Observation of anomalous behavior in the thermal and electrical conductivity of a standard reference material SRM‐735

摘要

Measurements have been carried out over the temperature range 360–480 K of both the thermal conductivity κ(T) and the electrical resistivity ρ(T) for the austenitic stainless steel material chosen by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards as the Standard Reference Material for these two properties in the temperature range 4–1200 K. These measurements show a ripple in κ(T) vs. T centered at 410 K. The amplitude of the observed ripple is within the ±5% experimental scatter of previous data. Measurements of κ(T) for ordinary 304 stainless steel over the same temperature range show no sign of such a ripple. Measurements of the electrical resistivity of the Standard Reference Material also show an unusual structure centered at 410 K.