Influence of physical properties on polymer flammability in the cone calorimeter

Polymers for Advanced Technologies

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1100-1107

  Patel, Parina ^a   Hull, T Richard ^a   Stec, Anna A ^a   Lyon, Richard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b WILLIAM J HUGHES TECHNICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption; Cone calorimeter; Decomposition; Flammability; Modelling; Polymer; Pyrolysis; Thermal

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL EXPERIMENTS; BURNING BEHAVIOR; CALORIMETRY EXPERIMENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CONE CALORIMETER; FIRE PERFORMANCE; FIRE RETARDANCY; HEAT OF COMBUSTION; HEAT OF DECOMPOSITION; HEAT RELEASE RATES; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MODELLING; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PYROLYSIS MODEL; RADIANT HEAT; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; THERMAL; THERMAL DECOMPOSITION KINETICS; THERMAL INERTIA; UNIFORM HEAT FLUX;

ABSORPTION; CALORIMETERS; CALORIMETRY; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; COMBUSTION; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); DECOMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTS; HEAT FLUX; KINETIC PARAMETERS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MODELS; POLYMERS; SPECIFIC HEAT; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 79959804914     PISSN: 10427147     EISSN: 10991581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pat.1943     Document Type: Article

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