Pyroceram 9606, A Certified Ceramic Reference Material For High-Temperature Thermal Transport Properties: Part 2—Certification Measurements

Following the characterization of the batch of Pyroceram 9606 material, a number of the partners in the European Commission (EC) supported program carried out certification measurements of thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity. Six laboratories undertook thermal-diffusivity measurements using either the flash or the modulated beam methods. Eight laboratories measured the thermal conductivity, using either the steady-state guarded-hot-plate method or one of the transient hot-wire methods. Results from each series of measurements were provided in a standard format as an aid to simplify the statistical analysis of the data. The results were corrected to the nominal measured temperature and for change in dimension, analyzed separately, and presented in a standard format. Outliers were identified and rejected where appropriate, based on both statistical and technical evidences. The individual data sets were combined, and the grand mean data for each property analyzed further to provide the certified values together with their uncertainty limits. Finally, using the specific heat capacity and density values obtained from the characterization tests, values of thermal conductivity were calculated from the measured thermal diffusivity. The difference between the calculated and certified values is less than 2.7 %, which is well within the uncertainty limit assigned for the certified thermal property values.