TY - CONF A1 - Trubiroha, P. A1 - Geburtig, Anja A1 - Wachtendorf, Volker ED - Reichert, T. T1 - Surface temperatures of irradiated test specimens - decisive physical quantities and a largely unsolved problem T2 - 6th European weathering symposium Natural and artificial ageing of polymers N2 - Temperature is an important parameter in weathering tests. In many (photo-)chemical degradation processes a Variation of the specimen temperature by A t = + 1 °C can cause a Variation of AP(property change) by ± 8%. Since the early eighties it is well known that some types of black panel thermometers can show temperatures that are far below the maximum surface temperature of a black specimen. Although, there were precise requirements for the black coating of the BPT, a replacement by a white coating - depending on the design of the BPT - did not really change the temperature shown by the thermometer. There was no correlation between the BPT and the specimen surface temperature. In Europe and later at ISO the so-called black- and white-standard thermometers BST/WST were introduced. Now, there are BST and WST (ISO) and there are thermally uninsulated and insulated BPT and WPT (ASTM), partly for artificial or for outdoor exposure. And there are other adventurous procedures to determine surface temperatures. The different types of thermometers and different procedures will be discussed and it will be shown that there is no procedure which establishes a correlation between outdoor surface temperatures and surface temperatures in artificial exposure tests. T2 - 6th European weathering symposium Natural and artificial ageing of polymers CY - Bratislava, Slovak Republic DA - 11.09.2013 PY - 2013 SN - 978-3-9813136-8-0 N1 - Serientitel: CEEES Publication – Series title: CEEES Publication IS - 16 SP - 185 EP - 194 AN - OPUS4-31292 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -