Master's Theses: Recent submissions
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Evaluation of sustainable building design and its associated management tools in design offices : case of Iran
(2020-05-29)As the importance of sustainable development gained momentum, the extent to which it should be implemented remained a matter of concern. Among all, buildings are among the remarkable results of human activities that have ... -
Bio-based rheology modifying agents for cement-based materials
(2020-06-10)Recent developments in the construction sector lead to the possible implementation of advanced manufacturing techniques of cement-based materials. Such concrete production led to the development of high-performance ... -
The journey between homes: the multilayered meaning of home from the perspective of identity, belonging and memory
(2021-06-10)The economic, technological, scientific, political, cultural, and social changes in the transition to the 21 st century cause to the transformations of concepts and meanings in architecture as well as many different ... -
Effect of solar radiation in office spaces
(2021-06-10)This thesis examines the design components of an office that influences the thermal comfort of the occupants due to solar radiation, such as external solar shades, various window glasses, partitions between desks and floor ... -
A platform for personal e-mobility with route forecasting
(2021-01-14)Decreasing fossil fuel sources and increasing carbon exhaust rate makes human-beings lead to search on different technological fields and to develop new technology. Also, thanks to developing tendency to the clean energy ... -
Developing a BIM-based tool for automated fall safety review
(2020-01-06)Construction sites are globally known to be amongst the most dangerous working environments. Ensuring safety at sites can be difficult because it is not affected by just one parameter; but it is governed by the behavior ... -
Cash flow generation and alternatives analysis through BIM and simulation
(2019-08-21)Cash flow analysis is a major aspect of managing a construction project to improve project success metrics and to prevent liquidity issues during construction phase. Conventional methods used to analyze cash flow simplify ... -
Risk-calibrated evidential classifiers
(2020-01-17)In some applications, intelligent agents rely on classifiers in order to make their decisions and accuracy of their predictions may play a significant role in performing their tasks successfully. Although deep neural ... -
Ultraviolet communications for airborne links
(2019-07)In Turkey, artificial insemination is only permitted to couples when they are officially married. Surrogacy, however, has been banned by the law and is illegal as in most European countries. Despite the fact that nowadays ... -
Agent based negotiation for incentive driven privacy preserving information sharing
(2019-08-20)While customizing their services, companies usually use their users’ data. According to the new regularization, it is required to get the permission of their users to be able to store and share their users’ private data. ... -
A parametric study on the influence of boundary frame flexibility in steel plate shear walls
(2020-01-17)Steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) are known to be a reliable lateral force-resisting system, particularly attractive for high-seismic regions, due to their high lateral strength and stiffness and stable hysteretic behavior. ... -
A review of BIM-based energy analysis tools for leed certification process
(2020-01-06)In the recent years, there has been a growing interest among designers and owners to use systems developed to assess building performance with the intention of achieving sustainability in the construction industry. Estimating ... -
Evaluating habitability of affordable housing projects in Nairobi-Kenya
(2019-07-31)As Nairobi, and several cities within the Global South continue to experience severe housing shortages, urban planning authorities are in constant pursuit for housing interventions that are not only adequate towards the ... -
An assessment on the development of mosque architecture in the United Arab Emirates: cases from contemporary mosques
(2020-01-13)This study has two main purposes: First, to demonstrate the change of mosque architecture in the UAE by chronologically following the selected examples from the first available mosque to the present day. The mosques in ... -
An investigation of critical success factors for green retrofitting of existing healthcare buildings
(2020-01-17)The fundamental principle of health care practice is ‘first do no harm,’ but ironically, the activities of healthcare itself consume critical pollution, and, consequently, indirect adverse effects on public health. Concerted ... -
Product differentiation as a tool of sustainability and financial performance
(2019-11-20)Sustainable product differentiation has been distinguished essential factors to assist environmental balance of ecosystem, gain growth to sustainable future. Defining sustainable product differentiation is initiated with ... -
Decomposing time series data via mixed integer programming
(2020-01-13)Decomposing time series into seasonality, trend, and remainder reveals underlying insights to be used in forecasting and anomaly detection. Although there are several decomposition methods, no method guarantees all of the ... -
A compact circularly polarized monopulse slotted waveguide array for airborne applications
(2019-10-24)In modern radar and communication systems, high gain, high power capability and low-profile antenna systems are frequently utilized. In airborne and space borne applications, slotted waveguide antenna array is widely used ... -
State of charge estimation for lithium-based batteries
(2020-01)This thesis proposes a new State of Charge (SOC) estimation method for lithiumbased batteries, which o ers a good trade-o between convergence and computation times. Lithium-based battery packages are quite common in the ... -
High frequency power supply design
(2019-08-20)Portability, power density, and energy e ciency are among the hottest topics of today. Therefore, the need for higher power-capacity, smaller size, and higher e ciency power supply is increasing day by day. At this point, ...
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