A frost decay exposure index for porous, mineral building materials

Building and Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3547-3555

  Lisø, Kim Robert ^a,c   Kvande, Tore ^b   Hygen, Hans Olav ^d   Thue, Jan Vincent ^c   Harstveit, Knut ^d  

^a Norwegian Building Research Inst   (Norway)

^b Norwegian Building Research Institute (NBI)   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Building defects; Building enclosure performance; Building materials; Climate adaptation; Climatic impact; Decay; Freezing; Norway

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFECTS; FREEZING; FROST EFFECTS; RAIN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BUILDING DEFECTS; CLIMATE IMPACT; FROST DECAY;

BUILDING MATERIALS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUILDING MATERIALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFECTS; FREEZING; FROST EFFECTS; RAIN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; DEFECT; FREEZING; FROST; MASONRY; POROUS MEDIUM; RAINFALL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 34249930951     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2006.10.022     Document Type: Article

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