High-speed (subsecond) measurement of heat capacity, electrical resistivity, and thermal radiation properties of molybdenum in the range 1900 to 2800 K

Abstract

A technique is described for the high-speed measurement of heat capacity, electrical resistivity, hemispherical total and normal spectral emittances of electrical conductors at high temperatures (above 1900 K) with millisecond resolution. Duration of an individual experiment, in which the specimen is heated from room temperature to close to its melting point, is less than one second. Temperature measurements are made with a high-speed photoelectric pyrometer. Quantities are recorded by a high-speed digital data acquisition system which has a resolution of approximately one part in 8000. Time resolution of the entire system is 0.4 ms. Results on the above properties of molybdenum in the temperature range 1900 to 2800 K are reported and are compared with those in the literature. Estimated inaccuracy of measured properties in the above temperature range is: 2 to 3 percent for heat capacity, 0.5 percent for electrical resistivity, 3 percent for hemispherical total emittance and 2 percent for normal spectral emittance.