Experimental Determination of Heat and Moisture Transport Properties of AAC in the Range of Subzero to Room Temperatures

Hygric properties of porous building materials (VII): Full-range benchmark characterizations of three materials

“…Researchers have been consistently confronting this challenge by innovating original experimental methods [13,[25][26][27], but this is still a work in progress. Plagge [28] Huang et al [29] Haba et al [30] Kočí et al [31] Jerman et al [32] Seng et al [33] Colinart et al [34] Year…”

Hygric properties of porous building materials (V): Comparison of different methods to determine moisture diffusivity

“…For this study, we choose three building materialscalcium silicate (CS), ceramic brick (CB), and lime mortar (LM)as target materials. Table 1 summarizes our experimental results on some of their basic properties determined beforehand at room temperature: the bulk density (bulk, kg• m -3 ) and open porosity (, %) from vacuum saturation test [27], the vapor diffusion resistance factor (μ, -) from dry cup test (RH 11.3%-53.5%) [28], the adsorption equilibrium moisture content at RH 84.7% (u84.7%, kg• kg -1 ) from desiccator test [29], as well as the capillary absorption coefficient (Acap, kg• m -2 s -0.5 ) and capillary moisture content (wcap, kg• m -3 ) from capillary absorption test [30]. The pore size distributions obtained from mercury intrusion porosimetry [31] are also illustrated in Fig.…”