Abstract
A method described in this paper is simplified in calculation for measuring thermal properties of moist materials. The proposed thermal probe method has merits of rapid determination of both the thermal conductivity and the diffusivity simultaneously with simple equipment.
We measured thermal properties of agar (1%, w/v), which can be assumed to be equal to those of water, to check the accuracy. The results obtained showed the accuracy to be from -4 to +12% for the thermal conductivity and from -8 to +16% for the thermal diffusivity.
