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Issue 1

Editorial 1 – 2
John Redgrove

A new periodic technique for thermal conductivity measurement 3 – 8
Simone Matteï, Eric Tang Kwor

Radiative and conductive heat transfer: a coupled model for parameter estimation 9 – 17
Myriam Lazard, Stéphane André, Denis Maillet, Alain Degiovanni

An intercomparison of heat flow meter apparatus within the United Kingdom and Eire 19 – 28
David Salmon, Ronald Tye

Thermal properties of solid-industrial-waste-based wood concretes 29 – 37
Mohamed Benmalek, Rose Dheilly, Abderrahim Bali, Michèle Quéneudec

Heat transfer coefficients of translucent glazing units for daylighting purposes 39 – 45
Norbert Geuder, Jochen Fricke, Werner Körner, Michael Ehrmanntraut, Andreas Beck

Recent developments and applications of the hot disk thermal constants analyser for measuring thermal transport properties of solids 47 – 51
Mattias Gustavsson, Johan Gustavsson, Silas Gustafsson, Lars Hälldahl

Simultaneous identification of thermophysical and moisture transport properties in porous insulating materials 53 – 60
Marco Cartesegna, Federico Scarpa, Guido Milano

Influence of the texture on the radiative properties of semitransparent materials. Comparison between model and experiment 61 – 66
Olivier Rozenbaum, Domingos Desousa Meneses, Patrick Echegut, Pierre Levitz

A measurement technique for hemispherical total emissivity using feedback-controlled pulse current heating 67 – 72
Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Akira Ono

High-precision viscosity measurements on methane 73 – 81
Eckhard Vogel, Jörg Wilhelm, Cornelia Küchenmeister, Manfred Jaeschke

Ultrasonic velocity of liquid tridecane and tetradecane as a function of temperature and pressure 83 – 87
Jean-Luc Daridon, Bernard Lagourette

Ultrasonic speeds in dense liquid and bubble-point pressures for binary mixtures of pentafluoroethane and 1,1,1-trifluoroethane 89 – 96
Toshiharu Takagi, Taro Sakura

Viscosity of mixtures of indole containing 2-methylnaphthalene and isoquinoline under pressure 97 – 102
Chiaki Yokoyama, Jun Takei, Akibumi Kumagai

Measurement of surface tension and viscosity of molten lithium niobate by the surface laser-light scattering method 103 – 108
Masato Ohnishi, Yuji Nagasaka

Measurement of the volumetric expansion and bulk density of metals in the solid and molten regions 109 – 113
Jürgen Blumm, Jack Henderson

Accommodation coefficients of liquid metals determined by the Langmuir method with the use of electron bombardment of a skull crucible 115 – 121
Dmitry Kagan, Galina Krechetova, Igor Fomin, Evald Shpilrain

Review 123
Mark Gee on Hirsch (Ed.): Topics in Electron Diffraction and Microscopy of Materials

Issue 2

Conferences and meetings 125

Thermophysical property measurements in microgravity 127 – 134
Iván Egry

Interface thermal conductance and the thermal conductivity of multilayer thin films 135 – 142
David Cahill, Andrew Bullen, Seung-Min Lee

Transparent thermal insulation materials and systems: state of the art and potential for the future 143 – 158
Volker Wittwer, Werner Platzer

Minutes of Workshop W1: 'Major challenges for fluids transport property research in the next century' 159 – 162
Marc Assael

Thermal conductivity of polyatomic dilute gas mixtures 163 – 170
Velisa Vesovic

Influence of ageing on nitrocellulose thermal properties and hazard potential figures-of-merit 171 – 178
Maša Rajić, Muhamed Sućeska

Measurement of the viscosity of cyclopentane from 210 to 310 K and pressures up to 25 MPa 179 – 184
Marc Assael, Natassa Dalaouti

Vacancies and a generalised melting curve of alkali halides 185 – 192
Katarzyna Ksiazek, Tadeusz Górecki

