Hot box measurements of pumice aggregate concrete hollow block walls

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 38, Issue , 2013, Pages 837-845

  Kus, Hülya ^a   Özkan, Ertan ^b   Göcer, Özgür ^b   Edis, Ecem ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BEYKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Concrete block; Hot box; Hygrothermal performance; Measurement; Pumice

Indexed keywords

BLOCK WALLS; HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS; HOT BOX; HUMIDITY MEASUREMENTS; HYGROTHERMAL; HYGROTHERMAL PERFORMANCE; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; MASONRY WALLS; OUTDOOR CLIMATE; PROBLEMATIC ISSUES; PUMICE AGGREGATE CONCRETES; ROUGH SURFACES; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; THERMAL TRANSMITTANCE;

ABRASIVES; CONCRETE BLOCKS; MEASUREMENTS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

AGGREGATES;

EID: 84867899944     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2012.09.053     Document Type: Article

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