Steady State and Light Flash Methods for Measuring Thermal Diffusivity and Thermal Conductivity

  Overview The ability of a material to store and transfer heat is characterized with the material properties of thermal diffusivity, thermal conductivity, and specific heat capacity. Understanding these properties is critical when exposing a material to a wide array of temperature environments: large gradients, rapid changes, and maintaining stability, to name a few. Accurate…

Measuring the Influence of Humidity on Material Properties

  Overview The impact of humidity on a material’s properties and performance during processing, storage, and in final form is a growing area of interest for manufacturers across many industries. A few areas of investigation of this impact include material selection and failure analysis of layered materials used with electronic circuit boards, morphological changes in…

Instrumentation and Software Insights of Rheology and Thermal Analysis

Instrumentation and Software Insights of Rheology and Thermal Analysis Overview: Instrumentation and Software Insights for Polymers and Adhesives The world of rheology is always developing in terms of the instrumentation used to characterize polymers and adhesives. In this presentation, we will discuss some fundamentals of polymer and adhesive testing, as well as some accessories that…