- Author
- Tan, S. C.
- Title
- Transient Horizontal Flame Spread Tests on Cellular Plastics: Experimental Results. Volume 3.
- Coporate
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NBS GCR 83-446; Home Fire Proj. Tech. Rpt. 53, October 1983, 151 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- cellular plastics | flame spread | polystyrene foams | polyurethane foams | pyrolysis rate | isocyanates
- Abstract
- Experimental results from measurements of the characteristics of transient horizontal flame spread over cellular plastics under the influence of external radiation are presented. The experiments involve flame spread from point ignition to radii of about 0.3 m. A single wax match was sued for ignition. The measurements made include the radial spread of fire, mass pyrolysis rate, radiative and convective power released by fire and the production and consumption of gas species by fire. The efficiency of burning of various plastics is also presented. The plastics used are primarily cellular foams obtained from the PRC materials bank. The maximum external radiative flux used is 0.85 w/cm2. Volume 1 contains the descr iption and discussion of the experimental procedures and computations. Volumes 2 and 3 contain experimental data and summary of the empirical physical and chemical data reduced from the experimental data, respectively.