[Bldg-sim] sources for material libraries

Struck Christian HSLU T&A christian.struck at hslu.ch
Thu Jan 16 06:05:43 PST 2014


Hey Christoph


A source that is slightly dated (1989) but still interesting to read is the report titled: “The Harmonisation of Thermal Properties of Building Materials” by Joe Clarke and colleaques (www.esru.strath.ac.uk/Documents/89/thermop_rep.pdf‎). The background was to collect data to extract information on the uncertainty of the material properties as input to uncertainty propagation studies. Another potential source might be the work of Prof. John Grunewald at the TU Dresden on modelling material properties (http://tu-dresden.de/bauklimatik).



Any chance that you expand on the work of Joe with regards to deriving and publishing uncertainty data on material properties?



Kind regards,



Christian
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Von: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] Im Auftrag von Christoph Reinhart
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2014 04:49
An: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Betreff: [Bldg-sim] sources for material libraries

Dear colleagues,

We are currently assembling a material library as a basis for energy simulations and the question came up which source we should use to describe the various thermal and optical properties of  typical construction materials? A natural answer seems to be to use the ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals 2009 Chapter 26 which lists such numbers. Are these the tables that “all” of you are using or am I missing an important resource? What about our Canadian, European and other international friends? Would you scorn at an ASHRAE library and rather use your own numbers? This data input is obviously tedious so we want to avoid having to do repeatedly.

All the best,

Christoph


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