Kevin W. Irick*
Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.8, pp. 1-7, 2017, DOI:10.5098/hmt.8.2
Abstract The Single-sided Guarded Hot Plate Method for Comparative Testing of Thermal Radiation Barriers in Vacuum was used to evaluate the
performance of a variety of aerogel insulation specimens manufactured by Aspen Aerogels® against one another and against multi-layer insulation
(MLI). Testing at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) shows that the effective thermal resistance, Re, of all tested aerogel specimens are
virtually bounded by the performance of 5-layer and 10-layer MLI specimens over a mean specimen temperature, Tm, range of about 270K to 315K. More >
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