Thermal diffusivity of polymers by the flash method |
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Authors: | FC Chen YM Poon CL Choy |
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Affiliation: | Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong China |
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Abstract: | We have adopted the flash method to the measurement of thermal diffusivity α of polymers in the temperature range 100–400K. The pulsed radiant energy from a flash tube is applied to the ‘front’ side of a suspended sample disc, and α is deduced from the exponential decay time constant of the subsequent transient temperature difference between the ‘front’ and the ‘back’ side, while correction against radiation loss is made by measuring the much longer decay time of the back-side temperature. Calibration runs on polycarbonate (PC) samples of several thicknesses show that the method is quick, precise and fairly accurate, and the results obtained are in reasonable agreement with previous determinations. We have also carried out measurements on polyoxymethylene (POM), poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVF2) and poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET) and computed their thermal conductivities. Results on POM and PVF2, which are semicrystalline, are analysed in the framework of several two-phase models, and the effect of crystallization (produced by annealing) on the glass transition behaviour of PET has also been studied. |
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