Thermal Testing and Analysis Techniques for Wires and Wire Bundles

S L Rickman; B I Furst; K L Johnson

NASA NTRS · 20210020101

Thermal Testing and Analysis Techniques for Wires and Wire Bundles

Abstract

Determining wire and wire bundle amperage capacity (i.e., “ampacity”) currently relies on the use of standards to derate wire ampacity when in a bundle configuration. The feasibility of developing physics-based and regression thermal models of single wires and wire bundles to determine ampacity using a customized test apparatus was investigated during a pathfinder study. A wire bundle test apparatus was developed for measuring the temperatures of single wires and wire bundles and collected wire conductor temperature data under high vacuum and atmospheric conditions and varying environmental temperatures and currents for the two most common wire types used on spacecraft.

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S L Rickman, B I Furst, K L Johnson. Thermal Testing and Analysis Techniques for Wires and Wire Bundles. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20210020101

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