- Author
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Irvine, D. J.
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McCluskey, J. A.
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Robinson, I. M.
- Title
- Fire Hazards and Some Common Polymers. Review Paper.
- Coporate
- ICI Acrylics, Middlesbrough, UK
- Journal
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Polymer Degradation and Stability,
Vol. 67,
No. 3,
383-396,
2000
- Keywords
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polymers
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fire hazards
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fire safety
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safety engineering
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fire growth
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escape means
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equations
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heat flux
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ignition time
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heat release rate
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smoke
- Identifiers
- pattern of fire growth and evolution of fire hazards; escape criteria and the primary fire hazards; list of tenability criteria; various material parameters used to calculate the time to ignition, the rate of heat release, and the rates of smoke, CO and HCL evolution