BuffermetryFundamentals of moisture buffering Properties of hygroscopic materials Diffusion enhanced materials and structures Experimental: Sorption experiments Experimental: Diffusion experiments Incorporating the buffer in the construction Whole room simulations and experiments Experiment in the Passys environmental room Appendices - instruments and procedures Wiki howto |
Whole room simulations and experimentsModellingIt has become the custom in the building physics community that a computer model has to be constructed to validate the experimental evidence and connect it to an underlying physical process, so that large and complicated structures can have their relative humidity predicted. We don't intend to make our own model but will collect our data in such a way that they can be fed into existing heat-and-moisture models such as BSim (DK) and WUFI+ (DE). The prior artThe pioneer in adding bricks to an exhibition gallery is Carl Andre, whose sculpture Equivalent VIII was acquired by the Tate Gallery, at it was then named, in 1976. Unfortunately, he used fired bricks, which have some heat buffer capacity but negligible moisture buffer capacity. This was not the reason for the widespread criticism this acquisition aroused but with the passage of time we can recognise this as the real failure of his sculpture.  |