Contact Resistance/Conductance Tables
Contact Resistance/Conductance Tables
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I'm creating a satellite thermal model and have run into a little problem. It's become necessary to enter some thermal resistance/conductance values into the model but I can't seem to find agreement on how to get these values.
I've heard conflicting opinions on whether to calculate this data or find it in a reference book. However, after scanning through the CRC Materials Handbook, a table of these values is nowhere to be found.
Has anyone else encountered this problem? Should I calculate or look up this data? If I need to look it up can you give me a reference?
Thanks!





RE: Contact Resistance/Conductance Tables
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RE: Contact Resistance/Conductance Tables
The above cited link appears to be corrupted: http://www.thermalengineer.com/library/calculating... works
Seems to be lots of hits on websearch:
http://help.solidworks.com/2011/english/SolidWorks...
http://www.mhtlab.uwaterloo.ca/pdf_papers/mhtl07-6...
http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~nikos/courses/ME297/pdf/...
http://www.lytron.com/Tools-and-Technical-Referenc...
http://www.clear.rice.edu/mech403/HelpFiles/FEA_th...
http://nativedynamics.com.au/kb/heat_transfer/ther...
http://www.ufrgs.br/ldtm/publicacoes/inaccuracy_of...
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/~sscott/MSEmemos/mse_memo_...
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RE: Contact Resistance/Conductance Tables
Section 5 is particularly useful in the document, on pages 44 and 47 there are correlations which can be used to determine values and there's plenty of plots with experimental results in the document to use also.
This answer may be too late to help you with your problem prsww3 but might prove useful to other people trying to calculate thermal contact conductance values.
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