Moisture Buffer Value of Building Materials
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Summary, in English
Building materials and furnishing used in contact with indoor air may have a positive effect to moderate the variations of indoor humidity seen in occupied buildings. Thus, very low humidity can be alleviated in winter, as well as can high indoor humidity in summer and during high occupancy loads. This way, materials can be used as a passive means of establishing indoor climatic conditions, which are comfortable for human occupancy, or for safe storing of artefacts which are sensible to humidity variation. But so far there has been a lack of a standardized figure to characterize the moisture buffering ability of materials. It has been the objective of a recent (ongoing until mid-2005) Nordic project to come up with such a definition, and to declare it in the form of a NORDTEST method. Apart from the definition of the term Moisture Buffer Value, there will also be a declaration of a test protocol which expresses how materials should be tested. Finally as a part of the project, some Round Robin Tests will be carried out on various typical building materials. The paper gives an account on the definition of the Moisture Buffer Value, it will outline the content of the test protocol, and it will give some examples of results from the Round Robin Tests.
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Publishing year
2006
Language
English
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Document type
Conference paper
Topic
- Building Technologies
Keywords
- materials
- moisture
- indoor air
- transport properties
- buffer capacity
- Round Robin Test
Conference name
ASTM Symposium on Heat-Air-Moisture Transport: Measurements on Building Materials
Conference date
2006-04-23
Conference place
Toronto, Canada
Status
Published