Date of Award
2014
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
First Advisor
Donna M. Rizzo
Second Advisor
Mandar M. Dewoolkar
Abstract
In many events affecting our civil infrastructure, such as contamination or weathering, it is likely that only the surfaces of the affected building materials will be available for non-destructive measurements. In this work, we describe and analyze surface gas permeability measurements on a variety of natural and engineered building materials using two types of relatively new, non-destructive surface permeameters. It is shown that the surface gas permeability measurements correlate well with each other and could provide rapid estimates of macroscopic gas permeability and degradation of materials due to weathering. It is hypothesized that surface permeability can be used to predict macroscopic wicking of water. The results indicated that macroscopic wicking correlated reasonably well with surface permeability measurements of uniform materials with low permeabilities such as sandstones and clay brick.
Language
en
Number of Pages
166 p.
Recommended Citation
Grover, David Klein Weibust, "Surface Gas Permeability of Porous Building Materials: Measurement, Analysis and Applications" (2014). Graduate College Dissertations and Theses. 266.
https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/266