Thermomechanical modelling of sandwich panels with connections in fire resistance tests

This paper presents two full-scale fire resistance tests of sandwich panels with connections, to verify one way coupled fire-structure simulations. The heat transfer simulations agree well with the tests, however, the structural response simulations show some differences compared to the start of the first test, which is a sandwich panel façade....

Thermal design of the EarthCARE MSI-VNS instrument

The EarthCARE satellite mission objective is the observation of clouds and aerosols from low Earth orbit. The payload will include active remote sensing instruments being the W- band Cloud Profiling Radar (CPR) and the ATLID LIDAR. These are supported by the passive instruments BroadBand Radiometer (BBR) and the Multispectral Imager (MSI)...

Prediction of the thermo-mechanical material behavior of PEN foil during photolithographic processing

Flexible substrates (polymers) for plastic electronic products are far less stable to environmental factors, like heat and moisture, than currently used non-flexible substrates (silicon). This introduces problems during the lithography process of these products. This study presents a thermo-mechanical model of PEN foil; an organic material often...