Theoretical Considerations on Fibre Reinforced Composites Thermal Conductivity Uncertainties

2015 ◽  
Vol 1128 ◽  
pp. 171-177
Author(s):  
Tudor Mihai Simionescu ◽  
Alina Adriana Minea

Thermal conductivity of composites is anisotropic in nature and data about thermal conductivity of resin facilitates to reduce stresses related to shrinkage of composites during cure and mismatch in thermal expansion coefficients. Before conducting experiments to determine thermal conductivity of various composites, knowledge about effect of different parameters influencing thermal conductivity is essential. The increasing use of composites, for various applications, emphasizes its importance/significance in the thermal property analysis of an engineering system. Published literature is rich with investigations of mechanical properties of composites, but fewer publications are focused on thermal properties. Several publications addressing different theoretical approaches for predicting thermal conductivity of composite materials have been noted. Various theoretical approaches are used to yield the thermal conductivity of a composite material so that the heat flow in anisotropic composite material in any direction can be estimated. In this paper few models will be considered and a theoretical study on thermal conductivity uncertainties will be conducted and discussed. The results identified the need and importance of carrying out further investigations on thermal behavior of composites materials.

2015 ◽  
Vol 809-810 ◽  
pp. 519-524
Author(s):  
Tudor Mihai Simionescu ◽  
Alina Adriana Minea

Published literature is rich with investigations of mechanical properties of composites, but fewer publications are focused on thermal properties. Several publications addressing different theoretical approaches for predicting thermal conductivity of composite materials have been noted. However, one of the publications has discussed both transverse and axial thermal conductivity of a carbon fiber composite. A non-linear increase in the thermal conductivity was reported with the increase of fiber volume fraction of plain weaves and no theoretical models are able to predict this non-linearity. The result of literature search even further identified the necessity and importance of carrying out further investigations on thermal behavior of composites materials. Thermal conductivity of composites is anisotropic in nature and data about thermal conductivity of resin is known to reduce stresses related to shrinkage of composites during cure and mismatch in thermal expansion coefficients. Before conducting experiments to determine thermal conductivity of various composites, knowledge about effect of different parameters influencing thermal conductivity is essential. This paper deals with an analytical study on few nanocomposites behavior at heating.


Author(s):  
Efstathios E. Michaelides

The two constituent phases of the nanofluids have thermal expansion coefficients that are significantly different. Moreover, the variability of the thermal expansion coefficients of fluids with temperature is significantly higher than that of solid materials. The mismatch of the thermal expansion coefficients creates changes of the volumetric fraction of solids with temperature changes. The changes can be significant with fluids that have high thermal expansion coefficients, such as refrigerants and fluids that operate close to their critical points. Since the thermal conductivity of nanofluids is a very strong function of the volumetric fraction of the nanoparticles, these changes of the volumetric fraction may cause significant effects on the thermal conductivity of the nanofluids, which must be accounted for in any design process.


2013 ◽  
Vol 709 ◽  
pp. 192-196
Author(s):  
Shi Ming Zhang ◽  
Bing Teng ◽  
De Gao Zhong ◽  
Bing Tao Zhang ◽  
Shu Jie Zhuang ◽  
...  

A new mixed laser crystal, Yb0.006Y0.923Lu0.071VO4, has been successfully grown using the Czochralski method. X-ray powder diffraction analysis shows that the crystal has ZrSiO4 structure. Density, thermal expansion coefficients, specific heat and thermal diffusion coefficients were measured, and the thermal conductivity coefficients were determined.


Author(s):  
Takahiro Ohmura ◽  
Kanji Hanashima ◽  
Junichi Nyumura ◽  
Toshiyuki Sawa

In this study, the thermal properties of the gaskets, which were used for designing the bolted flange joints, such as effective thermal conductivity, specific heat, linear thermal expansion coefficient and so on were measured. Especially, the effective thermal conductivities were measured by using the heat flow method. The relationship between the gasket structure and the thickness was shown by using an equivalent thermal resistance, and an empirical equation of effective thermal conductivity, which was related to the bulk density and absolute temperature, was proposed by deriving the heat conduction in solid, radiation and gas. Also, in the measurement of the linear thermal expansion coefficients of the gaskets, the measured values were shown to change substantially below 150 °C, and to depend on the heating rate and the load applied on the gasket sample.


