The hot disk technique represents a transient plane source method for rapid thermal
conductivity and thermal diffusivity measurement. The main advantages of the hot disk …

The electrical circuit for the recently developed transient plane source (TPS) technique for
fast and precise measurements of thermal transport properties of solids has been modified …

The present review describes the up-to-date state of the evaluation of thermophysical
properties (TP) of materials with three different procedures: modeling (also including inverse …

This paper presents both experimental and theoretical works concerning evaluation of the
thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity and heat capacity of wood composites. Moreover, the …

Building retrofitting plays a key-role in energy saving and a growing interest is focused on
insulating materials that allow a reduction in heat loss from envelopes with low thickness, by …

Nowadays, a large number of materials for thermal and acoustic insulation are available on
the market. Therefore, some criteria need to be defined to support designers in the selection …

Growing concern over global warming in recent years has required buildings to become
significantly more energy efficient. One of the main ways of achieving this aim has been …

This study deals with determination of the thermal conductivity tensor for orthotropic media
and more specifically for multilayers with isotropic thermal characteristics in the planes …

The effect of disorder on lattice vibrational modes has been a topic of interest for several
decades. In this work, we employ a Green's function based approach, namely, the dynamical …

The transient hot-strip (THS) method has been modified to measure thermal conductivity of
small test specimens. The conventional metal strip used simultaneously as the heater and …