Laboratory techniques to evaluate thermal conductivity for some soils

Heat and Mass Transfer/Waerme- und Stoffuebertragung

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 119-123

  Nusier, O K ^a   Abu Hamdeh, N H ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEATING; LABORATORIES; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAND; SOILS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOCOUPLES;

DUAL PROBE METHOD; LOAM SOILS; SINGLE PROBE METHOD; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0037273522     PISSN: 09477411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00231-002-0295-x     Document Type: Article

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