Conference Session

Introductory Materials Engineering Courses of 2020

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Mitchell, Tulane University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

conductivity is awell known material property, and can either bedescribed in the in terms of material structure,heat transfer properties, with analogy toelectrical conductivity, or in a separate chapteron thermal properties. However it isintroduced, it is by relatively simple extensionthat the biology-oriented property of thermalconductance is introduced. As illustrated inTable 3, thermal conductance is used todescribe the heat-retaining capabilities ofbiological species, particularly hair- and fur-bearing animals. Whereas heat flow, Q, isrelated to thermal conductivity, k, cross-sectional area, A, and a temperature gradient,dT/dy, according to the following equation Q = -kA(dT/dy)the same quantity is related to thermal