Flammability Testing of Materials Used in Construction, Transport and Mining provides an authoritative guide to current best practice in ensuring fire safe design.
Contents
Understanding Materials Flammability
- Key Aspects of Flammability
- Standardized Bench-Scale Flammability Tests
- Standardized Real-Scale Flammability Tests
- Customized Flammability Tests
- Fire Modeling as a Complement to Flammability Testing
Fundamental Measurement Techniques
- Temperature Measurements
- Heat Flux
- Mass
- Pressure
- Gas Velocity
- Gas Flow Rate
- Light Extinction
- Gas Analysis
- Error and Uncertainty of Measurements
Flammability Tests for Buildings and Their Contents
- New European Classes for the Reaction to Fire Performance of Building Products
- Applications for Different Wood Products
- Test Results for Different Wood Products
- Classification Without Further Testing for Wood Products
Flammability Tests for External Cladding on Buildings
- Building Regulations
- Modelling External Fire Spread
- Case Studies of Fires
- Full-Scale or Intermediate-Scale Test Methods for Facades
- Small- or Bench-Scale Test Methods Used to Classify External Claddings
- Performance in Selected Test Methods
Fire Hazard Assessment of Wall and Ceiling Fire Spread in Rooms
- BRANZFIRE Model Basis and Principles
- Material Properties
- Determining Flame Spread and Fire Growth
- Smoke Development
- Model Verification
Fire Behaviour of Sandwich Panels
- Typical Fire Problems Related to Sandwich Panels
- Overview of Major Recent Developments in Fire Test Methods
- Overview of Major Test Methods and Approaches Used by Insurance Companies
- Recent Research Related to Sandwich Panels
- Areas for Further Progress in Testing of Sandwich Panels
Flammability Tests for Upholstered Furniture and Mattresses
- The Role of Upholstered Furniture and Mattresses in Fires
- Description of the Burning Behaviour of Upholstered Furniture
- Standard Test Methods for Upholstered Furniture and Mattresses
- Modelling of Furniture Fires
Flammability Tests for Cables
- Introduction: Fire Hazards Related to Cables
- International Standards for the Fire Performance of Cables
- European Union Requirements for Cables
- Some Results of Research Projects Related to Cables
- Areas for Further Development
Flammability Tests for Electrical Appliances
- Fire Statistics
- Fire Performance
- Standardisation/Regulation
- Environmental Considerations
Flammability Tests for Transportation and Mining
- United States Flammability Requirements
- Canadian Flammability Requirements
- Europoean Flammability Requirements
- Japanese Flammability Requirements
- Chinese Flammability Requirements
Fire Testing in Road and Railway Tunnels
- Overview of Large-Scale Tunnel Experiments
- Description of Large-Scale Tests
- Summation of Measured HRR Data
- Summation of the Temperature Data
- Summation of Flame Length Data
Flammability Tests for Aircraft
- FAA Approvals for Design and Production of Airplanes
- FAA Fire Test Requirements Inside the Fuselage for Transport Category Airplanes
- FAA Fire Test Requirements Outside the Fuselage
- Future FAA Directions
Flammability Testing in the Mining Sector
- Regulated Materials for Flammability
- Definitions and Terms
- Flammability Tests and Performance Criteria
- Evaluated Materials/Products
Flammability Tests for Railway Passenger Cars
- Small-Scale Testing
- Tests on Assemblies
- Full-Scale Tests
Ships and Submarines
Tests for Spontaneous Ignition of Solid Materials
- Heat-Based Methods: Adiabatic and Isothermal Calorimetry
- Heat-Based Methods: Differential Thermal Analysis (DTA) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
- Heat-Based Methods: Basket Heating
- Heat-Based Methods: Chen's Method
- Heat-Based Methods: Crossing-Point Temperature (CPT)
- Non-Heat-Based Methods: Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA)
- Non-Heat-Based Methods: Oxygen Consumption and Generation of Gaseous Oxidation Products
- Non-Heat-Based Mehtods: Generation of Solid Oxidation Products
- Advantages and Drawbacks of the Various Test Methods
Index
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