Opaque Material

Create a standard opaque material, which can be plugged into the "HB Opaque Construction" component.

Inputs

  • name

    Text to set the name for the material and to be incorporated into a unique material identifier.

  • thickness [Required]

    Number for the thickness of the material layer [m].

  • conductivity [Required]

    Number for the thermal conductivity of the material [W/m-K].

  • density [Required]

    Number for the density of the material [kg/m3].

  • spec_heat [Required]

    Number for the specific heat of the material [J/kg-K].

  • roughness

    Text describing the relative roughness of the material. Must be one of the following: 'VeryRough', 'Rough', 'MediumRough', 'MediumSmooth', 'Smooth', 'VerySmooth'. (Default: 'MediumRough').

  • therm_absp

    A number between 0 and 1 for the fraction of incident long wavelength radiation that is absorbed by the material. (Default: 0.9).

  • sol_absp

    A number between 0 and 1 for the fraction of incident solar radiation absorbed by the material. (Default: 0.7).

  • vis_absp

    A number between 0 and 1 for the fraction of incident visible wavelength radiation absorbed by the material. Default value is the same as the sol_absp.

Outputs

  • mat

    A standard opaque material that can be assigned to a Honeybee Opaque construction.

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