Application of a γ attenuation technique for the study of phase equilibria in binary liquid systems with a miscibility gap 193 – 198
Rashid Khairulin, Sergei Stankus

Development of a low-temperature laser interferometric dilatometer using a cryogenic refrigerator 199 – 205
Naofumi Yamada, Masahiro Okaji

Analytical expressions for the thermodynamic properties of square-well fluids of variable width 207 – 214
Julio Largo, José Solana

Computer calculation of the 700 K isothermal section of the Ba - Mo - O system from thermodynamic data 215 – 225
Smruti Dash, Ziley Singh, Rajendra Prasad, Venkatarama Venugopal

Phase transitions in (Pb, La)Zr0.53Ti0.47O3 ferroelectric ceramics 227 – 232
Aimé Barranco, Francisco Piñar, Oscar Martínez, Irma Carmenate

Corresponding states correlation for the surface tension of melts 233 – 238
Setareh Sheikh, Ali Boushehri

Reflection errors and uncertainties for dual and multiwavelength pyrometers 239 – 249
Peter Saunders

Review 251 – 252
Alexander A Parkhomenko on Mughrabi, Gottstein, Mecking, Riedel, Tobolski: Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Metallic High-Temperature Materials, Research Report

Issue 3

Viscosity and density of molten germanium 253 – 260
Yuzuru Sato, Takefumi Nishizuka, Tomohiro Tachikawa, Masayoshi Hoshi, Tsutomu Yamamura, Yoshio Waseda

Modelling and prediction of the solubility of acid gases in diethanolamine solutions 261 – 270
Mousa Abu-Arabi, Shaheen Al-Muhtaseb

Precision of some forms of unified equation of state (on the basis of methane data) 271 – 276
Aleksandr Vasserman, Denis Fominsky

Simultaneous estimation of thermal properties from experimental measurements in resin transfer moulding by the use of genetic algorithms 277 – 281
Sandrine Garcia, Damien Lecointe, Yvon Jarny, Didier Delaunay

Determination of the thermodynamic properties of 1-propanol and 1-hexanol from speed of sound measurements under elevated pressures 283 – 292
Wojciech Marczak, Marzena Dzida, Stefan Ernst

Adaptive correction of dynamic temperature measurements to improve estimation of thermophysical properties 293 – 303
Guido Milano, Federico Scarpa, Marco Cartesegna

Isentropic thermophysical properties of pure n-paraffins as a function of temperature and chain length 305 – 310
Frederic Plantier, Jean-Luc Daridon, Bernard Lagourette, Christian Boned

A comparison of a novel single-pan calorimeter with a conventional heat-flux differential scanning calorimeter 311 – 319
Hongbiao Dong, John Hunt

Transient thermal conductivity measurements: comparison of destructive and nondestructive techniques 321 – 327
Nancy Mathis

Estimation of the local thermal conductivity field of a plane heterogeneous medium with infrared image processing and the volume-averaging method 329 – 336
Marielle Varenne, Jean-Christophe Batsale, Claire Gobbé

Noncontact determination of the thermal conductivity of fibres 337 – 346
Volker Drach, Hans-Peter Ebert, Jochen Fricke

Influence of heat flowmeters on thermal measurements 347 – 353
Thierry Langlet, Jean Roucoult, Omar Douzane, Jean-Marie Devisme

Heat diffusion in the two-layer system GaAs/GaSb joined by the fusion technique 355 – 360
Antonio Calderón, Rocío A Hernández, José F Ramírez, José L Pérez, Alfredo Cruz Orea, Feliciano Sinencio

Emittance of Y2O3 stabilised ZrO2 thermal barrier coatings prepared by electron-beam physical-vapour deposition 361 – 368
Jochen Manara, Rainer Brandt, Joachim Kuhn, Jochen Fricke, Thomas Krell, Uwe Schulz, Manfred Peters, Wolfgang Kaysser

