Majority of materials are focus to thermal expansion which means to expand when heated and to contract when cooled. But thermal expansion can also be useful, making possible the workings of ...

The change in temperature of a body causes expansion or contraction of that body. Most of the substances expand on heating and contract on cooling. This is called thermal expansion. It has been ...

The vast majority of materials shrink in all directions when hydrostatically compressed; exceptions include certain metallic or polymer foam structures, which may exhibit negative linear ...

All materials, with some exceptions, expand when they are heated. However, the amount of expansion per degree change in temperature varies depending on the substance. Since structures are made up of ...

Anter Corporation’s Bob Purvis describes the key features of the Anter Unitherm 1000 dilatometer. The Unitherm 1000 is able to measure the thermal expansion of a wide range of materials from cryogenic ...