A temperature and mass dependent thermal model for fire response prediction of marine composites

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1024-1039

  Lua, James ^a   O'Brien, Jeff ^a   Key, Christopher T ^a   Wu, Yongshu ^b   Lattimer, Brian Y ^c  

^a Anteon Corporation   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c JENSEN HUGHES   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Fabrics textiles; B. Thermal properties; C. Computational modeling; D. Thermal analysis; Marine composies

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DIFFUSION; HYDROCARBONS; MARINE ENGINEERING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; FABRICS/TEXTILES; HYDROCARBON FIRE; MARINE COMPOSIES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 33646058604     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2005.01.034     Document Type: Article

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