Samuel V. Glass, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Natalia Farkas, Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2025. Hygrothermal Modeling and Laboratory Tests of Solar-Driven Moisture Diffusion in Wood-Frame Walls with Absorptive Claddings
• Samuel V. Glass, Robert Lepage, Natalia Farkas, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2025. Comparative Evaluation of the VTT Mold Index Model and the DR SIM Model for Moisture Risk Assessment
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass, Natalia Farkas, Emil E. Thybring, Michael Altgen, Lauri Rautkari, Simon Curling, Jinzhen Cao, Yujiao Wang, Tina Künniger, Gustav Nyström, Christopher Hubert Dreimol, Ingo Burgert, Mark G. Roper, Darren P. Broom, Matthew Schwarzkopf, Arief Yudhanto, Mohammad Subah, Gilles Lubineau, Maria Fredriksson, Wiesław Olek, Jerzy Majka, Nanna Bjerregaard Pedersen, Daniel J. Burnett, Armando R. Garcia, Frieder Dreisbach, Louis Waguespack, Jennifer Schott, Luis G. Esteban, Alberto García‑Iruela, Thibaut Colinart, Romain Rémond, Brahim Mazian, Patrick Perré, Lukas Emmerich. 2025. Interlaboratory study of automated sorption measurements in wood: method for correcting systematic errors with the commonly used 0.002% min⁻¹ stop criterion
• Samuel V. Glass, Charles R. Boardman, Natalia Farkas, Samuel L. Zelinka, Borjen Yeh, Kamal Neupane. 2025. Development of a moisture risk index for wood-frame walls
• Maria Fredriksson, Emil Engelund Thybring, Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass. 2025. The fiber saturation point: does it mean what you think it means?
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass, Natalia Farkas, Emil E. Thybring, Michael Altgen, Lauri Rautkari, Simon Curling, Jinzhen Cao, Yujiao Wang, Tina Künniger, Gustav Nyström, Christopher Hubert Dreimol, Ingo Burgert, Mark G. Roper, Darren P. Broom, Matthew Schwarzkopf, Arief Yudhanto, Mohammad Subah, Gilles Lubineau, Maria Fredriksson, Wiesław Olek, Jerzy Majka, Nanna Bjerregaard Pedersen, Daniel J. Burnett, Armando R. Garcia, Frieder Dreisbach, Louis Waguespack, Jennifer Schott, Luis G. Esteban, Alberto García‑Iruela, Thibaut Colinart, Romain Rémond, Brahim Mazian, Patrick Perré, Lukas Emmerich. 2025. Interlaboratory study of the quality of water vapor sorption data for wood from automated sorption balances
• Natalia Farkas, Charles R. Boardman, Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2025. Measurement of through-assembly air leakage and its impact on moisture performance of wood-frame walls
• Samuel V. Glass, Natalia Farkas, Samuel L. Zelinka, Graham Finch, Nate Helbach. 2025. A conceptual approach for developing guidelines to prevent drying cracks in mass timber
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass, Eleanor Lazarcik, Emil E. Thybring, Michael Altgen, Lauri Rautkari, Simon Curling, Jinzhen Cao, Yujiao Wang, Tina Künniger, Gustav Nyström, Christopher Hubert Dreimol, Ingo Burgert, Mohd Khairun Anwar Uyup, Tumirah Khadiran, Mark G. Roper, Darren P. Broom, Matthew Schwarzkopf, Arief Yudhanto, Mohammad Subah, Gilles Lubineau, Maria Fredriksson, Marcin Strojecki, Wiesław Olek, Jerzy Majka, Nanna Bjerregaard Pedersen, Daniel J. Burnett, Armando R. Garcia, Els Verdonck, Frieder Dreisbach, Louis Waguespack, Jennifer Schott, Luis G. Esteban, Alberto Garcia-Iruela, Thibaut Colinart, Romain Rémond, Brahim Mazian, Patrick Perre, Lukas Emmerich, Ling Li. 2024. Interlaboratory study of the operational stability of automated sorption balances
• Samuel V. Glass, Charles R. Boardman, Natalia Farkas, Eleanor Lazarcik, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2024. Improved engineering model for water absorption in softwoods
• Mark A. Dietenberger, Samuel V. Glass, Charles R. Boardman. 2024. Comprehensive Analytical Sorption Thermodynamic (CAST) model for water vapor sorption in cellulosic materials
• Grant T. Kirker, Amy B. Bishell, Jed Cappellazzi, Samuel V. Glass, Jonathan M. Palmer, Nathan J. Bechle, William J. Hickey. 2024. Analysis of Basidiomycete Fungal Communities in Soil and Wood from Contrasting Zones of the AWPA Biodeterioration Hazard Map across the United States
• Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka, Charles R. Boardman, Emil Engelund Thybring. 2023. Promoting advances in understanding water vapor sorption in wood: relegating popular models and misconceptions
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass, Eleanor Lazarcik. 2023. The use of isothermal calorimetry to measure corrosion rates of metals in contact with preservative-treated wood
• Charles R. Boardman, Samuel V. Glass, Robert Lepage. 2023. Dose-response simple isopleth for mold (DR SIM): A dynamic mold growth model for moisture risk assessment
