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DEVELOPING LABORATORY EQUIPMENT FOR HYGROTHERMAL PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF INSULATION MATERIALS
Abstract
The building and construction sector remains one of the largest contributors to global climate change, thus the industry is focusing on reducing the embodied emissions from materials and minimizing operational energy through superior building envelope performance. As the industry transitions from traditional products to advanced bio-based materials, the requirements for measurement precision, dynamic response tracking, and environmental simulation have surpassed the capabilities of legacy instrumentation. Modern laboratory infrastructure must now integrate high-fidelity physical testing with advanced computational paradigms, such as digital twins and machine learning, to provide a holistic view of material performance across extended lifecycles. Developing a new instrument that is able to create two environments with temperatures ranging from -5 to +30 degree Celsius in order to replicate the winter conditions for the buildings envelope and to measure the heat flow and specific heat capacity in a dynamic thermal regime is a real challenge, absolutely necessary to predict the real behavior of organic insulation materials. Instrumental measurement of the moisture influence on the thermal conductivity parameter and heat flow creates the input parameters for a digital twin of the new building materials.
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