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Building Moisture and Durability
Building moisture and durability research focuses on extending the service life of wood products in buildings through improved building design and operation. |
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Research Focus Areas
- Advancing a performance-based approach to building design
- Evaluating building performance through field and laboratory experiments and computer modeling
- Investigating interior and exterior moisture loads on buildings
- Measuring properties of wood products related to heat, air, and moisture transfer
- Characterizing the durability of wood products
Project Leader for Durability and Wood Protection
Carol Clausen |
Moisture Performance Chamber
To address the need for research on wind-driven rain intrusion in walls, Forest Products Laboratory has developed the Chamber for Analytic Research on Wall Assemblies Exposed to Simulated Weather (CARWASh), a new, custom-designed moisture performance testing facility. |
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This chamber enables realistic laboratory simulations of wind-driven rain impinging on full-scale wall assemblies. Individual tests can be programmed with weather data and set to run for weeks or months at a time. A computer data acquisition system records readings from a host of sensors. Click here to download the Chamber for Analytic Research on Wall Assemblies Exposed to Simulated Weather (CARWASh) factsheet. |
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