Correlating and predicting polymer thermal conductivities

✍ Scribed by Michael Luba; Thomas Pelt; Richard G. Griskey

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 226 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-8995
• DOI: 10.1002/app.1979.070230105

✦ Synopsis

General correlations were developed to estimate polymer thermal conductivities for four cases-amorphous polymers above the glass temperature; amorphous polymers below the glass temperature; semicrystalline polymers above the melting temperature, and semicrystalline polymers below the melting temperature. The correlations based on readily available parameters (mer weights, densities a t 25"C, specific heats) yielded calculated thermal conductivities that deviated by only l'%-2% from experimental values.