Quick Launch. The Navy Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) is a force that consists of personnel who must fulfill their MSO under 10 U.S.C., 651, members fulfilling a service obligation incurred via contract, and those who have fulfilled their MSO but voluntarily remain in the IRR.
Electrical resistivity is the reciprocal of conductivity. It is the is the opposition of a body or substance to the flow of electrical current through it, resulting in a change of electrical energy into heat, light, or other forms of energy. The amount of resistance depends on the type of material.
Insulation works by reducing the transfer of heat by means of a barrier. Unfortunately in most cases the better the insulation the more it costs, so like most things a balancing act is required. To understand insulation you need to know what thermal conductivity, R values and U values are. Thermal conductivity is the measure of how easily heat flows through a specific type of material, regardless of the thickness of the material. The lower the thermal conductivity of a material, the better the thermal performance (i.e. the slower heat will move across a material). See below for some example materials and there conductivity values.