Development of advanced plasters for insulation and renovation of building constructions with regard to their hygrothermal behaviour

Measurements and simulations showed that the newly developed mixtures had similar or better properties than the reference lime-cement plaster. The optimal mixture in terms of physical, thermal insulation, and mechanical properties was mixture 7 made with lime hydrate and fly ash 2. Simulations were run in the software THERM and WUFI so as to calculate the lowest surface temperatures for 3 different implementations of a jamb. The results showed that the newly developed plasters delivered markedly higher surface temperatures than the reference plaster, i.e. Mixture 1. All the new plasters tested in jamb detail 3 showed a surface temperature above 12.94 °C based on a determination of the dew point according to ČSN 73 0540-2 at a temperature of +21 °C and relative humidity of 60%.