EN ISO 11357-8 Plastics - Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) - Determination of Thermal Conductivity

EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, provides precise and fast testing services within the scope of EN ISO 11357-8 testing. This standard establishes a method for determining the thermal conductivity of solid unfilled and filled or fiber-reinforced plastics and composites by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).

The advantage of using DSC to measure the thermal conductivity of plastics is that the specific heat capacity can also be obtained with the same instrument. This allows the thermal dissipation to be determined by dividing the thermal conductivity by density and specific heat capacity.

In addition, DSC instruments are widely used and available in almost all test institutes and laboratories. Therefore, thermal conductivity measurements can be made without the need to purchase an additional instrument.

Thermal conductivity is a fundamental property that defines how a material conducts heat. In terms of plastics, knowing the thermal conductivity is important in various applications as it affects the heat transfer and thermal insulation performance of the material.

EN ISO 11357-8 provides guidelines and procedures specifying the method for using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) to determine the thermal conductivity of plastics. The DSC technique is used to analyze how a material's heat capacity changes with temperature, and this information can be used to calculate thermal conductivity.

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