This paper describies present situation and some problems about measuring methods of thermal properties of building materials, based on JIS.
The actual heat transfer within them may be involve a complex combination of different contributions of radiation, conduction and convection. For such materials, heat transfer property, very ofen wrongly called “thermal conductivity”. This property, in accordance with ISO, should be called “trasnsfer factor”. Measuring methods are Guarded hot plate method, comparison method and heat flow method.
Building construction is assembled with some materials. The total amount of heat transfers from one side of thus constructions to the other for a given temperature difference.
There are method such as the Calibrated hot box and the Guarded hot box method.
The standard sample should be needed to measure exactly the heat flow rate.
Japan Testing Center for Construction Materials has proposed a kind of standerd materials, silicone rubber, but it needs to other kind of standerd materials, especially for low thermal conductivity materials.
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