- Author
- National Swedish Institute for Building Research
- Title
- Fire Tests With Plastic Tubes Carried Out at the Research Station in Studsvik, Spring 1963
- Coporate
- National Swedish Institute for Building Research, Stockholm, Sweden
- Report
- Report 18:1966; UDC 614.84; UDC 621.643.291, 1966, 56 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- fire tests | plastics | fire spread | polyethylenes | glass fibers
- Abstract
- If a fire starts in a room containing polyethylene or PVC tubes of large dimesnions, the fire is quickly spread to adjoining rooms via unprotected passage, the tubes being softened to give the fire free passage. With tubes of glass-fiber-reinforced polyester, the risks of fire spreading are less, as the reinforcement prevents the tube from collapsing at the wall passage. If ignition takes place inside the tube, however, the fire is quickly spread past the wall.