
- 388 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
About 90 percent of this excessive heat is due to buildings and pavements that absorb and store solar heat (According to the Green Buildings Council). The only reference that focuses specifically on pavements, Pavement Materials for Heat Island Mitigation: Design and Management Strategies explores different advanced paving materials, their properties, and their associated advantages and disadvantages. Relevant properties of pavement materials (e.g. albedo, permeability, thermal conductivity, heat capacity and evaporation rate) are measured in many cases using newly developed methods.- Includes experimental methods for testing different types of pavements materials- Identifies different cool pavement strategies with their advantages and associated disadvantages- Design and construct local microclimate models to evaluate and validate different cool pavement materials in different climate regions
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Literature Review on Cool Pavement Research
- Chapter 3. Scope, Methodologies, and Organization
- Chapter 4. Reflective Pavements and Albedo
- Chapter 5. Permeable Pavements and Permeability
- Chapter 6. Thermal Resistance Pavements and Thermal Properties
- Chapter 7. Evaporation Rate and Evaporative Cooling Effect of Pavement Materials
- Chapter 8. Thermal Performance of Various Pavement Materials
- Chapter 9. Thermal Interaction between Pavement and Near-Surface Air
- Chapter 10. Thermal Interaction between Pavement and Building Surfaces
- Chapter 11. Pavement Thermal Modeling: Development and Validation
- Chapter 12. Simulation of Thermal Behavior of Design and Management Strategies for Cool Pavement
- Chapter 13. Impacts of Pavement Strategies on Human Thermal Comfort
- Chapter 14. A Model Framework for Evaluating Impacts of Pavement Strategies on Building Energy Use
- Chapter 15. Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations
- References
- Appendix
- Index