This project involved the mixing of aluminum and diamond powders to produce a composite material. Samples of varying percentages of aluminum to diamond ratio were to be produced. This material was then to be formed into pellets utilizing the powder pressing method in a push through die produced by this student. The pellet was to be sintered, then tested for thermal conductivity by means of the Guarded-Comparative-Longitudinal Heat Flow Technique. The data obtained from this test was to be compared to the existing thermal conductivity models.

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Creator

• Coppola, Mathew Alphonse

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 99D244M

Advisor

• Makhlouf, Makhlouf M.

Year

• 1999

Date created

• 1999-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright