A User-Friendly Tool to Characterize the Moisture Transfer in Porous Building Materials: FLoW1D

This paper presents a user-friendly tool—FLoW1D (One-Dimensional Water Flow)—for the estimation of parameters that characterize the unsaturated moisture transfer in porous building materials. FLoW1D has been developed in Visual Basic for Applications and implemented as a function of the well-known M...

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Authors: Cabrera, Virginia, López-Vizcaíno López, Rubén, Yustres Real, Ángel, Ruiz, Miguel Ángel, Torrero Fuentes, Enrique, Navarro Gamir, Vicente
Format: article
Publication Date:2020
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Repository:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM
OAI Identifier:oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/25719
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3390/app10155090
http://hdl.handle.net/10578/25719
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Porous building materials
Architectural heritage
Hygrothermal simulation
Moisture transfer
Hydric characterization
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spelling A User-Friendly Tool to Characterize the Moisture Transfer in Porous Building Materials: FLoW1DCabrera, VirginiaLópez-Vizcaíno López, RubénYustres Real, ÁngelRuiz, Miguel ÁngelTorrero Fuentes, EnriqueNavarro Gamir, VicentePorous building materialsArchitectural heritageHygrothermal simulationMoisture transferHydric characterizationThis paper presents a user-friendly tool—FLoW1D (One-Dimensional Water Flow)—for the estimation of parameters that characterize the unsaturated moisture transfer in porous building materials. FLoW1D has been developed in Visual Basic for Applications and implemented as a function of the well-known Microsoft Excel© spreadsheet application. The aim of our work is to provide a simple and useful tool to improve the analysis and interpretation of conventional tests for the characterization of the hygric behavior of porous building materials. FLoW1D embraces the conceptual model described in EN 15026 for moisture transfer in building elements, and its implementation has been verified and validated correctly. In order to show the scope of the code, an example of an application has been presented. The hygric characterization of the limestone that is mostly employed in the Cathedral of Santa Maria and San Julian in Cuenca (Spain) was conducted based on an analysis of the conventional water absorption by capillarity tests (EN 15801).MDPI202020202020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.3390/app10155090http://hdl.handle.net/10578/25719reponame:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLMinstname:Universidad de Castilla-La ManchaInglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/257192026-05-27T07:36:41Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A User-Friendly Tool to Characterize the Moisture Transfer in Porous Building Materials: FLoW1D
title A User-Friendly Tool to Characterize the Moisture Transfer in Porous Building Materials: FLoW1D
spellingShingle A User-Friendly Tool to Characterize the Moisture Transfer in Porous Building Materials: FLoW1D
Cabrera, Virginia
Porous building materials
Architectural heritage
Hygrothermal simulation
Moisture transfer
Hydric characterization
title_short A User-Friendly Tool to Characterize the Moisture Transfer in Porous Building Materials: FLoW1D
title_full A User-Friendly Tool to Characterize the Moisture Transfer in Porous Building Materials: FLoW1D
title_fullStr A User-Friendly Tool to Characterize the Moisture Transfer in Porous Building Materials: FLoW1D
title_full_unstemmed A User-Friendly Tool to Characterize the Moisture Transfer in Porous Building Materials: FLoW1D
title_sort A User-Friendly Tool to Characterize the Moisture Transfer in Porous Building Materials: FLoW1D
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cabrera, Virginia
López-Vizcaíno López, Rubén
Yustres Real, Ángel
Ruiz, Miguel Ángel
Torrero Fuentes, Enrique
Navarro Gamir, Vicente
author Cabrera, Virginia
author_facet Cabrera, Virginia
López-Vizcaíno López, Rubén
Yustres Real, Ángel
Ruiz, Miguel Ángel
Torrero Fuentes, Enrique
Navarro Gamir, Vicente
author_role author
author2 López-Vizcaíno López, Rubén
Yustres Real, Ángel
Ruiz, Miguel Ángel
Torrero Fuentes, Enrique
Navarro Gamir, Vicente
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Porous building materials
Architectural heritage
Hygrothermal simulation
Moisture transfer
Hydric characterization
topic Porous building materials
Architectural heritage
Hygrothermal simulation
Moisture transfer
Hydric characterization
description This paper presents a user-friendly tool—FLoW1D (One-Dimensional Water Flow)—for the estimation of parameters that characterize the unsaturated moisture transfer in porous building materials. FLoW1D has been developed in Visual Basic for Applications and implemented as a function of the well-known Microsoft Excel© spreadsheet application. The aim of our work is to provide a simple and useful tool to improve the analysis and interpretation of conventional tests for the characterization of the hygric behavior of porous building materials. FLoW1D embraces the conceptual model described in EN 15026 for moisture transfer in building elements, and its implementation has been verified and validated correctly. In order to show the scope of the code, an example of an application has been presented. The hygric characterization of the limestone that is mostly employed in the Cathedral of Santa Maria and San Julian in Cuenca (Spain) was conducted based on an analysis of the conventional water absorption by capillarity tests (EN 15801).
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