• Samuel V. Glass, Targo Kalamees, Simon Pallin, Juha Vinha. 2022. Water vapor generation in residential buildings: comparing probabilistic simulations and field measurements
• Samuel V. Glass, Charles R. Boardman, Eleanor Lazarcik. 2022. Modeling water absorption in wood with an improved approximation method
• Charles R. Boardman, Samuel V. Glass, Robert Lepage. 2022. Optimization of the mold resistance design model for North American materials
• Emil Engelund Thybring, Maria Fredriksson, Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass. 2022. Water in Wood: A Review of Current Understanding and Knowledge Gaps
• Samuel V. Glass, Charles R. Boardman, Prabu Ravindran, Alex C. Wiedenhoeft. 2022. Measurement and practical application of tangential dimensional change coefficients to hardwood flooring
• Robert Lepage, Samuel V. Glass, Paul de la Bastide, Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya. 2022. Serviceability limit state model for fungal growth on wood materials in the built environment
• Robert Lepage, Samuel V. Glass, Paul Y. de la Bastide, Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya. 2021. A Nondestructive Longitudinal Laboratory Test Method for Detection of Incipient Ultrastructural Changes in Wood
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Emil E. Thybring, Samuel V. Glass. 2021. Interpreting Dynamic Vapor Sorption (DVS) Measurements: Why Wood Science Needs to Hit the Reset Button
• Emil E. Thybring, Charles R. Boardman, Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass. 2021. Common sorption isotherm models are not physically valid for water in wood
• Shiling Pei, Jake Stogdill, Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka, Steven Kordziel, Paulo Cesar. Tabares-Velasco. 2021. Long-Term Moisture Monitoring Results of an Eight-Story Mass Timber Building in the Pacific Northwest
• Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2021. Chapter 4: Moisture relations and physical properties of wood
• Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka, Emil Engelund Thybring. 2021. Exponential decay analysis: a flexible, robust, data-driven methodology for analyzing sorption kinetic data
• Grant T. Kirker, Amy B. Bishell, Samuel V. Glass, Nathan J. Bechle, Jed Cappellazzi, Jonathon Palmer, William Hickey. 2020. Fungal Diversity Associated with Zones of the AWPA Fungal Decay Hazard Map
• Charles R. Boardman, Samuel V. Glass. 2020. Improving the Accuracy of a Hygrothermal Model for Wood-Frame Walls: A Cold-Climate Study
• Charles R. Boardman, Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2020. Moisture redistribution in full-scale wood-frame wall assemblies: measurements and engineering approximation
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass, Emil Engelund. Thybring. 2020. Evaluation of previous measurements of water vapor sorption in wood at multiple temperatures
• Steven Kordziel, Samuel V. Glass, Charles R. Boardman, Robert Munson, Samuel L. Zelinka, Shiling Pei, Paulo Cesar. Tabares-Velasco. 2020. Hygrothermal characterization and modeling of cross-laminated timber in the building envelope
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Grant T. Kirker, Amy B. Bishell, Samuel V. Glass. 2020. Effects of wood moisture content and the level of acetylation on brown rot decay
• Charles R. Boardman, Kingston Chow, Samuel V. Glass, Borjen Yeh. 2019. Hygrothermal modeling of wall drying after water injection
• Steven Kordziel, Shiling Pei, Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka, Paulo Cesar. Tabares-Velasco. 2019. Structure moisture monitoring of an 8-story mass timber building in the Pacific Northwest
• Robert Lepage, Samuel V. Glass, Warren Knowles, Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya. 2019. Biodeterioration models for building materials: critical review
• Emil Engelund Thybring, Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2019. Kinetics of water vapor sorption in wood cell walls: state of the art and research needs
• Charles R. Boardman, Samuel V. Glass, Robert Munson, Borjen Yeh, Kingston Chow. 2019. Field moisture performance of wood-framed walls with exterior insulation in a cold climate
• Emil E. Thybring, Charles R. Boardman, Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2019. The parallel exponential kinetics model is unfit to characterize moisture sorption kinetics in cellulosic materials
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass, Emil Engelund. Thybring. 2018. Myth versus reality: do parabolic sorption isotherm models reflect actual wood–water thermodynamics?
