This study aimed to experimentally measure the thermophysical properties of cellular metals, focusing on effective thermal conductivity. The transient plane source (TPS) technique was used to measure the thermal conductivity of hollow sphere structures from different steel alloys and open cell structures made of iron-chromium-aluminum alloy (FeCrAl) for temperatures of 250°C and 800°C in air, respectively. From the experimental results, it was seen that the effective thermal conductivity values were ...
This article aimed to illustrate the Transient plane source (TPS) method’s abilities in measuring the local thermal conductivity of metal foams and detecting their in-homogeneities. A method was used to measure the effective thermal conductivity and thermal properties of powder metallurgical (PM)-aluminum (Al) foams, infiltrated aluminum foams, and PM-Zinc foams. The accuracy of the TPS method was then verified in the determination of defects or density in-homogeneities....
Through the use of the transient plane source method the researchers were able to measure the thermal conductivity of a collection of cellular metals as well as the in- homogeneities of the samples. The volume of the samples was varied and the density of these individual volumes was calculated from tomography....
