Improving the accuracy of the transient plane source method by correcting probe heat capacity and resistance influences
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The transient plane source (TPS) method is a relatively newly developed transient approach for thermal conductivity measurement. Compared with the steady-state method, it is fast, and applicable to either solid, liquid or gas state materials; therefore, it has gained much popularity in recent years. However, during measurement, the measured power is influenced by the heat capacity of the electrical isolation films as well as the electrical resistance change of the metallic thin wire of the TPS probes. This further influences the measurement precision. Meanwhile, these two factors have been ignored in the traditional model of TPS developed by Gustafsson. In this paper, the influence of both the heat capacity and the resistance change of the TPS probe on the measured power is studied, and mathematical formulas relating the two factors and their respective corrections are deduced. Thereafter an improved model is suggested based on the traditional TPS model and the above theoretical models. Experiments on polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) standard materials have been conducted using a home-made system, including TPS probes, data acquisition module and analysis software. The results show that the improved model can effectively improve the measurement precision of the TPS method by about 1.8–2.3% as evaluated by relative standard deviation.
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Several publications investigated the accuracy and performance of commercial TPS devices based on numerical simulations to study the effect of sensors on TPS measurement for bulk or thin film and the error due to thermal radiation in semitransparent sample.
“In the latter aspect, several publications investigated the accuracy and performance of commercial TPS devices based on numerical simulations to study the effect of the sensors on the TPS measurement for bulk or thin film 20, 27-31 and the error due to thermal radiation in semitransparent sample. 17, 33”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe bifilar spiral metal heater together with the dielectric insulation layer are usually approximated by several concentric and equally spaced circular rings with constant power in both analytical and numerical prior models.
“The bifilar spiral metal heater together with the dielectric insulation layer are usually approximated by several concentric and equally spaced circular rings with constant power in both analytical 3, 32 and numerical 20, 27-31 prior models.”
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Section 2 (page unavailable) describes a bifilar metal probe covered by insulating film and models the heater as concentric metallic rings with radii at equal intervals. Sections 2–3 also say the traditional model assumes constant heating power. The copy does not say that the insulation layer itself is approximated as rings or establish that this approximation is usual in both prior analytical and numerical models. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Li, Y., Shi, C., Liu, J., Liu, E., Shao, J., Chen, Z., Dorantes-Gonzalez, D. J., & Hu, X.
- Affiliations
- Tianjin University (CN)
- Venue
- Measurement Science and Technology
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2013-12-04
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 015006
- ISSN
- 0957-0233 (ISSN-L)
- 1361-6501
- OpenAlex
- W1965880645
- Cited by
- 41
- References
- 3
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- FWCI
- 1.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Measurement Science and Technology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City (12JCYBJC30800)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Thermal properties of materials
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanics of Materials › Thermography and Photoacoustic Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › Heat Transfer and Numerical Methods
- Keywords
- transient plane source method, thermal conductivity measurement, resistance change, measurement accuracy, poly(methyl methacrylate)
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