Modelowanie efektywnego przewodzenia ciepła w materiale z mikrospękaniami

One employed in the work two classical (parallel and series) models of effective thermal conductors to explain quantitatively changes in thermal conductance of material resulting from brittle microdamage evolution. I order to simplify the problem one neglected convective and radiational heat transport in the microcracks. One showed that these changes were significant in the case of heat transport in the perpendicular direction to the plane of microcracks when the cracks were filled by air (Fig. 3). The effect has potentially serious possibilities in non-invasive diagnostics of engineering brittle materials and elements of structures by means of thermal measurements.