Sensitivity analysis of a predictive model for the fire behaviour of a sandwich panel

Polymer Degradation and Stability

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2430-2444

  Galgano, Antonio ^a   Di Blasi, Colomba ^a   Milella, Eva ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b IMAST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fire response; Glass reinforced plastics; Mathematical modelling; Sandwich panels; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ARRHENIUS RATE LAW; BOTTOM SURFACES; CHARACTERISTIC TIME; CORE LAYERS; DARCY LAW; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; EFFECTIVE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXTERNAL HEAT FLUX; EXTERNAL HEAT TRANSFER; FINITE RATE KINETICS; FIRE BEHAVIOUR; FIRE RESPONSE; GAS PRESSURES; GLASS-REINFORCED PLASTICS; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; INPUT PARAMETER; INPUT VARIABLES; LOCAL THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; MODEL PREDICTION; MOISTURE EVAPORATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; OVER-PRESSURES; POLYMER REACTION; POLYMERIC RESIN; POROUS MEDIUM; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SANDWICH PANEL; SERIES MODEL; STRUCTURAL CHANGE; SURFACE ABLATION; SURFACE HEAT LOSS; THERMAL DECOMPOSITIONS; THERMAL RESPONSE; VOLUMETRIC FRACTIONS;

ABLATION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; ELASTOMERS; FIRES; GLASS; HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT RESISTANCE; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PLASTICITY; POLYESTERS; POLYMERS; POROUS MATERIALS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PYROLYSIS; REINFORCED PLASTICS; RESINS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF GASES; THERMAL EVAPORATION;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649444900     PISSN: 01413910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymdegradstab.2010.08.012     Document Type: Article

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