[esp-r] Re: thermal inertia.

[Jon Hand]

ESP-r simulates the building and constructions that you describe to it. If you describe a stone wall
then inertia will be a large effect, if you simulate a wall made of a sheet of paper there is very little
inertia.  Certainly short timesteps would be part of an analysis of a low inertia design (stuff will change
quickly). 

Inertia does seem to be part of what we observe in real buildings so it is a bit curious to
imagine a universe where there was no inertia?

Is this a theoritical study or a study of an actual material which has a very short time constant?

-Jon Hand
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From: esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk [esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Maria Kapsalaki [kapsalakimaria at gmail.com]
Sent: 16 February 2011 20:44
To: esp-r at lists.strath.ac.uk
Subject: [esp-r]  thermal inertia.

Hi to everyone,

Could someone tell me how i can neglect the effect of thermal inertia using the esp-r?Is there any way of simulating as if there was no thermal inertia effect?Thanks in advance!

Best Regards

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Maria Kapsalaki
PhD Student,
Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, MIT-Portugal Program