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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2009, Vol. 10 Issue (5): 704-709    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.A0820733
Energy and Chemical Engineering     
Evaluation of the effective thermal conductivity of composite polymers by considering the filler size distribution law
Sorin HOLOTESCU, Floriana D. STOIAN
Department of Thermal Machines, Technology and Transportation, “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Timisoara RO-300222, Romania
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Abstract  We present an empirical model for the effective thermal conductivity (ETC) of a polymer composite that includes dependency on the filler size distribution—chosen as the Rosin-Rammler distribution. The ETC is determined based on certain hypotheses that connect the behavior of a real composite material A, to that of a model composite material B, filled with mono-dimensional filler. The application of these hypotheses to the Maxwell model for ETC is presented. The validation of the new model and its characteristic equation was carried out using experimental data from the reference. The comparison showed that by using the size distribution law a very good fit between the equation of the new model (the size distribution model for the ETC) and the reference experimental results is obtained, even for high volume fractions, up to about 50%.

Key words： Effective thermal conductivity (ETC)      Filler size distribution      Equivalent volume fraction      Composite polymer     
Received: 21 October 2008     
CLC:  O631  
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Sorin HOLOTESCU, Floriana D. STOIAN. Evaluation of the effective thermal conductivity of composite polymers by considering the filler size distribution law. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2009, 10(5): 704-709.

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