- Author
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Yang, J. C.
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Hamins, A.
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Gorchkov, N. N.
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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
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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
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fire research
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fire science
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polymethyl methacrylate
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gravity
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combustion
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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.