Application of a full-scale testing facility for assessing wind-driven-rain intrusion

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2430-2441

  Bitsuamlak, Girma T ^a   Gan Chowdhury, Arindam ^a   Sambare, Dhawal ^a  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Full scale; Roof secondary water barrier; Turbulence; Water intrusion; Wind profile; Wind driven rain

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENVELOPES; BUILDING MODEL; CURRENT PHASE; DIFFERENT SLOPES; FULL-SCALE; FULL-SCALE TESTING; HURRICANE RESEARCH; INTERNAL PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PERFORMANCE INDICES; PLUMBING SYSTEMS; ROOF SLOPES; SPRAY NOZZLE; TEST SPECIMENS; TURBULENCE CHARACTERISTICS; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS; WATER BARRIERS; WATER INTRUSION; WATER INTRUSIONS; WIND FIELD; WIND PROFILE; WIND SPEED; WIND-DRIVEN RAIN;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; NOZZLES; PLUMBING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; RAIN; ROOFS; TURBULENCE;

HEAVY WATER;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ASSESSMENT METHOD; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; ROOF; TESTING METHOD; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD; WIND PROFILE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 67651011433     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2009.04.009     Document Type: Article

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