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    material properties: hygrothermal

    ?Thermal conductivity of the dry material as a function of temperature

    ?Water vapour permeability and permeance as a function of relative humidity

    ?Equilibrium moisture content as a function of relative humidity and suction

    ?Moisture diffusivity as a function of moisture content

    ?Water absorption coefficient

    ?Air permeability and permeance.




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      This link was checked on Dec. 2006CIB W40
      "To explore the phenomena of heat, moisture and air transfer in buildings, components and materials; ? To formulate laws governing the physics involved; ? To define, measure and discuss the hygrothermal properties of materials and building components; ? To apply the acquired knowledge to the design, execution and maintenance of buildings " By This link was checked on Dec. 2006CIB

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    A complete theoretical isotherm for wood, based on capillary condensation, by Hunter, A. J., 1996
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    A numerical investigation of phase change effects in porous materials , by Vafai, K. and Tien, H. C., 1989
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    A thermal and moisture transport property data base for common building and insulating materials (final report), by Kumaran, M. K., 2005
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    Air permeance of building materials, by Air Ins., 1998
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    ANN approach to sorption hysteresis within a coupled hygro-thermo-mechanical FE analysis, by Gawin, D., Le, M., and Schrefler, B. A., 2001
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    Benefits from wood engineering research, by LeVan, S. L., 1998
    plots of soption, permeability, diffusivity; for wood, stucco, plywood, OSBs
    Building enclosure hygrothermal performance study phase I, by Karagiozis, A., 2002
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    Comparison of thermal conductivity measurements of building insulation materials under various operating temperatures, by Abdou, A. A., Budaiwi , I. M., 2005
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    Controlling house dust mites through ventilation: the development of a model of mite response to varying hygrothermal conditions, by Crowther, D., T. Oreszczyn, S. Pretlove, I. Ridley, J. Horwood, P. Cox and B. Leung, 2001
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    Determination of equilibrium moisture content of building materials: some practical difficulties, by Kumaran, MK., Mukhopadhyaya, P. and Normandin, N., 2006
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    Determination of liquid water transfer properties of porous building materials and development of numerical assessment methods: introduction to the ec hamstad project, by Adan, O. and Brocken, H., 2004
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    Determination of the isothermal moisture transport properties of porous building materials, by Carmeliet, J., Roels, S., 2001
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    Drying induced stresses in a swelling porous wall, by Kowalski, S. J. and Rybicki, A., 2004
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    Ecological insulation materials - does sorption moisture affect their insulation performance? , by Kehrer, M., Kunzel, H. and Sedlbauer, K., 2003
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    Formulations for thermodynamic properties of moist air at low pressures as used for construction of new ASHRAE SI unit psychrometric charts, by Stewart, R.B., Jacobsen, R.T. and Becker, J. H., 1996
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    Hygric material properties of porous building materials, by Haupl, P., Fechner, H., 2003
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    Hygroscopic behavior of paper and books, by Derluyn, H., Diepens,, Derome, D., West,, 2007
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    Influence of air space on multi-layered material water vapor permeability measurement, by Wu, Y., Kumaran, K. and Fazio, P., 2006
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    Investigating the conversion coefficients for free water surface evaporation of different evaporation pans, by Fu, G., Liu, C., Chen, S. and Hong, J., 2004
    contact interface
    Modeling moisture accumulation in multi-layered building materials, MODELING MOISTURE IN RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS WITH A MULTIZONE IAQ PROGRAM, by Qiu, X., Haghighat, F. and Kumaran, K., 2003
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    Modeling of heat and mass transfer at the boundary between a porous medium and its surroundings, by Erriguible, A., Bernada, P., Coutur, F. and Roques, M., 2005
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    Moisture management: prediction of response of exterior wall elements to climates, by Rousseau, M. Z., 2002
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    Moisture properties of some modern building materials, by Hedenblad, G., 1996
    non-isothermal moisture transfer
    Non-isothermal moisture transfer in porous building materials, by Holm, A. and Hunzel, H. M., 2000
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    On the hysteresis in moisture storage and conductivity measured by the instantaneous profile method, by Plagge, R., Scheffler, G., Grunewald, J., Funk, M., 2006
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    Position paper on material characterization and HAM model benchmarking, by Bomberg, M., Carmeliet, J., Grunewald, J., Holm, A., Karagiozis, A., Kuenzel, H. and Roels, S., 2002
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    Sorption isotherms - a catalogues, by Hansen, K.K., 1986
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    Summary Report from Task 3 of MEWS Project at the Institute for Research in Construction - Hygrothermal Properties of Several Building Materials, by Kumaran, K., Lackey, J., Normandin, N., Reenen, v. and Tariku, F., 2002
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    The behaviour of vapour transfer on building material surfaces: the vapour transfer resistance, by Worch, A., 2004
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    The effect of temperature on the moisture permeability of building materials, by Galbraith, G. H., Guo, J.S. and McLean, R.C, 2000
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    Towards an engineering model of material characteristics for input to ham transport simulations - Part 1: an approach, by Grunewald, J., H?upl, P., Bomberg, M., 2003
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    Transport and relaxation phenomena in porous media, by Hilfer, R., 1996
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    Water and water vapor penetration through coatings, by Cerny, R., Podebradska, J. and Drchalova, J., 2002
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    Water vapor pressure in the still air layer adhering to perforated plastic plates, by Tsubouchi, K. K., 1990
    wetting of wood
    Wetting phenomena on wood- factors influencing measurements of wood wettability, by W?linder, M., 2000



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