Transient moisture transfer between spruce plywood and humid air

Proceedings of the 3rd International Building Physics Conference - Research in Building Physics and Building Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 11-18

  Osanyintola, O F ^a   Talukdar, P ^a   Simonson, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; BUILDINGS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTS; MOISTURE CONTROL; PLYWOOD; POROUS MATERIALS; TEST FACILITIES; WOOD PRODUCTS;

ANALYTICAL DATUMS; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; HUMID AIRS; MOISTURE ACCUMULATIONS; MOISTURE MODELS; MOISTURE STORAGES; MOISTURE TRANSFERS; NUMERICAL DATUMS; POROUS MEDIUMS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SPRUCE PLYWOODS; STEP CHANGES; TRANSIENT HEATS;

MOISTURE;

EID: 56249106871     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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