A new experimental device to measure directional spectral emittance of semitransparent media at high temperatures 369 – 376
Rogério Lopes, Agnès Delmas, Jean-François Sacadura

Review 377 – 378
C Simon Jeffery on Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and Baudis (eds): Dark Matter in Astrophysics and Particle Physics 1998. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Dark Matter in Astro and Particle Physics

Issue 4

Application of photoacoustic spectroscopy to the optical study of pigments in corn pericarp: spectral separation of optical absorption centres 379 – 383
Rocío A Hernández, Antonio Calderón, Alfredo Cruz Orea, Sergio Tomás, Feliciano Sinencio, Gabriel Rodríguez

In situ measurement of light scattering in porous ceramics during sintering 385 – 390
Ronald Springer, Friedrich Raether, Roland Caps, Jochen Manara

Remote nondestructive monitoring of coatings and materials by the flash technique 391 – 395
Oleg Troitsky, Harald Reiss

Formation of molecular alloy by solid-state amorphisation 397 – 402
Satoshi Furukawa, Maki Nagahama, Hiroshi Suga

Microstructure and thermoelectric properties of rapidly quenched BixSb100-x thin film alloys 403 – 411
José Barzola-Quiquia, Christian Lauinger, Peter Häussler, Ralph Rosenbaum

Use of quantum field theory in cryogenics 413 – 421
Jurij Avsec, Milan Marčič

A corresponding-states Helmholtz-free-energy model based on a conformality analysis 423 – 432
Giovanni Cristofoli, Maurizio Grigiante, Giancarlo Scalabrin

Volumetric behaviour of water under high pressure at subzero temperature 433 – 440
Tomohiro Sotani, Jacek Arabas, Hironobu Kubota, Masamichi Kijima, Shoji Asada

Isothermal vapour - liquid equilibrium measurements for the binary mixtures HFC-125 + HFC-245fa and HC-290 + HFC-245fa 441 – 447
Sergio Bobbo, Roberto Camporese, Giancarlo Scalabrin

Accuracy of vapour - liquid critical points computed from cubic equations of state 449 – 459
Juha-Pekka Pokki, Juhani Aittamaa, Kari Keskinen

Points of melting - crystallisation and polymorphic transformations of sulfur in density - temperature coordinates 461 – 466
Anatolii Basin, Boris Nenashev

Thermal properties and phase transitions of heavy rare-earth fluorides 467 – 472
Sergei Stankus, Rashid Khairulin, Konstantin Lyapunov

Estimation of local thermophysical properties by means of front-face photothermal infrared thermography: application to mechanical stress analysis 473 – 477
Hervé Pron, Jean-François Henry, Stephan Offermann, Christian Bissieux, Jean-Louis Beaudoin

Differential scanning calorimetry and temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry: an extension to lower temperatures 479 – 485
Jan Krüger, Wolfgang Manglkammer, Andrä le Coutre, Patrick Mesquida

Thermal conductivity measurements for the separation of heat and mass diffusion in moist porous materials 487 – 491
Steffen Rudtsch

Short-hot-wire method for the measurement of the thermal conductivity of a fine fibre 493 – 500
Xing Zhang, Seiji Fujiwara, Motoo Fujii

Reviews 501 – 503
Emilia G Balabanova on Hinchcliffe: Chemical Modeling: from Atoms to Liquids
Inna Ya Minchina, Boris G Udovidchenko on Petrenko and Whitworth: Physics of Ice

Issue 5

Competition and cooperation in thermophysical properties research 505 – 509
Akira Nagashima

Hydrodynamics and kinetics of condensed matter evaporation 511 – 520
Sergei Anisimov, Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn

Thermophysics of superhard thin film materials 521 – 534
Frank Richter

Reliable thermophysical properties for space applications 535 – 546
Karl Keller

High-resolution thermophysical measurements using staring infrared detector arrays 547 – 556
Max Schulz, Werner Gross, Hans Scheuerpflug

