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Analysis of Polymers Using the Cone Calorimeter

1991
The use of polymeric materials in building or construction applications is steadily increasing. Therefore, the potential for these materials to be exposed to fire is also increased. The pyrolysis characteristics of these materials and the understanding of their pyrolysis characteristics is thus a necessity.
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Calibration of flow rate in cone calorimeter tests

Fire and Materials, 2013
ABSTRACTThe cone calorimeter is one of the major fire tests. The measurement method is based on the evaluation of mass flow and oxygen concentration of fire effluents to calculate heat release rate. Different studies highlighted that the governing parameter for uncertainty at important values of heat release rate was the characteristic constant of an ...
Eric Guillaume, Damien Marquis, Laurent Saragoza   +2 more
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A reappraisal of convection heat transfer in the cone calorimeter

Fire Safety Journal, 2011
Abstract The problem of estimating the convection heat transfer coefficient (CHTC) in the Cone Calorimeter (horizontal sample orientation) is revisited. In this contribution the CHTC is modelled by a Nusselt number correlation of the form Nu=CRan, where Ra is the Rayleigh number.
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Communication: Measurement of heat flux in the cone calorimeter

Fire and Materials, 1995
The cone calorimeter was developed as a small scale test to measure the heat release rate of materials.
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Controlled-atmosphere cone calorimeter studies of silicones

Fire and Materials, 1997
A controlled-atmosphere cone calorimeter was used to investigate the burning of a silicone fluid and two silicone elastomers. The silicone materials were tested at 50 kW/m2 incident heat flux in environments containing 15–30% oxygen. The test results were compared with a high molecular weight hydrocarbon fluid and an ethylene propylene rubber in terms ...
Fu-Yu Hshieh, Robert R. Buch
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Cone calorimeter: Initial experiences of calibration and use

Fire Safety Journal, 1994
Abstract The primary objectives after taking delivery of a cone calorimeter were to develop operator skills and to establish the reliability, accuracy and repeatability of the instrument. Since the instrument would be used with a wide range of plastics and rubber materials, for research and development of materials and additives, and also for routine
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Smoke and Soot Data Determinations in the Cone Calorimeter

1988
Two kinds of measurements often characterize the aerosols resulting from fires, direct optical measurements and measurements of the fraction of specimen mass that becomes particulate mass. The former consists of two components, absorption and scattering, but is measured more typically as the total extinction of a light beam. Such measurements have been
V Babrauskas, G Mulholland
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BDMC interlaboratory cone calorimeter test programme

Fire and Materials, 2002
AbstractIn the spring of 1997, seven companies and industry associations from the USA and Canada decided to sponsor the cone calorimeter interlaboratory test programme. Reproducibility and repeatability were determined for the scalar variables measured in the cone calorimeter (ASTM E1354) according to the protocol developed by the Board for the ...
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A Review on Cone Calorimeter for Assessment of Flame-Retarded Polymer Composites

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 2022
Zhuoran Zhang, Qingsheng Wang, Yufeng Quan   +2 more
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Flammability of Upholstered Furniture Using the Cone Calorimeter

2001
With the development of modem materials, upholstered furniture posses a high fuel load and life safety threat. Due to the rapid growth rate of the organic material and the toxic combustion products, these fires usually lead to hazardous conditions and uncontrollable fires.
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