Journal article
Thermal conductivity measurement below 40 K of the CFRP tubes for the Mid-Intrared Instrument mounting struts
In
Cryogenics
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2007, Volume 47, Issue 5-6, pp. 348-352
Abstract
The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) is one of four instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope observatory, scheduled for launch in 2013. It must be cooled to about 7 K and is supported within the telescope’s 40 K instrument module by a hexapod of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) tubing. This article describes the measurement of cryogenic thermal conductivity of the candidate CFRP.
Measured thermal conductivities were about 0.05 W/m K at a mean temperature of 10 K increasing to about 0.20 W/m K at a mean temperature of 40 K.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 2007 |
| Pages: | 348-352 |
| ISSN: | 18792235 and 00112275 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cryogenics.2007.03.006 |
| ORCIDs: | Nørgaard-Nielsen, Hans Ulrik and Jessen, Niels Christian |
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