• Samuel V. Glass, C.R. Boardman, Borjen Yeh, Kingston Chow. 2018. Moisture monitoring of wood-frame walls with and without exterior insulation in the Midwestern U.S. cold climate
• Samuel L. Zelinka, S. Kordziel, S. Pei, Samuel V. Glass, P.C. Tabares-Velasco. 2018. Moisture monitoring throughout the construction and occupancy of mass timber builidings
• Steven Kordziel, Samuel V. Glass, Shiling Pei, Samuel L. Zelinka, Paulo Cesar. Tabares-Velasco. 2018. Moisture monitoring and modeling of mass-timber building systems
• Samuel V. Glass, Charles R. Boardman, Emil Engelund Thybring, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2018. Quantifying and reducing errors in equilibrium moisture content measurements with dynamic vapor sorption (DVS) experiments
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Keith Bourne, Samuel V. Glass, Charles R. Boardman, Linda F. Lorenz, Emil Engelund. Thybring. 2018. Apparatus for gravimetric measurement of moisture sorption isotherms for 1-100 g samples in parallel
• Zoltán Pásztory, Tibor Horváth, Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2018. Experimental investigation of the influence of temperature on thermal conductivity of multilayer reflective thermal insulation
• Leandro Passarini, Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass, Christopher G. Hunt. 2017. Effect of weight percent gain and experimental method on fiber saturation point of acetylated wood determined by differential scanning calorimetry
• Samuel V. Glass, Stanley D. Gatland II, Kohta Ueno, Christopher J. Schumacher. 2017. Analysis of improved criteria for mold growth in ASHRAE standard 160 by comparison with field observations
• Samuel V. Glass, Charles R. Boardman, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2017. Short hold times in dynamic vapor sorption measurements mischaracterize the equilibrium moisture content of wood
• Charles R. Boardman, Samuel V. Glass, Patricia K. Lebow. 2017. Simple and accurate temperature correction for moisture pin calibrations in oriented strand board
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass, Charles R. Boardman. 2016. Improvements to water vapor transmission and capillary absorption measurements in porous materials
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass, Joseph Jakes, Donald S. Stone. 2016. A solution thermodynamics definition of the fiber saturation point and the derivation of a wood-water phase (state) diagram
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Leandro Passarini, José L. Colon Quintana, Samuel V. Glass, Joseph Jakes, Alex C. Wiedenhoeft. 2016. Cell wall domain and moisture content influence southern pine electrical conductivity
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass, Charles R. Boardman, Dominique Derome. 2016. Moisture storage and transport properties of preservative treated and untreated southern pine wood
• Samuel V. Glass, Borjen Yeh, Benjamin J. Herzog. 2016. Effects of Exterior Insulation on Moisture Performance of Wood-Frame Walls in the Pacific Northwest: Measurements and Hygrothermal Modeling
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass, Charles R. Boardman, Dominique Derome. 2016. Comparison of the corrosion of fasteners embedded in wood measured in outdoor exposure with the predictions from a combined hygrothermal-corrosion model
• Zoltán Pásztory, Tibor Horváth, Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2015. Thermal Insulation System Made of Wood and Paper for Use in Residential Construction
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Keith Bourne, John C. Hermanson, Samuel V. Glass, Adriana Costa, Alex C. Wiedenhoeft. 2015. Force-displacement measurements of earlywood bordered pits using a mesomechanical tester
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Alex C. Wiedenhoeft, Samuel V. Glass, Flavio Ruffinatto. 2015. Anatomically informed mesoscale electrical impedance spectroscopy in southern pine and the electric field distribution for pin-type electric moisture metres
• Samuel V. Glass, Vladimir Kochkin, S. Drumheller, Lance Barta. 2015. Moisture Performance of Energy-Efficient and Conventional Wood-Frame Wall Assemblies in a Mixed-Humid Climate
