ABSTRACT
The building stock of Dresden consist of a large number of brick buildings, constructed around the 20th century. Different type of bricks were sampled and their moisture storage function was measured using pressure plate apparatus and desiccators with different saturated salt solutions. A multi-variate cluster analysis procedure was carried out to detect natural groupings within the data. Multi modal water retention functions were applied to smooth and interpolate between the scattering data of the discovered clusters to provide a complete, unbroken and consistent functional description. In total, four representative retention transfer functions could be found for the collection of the bricks of the Dresden building stock.
