Mumovic, D.;
Ridley, I.;
Oreszczyn, T.;
Davies, M.;
(2006)
Condensation risk: comparison of steady-state and transient methods.
Building Services Engineering Research and Technology
, 27
(3)
pp. 219-233.
10.1191/0143624406bse163oa.
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Abstract
Accurate assessment of both surface and interstitial condensation risk is important not only to reduce the damaging effect of moisture within the structure of buildings, but also to provide a healthy environment free from mould growth. The current British Standard (BS EN ISO 13788: 2002) contains an assessment procedure based on the assumption of a steady-state heat flow through the building envelope, neglecting the transient nature of the problem. This paper compares and evaluates numerical results of the condensation risk calculation under both steady-state and transient conditions using the existing numerical codes. Significant differences are apparent between the predictions of the simple (steady-state) and complex (transient) methods for all construction details modelled.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Condensation risk: comparison of steady-state and transient methods |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1191/0143624406bse163oa |
| Publisher version: | http://bse.sagepub.com/content/27/3/219 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers 2006. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm). |
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| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/2296 |
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