近年来，对建筑供暖和制冷设备的设计师提出了一种分析墙体瞬态热流的新方法——热响应系数法。这使我们能够在任意和时变的外部条件下，逐小时分析通过墙体的热通量。对于简单的均质各向同性板，以及由这些板制成的复合墙体，可以解析计算热响应系数。然而，许多常用的建筑墙体截面既不是均质的，也不是各向同性的，确定此类墙体响应系数的适当分析程序尚未确定。因此，RP-I02旨在开发一种实验程序，用于在瞬态条件下测量普通建筑墙体截面的热流，并在可能的情况下确定其响应系数。 仅完成了研究项目的第一阶段；但是，本文介绍了工作令人满意的实验程序，尽管它并不代表最终报告。引用:肯塔基州路易斯维尔ASHRAE Transactions第79卷第2部分

The demands placed upon designers of heating and cooling equipment for buildings in recent years have resulted in a new method of analyzing transient heat flow through walls -the Thermal Response Factor method. This makes possible to analyze the heat flux through a wall with arbitrary and time varying outside conditions on an hour-by-hour basis. For simple homogeneous isotropic slabs, and composite walls made of these slabs, the thermal response factors can be analytically calculated. However, many commonly used building wall sections are neither homogeneous nor isotropic, and the appropriate analytical procedures for determining response factors for such walls have not been determined. Accordingly, RP-I02 was established to develop an experimental procedure for measuring the heat flux through common bUilding wall sections under transient conditions, and, if possible, determine their response factors. Only the first pliase of the research project has been completed; but the experimental procedure found to work satisfactorily is presented in this paper although it does not represent the final report.