Abstract for a poster contribution at CISBAT Topic #2. Sustainable building envelopes (ecobuildings)
to be shown as well at IVIS
Title : Revisiting Service Life Prediction of Vacuum insulation panels
Samuel Brunner1, Mark Zimmermann1, Hans Simmler2
1
Empa, Laboratory for Building Technologies, CH-8600 Dübendorf Switzerland
samuel.brunner@empa.ch, Tel +41 44 823 47 68
2 now at Swisspor, Bahnhofstrasse 50, CH-6312 Steinhausen, Switzerland
Vacuum Insulation Panels (VIPs) have been used for building applications in Switzerland for 10 years. Until
2003, only little scientific data on the extent and the relevant modes of their degradation was available. Within a project of the International Energy Agency (IEA) these topics were addressed and our first prediction
presented to the scientific community at the CISBAT conference in 2003. Today, 6 years later, predictions
based on laboratory results are compared to experimental data obtained from on-site measurements carried
out at a roof terrace construction and on a freezing room floor.
References:
Simmler, H., Brunner, S. (2005), Vacuum insulation panels for building application Basic properties, aging
mechanisms and service life, Energy and Buildings 37 (2005) 1122-1131
S. Brunner, H. Simmler, In situ performance assessment of vacuum insulation panels in a flat roof construction, Vacuum 82 (2008) 700–707
Samuel Brunner, Hans Simmler, In Situ Performance Assessment and Service Life of Vacuum Insulation
Panels (VIPs) in Buildings, 8th International Vacuum Insulation Symposium (IVIS), 18th - 19th September
2007, Würzburg, Germany
S. Brunner, Ph. Gasser H. Simmler and K. Ghazi Wakili, Investigation of multilayered aluminium-coated polymer laminates by focused ion beam (FIB) etching, Surface & Coatings Technology 200 (2006) 5908-5914
S. Brunner, P.J. Tharian, H. Simmler, K. Ghazi Wakili, Focused ion beam (FIB) etching to investigate aluminium-coated polymer laminates subjected to heat and moisture loads, Surface & Coatings Technology 202
(2008) 6054–6063
Hans Simmler, Samuel Brunner, Ulrich Heinemann, Hubert Schwab, Kumar Kumaran, Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya, Daniel Quénard, Hébert Sallée, Klaus Noller, Esra Kücükpinar-Niarchos, Cornelia Stramm, Martin
Tenpierik, Hans Cauberg, Markus Erb, Vacuum Insulation Panels - Study on VIP-components and Panels for
Service Life Prediction of VIP in Building Applications, Annex 39 “HiPTI – High Performance Thermal Insulation” of IEA/ECBCS-Implementing Agreement, Report on Subtask A, 2005,
Samuel Brunner, 06.03.2016
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