Hygrothermal behaviour of hemp concrete: Experimental evidences and modelling

Antonin Fabbri, Pierre Antoine Chabriac, Dac Thuong Ngo, Frederic Sallet, Emmanuel Gourdon, Henry Wong, Jean Claude Morel

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Abstract

This paper presents experimental hygrothermal data of an hemp concrete wall of dimensions 0.9×0.9×0.1 [m3]. The wall is instrumented with sensors to monitor temperature, relative humidity at the middle of the wall and incoming heat flows at the external surfaces. It is placed in a double climatic chamber that allows the regulation of temperature and relative humidity on each side of the wall, independently to each other. The experimental results leads to a clear identification of the coupling between the variation of the relative humidity inside the wall and its temperature. The validity of the commonly adopted assumptions for hygrothermal simulation are finally analyzed in the light of these experimental results. The material parameters used for the simulations are measured separately on decimetric samples of the same hemp concrete, which comes from the same mix and with the same apparent density.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering
Subtitle of host publicationCOUPLED PROBLEMS 2015
PublisherInternational Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering
Pages59-70
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9788494392832
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event6th International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, COUPLED PROBLEMS 2015 - Venice, Italy
Duration: 18 May 201520 May 2015

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, COUPLED PROBLEMS 2015
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVenice
Period18/05/1520/05/15

Keywords

  • Applications
  • Computing Methods
  • Coupled Problems
  • Instructions
  • Multiphysics Problems

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Mathematics
  • Engineering(all)
  • Applied Mathematics

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