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Thermal Conductance Measurement And Flexibility Enhancement Of Flexible Thermal Links, Matt Felt, Matt Sinfield, Brian Thompson, Matt Munns, K. Lloyd Aug 2017

Thermal Conductance Measurement And Flexibility Enhancement Of Flexible Thermal Links, Matt Felt, Matt Sinfield, Brian Thompson, Matt Munns, K. Lloyd

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

Introduction

• Flexible thermal links provide a thermally conductive path with low mechanical stiffness

• Scope of this work is to characterize

– Uncertainty in thermal conductance measurements

– Compliance improvements gained by slitting foils