2015 ◽  
Vol 816 ◽  
pp. 237-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Ma ◽  
Yi Ren ◽  
Xi Long Jin ◽  
Ya Hong Liang ◽  
Bao Dong Chen ◽  
...  

Gd2O3 (10mol%) doped SrHfO3 (Sr (Hf0.9Gd0.1)O2.95) was synthesized by solid state reaction method. The phase stability of the synthesized Sr (Hf0.9Gd0.1)O2.95 powder at high temperature of 1450 oC for a long period and in a temperature range of RT-1400 oC was characterized by XRD and DSC, respectively. The thermal expansion coefficients (TECs) of bulk Sr (Hf0.9Gd0.1)O2.95 were recorded by a high-temperature dilatometer, indicating that the phase transitions of SrHfO3 are suppressed remarkably by doping Gd2O3. The thermal conductivity of bulk Sr (Hf0.9Gd0.1)O2.95 at 1000 oC is ~1.95 W/m·K, which is ~11% lower than that of bulk 8YSZ.


Author(s):  
Jonathan B. Hopkins ◽  
Howon Lee ◽  
Nicholas X. Fang ◽  
Christopher M. Spadaccini

The aim of this paper is to (1) introduce an approach, called Polytope Sector-based Synthesis, for synthesizing 2D or 3D microstructural architectures that exhibit a desired bulk-property directionality (e.g., isotropic, cubic, orthotropic, etc.), and (2) provide general analytical methods that can be used to rapidly optimize the geometric parameters of these architectures such that they achieve a desired combination of bulk thermal conductivity and thermal expansion properties. Although the methods introduced can be applied to general beam-based microstructural architectures, we demonstrate their utility in the context of an architecture that can be tuned to achieve a large range of extreme thermal expansion coefficients — positive, zero, and negative. The material-property-combination region that can be achieved by this architecture is determined within an Ashby-material-property plot of thermal expansion vs. thermal conductivity using the analytical methods introduced. Both 2D and 3D versions of the design have been fabricated using projection microstereolithography.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (5 Part A) ◽  
pp. 2857-2865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaofei Wu

In view of the construction of a visualized 3-D thermal performance prediction system for fabric reinforced composites, the thermal constants analyzer was used to analyze and compare the thermal conductivity of the 3-D fabric reinforced composites by experimental methods, such as fiber volume fraction, internal braiding angle, and different yarn reduction methods and fabric structures. The factors influencing the thermal conductivity of 3-D fabric reinforced composites were studied, and the principle of thermal conductivity was analyzed. The thermal expansion coefficients of 3-D fabric reinforced composites in X- and Y-directions are one order of magnitude smaller than those in Z-directions. When aramid fabric is used as reinforcement, the composites with negative thermal expansion coefficients can be designed. The research results provide the necessary basis for the design, application and theoretical research of the 3-D fabric reinforced composites in heat conduction. Through the research of this paper, it lays a foundation for the process selection, performance design and structure optimization of this kind of material, and promotes the further application of 3-D braided composites.


2014 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Avram Bar-Cohen ◽  
Kaiser Matin ◽  
Nicholas Jankowski ◽  
Darin Sharar

Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA's) thermal ground plane (TGP) effort was aimed at combining the advantages of vapor chambers or two-dimensional (2D) heat pipes and solid conductors by building thin, high effective thermal conductivity, flat heat pipes out of materials with thermal expansion coefficients that match current electronic devices. In addition to the temperature uniformity and minimal load-driven temperature variations associated with such two phase systems, in their defined parametric space, flat heat pipes are particularly attractive for Department of Defense and commercial systems because they offer a passive, reliable, light-weight, and low-cost path for transferring heat away from high power dissipative components. However, the difference in thermal expansion coefficients between silicon or ceramic microelectronic components and metallic vapor chambers, as well as the need for a planar, chip-size attachment surface for these devices, has limited the use of commercial of the shelf flat heat pipes in this role. The primary TGP goal was to achieve extreme lateral thermal conductivity, in the range of 10 kW/mK–20 kW/mK or approximately 25–50 times higher than copper and 10 times higher than synthetic diamond, with a thickness of 1 mm or less.


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