Publication detail

Design Properties of Log Walls with Respect to Building Physics

KACÁLEK, P. SMOLKA, R. PETŘÍČEK, T.

Original Title

Design Properties of Log Walls with Respect to Building Physics

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The paper deals with the construction of walls of log wood houses of Canadian type in terms of thermal insulation, with the focus shifted onto the comparison of alternative structural solutions of such walls. The main aim of the research done was to assess the different Canadian type massive log wood walls, with various thermally insulating materials placed between the logs. The computer simulations of wall models did include a Final Element Method analysis in ANSYS software. Massive wooden walls unfortunately do hardly meet today's ever increasing requirements given for thermal resistance, heat conductivity and heat losses of a building, since the bed joints are weakened and also because of the thermal conductivity of wood itself. Thus, mainly the contact surface temperature was observed, which also became one of the evaluation factors describing the quality of construction. The main benefits of the paper is the list of surface temperatures (within the joint and on the logs) coming from simulations of joint solutions and insulating materials.

Keywords

Massive Log Wood, Temperature Fields, Surface Temperature, Thermally Insulating Material

Authors

KACÁLEK, P.; SMOLKA, R.; PETŘÍČEK, T.

RIV year

2014

Released

27. 10. 2014

Publisher

Trans Tech Publications

Location

Kreuzstrasse 10, 8635 Dürnten-Zürich, Switzerland, Dürnten

ISBN

978-80-214-5003-5

Book

enviBUILD 2014

ISBN

1022-6680

Periodical

Advanced Materials Research

Year of study

2014

Number

1041

State

Swiss Confederation

Pages from

288

Pages to

292

Pages count

5

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT113911,
  author="Petr {Kacálek} and Radim {Smolka} and Tomáš {Petříček}",
  title="Design Properties of Log Walls with Respect to Building Physics",
  booktitle="enviBUILD 2014",
  year="2014",
  journal="Advanced Materials Research",
  volume="2014",
  number="1041",
  pages="288--292",
  publisher="Trans Tech Publications",
  address="Kreuzstrasse 10, 8635 Dürnten-Zürich, Switzerland, Dürnten",
  doi="10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1041.288",
  isbn="978-80-214-5003-5",
  issn="1022-6680"
}