Newspaper sandwiched aerated lightweight concrete wall panels - Thermal inertia, transient thermal behavior and surface temperature prediction

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1636-1645

  Ng, Soon Ching ^a   Low, Kaw Sai ^a   Tioh, Ngee Heng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Aerated lightweight concrete; Decrement factor; Finite difference method; Newspaper sandwiched wall panel; Time lag; Transient thermal behavior

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; DECREMENT FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; INNER WALLS; MALAYSIA; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; NEWSPAPER SANDWICHED WALL PANEL; OUTER SURFACE; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE PREDICTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMAL BEHAVIORS; THERMAL INERTIA; TIME LAG; WALL PANELS; WALL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND DIRECTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FORECASTING; NEWSPRINT; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 79956355249     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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