1063) Experimental Studies on Light-Weight Materials for Building Fire Proofing Part 1

Light Weight Active Structural Materials

Insect-proofing during Building Construction

TRUCTURAL AND HOUSEHOLD PEST S CONTROL in the United States requires annual expenditures of hundreds of millions of dollars and the services of 27,000 licensed pest control operators. Preventive measures against structural and household pests should be taken during the construction of a building, because such measures are most effective and economical at that time. Preventive measures fall into...

Melt-Flow Behaviours of Thermoplastic Materials under Fire Conditions: Recent Experimental Studies and Some Theoretical Approaches

Polymeric materials often exhibit complex combustion behaviours encompassing several stages and involving solid phase, gas phase and interphase. A wide range of qualitative, semi-quantitative and quantitative testing techniques are currently available, both at the laboratory scale and for commercial purposes, for evaluating the decomposition and combustion behaviours of polymeric materials. The...

application of small-scale experimental models for thermal comfort assessment of sustainable building materials

accumulation of unmanaged industrial solid waste, especially in developing countries has resulted in an increased environmental concern. in view of utilization of industrial solid waste the recycled paper mill waste (rpmw) – cement composite bricks were designed and developed. in order to investigate the environmental performance of sustainable construction materials two small scale model house...

Fast sorption measurements of volatile organic compounds on building materials: Part 1 – Methodology developed for field applications

A Proton Transfer Reaction-Mass Spectrometer (PTR-MS) has been coupled to the outlet of a Field and Laboratory Emission Cell (FLEC), to measure volatile organic compounds (VOC) concentration during a sorption experiments (Rizk et al., this issue) [1]. The limits of detection of the PTR-MS for three VOCs are presented for different time resolution (2, 10 and 20 s). The mass transfer coefficient ...