Figure 4.

The wall is subdivided into five elements and the one-dimensional spring (analogy) element
spring1e is used. From the finite element formulations it turns out that an equivalent spring
stiffness for thermal conductivity is k = A/L and for thermal surface resistance k = A/m.
The program below emphasizes the analogy between the linear spring model and the onedimensional heat problem
>>Edof=[1
2
3
4
5

1
2
3
4
5

2
3
4
5
6];

>>K=zeros(6);
>>f=zeros(6,1);
>>ep1=[ 1/0.07 ]; ep2=[ 1.7/0.07 ];
>>ep3=[ 0.040/0.10 ]; ep4=[ 1.7/0.10 ];
>>ep5=[ 1/0.18 ];
>>Ke1=spring1e(ep1); Ke2=spring1e(ep2);
>>Ke3=spring1e(ep3); Ke4=spring1e(ep4);
>>Ke5=spring1e(ep5);
>>K=assem(Edof(1,:),K,Ke1);
>>K=assem(Edof(2,:),K,Ke2);
>>K=assem(Edof(3,:),K,Ke3);
>>K=assem(Edof(4,:),K,Ke4);
>>K=assem(Edof(5,:),K,Ke5);