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Determination Of Water Vapour Permeability In Concrete Under High Moisture Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2011

Göran Hedenblad*
Affiliation:
Lund Institute of Technology, Division of Building Materials, Box 118, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden.
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Abstract

With a new method relying on measurements of water vapour flow from a specimen and on measurements of distribution of relative humidity in the specimen at steady state conditions, it is possible to calculate the moisture permeability and to determine its dependence on the relative humidity.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 1989

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