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  • E04B1/62—Insulation or other protection; Elements or use of specified material therefor
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  • E04B1/665—Sheets or foils impervious to water and water vapor
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E04—BUILDING
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  • E04D12/002—Sheets of flexible material, e.g. roofing tile underlay
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Definitions

• the invention relates to a water vapour control, which is arranged facing the inside of a building.
• Thermal insulation layers are in general placed internally, for example in a wooden roof construction.
• To avoid draft and also to protect the insulation material and the wooden construction against moisture normally at both sides of the insulation layer vapour controls may be placed, often in the form of membranes. Nevertheless moisture may penetrate into the roof construction, for example because of leakages through joints of the vapour control.
• the vapour control placed at the outside of the roof construction may be in the form of a so-called roofing membrane or underlay. This vapour control ensures that no water in the form of rain, fog or snow penetrates the roof construction. This vapour control is highly permeable for water vapour to ensure that under all circumstances water that accumulates in the roof construction can evaporate from the roof construction.
• vapour control which is arranged facing the inside of the building in winter time allows no or only a limited quantity of moisture to diffuse from the inside of the building into the insulation layers, where the moisture tends to condensate at the cold side of the insulation layers.
• the vapour control which is arranged facing the inside of the building is more permeable for water vapour to allow the insulation layers and the construction to dry from moisture by releasing the moisture also to the inside of the building.
• vapour control arranged at the inside of a building
• vapour control comprises a first layer having a water vapour diffusion resistance (Sd-value) of 2 - 5 meters diffusion-equivalent air space width, measured at a relative humidity of an atmosphere surrounding the layer of 30 - 50 %, and having a Sd-value of ⁇ 1 meters diffusion-equivalent air space width, measured at a relative humidity of 60 - 80%.
• Sd-value water vapour diffusion resistance
• the vapour control has a high permeability for water vapour in summer, when ambient humidity is high and it has a low permeability for water vapour in winter time, when ambient humidity is normally low.
• a good example of a vapour control that fulfils these conditions is simply a polyamide film, since the diffusion constant of polyamide for water increases under humid conditions, due to the high water uptake of polyamide.
• Objective of the invention is to provide a vapour control that does not show this problem any more, while keeping enough capability to transport moisture to dry the insulation layers and the construction.
• vapour control arranged at the inside of a building
• vapour control comprises a first layer having a water vapour diffusion resistance (Sd-value) of 1 - 5 meters, preferably 2 - 5 meters diffusion-equivalent air space width, measured at a relative humidity of an atmosphere surrounding the layer of 30 - 50 %, and having a Sd-value of ⁇ 1 meters diffusion- equivalent air space width, measured at a relative humidity of 60 - 80%, comprising a second layer having a Sd-value of >0.2 meters diffusion-equivalent air space width, measured at a relative humidity of 80 - 100 %.
• Sd-value water vapour diffusion resistance
• the Sd-value of the second layer is > 0.4, more preferably
• the Sd- value of the second layer is >0.6, more preferably >0.8, more preferably > 1 .0 meters diffusion-equivalent air space width, measured at a relative humidity of 80 - 100 %. Even more preferably the Sd- value of the second layer is > 1 .2 meters diffusion-equivalent air space width, measured at a relative humidity of 80 - 100 %. Good results are obtained if the Sd- value of the second layer is ⁇ 3, preferably ⁇ 2 meters diffusion-equivalent air space width, measured at a relative humidity of 80 - 100 %. This is because than still a sufficient transport may take place under humid conditions from the insulation layers into the building, while at places where a high relative humidity may be present in the building no problems occur with too much transport of water in the opposite direction.
• the Sd value of a layer is measured at a single layer film of the same thickness and the same composition as a layer of the vapour barrier control according to DIN EN ISO 12772:2001 , at 23°C.
• the Sd-value of a layer may be changed by the choice of material for the layer and the layer thickness.
• the Sd-value of the total vapour barrier is the result of the total construction of the vapour barrier.
• the first layer a material that has no adequate strength itself, but which can be applied to a suitable carrier, for example as a coating.
• suitable carrier for example as a coating.
• suitable carrier for example as a coating.
• examples of such materials include modified polyvinyl alcohol, dispersions of hydrophobic synthetic resins, as well as methyl cellulose, linseed oil, alkyd resin, bone glue and protein derivatives.
