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Upward flame spread on composite materials

✍ Scribed by T.J. Ohlemiller; T.G. Cleary

Book ID
104341888
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
169 KB
Volume
32
Category
Article
ISSN
0379-7112

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✦ Synopsis

Three existing models of upward flame spread were tested against intermediate-scale experiments on a vinyl ester/glass composite. Characterization of rate of heat release per unit area, needed as input to the models, was obtained at external radiant fluxes below the minimum for ignition by adaptation of a method due to Kulkarni. There are several limitations on the accuracy of the material characterization when applied to composites. Each of the flame spread models has definite limitations as well. Nevertheless, all three models produced predictions of spread behavior in sufficiently quantitative agreement with the experiments that they should prove useful for engineering analyses of flame spread potential. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.

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