Thermal-physical aspects of materials used for the construction of rural buildings in Soria...

Abstract

The present research work tries to analyze some factors affecting the accuracy of temperature readings from thermographic building surveys. With this intention a controlled survey was carried out on three building materials commonly used in traditional rural construction in Spain (adobe, red brick and granite). The studied factors were: type of building material, colour, shape of inspected object and incidence of solar rays. The importance of the absence of solar radiation in infrared thermographic surveys is a generally acknowledged fact. At night the reliabi