A NEW EXPERIMENTAL METHOD FOR MEASURING THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY AND THERMAL PARTITION COEFFICIENT OF BUILDING MATERIALS

Bodalal, A.; Haghighat, F.
partition coefficient, building materials, thermal comfort, thermal conductivity
Year:
2007
Bibliographic info:
The 6th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation & Energy Conservation in Buildings IAQVEC 2007, Oct. 28 - 31 2007, Sendai, Japan

In this paper, a new experimental method for measuring thermal conductivity and thermal partitioncoefficient for building materials is presented. The uniqueness of this method is that theaforementioned physical properties are measured for the building materials under the same conditionsas in real life. This method is based on monitoring the temperature difference across the sample andthe solution of the transient conduction equation. The proposed method and designed apparatus weretested using some building materials (i.e. sheet metal, glass windows, concrete bricks, concrete brickswith plaster and marble) and the preliminary tests showed promising results.

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