Thermal inertia in energy efficient building envelopes / Francesca Stazi.

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Biography Preface Acknowledgments Symbols, Units, and Conventions 1. High Thermal Resistance Versus High Thermal Capacity: The Dilemma 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Background 1.2.1 The optimal envelope identification is still a challenge 1.2.2 Comfort issues 1.2.3 Environmental issues and global costs 1.3 The Need to Restore the Dynamic Behavior of the Envelope 1.4 What Is New... References 2. The Envelope: A Complex and Dynamic Problem 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Relevant Parameters. 2.2.1 Problem description2.2.2 Dynamic thermal characteristics of the building envelope 2.2.3 The internal areal heat capacity 2.2.4 Effect of the internal heat capacity on summer performance 2.2.5 The dampening attitude 2.2.6 Effect of the dampening attitude on summer performance 2.2.7 Improving the worst solution W6 2.2.8 Dynamic parameters affecting the winter consumptions 2.2.9 A proposal for superinsulated envelopes in temperate climates 2.3 Impact of Thermal Capacity in Different Design Conditions 2.3.1 Problem description 2.3.2 Skin dominated versus core dominated. 2.3.3 Shaded versus unshaded2.3.4 Continuously used versus intermittently used 2.3.5 Ventilated versus unventilated 2.4 The Importance of the Occupants' Behavior 2.4.1 Problem description 2.4.2 Occupants' behavior on the use of the heating plants 2.4.3 Different use of natural ventilation and envelope air permeability 2.4.4 Global convenience of an intervention of superinsulation 2.5 The Complex Interaction Between Mass and Other Factors 2.5.1 Problem description 2.5.2 Trend inversion 2.5.3 Impact of the mass with and without natural ventilation. 2.5.4 Impact of the presence of other heat losing elements2.5.5 Effect of superinsulation in envelopes with different mass 2.6 Thermal Mass and Extreme Climates 2.6.1 Problem description 2.6.2 Extremely hot climates 2.6.3 Cold climates 2.7 Design Patterns References 3. Retrofit of Existing Envelopes 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Capacity (C), Stratification (S), and High Resistance (HR): Three Different Ways Against Climate 3.3 Simultaneous Measure of the Three Different Existing Envelope Typologies 3.3.1 Problem description 3.3.2 Summer behavior 3.3.3 Winter behavior. 3.4 Retrofit of Capacitive Load-Bearing Walls, Exploring Different C Types3.4.1 Problem description 3.4.2 Solid masonry four-wythe C1 3.4.3 Solid masonry three-wythe C2 3.4.4 Semisolid masonry C3 3.4.5 Optimal retrofit intervention from a global cost evaluation 3.5 Retrofit of Stratified Envelopes, Comparing Alternatives for Retrofit of S Types 3.5.1 Problem description 3.5.2 Medium decrementing attitude (0.0440) and variable decrementing attitude 3.5.4 Optimal retrofit intervention from an overall comfort evaluation.