• Samuel L. Zelinka, José L. Colon Quintana, Samuel V. Glass, Joseph Jakes, Alex C. Wiedenhoeft. 2015. Subcellular Electrical Measurements as a Function of Wood Moisture Content
• Samuel V. Glass, Charles R. Boardman. 2015. Moisture transfer through the membrane of a cross-flow energy recovery ventilator: Measurement and simple data-driven modeling
• Charles R. Boardman, Samuel V. Glass. 2015. Basement radon entry and stack driven moisture infiltration reduced by active soil depressurization
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass, Dominique Derome. 2014. The effect of moisture content on the corrosion of fasteners embedded in wood subjected to alkaline copper quaternary treatment
• Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka, Jay A. Johnson. 2014. Investigation of Historic Equilibrium Moisture Content Data from the Forest Products Laboratory
• Anton TenWolde, Samuel V. Glass. 2013. Moisture in Crawl Spaces
• Samuel V. Glass, Anton TenWolde, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2013. Hygrothermal Simulation: A Tool for Building Envelope Design Analysis
• Charles R. Boardman, Samuel V. Glass. 2013. Investigating Wind-Driven Rain Intrusion in Walls with the CARWASh
• Joseph Jakes, Nayomi Plaza, Donald S. Stone, Christopher G. Hunt, Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2013. Mechanism of Transport Through Wood Cell Wall Polymers
• Samuel V. Glass, Jieying Wang, Steve Easley, Graham Finch. 2013. Chapter 10: Enclosure--Building enclosure design for cross-laminated timber construction
• Samuel V. Glass. 2013. Hygrothermal Anaylsis of Wood-Frame Wall Assemblies in a Mixed-Humid Climate
• Carol A. Clausen, Samuel V. Glass. 2012. Build Green: Wood Can Last for Centuries
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Michael J. Lambrecht, Samuel V. Glass, Alex C. Wiedenhoeft, Daniel J. Yelle. 2012. Examination of water phase transitions in Loblolly pine and cell wall components by differential scanning calorimetry
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Dominique Derome, Samuel V. Glass. 2011. Combining hygrothermal and corrosion models to predict corrosion of metal fasteners embedded in wood
• C.R. Boardman, Samuel V. Glass, Charles G. Carll. 2011. Moisture meter calibrations for untreated and ACQ-treated southern yellow pine lumber and plywood
• Samuel V. Glass. 2010. A laboratory facility for research on wind-driven rain intrusion in building envelope assemblies
• C. R. Boardman, Samuel V. Glass, Charles G. Carll. 2010. Estimating foundation water vapor release using a simple moisture balance and AIM-2 : case study of a contemporary wood-frame house
• Samuel V. Glass, Charles G. Carll, Jay P. Curole, Matthew D. Voitier. 2010. Moisture performance of insulated, raised, wood-frame floors : a study of twelve houses in southern Louisiana
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Dominique Derome, Samuel V. Glass. 2010. From laboratory corrosion tests to a corrosion lifetime for wood fasteners : progress and challenges
• Samuel V. Glass, Samuel L. Zelinka. 2010. Moisture relations and physical properties of wood
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass. 2010. Water vapor sorption isotherms for southern pine treated with several waterborne preservatives
• Carol A. Clausen, Jessie A. Glaeser, Samuel V. Glass, Charles G. Carll. 2009. Occurrence of mold in a two-story wood-frame house operated at design indoor humidity levels
• Samuel V. Glass, Charles G. Carll. 2009. Moisture meter calibration for untreated and ACQ-treated southern yellow pine plywood
• Samuel V. Glass, Antoni TenWolde. 2009. Review of moisture balance models for residential indoor humidity
• Samuel L. Zelinka, Samuel V. Glass, Donald S. Stone. 2008. A percolation model for electrical conduction in wood with implications for wood-water relations
• Samuel V. Glass. 2007. Measurements of moisture transport in wood-based materials under isothermal and nonisothermal conditions
• Samuel V. Glass, Anton TenWolde. 2007. Review of in-service moisture and temperature conditions in wood-frame buildings

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• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, 2005
• Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI, B.A., Chemistry/Classical Civilization/Archaeology, 1998