Dimensional reduction of 3D building models using graph theory and its application in building energy simulation

Engineering with Computers

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-122

  van Treeck, Christoph ^a   Rank, Ernst ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air volume body extraction; Building energy simulation; Building information model (BIM); Building product modeling; Dimension reduction; Geometrical and topological analysis; Industry Foundation Classes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPH THEORY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOLOGY;

BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATION; BUILDING INFORMATION MODEL (BIM); BUILDING PRODUCT MODELING; DIMENSION REDUCTION;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 34247643800     PISSN: 01770667     EISSN: 14355663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00366-006-0053-7     Document Type: Article

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