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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 107, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3309328
Keywords
heat conduction; infrared imaging; thermal diffusivity
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- Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia [MAT2008-01454]
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In lock-in (modulated) thermography the lateral thermal diffusivity can be obtained from the slope of the linear relation between the phase of the surface temperature and the distance to the heating spot. However, this slope is greatly affected by heat losses, leading to an overestimation of the thermal diffusivity, especially for thin samples of poor thermal conducting materials. In this paper, we present a complete theoretical model to calculate the surface temperature of filaments heated by a focused and modulated laser beam. All heat losses have been included: conduction to the gas, convection, and radiation. Monofilaments and coated wires have been studied. Conduction to the gas has been identified as the most disturbing effect preventing from the direct use of the slope method to measure the thermal diffusivity. As a result, by keeping the sample in vacuum a slope method combining amplitude and phase can be used to obtain the accurate diffusivity value. Measurements performed in a wide variety of filaments confirm the validity of the conclusion. On the other hand, in the case of coated wires, the slope method gives an effective thermal diffusivity, which verifies the in-parallel thermal resistor model. As an application, the slope method has been used to retrieve the thermal conductivity of thin tubes by filling them with a liquid of known thermal properties.
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