SalientCharacteristics.doc

Salient Characteristics

Commercial Availability Certification:

I have evaluated the commercial marketplace and determined that all of the salient characteristics documented below are available in products/services offered in the commercial marketplace.

The contractor shall provide one (1) new thermal diffusivity & thermal conductivity measurement system with the following salient characteristics:

· The system shall be capable of measuring thermal diffusivity and thermal conductivity at least from room temperature or below up to at least 1600 degrees centigrade.

· The system shall be capable of measuring thermal diffusivity and thermal conductivity of samples in air, nitrogen, argon or helium atmospheres and in a vacuum (10-3 Torr or lower pressure)

· The system shall be capable of measuring thermal diffusivity from 0.01 mm2/s or lower and up to at least 1000 mm2/s

· The system shall be capable of measuring thermal conductivity from 0.1 W/mK or lower up to at least 2000 W/mK

· Repeatability for the measurements of thermal diffusivity shall be ±2% or less

· Repeatability for the measurements of specific heat shall be ±3.5% or less

· Repeatability for the measurements of thermal conductivity shall be ±3.5% or less

· Accuracy for the measurements of thermal diffusivity shall be ±2.3% or less

· Accuracy for the measurements of specific heat shall be ±4% or less

· Accuracy for the measurements of thermal diffusivity shall be ±5% or less

· Accuracy for the measurements of temperature shall be ±1% or less

· Laser energy shall be transferred to sample via fiber optic light guide in a “down-firing” mode to reduce ablation effects from repeated measurement

· The system shall use a laser with a maximum energy of no less than 35 J and a pulse duration no greater than 400 µs

· Uniformity of Laser Pulse Illumination shall be at least 99%

· Detectors shall be fully removable from the furnace (for efficient cleaning of windows, and to facilitate safe filling with LN2)

· System shall support a minimum of six (6) simultaneous samples with at least 12.7 mm diameter

· All six (6) samples should be controlled at the same thermal environment for the duration of the experiment

· Software shall include main models for heat loss correction, multi-layer analysis, exact pulse width correction, “Goodness of Fit” statistics for optimization, and advanced heat loss calculations

· Compatible computer with the following specification and accerories as a minimum requirement shall be included:

· Operating system - 32 -bit versions of Windows XP Professional, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, or Windows 7 Ultimate;

· Processor - InteR l CoreT 2 Duo., 2.93 GHz with 3 MB L2 cache;

· Graphic Memory - 128 M;

· Periphery – one RS232 serial port and three USB ports

· Random Acess Memory - 4 GB RAM

· Hard Drive – 80 Gb

· CD- ROM – 48x CD-ROM or DVD

· Monitor – 24” wide screen LCD with 1024x768 resolution and 64K colors

· Key borad

· Mouse

· No additional charge for the following: One (1) year (including parts and labor, excluding consumables)

· Guaranteed response times for phone calls, shipment of parts, and equipment repair

· Free Hotline Telephone support from 8:30 to 4:30pm (EST) Monday through Friday provided by our Applications Lab Staff

· Free technical support

· Theory & Applications course and various e-training Quickstart course options

Contracting Officer:

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