Climate loads and their effect on building envelopes - an overview
Cornick, S.M
2001
NRCC-45570, a presentation, National Research Council of Canada
Cornick, S.M, (2001), "Climate loads and their effect on building envelopes - an overview", NRCC-45570, a presentation, National Research Council of Canada.
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Also in presentation:
Cornick, S. M., (2002), Climate loads and their effect on building envelopes - an overview, Presentation at OBEC Seminar (Hamilton, Ontario, 3/14/2002), pp. 1-33, January 22.
MEWS information on climate load at (NRCC-45570) (www.nrc.ca/irc/fulltext/nrcc45570/)
A Moisture Index Approach
? For buildings a few schemes exist
? They are based on combinations of Temperature and Rainfall
? Two examples are:
- Russo has a scheme for construction
- Scheffer for above ground decay of wood
: climate study should be conducted independent of the wall characteristics |
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