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Thermal Conductivity of Alloys

08/11/2010 1:18 PM

Hi there,

I'll be very glad if anyone can share with me on how to determine the thermal conductivity of alloys..thanks in advance.

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Re: thermal conductivity of alloys

08/11/2010 1:35 PM

Alloys of what? Metal? Plastic? Do you have a specific question about a particular alloy, or is this just for fun? Perhaps homework?

Most common metal alloys are well defined and reference sites such as Mat Web (Disclaimer here) should have data on them.

Plastics manufacturers will have data on non-metallic alloys.

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Re: thermal conductivity of alloys

08/11/2010 2:11 PM

Do you mean, can you do something like a weighted average of the pure component thermal conductivities to predict the thermal conductivity of the alloy?

According to the following found here, you can see that there is not a linear or even simple relationship between component percentages and the thermal conductivity of the resulting alloy.

Steel, Nickel, Ni0% 73.0 W/(m-ºC)

Steel, Nickel, Ni20% 19.0 W/(m-ºC)

Steel, Nickel, Ni40% 10.0 W/(m-ºC)

Steel, Nickel, Ni80% 35.0 W/(m-ºC)

Nickel, Pure 99.0 W/(m-ºC)

As LynLynch says, it is better and easier to look it up.

You could even measure it.

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Re: thermal conductivity of alloys

08/15/2010 2:55 AM

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Re: Thermal Conductivity of Alloys

08/11/2010 8:08 PM

Yes, tere is a very simple and extremely effective method to do so. It works with all alloys of all compositions all the time, and is extremely reliable.

It's called experimentation.

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Re: Thermal Conductivity of Alloys

08/15/2010 12:05 AM

You add up all the different metals and devide by 3

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08/15/2010 2:41 AM

Your scheme is still linear. It will not work.

Do you have some reference(s) to back up your assertion? No, you don't.

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