Key elements of and material performance targets for highly insulatingwindow frames

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2583-2594

  Gustavsen, Arild ^a   Grynninga, Steinar ^a,c   Arasteh, Dariush ^b   Jelle, Bjørn Petter ^a,c   Goudey, Howdy ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Fenestration; Heat transfer modeling; Thermal performance; Thermal transmittance; U factor; Window frames

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FLOORS; HEAT TRANSFER; ROOFS; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

FENESTRATION; HEAT TRANSFER MODEL; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; THERMAL TRANSMITTANCE; WINDOW FRAMES;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 80054810087     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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