On thermal analysis of periodic composite coatings for a homogeneous conductive layer

The paper deals with the problem of heat conduction in a nonhomogeneous rigid body which is a homogeneous conductive layer with a periodic composite coating. The coating layer is a composite in which every unit cell in general case is composed of four rigid beams with rectangular cross-sections. The assumed structure permits to analyse some special cases of coatings: laminated composites with layer parallel or perpendicular to the boundary, composites with periodically distributed inclusions with rectangular cross-section and a homogeneous layer. The distributions of temperature and heat flux distributions on the interface between the coating and the homogenous layer are investigated.