- Author
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Bernskiold, A.
- Title
- Ignition and Burning Properties of Textiles: A Study of Test Methods.
- Report
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Thesis
1970
90 p.
- Keywords
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textiles
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ignition
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combustion
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test methods
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ease of ignition tester
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flame propagation
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ignition time
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fire prevention
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fabric weight
- Identifiers
- Sweden; United States of America; Britain; Switzerland; structure of textiles
- Abstract
- The number of fires occurring every year is alarmingly large. The fires cause many deaths, injuries, and property damage. It is however possible to reduce the number and extent of fire damages if thorough researches are made in the field of fire prevention engineering. Such a type of research work, as far as the building of houses is concerned, is being persued in several countries in the world. The main purpose of the general research are: (1) Analyses of fires in order to find how textiles take part in fires; (2) Investigations of different textile products in order to determine the technical and economical possibilities for decreasing the number of fires starting in textiles; (3) Working out methods for different textile products, to test their flammabilities, and their tendencies to form toxic gases. The present publication includes: (1) Analyses of the part played by textiles in fires. These are both from Sweden and other countries [Chapter 1]; (2) The requirements for test methods [Chapter 2], a review of the standard and the advanced test methods [Chapter 3], and two new methods - one for determining the ignition time [Chapter 4] and the other for determining the flame propagation [Chapter 5]; (3) The application of the new methods on a number of cellulosic products of varying structure in order to determine the relations between the ignition time and flame propagation properties, and the weight per unit area and mean proosity [Chapter 6].