Thermal insulation produced so as to be in accordance with current guidelines and regulations can only function correctly if the material properties declared by the manufacturer are regularly checked on a random basis by both the manufacturer (in-plant monitoring) and neutral testing institutes (third-party monitoring). One such material property is thermal conductivity, which can be determined by the methods described in ISO 8301 and ASTM C518.
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