Rising damp in buildings : a theoretical study of likely factors and experiments on leaching, wall suction gradients

This thesis is concerned with the phenomenon of Rising Damp, which is a complex example of the simultaneous flows of volume (water), heat, solutes and electricity within a porous material. The physical complexity of this natural occurrence has required that the phenomenon be reduced into a series of...

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Main Author: Lee, P. B.
Published: Loughborough University 1980
Subjects:
690
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.276747