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Fe Analysis Of Alternative Thermal Breaks For Steel Buildings, Salih Q. Mahmood
Fe Analysis Of Alternative Thermal Breaks For Steel Buildings, Salih Q. Mahmood
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“Thermal bridge” is a term used for structural or non-structural elements that have higher heat transfer than any other elements or spots in the building envelope, reducing the efficiency of the building thermal insulation. About 20% of the heat occurs via such thermal bridges. Thermal insulations (thermal breaks) are used within a steel connection to mitigate the effect of thermal bridges. In this research, connections with steel fillers studied by Dusicka (2007) were simulated using the finite element (FE) program ABAQUS. The results from the FE model were validated with those from the experimental work done by Dusicka (2007) and …