Rising damp in building walls: the wall base ventilation system

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2012

Authors

A.S. Guimarães (Author) FEUP; J.M.P.Q. Delgado (Author) FEUP; V.P. de Freitas (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

Vol. 48 No. 12

Pages: 2079-2085

ISSN: 0947-7411

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-32H

DOI: 10.1007/s00231-012-1053-3

Abstract (EN): This work intends to validate a new system for treating rising damp in historic buildings walls. The results of laboratory experiments show that an efficient way of treating rising damp is by ventilating the wall base, using the HUMIVENT technique. The analytical model presented describes very well the observed features of rising damp in walls, verified by laboratory tests, who contributed for a simple sizing of the wall base ventilation system that will be implemented in historic buildings.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 7