Multitemporal thermal analysis to detect moisture on a building fa?ade
Lerma, J. L., Cabrelles, M. and Portales, C.
2011 Construction and Building Materials, 25(5): 2190-2197
Lerma, J. L., Cabrelles, M. and Portales, C., (2011), "Multitemporal thermal analysis to detect moisture on a building fa?ade", Construction and Building Materials, 25(5): 2190-2197.
Abstract:
It is well known that the content of water does affect materials behaviour and may cause important damages to buildings, including structural deterioration. Thermography is a non-intrusive imaging technique that allows the inspection of different materials based on their surface temperatures. Within an appropriate thermal analysis, moisture and other structural damages can be detected. The present research work deals with multitemporal thermal analysis to detect moisture on buildings, as well as other alterations. Two different approaches are tested to determine the effectiveness on the moisture surveys, one simple based on image differences, and another more sophisticated based on principal components analysis (PCA). The results are tested at the front door of the Arenberg Castle (Leuven, Belgium). Some moisture maps are derived and used to determine the reliability of either the computation of image differences or the PCA to carry out semi-automatically moisture surveys on architectural facades. The latter method is proven to be superior when using thermal imagery acquired at different times.
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