Title: Thermal conductivity of aluminum, copper, iron, and tungsten for temperatures from 1 K to the melting point
Abstract: Literature data on the thermal conductivity of commercially Dure aluminum, copper, iron, and tunqsten specimens have been collected, coded, critically analyzed, and correlated with analytical techniques based on the- oretical and empirical equations.The resulting functions are presented and used to qenerate tables and graphs of thermal conductivity as a function of temperature and residual resistivity ratio (RRR).An annotated biblioq- raphy of references is included.Discussions are included on the variations in thermal conductivity caused by chemical impurities, physical defects, size effects, and maqnetic fields.Smoothed values are presented for temperatures from 1 K to near the melting point and for a large ranqe of RRR val ues.