- Author
- Yang, J. C. | Hamins, A. | Gorchkov, N. N. | Glover, M.
- Title
- Combustion of Polymethylmethacrylate Spheres at Normal and Reduced Gravity.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH
- Report
- NISTIR 5904, October 1996,
- Distribution
- AVAILABLE FROM National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161. Telephone: 1-800-553-6847 or 703-605-6000; Fax: 703-605-6900. Website: http://www.ntis.gov
- Book or Conf
- National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual Conference on Fire Research: Book of Abstracts. October 28-31, 1996, Gaithersburg, MD, 135-136 p., 1996
- Keywords
- fire research | fire science | polymethyl methacrylate | gravity | combustion | experiments
- Abstract
- Polymer combustion is a highly complicated process where chemical reactions may occur not only in the gas phase, but also in the condensed phase as well as at the solid-gas interphase. The complication arises due to the coupling between the condensed phase and gas phase phenomena. While some polymers form a char layer during combustion, others exhibit swelling, bubbling, melting, sputtering, and multi-stage combustion. The combustion of polymeric materials is related to many applications including solid and hybrid rocket propulsion, and of recent interest, waste incineration.