Durability Control of Brickwork's Material Including Operation Parameters of the Building Enclosure

This paper aims to develop a method to determine material durability based on physicochemical laws that describe chemical corrosion in building enclosures. The subject of this research is studying the chemical corrosion in the material in building constructions. The object of this research is the material of building ceramics. Methods that the authors used for reaching this goal include developing a multi-staged process of material degradation of building ceramics, conduction of thermodynamic calculations, and conducting laboratory research on process kinetics. The results of kinetic researches are generalized based on a developed mathematical model. This comprehensive approach to solving the goal task allowed obtaining the following results: research methods of chemical processes in brick material and its plaster on humidification were developed. A mathematical model for evaluating material degradation in time with the changing climatic influence on enclosure was developed.

PCM Cement-Lime Mortars for Enhanced Energy Efficiency of Multilayered Building Enclosures under Different Climatic Conditions

Phase change materials (PCMs) are promising materials for the energy efficiency improvement of building enclosures, due to their energy storage capacity. The thermal behaviour of a multi-layered building enclosure with five different compositions of PCM cement-lime mortars was evaluated under heating and cooling cycles. The behaviour of cement-lime mortars with 20% of microencapsulated PCM mixed with other additions, such as cellulose fibres and perlite, a lightweight aggregate (LWA), were studied under climate conditions of 15 °C–82% RH (cooling) and 30 °C–33% RH (heating) that were applied with a climatic chamber. Temperature and heat flux on both sides of the multi-layered enclosure were experimentally measured in laboratory tests. Temperature was also measured on both sides of the PCM cement-lime mortar layer. It was observed that the addition of the PCM cement-lime mortar layer delayed the heat flux through the enclosure. During a heating cycle, the incorporation of PCM delayed the arrival of the heat wave front by 30 min (8.1% compared to the reference mortar without PCM). The delay of the arrival of the heat wave front during the cooling cycle after adding PCM, compared to the reference mixture, reached 40.6% (130 min of delay). Furthermore, the incorporation of LWA in PCM cement-lime mortars also improved thermal insulation, further increasing energy efficiency of the building enclosure, and can be used not only for new buildings but also for energy rehabilitation of existing building enclosures.

Mathematical simulation of forest fire front influence on wood-based building using one-dimensional model of heat transfer

The purpose of the present paper is to mathematical simulation of heat transfer in enclosures of wood-based building when exposed to thermal radiation from forest fire front. One-dimensional mathematical model is used. Mathematically, heat transfer in building enclosures is described by system of non-stationary equations of heat conduction with corresponding initial and boundary conditions. It is suggested to use several scenarios of forest fire impact. Temperature distribution on wall depth is obtained for different scenarios of forest fire impact on building enclosures.