired smart materials for multifunctional applications 177
20. Smart fiber-reinforced polymer composites and their resource-efficient production by means of sensor integration 191
21. The role of biologically inspired design to 4D printing development 205
22. Influence of different carbon nanotubes types in dynamic-mechanical properties of lightweight carbon felt/CNTs composites 215
23. Light-assisted synthesis of colloids and solid films of metallic nanoparticles 225
24. The influence of polymeric interlayers on damping behavior of a fiber metal laminate 239
25. Piezoresistivity of low carbon nanotubes content in elastomeric polymer matrix 259
26. Improvement of fatigue strength of carbon fiber reinforced polymers by matrix modifications for ultrafast rotating flywheels 279
27. Experimental study of thermal conductivity, viscosity and breakdown voltage of mineral oil-based TiO₂ nanofluids 290