Sentences with word «hygrothermal»

As durability research advances, parallel developments in hygrothermal modeling tools for simulating heat, air and moisture interactions in building assemblies will gain in sophistication and accuracy.

Establishing boundary conditions for hygrothermal simulations based on controlled studies of real wall assemblies,

Achilles opened the two - day class I just took by saying, «No one can do hygrothermal analysis in their heads.»

WUFI ® Plus and WUFI ® Passive are user - friendly software programs that use sophisticated computer modeling to depict a building and its energy and hygrothermal behavior.

As Passive House designers, we are concerned with air - tightness and insulation value, as well as indoor environmental quality, hygrothermal performance, embodied energy, and green interior design.

The methods have been validated world wide and provide realistic simulation of hygrothermal conditions in building components and buildings under actual climate conditions.

As such this moisture transport mechanism needs to be considered by hygrothermal models for the models to be useful.

Maybe you've heard that it's a piece of software (several pieces, actually) that does hygrothermal modeling.

Funded by the German Federation of Industrial Research Associations (AiF), the project aims to generate hygrothermal KPIs of wood - based products for numerical simulations.

Standard EN 15026 defines a benchmark example for validating hygrothermal simulation software.

Using hygrothermal simulations and lab - based and on - site research, internal insulation solutions are analyzed and optimized based on actual building occupancy and operation.

In addition to simulating hygrothermic conditions in building components, WUFI ® Plus also determines the resulting interior hygrothermal conditions.

They replicated this problem using two - dimensional hygrothermal modeling in a Montreal climate and demonstrated that using semi-permeable materials (building paper) on both sides of a fiberglass batt cavity had the best overall performance.

Carol Chaffee of Carol Chaffee and Associates was tasked to help with an energy efficient lighting scheme, whereas Steve Doggett and Bob Brunjes of Built Environments helped with hygrothermal analysis and plan review — a process which proved invaluable and ultimately helped lock in the wall and roof assemblies.

Most hygrothermal models simplify the interaction by dropping the interactions with the solid phase.

About the speaker: John Straube, Ph.D., P.Eng., is a Principal at RDH Building Science Inc., where he heads forensic investigations and leads research projects in the areas of low - energy building design, building enclosure performance, hygrothermal analysis, and field monitoring of wall assemblies.

Building Science Consulting has conducted field testing of full scale test walls in an field exposure hut on the lower mainland of British Columbia, which experiences similar temperatures and moisture loads to both Portland OR, and Seattle WA, and some of those results will be shown here to compare actual measured results in the field to predicted results by hygrothermal simulations.

Hygrothermal simulation tools have been calibrated using core samples, which is not a feasible approach for most projects.

Other versions of WUFI do different things, so keep in mind that what you read below applies to the one - dimensional version of this hygrothermal modeling tool.

The quantitative analysis for each wall system is based on a three ‐ dimensional energy modeling program and a one ‐ dimensional dynamic heat and moisture (hygrothermal) model.

These data focus more on temperature than on humidity, and are therefore less suited to the hygrothermal analysis of building components.

Research on the hygrothermal behavior of window / wall connections was carried out in the dual - chamber climate simulator using two types of PU foam adhesive, without films for additional sealing.

Roofs can be designed and constructed to be either vented or unvented in any hygrothermal zone.

It was meant to provide a general assessment of the hygrothermal suitability of a component, not to produce a simulation of realistic heat and moisture conditions in a component exposed to the weather prevailing at its individual location.

The hygrothermal performance of roof assemblies has been the focus of only a few North American field measurement studies.

Hygrothermal simulations were run on the original and retrofitted assemblies using measured site environmental data, both to assess durability risks, and for comparison with the measured data.

However, another durability risk is the hygrothermal behavior of moisture - sensitive wood beams embedded in the load - bearing masonry.

This paper investigates the hygrothermal performance of wall assemblies with brick veneer cladding as well as manufactured adhered stone veneer with two different types of water resistive barriers.