- Author
- Ashton, L. A.
- Title
- Reinforced Plastics and Fire Protection in Buildings.
- Coporate
- Fire Research Station, Borehamwood, England
- Report
- Report 25, 1965, 4 p.
- Keywords
- reinforced plastics | fire protection | fire tests | combustibility | flame spread | structures | fire resistance tests | roofs | exposure
- Identifiers
- requirements for structural fire protection; standard tests for materials and structures; surface spread of flame; roofs and external fire exposure; reinforced plastics in relation to fire tests and their application
- Abstract
- The nature of the materials of construction in a building and the way in which they are used can have a profound effect on the rate of growth of a fire and its ultimate extent. Therefore in many countries where there are building codes and regulations which safeguard the welfare of the community, fire protection requirements control the use of materials in order to reduce to an acceptable level the risks to life and property. Unitl the closing years of the nineteenth century "safe" and "unsafe" materials were distinguished on the basis of experience, but with the growth of new materials and building techniques it became necessary to devise laboratory tests which would provide a ready means of judging the suitability of a product for a given purpose.