Moisture Transfer Between Unsaturated Cement Mortar and Ambient Air

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-96

  Garbalińska, Halina ^a   Kowalski, Stefan J ^b   Staszak, Maciej ^b  

^a WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Building materials; Model validation; Modeling; Moisture transport; Non linear diffusion

Indexed keywords

AIR HUMIDITY; AIR RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; AMBIENT AIR; CEMENT MORTARS; COEFFICIENT OF DIFFUSION; DESORPTION ISOTHERMS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; LONG LASTING; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MOISTURE TRANSPORT; NONLINEAR DIFFUSION; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; WATER/CEMENT RATIO; WELL REFLECTS;

ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CEMENTS; CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT; DESORPTION; MOISTURE CONTROL; MORTAR; POROUS MATERIALS;

DIFFUSION;

ALGORITHM; AMBIENT AIR; CEMENT; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ISOTHERM; MODEL VALIDATION; MOISTURE TRANSFER; MORTAR; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77956871902     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-010-9547-2     Document Type: Article

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