Water entry function of a hardboard siding-clad wood stud wall

Building and Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1479-1491

  Sahal, Nil ^a   Lacasse, Michael A ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Driving rain; Performance testing; Water entry function; Wood stud walls

Indexed keywords

AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRAINAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; RAIN; STUDS (FASTENERS); WATER; WIND; WOOD;

CLAD WOOD; STUD WALLS; WATER ENTRY FUNCTION; WIND SPEED;

QUAY WALLS;

BUILDING; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL;

AIR; HARDBOARDS; MOISTURE; RAIN; WALLS; WOOD;

EID: 21844466962     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2004.11.019     Document Type: Article

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