Moisture buffering and effect of ventilation rate and volume rate of hygrothermal materials in a single room under steady state exterior conditions

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1418-1425

  Yoshino, H ^a   Mitamura, T ^b   Hasegawa, K ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ASHIKAGA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chamber test; Climate chamber; Gypsum board; Hygrothermal modeling; Moisture buffering; Simulations; Whole building analysis

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; GYPSUM; HUMIDITY CONTROL; TESTING; VENTILATION;

CHAMBER TEST; CLIMATE CHAMBER; GYPSUM BOARD; HYGROTHERMAL-MODELING; MOISTURE BUFFERING; SIMULATIONS; WHOLE BUILDING ANALYSIS;

MOISTURE;

AMBIENT AIR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GYPSUM; INDOOR AIR; MOISTURE FLUX; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; VENTILATION;

EID: 60749108589     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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