Hot-box testing of building envelope assemblies-a simplified procedure for estimation of minimum time of the test

Journal of Testing and Evaluation

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 242-249

  Kossecka, Elisabeth ^a   Kosny, Jan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Building envelopes; Heat capacity; Heat flow; Hot box testing; Time constants

Indexed keywords

ASTM INTERNATIONAL (CO); BUILDING ENVELOPES; HEAT FLOWS; MINIMUM TIME; NUMERICAL CALCULATIONS; SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE; STANDARD TEST METHOD; STEADY STATES; STRUCTURE FACTOR (SF); TEST ACCURACY; TEST TIME; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; TIME CONSTANTS; TIME CONSTANTS (TC); HEAT-FLOW; HOT BOXES; HOT-BOX TESTING; THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS; TIME-CONSTANTS;

AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; BIOMECHANICS; BUILDING MATERIALS; BUILDINGS; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; HEALTH; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PIGMENTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SOLAR BUILDINGS; STANDARDS; TESTING; HEAT TRANSFER;

NUMBER THEORY; SPECIFIC HEAT;

EID: 45749135558     PISSN: 00903973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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