A Comparison of Different Techniques to Quantify Moisture Content Profiles in Porous Building Materials

Journal of Thermal Envelope and Building Science

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 261-276

  Roels, Staf ^a   Carmeliet, Jan ^a   Hens, Hugo ^a   Adan, Olaf ^b   Brocken, Harold ^b   Cerny, Robert ^c   Pavlik, Zbysek ^c   Ellis, Armin T ^d   Hall, Christopher ^d   Kumaran, Kumar ^e   Pel, Leo ^f   Plagge, Rudolf ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^f EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^g DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ray; Capacitance method; Moisture content profiles; MRI; NMR; Round robin; TDR; X ray

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MOISTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POROUS MATERIALS; RADIOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

CAPACITANCE METHOD; MOISTURE CONTENT PROFILES; ROUND ROBIN; TDR;

BUILDING MATERIALS;

EID: 2342448466     PISSN: 10971963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097196304042117     Document Type: Article

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