- Author
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Miller, B.
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Martin, J. R.
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Meiser, C. H., Jr.
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Turner, R.
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Fang-Landau, S. R.
- Title
- Burning Rates of GIRCFF Fabrics Using the TRI Flammability Analyzer. Progress Report No. 4. Amendment No. 1. March 16, 1973-June 15, 1973.
- Coporate
- Textile Research Institute, Princeton, NJ
- Report
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Amendment No. 1; Progress Report No. 4,
June 15, 1973,
337 p.
- Contract
- 1-35964
- Keywords
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fabrics
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burning rate
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flammability
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moisture content
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steady state
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textiles
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pyrolysis
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autoignition
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flame retardants
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additives
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wetting
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drying
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heat evolution
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thermogravimetric analysis
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mass spectrometers
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oxygen concentration
- Identifiers
- steady state versus unsteady state burning of textile materials; mixed fiber systems
- Abstract
- Previous studies (Progress Report No. 18, February 23, 1973) have dealt with the effect of fabric moisture content on the burning characteristics of several flame retardant-treated cottons and their untreated analogs. The results showed that, for both the treated and untreated materials, mass burning rates decreased with increasing fabric moisture content and that the response was about the same for both classes of material. In the course of these studies it was noted that, in the upward burning modes, the treated materials burned faster (by as much as a factor of 2) than the untreated controls. Since these experiments were carried out at only one oxygen concentration (>21% in some cases), the question was raised as to wheter or not this unexpected inversion of the relative burning rates of the trated and untreated materials would hold for different levels of atmospheric oxygen concentration.