The burgeoning number of applications used by composites materials high- lights its significance in evaluating engineers’ systems thermal properties. Analytical equations and experimental methods would help to predict the thermal conductivity of composites materials. Information on thermal properties of ferrocement panel would facilitate the design of LGS Ferrocement sandwich panel. According to ‘Structural- Integrity of ferrocement panels exposed to fire’ [10,11], the research mainly focuses on mechanical properties of ferrocement in which volume fraction of wire mesh and mortar plays an important role in influencing its strength, flexure properties and toughness resulting the ferrocement panels a better jacketing material for fire protection.
According to [1,2] through this research the authors addresses on LGS Ferrocement composite construction which has advantage over the RCC construction in terms of deadweight of structure reduced by 60%, reduction in consumption of steel and cement around 30% to 35%, reduction of curing and chemically bound water from 50% to 55% and reduction in CO2 emissions by 30% resulting in sustainable composite material [2,18] According to [11], the authors in this research focus on the thermal conductivity of ferrocement using Steady state thermal conductivity test by means of Guarded Hot Plate Test. During test the temperature reaches up to 1060°C and the main parameter influencing the thermal conductivity was the volume fraction of wire mesh and mortar. Although it was observed that with increased in volume fraction of wire mesh the thermal conductivity was decreased till certain temperature but after 600°C there was in increased in thermal conductivity with increased of volume fraction of wire mesh.
According to [13]the authors in this research focuses on the importance of thermal conductivity playing important role in energy efficiency and factors like moisture content, temperature difference, density, airflow velocity, thickness and material aging.
According to [11], the authors mainly focuses on the influence of humidity factor is more on thermal conductivity compare to temperature. Transient plate source test and hot diskthermal test analyzer with enclosed chamber were used under different temperature condition and different humidity condition. The thermal conductivity plays an important role in estimation of energy consumption when exposed to environmental condition having extreme temperature and relative humidity.
According to [14], mainly focuses on specific heat capacity of ferrocement using inversethermal calculation via ANSYS and finite element method. It was observed that the results of ferrocement for specific heat were slightly higher than those of concrete.
According to [9], gives experimental account of properties of ferrocement like compressive strength, flexure test under four-point loading, chloride ion penetration test, accelerated corrosion test, rapid chloride penetration test (RCPT), laboratory thermal performance test and field thermal test. So, in laboratory thermal performance test 15% in reduction of temperature was observed using ferrocement as a roofing panel and in field thermal performance conducted in hot sunny climate there was an improvement of 25% in thermal comfort in building due to air gap and cold breeze between air gap having ferrocement panel as roofing material compare to bare roof buildings.