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

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