Thermal performance of lightweight steel framed wall: The importance of flanking thermal losses

Journal of Building Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 81-98

  Santos, Paulo ^a   Martins, Cláudio ^a   Da Silva, Luís Simões ^a   Bragança, Luís ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

experimental measurements; flanking heat losses; Lightweight steel framing walls; thermal transmittance; three dimensional numerical assessment

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION; PHYSICS;

EXTERNAL SURFACES; INTERNAL SURFACES; LIGHT-WEIGHT STEELS; LIGHTWEIGHT STEEL FRAMED WALLS; STEEL ELEMENTS; THERMAL PERFORMANCE; THERMAL TRANSMITTANCE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

HEAT FLUX;

EID: 84901935613     PISSN: 17442591     EISSN: 17442583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744259113499212     Document Type: Article

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