Thermal Insulating Concrete Wall Panel Design for Sustainable Built Environment
Air-conditioning system plays a significant role in providing users a thermally comfortable indoor environment, which is a necessity in modern buildings. In order to save the vast energy consumed by air-conditioning system, the building envelopes in envelope-load dominated buildings should be well d...
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| author | Zhou, Ao Wong, Kwun-Wah Lau, Denvid |
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| description | Air-conditioning system plays a significant role in providing users a thermally comfortable indoor environment, which is a necessity in modern buildings. In order to save the vast energy consumed by air-conditioning system, the building envelopes in envelope-load dominated buildings should be well designed such that the unwanted heat gain and loss with environment can be minimized. In this paper, a new design of concrete wall panel that enhances thermal insulation of buildings by adding a gypsum layer inside concrete is presented. Experiments have been conducted for monitoring the temperature variation in both proposed sandwich wall panel and conventional concrete wall panel under a heat radiation source. For further understanding the thermal effect of such sandwich wall panel design from building scale, two three-story building models adopting different wall panel designs are constructed for evaluating the temperature distribution of entire buildings using finite element method. Both the experimental and simulation results have shown that the gypsum layer improves the thermal insulation performance by retarding the heat transfer across the building envelopes. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/960982022-09-29T21:37:30Z Thermal Insulating Concrete Wall Panel Design for Sustainable Built Environment Zhou, Ao Wong, Kwun-Wah Lau, Denvid Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Lau, Denvid Air-conditioning system plays a significant role in providing users a thermally comfortable indoor environment, which is a necessity in modern buildings. In order to save the vast energy consumed by air-conditioning system, the building envelopes in envelope-load dominated buildings should be well designed such that the unwanted heat gain and loss with environment can be minimized. In this paper, a new design of concrete wall panel that enhances thermal insulation of buildings by adding a gypsum layer inside concrete is presented. Experiments have been conducted for monitoring the temperature variation in both proposed sandwich wall panel and conventional concrete wall panel under a heat radiation source. For further understanding the thermal effect of such sandwich wall panel design from building scale, two three-story building models adopting different wall panel designs are constructed for evaluating the temperature distribution of entire buildings using finite element method. Both the experimental and simulation results have shown that the gypsum layer improves the thermal insulation performance by retarding the heat transfer across the building envelopes. Croucher Foundation (Start-up Allowance Grant 9500012) 2015-03-20T12:15:01Z 2015-03-20T12:15:01Z 2014-08 2014-02 2015-03-19T11:30:12Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2356-6140 1537-744X http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96098 Zhou, Ao, Kwun-Wah Wong, and Denvid Lau. “Thermal Insulating Concrete Wall Panel Design for Sustainable Built Environment.” The Scientific World Journal 2014 (2014): 1–12. en http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/279592 The Scientific World Journal Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 Copyright © 2014 Ao Zhou et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. application/pdf Hindawi Publishing Corporation Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
| spellingShingle | Zhou, Ao Wong, Kwun-Wah Lau, Denvid Thermal Insulating Concrete Wall Panel Design for Sustainable Built Environment |
| title | Thermal Insulating Concrete Wall Panel Design for Sustainable Built Environment |
| title_full | Thermal Insulating Concrete Wall Panel Design for Sustainable Built Environment |
| title_fullStr | Thermal Insulating Concrete Wall Panel Design for Sustainable Built Environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Thermal Insulating Concrete Wall Panel Design for Sustainable Built Environment |
| title_short | Thermal Insulating Concrete Wall Panel Design for Sustainable Built Environment |
| title_sort | thermal insulating concrete wall panel design for sustainable built environment |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96098 |
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