The researchers focus on the IRT procedure of heat diffusion in ceramic finishing materials of contemporary architecture. The\r\naim of the research is the development of a method for the thermal characterization of clinkers, a very common ceramic finishing\r\nmaterial of buildings. The first experimental phase was performed in laboratory on clinkers of different shapes, thickness, colors,\r\nand glazing surface. The researchers determined two characteristic parameters related to thickness and thermal conductivity, by\r\nthe interpolation of the heating curve in function of time with an analytical curve (resulted from a particular solution of Fourier�s\r\nequation). This curve allows to obtain a parameter characteristic of the material of the specimens under investigation. At present\r\ntime, the researchers have been studying the correlation between this parameter and the damage level in the specimens; they will\r\nbe testing the model on real-scale study cases in the second experimental phase.
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