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Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 83 | Number 3 | March 1983 | Pages 327-332
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE83-A17566
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Simple power-law correlations have been deduced to predict the dependence of nondimensional thermal contact conductance on the nondimensional contact pressure for Zircaloy-2/uranium dioxide surfaces in contact. These correlations are based on the experimental results of several workers. These results indicate that further experimental work is needed to cover a broader range of pressures and temperatures and to ascertain the effect of mean junction temperature on the thermal contact conductance.