Performance of straw bale wall: A case of study

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1960-1967

  Ashour, Taha ^a   Georg, Heiko ^b   Wu, Wei ^c  

^a Benha University   (Egypt)

^b Institute of Organic Farming   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Moisture content; pH; Relative humidity; Straw bale house; Temperature; Thermal stability of bales

Indexed keywords

BAVARIA; COMPRESSION TESTS; CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; GERMANY; IN-SITU; MOISTURE CONTENTS; NON-LINEARITY; PH VALUE; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; STRAW BALE HOUSE; STRAW BALES; STRESS-STRAIN BEHAVIORS; TEMPERATURE AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEST PROGRAM; THERMAL STABILITY; THERMAL STABILITY OF BALES; TIME DEPENDENCE;

COMPRESSION TESTING; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOFTWARE TESTING; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

EID: 79957836443     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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