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This paper attempts to expand the data for the thermal properties of materials used in 3D printing, which was considered limited before. This new data set may be useful in accelerating new developments and designs of heat exchangers. The effect of layer height and width are accounted for in the presented measurements. It is shown from varying these dimensions that as the layer height and width increase the Author(s): Ahmed Elkholy, Roger Kempers
Testing of thermal properties of foods is essential for operation and control of food processing plants. In this paper, the thermal conductivity of rice and the drying of cooked rice is measured. These measurements are determined using a transient line source over a temperature range of 50-70°C, a moisture content range of 10-70%, packing density range of 500-850 Kg/M3
Asphalt concrete must often endure a range of different weather conditions, and its thermal conductivity is affected by these changes. Using the Finite Element Method (FEM), this paper develops a two-dimensional numerical model used to study and predict environmental effects and validates it through experimental results from the transient plane source method. It was also shown that an increase in the ratio of the TPS sensor size to the maximum ...
This article investigated the effects of silver addition to copper-aluminum (Cu-Al) alloys. These effects were studied by observing the microstructural, thermal, and mechanical properties of the alloy through a variety of methods. A Thermal Constant Analyzer was used to determine the thermal properties (specifically the thermal conductivities) of the alloys by implementing the transient plane source (TPS) method. From this method, it was found that the thermal conductivity and diffusivity ...
Crushed salt can be used as a backfill in salt repositories to bury and conduct heat away from radioactive waste in salt repositories. Since crushed salt compacts during reconsolidation, its thermo-physical properties will vary because of changes in porosity. A Transient Plane Source thermal constant analyzer was used to measure thermal conductivity of the salt samples. Thermal conductivity was found to decrease with increasing temperatures....
