Study of the dynamic thermal behavior of the walls of standard constructions in Madagascar
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Passive housing guarantees a comfortable indoor climate in all seasons without having to resort to expensive systems in terms of energy consumption.Building materials, thanks to their thermal inertia, the ability on the one hand to slow down and attenuate the propagation of thermal wave fluctuations and on the other hand to absorb and store energy, play a major role in this sense.The object of this article is to determine the thermal inertia of earth-based walls, shaped in brick or not, typical envelopes of dwelling houses in Madagascar.The study is based on the dynamic thermal characteristics defined by the international standard ISO 13786.This also specifies the methodological for their calculations.The results are intended to guide the choice integrating thermal comfort with low energy consumption in future constructions.They show that the thickness of the wall has a significant effect on the time lag as well as the decrement factor of the daily variations of the temperature.It follows that, compared to brick walls, rammed earth walls present a greater capacity to absorb, store and release heat.It can be deduced that building designed with such an envelope provide better thermal comfort during hot seasons in the highlands where tropical climate is tempered by altitude and throughout the year in other regions.These encouraging results prove that traditional earth constructions have their place in sustainable building today.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".