SELECTION OF THE EXTERNAL WALL ROUNDING ANGLE OPTIMAL RADIUS

Abstract

The article analyzes one of the ways to increase the heat-protective properties of thebuilding corner - rounding the outer surface of the outer wall the corner . The walls of houses nearthe outer corner, due to their configuration, have less heat-insulating properties than the walls inother areas. This is due to the fact that the area of heat flow perception on the inner surface of thewalls at an angle less than the area of heat transfer on the outer surface. Convective heat exchangenear the inner surface of the corner, due to the inhibition of air movement is less than in other areas,so the amount of heat coming from the indoor air to the wall surface is less. For climatic conditionsof Poltava region the research of temperature fields of calculated sections of the wall (withoutrounding of a corner, with rounding of a wall of various radius an external surface) with definitionof a heat stream size, the minimum temperature on an internal surface of a wall and the resulted heattransfer resistance is carried out. The dependences of the rounding radius of the wall outer surfaceon the heat flow passing through the design area of the wall outer corner, brick consumption withinthe design area, insulation consumption within the design area, the amount of room area reductiondue to rounding the wall for five design schemes. The analysis of dependences the constructed graphsshowed that the intensive reduction of the heat flux passing through the calculated section occurs ata radius of the wall outer surface rounding of 0.9 m and more; a slight decrease in the area of theroom due to the rounding of the wall occurs to a radius of curvature of 1.4 m; intensive reduction ofbrick volume within the calculated area occurs when the radius of curvature is more than 0.8 m,similarly to mineral wool up to 0.7 m. It is determined that the optimal radius of curvature of theouter wall is 0.8 m, it will increase the thermal properties of the angle and reduce the heat transfercoefficient by the transmission of the external enclosing structure of the building as a whole.