The piloted transition to flaming in smoldering fire retarded and non-fire retarded polyurethane foam

Fire and Materials

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 485-499

  Putzeys, Olivier M ^a   Fernandez Pello, A Carlos ^a   Rein, Guillermo ^b   Urban, David L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire retardants; Piloted ignition; Polyurethane foam; Smoldering; Transition to flaming

Indexed keywords

FIRE RETARDANTS; PILOTED IGNITION; POLYURETHANE FOAM; SMOLDERING; TRANSITION TO FLAMING;

FLAMMABILITY; HEAT FLUX; OXYGEN; POLYMERS; RIGID FOAMED PLASTICS;

FIRES;

EID: 64049087602     PISSN: 03080501     EISSN: 10991018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fam.981     Document Type: Article

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