TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT ii
UNDERTAKING iii
CERTIFICATE iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v
LIST OF FIGURES vi
LIST OF TABLES vii
1. INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 Background 1
1.1.1 Lime and cement as building materials 1
1.1.2 Hygrothermal behaviour of materials 2
1.1.3 Thermal Inertia 3
1.1.4 Moisture buffering capacity of materials. 3
1.2 Aim and Research questions 3
2. LITERATURE REVIEW 4
2.1 Thermal bridging through the mortar layer 4
2.2 Moisture buffering in hygroscopic materials 4
2.3 Need for the study 5
3. METHODOLOGY 6
3.1 Selection of Methodology 6
3.2 Overall methodology 7
3.2.1 Development of Test Cells 8
3.2.2 Data gathering 9
3.2.3 Calibration of instruments 10
3.2.4 Measurement protocols 10
3.2.5 Testing Properties of Material 12
3.2.6 Data analysis 12
4. RESULTS 13
4.1 Air temperature in test cells 13
4.2 Surface temperatures in the test cells 15
4.3 Relative humidity in the test cells 18
4.4 Indoor conditions in the test cells 20
5. CONCLUSION 21
6. LIMITATIONS 22
7. FUTURE SCOPE OF WORK 22
8. REFERENCES 23 ix
9. APPENDICES 25
9.1 Appendix A 25
9.1.1 Shading mask of both test cells 25
9.1.2 Material Quantity for test cell construction 25
9.1.3 Drawings for the test cells 26
9.1.4 Acid dissolution test 26
9.2 Appendix B 27
9.3 Appendix C 28
9.3.1 Calibration certificate and equations 28
9.4 Appendix D 31
9.4.1 Results for entire measurement period 31