the mandrel so that a sliding of the first end of the packer toward the second end causes the packer element to decrease in length and increase in radius application_number US 201414337892 A description it is to be understood that the following disclosure provides many different embodiments or examples for implementing different features of various embodiments specific examples of components and arrangements are described below to simplify the present disclosure these are of course merely examples and are not intended to be limiting in addition the present disclosure may repeat reference numerals and or letters in the various examples this repetition is for the purpose of simplicity and clarity and does not in itself dictate a relationship between the various embodiments and or configurations discussed fig1 and 2 illustrate one embodiment of a temperature compensated element 20 for positioning downhole in a well to seal with either the interior surface of a borehole or an interior surface of a downhole tubular temperature compensated element 20 is coupled to mandrel 5 mandrel 5 may be included as part of a well tubular string not shown one having ordinary skill in the art with the benefit of this disclosure will understand that the well tubular string may be a drill string casing string tubing string or any other suitable tubular member for use in a wellbore and may have multiple components including without limitation tubulars valves or packers without deviating from the scope of this disclosure in at least one embodiment temperature compensated element 20 may.