[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”2254″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
List of Topics
[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text]Click title to expand.[/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion color=”sky” gap=”2″ active_section=”166″ collapsible_all=”true”][vc_tta_section title=”Materials” tab_id=”1521556841419-fc24977b-f22d”][vc_column_text]
- Adhesives
- Advanced ceramics
- Characterization of thermal properties of anisotropic materials
- Biomaterials
- Coatings and barrier materials
- Foods
- Geological materials, testing techniques, mixtures, effect of pressure, in-situ testing
- Graphene
- Graphite
- Iron and alloys
- Li-ion batteries
- Metals
- Nano materials
- Polymers
- Steel
- Super Insulation Materials (SIM)
- Thermal insulators
- Thermal interface materials and measuring techniques, data
- Thermoelectric materials
- Traditional ceramics
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Industrial applications” tab_id=”1521556841456-2f03fc69-3ae5″][vc_column_text]
- Aluminum industry related topics
- Ceramic industry related topics
- Semiconductors and thermoelectric materials
- Powders
- Foams
- Innovative insulations
- Vacuum Insulation Panels (VIP)
- Aerogels
- Microporous materials
- Non destructive testing and QC
- Thermal properties and electronic devices
- Phase-change materials (PCM)
- Thermal expansion of composites, pastes, multiphase mixtures, liquids, solids, molten metals
- Sintering and HIP
- Additive manufacturing, 3D printing
- Fast Firing of traditional ceramics
- Quenching and deformation of steel, aluminum and alloys
- Hot and Cold Rolling Process Optimization
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Fluids” tab_id=”1521556952108-cffd4aa9-0426″][vc_column_text]
- Liquids: liquid mixtures, etc. theory/new methods/data/progress
- Gases: theory/new methods/data/progress
- Molten metals: theory/new methods/data/progress
- Molten ceramic and semiconductor materials
- Molten polymers and thermoplastics
- High pressure testing
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Properties at different length scales” tab_id=”1521556953193-ec03c079-a8b8″][vc_column_text]
- Thermal conductivity
- Thermal diffusivity
- Thermal effusivity
- Electrical resistivity
- Specific heat capacity
- Seeback coefficient
- Emissivity
- Apparent properties and their use
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Space and Nuclear applications” tab_id=”1521556954087-72596883-3f31″][vc_column_text]
- Space applications/satellites/ micro gravity techniques and data
- Thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases
- Thermal radiative properties, measurement techniques and data (emissivity, etc.)
Special applications, testing of complex systems - Nuclear materials, special techniques, in-pile testing, special applications
- Irradiation effect on thermal properties
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”General theory, modeling and simulation, data management” tab_id=”1521556955612-1d0ed3bf-35cb”][vc_column_text]
- Molecular dynamics
- Mesoscale (phase field) modeling
- Thermal modeling
- Multiscale modeling
- Data analysis, organization, data bases
- Estimation techniques
- Theory development
- Multi-layer analysis theory/new methods/data/progress
- Radiative heat transfer, effect on thermal conductivity measurement techniques and data
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Instrumentation and Data Analysis” tab_id=”1521556956293-7a185fef-7c76″][vc_column_text]
- Dilatometers
- Thermal conductivity measuring instruments
- Thermal diffusivity instruments
- New commercially introduced instruments
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Thermal expansion testing/data/equipment” tab_id=”1521556957048-6a5bad90-6810″][vc_column_text]
- Dilatometry techniques and new developments in dilatometry
- Interferometery in dilatometry
- Optical and other noncontact dilatometry
- Ultra-high temperature dilatometry
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Measurement methods and techniques” tab_id=”1521556957768-6c273415-f6e1″][vc_column_text]
- Thermal conductivity
- Thermal diffusivity
- Thermal effusivity
- Heat Flow Meters
- Thermal reflectance methods
- Guarded Hot Plate
- 3-Omega and hot wire
- Dilatometry
- Heating microscopy
- Fleximetry
- Interferometry
- Noncontact dilatometry
- Flash diffusivity
- Calorimetry
- Subsecond methods (Ohmic pulse, exploding wire, etc.)
- New measurement techniques and equipment
- Interface thermal resistance
- Thin films
- Cryogenic /near ambient/High temperature /ultra-high temperature techniques
- Hot plate apparatus
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Review Papers” tab_id=”1521556959619-0a355acb-b089″][vc_column_text]
- General methods and techniques
- New methods and techniques
- New advances
- Transient techniques
- Steady-state techniques
- Absolute techniques
- Comparative techniques
- History of thermophysical measurements
[/vc_column_text][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_section full_width=”stretch_row” el_class=”gray-wrapper”][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces”][vc_column][vc_column_text]
Looking forward to seeing you there.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section]