• carrier fiber spun fabrics perforated polymer films, chip wood, paper etc. may be used.
• polyamide As material for the first layer preferably polyamide is used, because a strong, self supporting layer may be produced, without the need of an extra carrier.
• suitable polyamides include polyamide 6, polyamide 66, polyamide 46, polyamide 410 etc.
• polyamide 6 is used, because a very strong layer may be produced from the material and it is available in high quantities.
• the material for the second layer has a water vapour diffusion rate which is less dependant on the surrounding relative humidity than the material of the first layer. More preferably the vapour diffusion rate of the material of the second layer is independent or at least essentially independent from the surrounding relative humidity.
• the second layer Good examples of materials that may be used for the second layer include polyolefins, copolymers of olefins and vinyl esters, vinyl ethers, acrylates and methacrylates, polyesters, for example polyethylene terephthalate and polybutylene terephthalate, copolyester, for example thermoplastic elastomers comprising hard segments of polyester, especially the copolyetheresters, polyurethanes, polyacrylates, polymethacrylates, polyvinylacetates and copolymers comprising vinylacetate monomers.
• the layers of polymer are extruded films. Such films are monolithic films, what means that the films do not comprise any perforations or the like other than possible extrusion defects, like for instance pin holes. In this way a good working vapour barrier is obtained, with well-defined Sd values.
• the vapour control is a multi-layer film, eventually with an adhesive layer between the first and the second layer.
• a suitable adhesive layer may be used between the first and the second layer, for example a maleic anhydride grafted polyolefin, for example YparexTM and NucrelTM when polyolefins or copolymers of olefins and a further monomer or a polyurethane when a polyester or a copolyester is used.
• a maleic anhydride grafted polyolefin for example YparexTM and NucrelTM when polyolefins or copolymers of olefins and a further monomer or a polyurethane when a polyester or a copolyester is used.
• the vapour control contains or is a multi-layer film, preferably comprising a polyamide layer as the first layer and a layer of a polyester or copolyester as the second layer, even more preferably with an adhesive layer in between.
• the vapour control contains a layer of a fleece, for example a polypropylene or a polyester fleece.
• a fleece provides extra strength to the vapour control and it improves the handling of the vapour control.
• ArnitelTM PM460 a copolyesterether, delivered by DSM, the Netherlands.
• ArnitelTM EM740 a copolyesterether, delivered by DSM, the Netherlands.
• ArnitelTM CM551 a copolesthercarbonate, delivered by DSM, the Netherlands.
• ArnitelTM 3106 a copolyesterether delivered by DSM, the Netherlands.
• ArnitelTM Eco M700 a copolyester thermoplastic elastomer, containing hard segments of polyester and units of dimer fatty acid residues, delivered by DSM, the Netherlands.
• ArniteTM T06 200 a polybuhylene terephthalate, delivered by DSM, the Netherlands.
• Vapour controls comprising one layer of polyamide 6 (comparative experiment) or one layer of polyamide 6 and one or more layers of copolyester
• examples were prepared using a CollinTM multilayer cast film extrusion line.
• the water vapour diffusion resistance (Sd) of the vapour controls was measured according to DIN EN ISO 12572:2001.
• the films were placed on top of a cup, as therein indicated. Tests were performed at 23 °C and at a relative humidity [RH] inside/outside the cup of 0/50% (average 25%), 0/95% (average 47.5%), 100/20% (average 60%), 100/50% (average 75%) and 100/95% (average 97.5%). The average of the two values is taken as the value for the relative humidity.
• RH relative humidity
• the vapour control consists of
• the vapour control consists of
• tie layer consisting of a blend of Arnitel PM460 and Arnitel CM551 in a ratio of 1 :1 , having a thickness of 15 microns.
• the vapour control consists of
• tie layer consisting Arnitel CM551 , having a thickness of 5 microns.
• the vapour control consists of
• the vapour control consists of one single layer of AkulonTM F130, having a thickness of 50 microns.
• the Sd-values at the different relative humidity is given Graph 5.
• the vapour control consists of a single layer of ArnitelTM EM740, having a thickness of 50 microns.
• the Sd values of the vapour control are given in graph 6.

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