TY - GEN
T1 - Assessment of a light weight concrete tile for animal production facilities
AU - Ilda, Tinoco F.F.
AU - Jairo A, Osorio S.
AU - De Paula, Marcos O.
AU - Gates, Richard S.
AU - Ricardo, Fiorotti Peixoto
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This study aimed to evaluate the use of expanded clay in light concrete, mixed in order to be used for modeling of roof tiles with appropriate geometry, according to the comfort and technical demands of animal. Models of poultry house were built at the scale of 1:12, Jentsch (2002), and were oriented east-west. The roofs were made of three different materials: roofing tiles of expanded clay lightweight concrete (LWC), roofing tiles of fiber-cement (Fcim) and ceramic roofing tiles (Cer). The parameters evaluated inside of the reduced scale models were: Relative Humidity (RH), Dry Bulb Temperature (DBT), Black Globe Temperature (BGT), Black Globe Temperature- Humidity Index (BGTHI) and Thermal Radiation Load (TRL), during the summer. The results showed that the parameters RH, DBT, BGHI and TRL were statistically different among the systems. The best performance was shown by the model using tiles of expanded clay lightweight concrete (LWC).
AB - This study aimed to evaluate the use of expanded clay in light concrete, mixed in order to be used for modeling of roof tiles with appropriate geometry, according to the comfort and technical demands of animal. Models of poultry house were built at the scale of 1:12, Jentsch (2002), and were oriented east-west. The roofs were made of three different materials: roofing tiles of expanded clay lightweight concrete (LWC), roofing tiles of fiber-cement (Fcim) and ceramic roofing tiles (Cer). The parameters evaluated inside of the reduced scale models were: Relative Humidity (RH), Dry Bulb Temperature (DBT), Black Globe Temperature (BGT), Black Globe Temperature- Humidity Index (BGTHI) and Thermal Radiation Load (TRL), during the summer. The results showed that the parameters RH, DBT, BGHI and TRL were statistically different among the systems. The best performance was shown by the model using tiles of expanded clay lightweight concrete (LWC).
KW - Building materials
KW - Livestock structures
KW - Thermal comfort
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:76449086295
SN - 9781615673629
T3 - American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2009, ASABE 2009
SP - 2710
EP - 2718
BT - American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2009, ASABE 2009
PB - American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
T2 - American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2009
Y2 - 21 June 2009 through 24 June 2009
ER -