A model of melting and dripping thermoplastic objects in fire

Conference Proceedings - Fire and Materials 2009, 11th International Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Butler, Kathryn M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE-FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; QUASI-STEADY FLOW; RECTANGULAR OBJECT; THERMOPLASTIC MATERIALS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; EXHIBITIONS; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MELTING; REINFORCED PLASTICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

FIRES;

EID: 84872545899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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