Energy-storing wallboard: Flammability tests

Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 98-105

  Banu, Dorina ^a   Feldman, Dorel ^a   Haghighat, Fariborz ^a   Paris, Jean ^b   Hawes, Douglas ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CODES; FLAME RESEARCH; FLAME RETARDANTS; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; GYPSUM; HEAT STORAGE; SMOKE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS (PCM); WALLBOARDS;

BUILDING MATERIALS;

EID: 0032071641     PISSN: 08991561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0899-1561(1998)10:2(98)     Document Type: Article

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