Thermal Conductivity of Nearly Stoichiometric Single‐Crystal and Polycrystalline UO2
作者:
J. P. MOORE,
D. L. MCELROY,
期刊:
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
(WILEY Available online 1971)
卷期:
Volume 54,
issue 1
页码: 40-46
ISSN:0002-7820
年代: 1971
DOI:10.1111/j.1151-2916.1971.tb12164.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
The thermal conductivities, λ, of single‐crystal and polycrystalline UO2were measured from 80° to 420°K. The results indicate no observable difference in λ between single‐crystal and polycrystalline UO2, and both materials have broad peaks in λ at ∼220°K. The results were used with literature values to determine the effect of closed porosity on λ. The thermal conductivity of theoretically dense UO2is described phenomenologically from 80° to 1400°K, where conduction is dominated by the phonon component. The phonon conduction is analyzed by comparison with ThO2. This analysis indicates that the high‐temperature λ is limited by 3‐phonon Umklapp scattering processes. Scattering by the disordered spins associated with the paramagnetic U ions contributes a large temperature‐independent phonon scattering term. This mechanism has a mean free path of about 51 Å, which implies that grain boundaries and impurities have a relatively insignificant effect on the phonon conduction far above the antiferromagnetic‐para‐magnetic transition at ∼ 30°K. This implication agrees
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