Caractérisation expérimentale des transferts couplés de chaleur et de masse dans les enveloppes de constructions en bois.

A double climatic chamber based on the guarded hot box method was designed to study the hygrothermal behaviour of different compositions of timber walls. Equipment installed allows to reproduce in the climatic chamber hygrothermal conditions close to real climatic conditions and to assess the evolution of temperature and humidity profiles of the tested wails. This paper deals with the hygrothermal behaviour of a timber-framed wall including hygroscopic materials. The results showed that the ability of the experimental device to reproduce desired conditions made it possible to measure wall thermal properties during steady-state (thermal resistance) and transient conditions (decrement factor and time lag). The hygroscopic behaviour of tested materials was also observed during the tests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]