Thermodynamic properties of neutral and charged species in high-temperature vapour over terbium and thulium trichlorides 557 – 565
Lev Kudin, Alexander Pogrebnoi, Iljas Khasanshin, Vladimir Motalov

Simulation of the sintering behaviour of high-tech ceramics by means of dilatometry and thermokinetic analysis 567 – 572
Jürgen Blumm, Johannes Opfermann, Ute Janosovits, Hans-Jürgen Pohlmann

In-situ diagnostics of the interaction region between a nitrogen - oxygen plasma jet and hot C/C - SiC ceramic materials 573 – 579
Ingo Altmann, Gerd Bauer, Kurt Hirsch, Herbert Jentschke, Stefan Klenge, Bernhard Roth, Detlef Schinköth, Uwe Schumacher

Technique of determination of interface supercooling dependence on crystal growth rate 581 – 588
Vladimir Golyshev, Michael Gonik, Vladimir Tsvetovsky

Application of the transient step-heating technique for the measurement of in-plane thermal diffusivity 589 – 598
Aharon Nabi, Yedidia Cohen, Nisim Hazan

Effect of temperature and pressure on the thermal conductivity of aqueous CaI2 solutions 599 – 611
Ilmutdin Abdulagatov, Umakhan Magomedov

Initiation of metamorphosis of porosity during liquid-phase sintering in microgravity 613 – 620
Yubin He, Saiyin Ye, Jamil Naser, Anjilivelil Kuruvilla, James Smith, Alexander Ivanov, Yu Bratuchin, G Putin

Measurement of thermal expansion of ceramic matrix composite tubes at temperatures up to 1400 °C 621 – 628
Ralf Kornmann, Klaus Eberle, Michael Dogigli

Review 629 – 630
Yurchenko on Speight: The Chemistry and Technology of Petroleum

Issue 6

Dielectric constant and dipole moment of hydrofluorocarbon refrigerant mixtures R404A, R407C, and R507 631 – 651
Filipe de Brito, Anelia Gurova, Carlos Nieto de Castro, Umesh Mardolcar

Temperature dependence of the thermophysical properties of binary mixtures of n-hexane + 1-butanol 653 – 661
Beatriz de Cominges, Manuel Piñeiro, Eva Mascato, Teresa Iglesias, José Legido

Correlation and calculation of the sound velocity in liquid hydrocarbons 663 – 668
Talgat Khasanshin, Alexander Shchamialiou

Switchable thermal insulation: results of computer simulations for optimisation in building applications 669 – 675
Ronny Horn, René Neusinger, Michael Meister, Jörg Hetfleisch, Roland Caps, Jochen Fricke

Measurement of emittance and degree of polarisation of surfaces for solar energy converters 677 – 686
Dirk Labuhn, Stephan Kabelac

Nanoporous silica antireflective coatings for solar heat collectors 687 – 692
Guangming Wu, Tianhe Yang, Jue Wang, Huilin Zhang, Jun Shen, Bin Fan, Dongping Zhou, Fengshan Zhang

Some approaches for obtaining better data for thermal diffusivities of thin materials measured by the laser-flash method 693 – 700
DaWei Tang, Nobuyuki Araki

Thermal conductivity of nonporous polyurethane 701 – 707
Lars Nielsen, Hans-Peter Ebert, Frank Hemberger, Jochen Fricke, Anja Biedermann, Michael Reichelt, Udo Rotermund

Molecular dynamics of heat transfer in Si/Ge superlattices 709 – 714
Sebastian Volz, Jean-Bernard Saulnier, Giang Chen, Pierre Beauchamp

Chemical potential and equation of state for fluids of hard diatomic molecules 715 – 720
María Maeso, José Solana

Creep of alumosilicon concretes on phosphate binders 721 – 724
Ulfat Shayachmetov

Chemical vapour deposition in hot-wall reactors: the role of the ratio of substrate surface area to reactor volume 725 – 736
Matthias Teubner, Zijun Hu, Klaus Hüttinger