- Author
- Durbetaki, P. | Kezios, S. P.
- Title
- Effects of Ignition Sources and Fire Retardants on Material Ignition. Quarterly Progress Report No. 8.
- Coporate
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- Quarterly Progress Report 08, April 11, 1977, 25 p.
- Contract
- NBS-GRANT-G79003
- Keywords
- cellulosic materials | cotton fabrics | fabrics | fire retardant materials | flame resistant fabrics | flame retardants | heat sources | ignition | ignition time | polyesters | pyrolysis | textiles | preignition
- Abstract
- Ignition studies on thermally thin (fabrics) and thermally thick materials (furniture, interior decorations, building materials) are being carried out with a combined experimental and analytical program in the Fire Hazard and Combustion Research Laboratory of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. The objectives of the current program are (i) to study the effect of flame retardants on the preignition processes and the ignition time, (ii) to study the ignition/destruction of unrestrained fabrics, (iii) to investigate the effect of convective source type and size on the ignition time of materials, and (iv) to modify and extend the modeling analysis for the prediciton of ignition time.