A concept for a potential metric to characterise the dynamic thermal performance of walls

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 54, Issue , 2012, Pages 52-60

  Alterman, Dariusz ^a   Moffiet, Trevor ^a   Hands, Stuart ^a   Page, Adrian ^a   Luo, Caimao ^a   Moghtaderi, Behdad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dynamic response; Passive solar design; Thermal mass; Thermal performance; Thermal resistance

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BUILDING ELEMENT; BUILDING ENVELOPES; DESIGN PRACTICE; DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATIONS; NOVEL CONCEPT; PASSIVE SOLAR DESIGN; R VALUE; THERMAL CHANGES; THERMAL MASS; THERMAL MASS PROPERTIES; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; THERMAL RESPONSE; UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE; WALL TYPES;

DYNAMIC RESPONSE; HEAT RESISTANCE; HOUSING; MIXED CONVECTION; SOLAR BUILDINGS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; THERMAL INSULATION;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 84865505667     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.08.006     Document Type: Article

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