Study of heat and moisture migration properties in porous building materials

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z.Q. Chen ◽  
M.H. Shi
2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Łukasz Cieślikiewicz ◽  
Michał Wasik ◽  
Michał Kubiś ◽  
Piotr Łapka ◽  
Marcin Bugaj ◽  
...  

Abstract The paper presents development of an experimental stand with centrally located specimen for the investigation of heating and drying processes in porous building materials. Additionally, the paper contains preliminary results of measurements which test and verify the assumed operation conditions of the stand. In order to control parameters of air which was used to heat and dry the specimen, the stand was operating in a closed loop and was equipped with several elements, i.e., the cooler (humidity condenser), fan with variable rotation speed, humidifier and heater. Moreover, the stand consisted of two square and parallel ducts with air streams which had identical parameters. This allowed for two measurements at the same time.


Author(s):  
Ruta Miniotaite

Moisture in porous building materials plays an important role in almost all durability problems. The sorption characteristics of building materials exhibit hysteresis in the way the equilibrium curves develop between adsorption and desorption. The sorption curves are also somewhat temperature-dependent. These facts are most often neglected in models for combined heat and moisture transport in materials. This study provides the sorption isotherm and its hysteresis of different porous building materials. The paper seeks to contribute to the knowledge base about such sorption characteristic by presenting some new measurements of hysteresis and temperature dependency of the moisture sorption characteristics of different porous building materials: concrete, porous concrete, cement plaster, limes cement plaster, brick, and spruce. Scanning curves are measured for all materials where periods with adsorption and desorption interrupt each other intermittently between 0% and 97% of relative humidity.


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