Tutorial: Thermal Conductivity of Aluminum Alloy 5052

 Scenario: An aeronautical engineer working for a major airline is investigating a heat transfer issue on a turbine component. The part in question is made from aluminum alloy 5052 and the engineer needs to find the thermal conductivity of the material to complete the study. Knovel can help.

1. In the Search box on the Knovel home page, enter the Boolean search phrase "thermal conductivity" AND aluminum 5052. Notice the quotes around "thermal conductivity." This indicates that the words thermal and conductivity must be immediately next to each other. The Boolean operator AND is inserted, which indicates the words following it must also be present somewhere on the page or in the data record. Now click the Search button.
    
   
    
   
2. Knovel's new Search Results page shows five titles with hits that match our query. The first book in the list is Military Handbook - MIL-HDBK-5H: Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures (Knovel Interactive Edition) -- one of this issue's featured titles. Click on the title.
    
   
    
   
3. The second Search Results page shows every section where there is a hit from our query in this title. Notice the third listed section called Interactive Graphs for 3.5.1 5052 Alloy. Click on the Table (1) link to the right.
    
   
    
   
4. Upon clicking the link, a Knovel Interactive Table is launched with a link to one of Knovel's Productivity Tools -- the Graph Digitizer. The aerospace engineer can quickly use the Graph Digitizer to calculate thermal conductivity at various temperatures for aluminum 5052.