- Author
-
Kashiwagi, T.
|
Butler, K. M.
|
Gilman, J. W.
- Title
- Fire Safe Materials Project at NIST.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
-
NISTIR 6588,
November 2000,
- Book or Conf
- U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources (UJNR). Fire Research and Safety. 15th Joint Panel Meeting. Volume 1. Proceedings. March 1-7, 2000,
San Antonio, TX,
Bryner, S. L., Editors,
71-79 p.,
2000
- Keywords
-
fire safety
|
fire research
|
gasification
|
thermoplastics
|
flame retardants
|
additives
|
bubbles
|
material properties
- Identifiers
- new flame retardant principles; condensed phase processes; material properties of various silicas
- Abstract
- The results of two studies, which are parts of Fire Safe Materials Project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), are presented. One of them is a study of the effects on gasification rates of the addition of silica particles to thermoplastics as flame retardant additives; the other is the development of a gasification model of thermoplastics including the growth and transport of bubbles through the molten polymer that forms on the heated surface.