Flammability Testing of Materials Used in Construction, Transport, and Mining
- 2nd Edition - November 17, 2021
- Editor: Vivek Apte
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 8 0 1 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 2 8 1 8 - 6
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Request a sales quoteFlammability Testing of Materials used in Construction, Transport, and Mining, Second Edition provides an authoritative guide to current best practice in ensuring fire-safe design.
The book begins by discussing the fundamentals of flammability, measurement techniques, and the main types of fire tests for various applications. Building on this foundation, a group of chapters then reviews tests for key materials used in the building, transport, and mining sectors. There are chapters on wood products, external cladding, and sandwich panels as well as the flammability of walls and ceilings linings. Tests for upholstered furniture and mattresses, cables, and electrical appliances are also reviewed. A final group of chapters discusses fire tests for the transport sector, including those for railway passenger cars, aircraft, road and rail tunnels, ships, and submarines. There is also a chapter on tests for spontaneous ignition of solid materials.
With its distinguished international team of contributors, Flammability Testing of Materials used in Construction, Transport, and Mining is an invaluable reference for fire safety, civil, chemical, mechanical, mining and transport engineers.
In this revised edition, the latest information is provided on fire testing of products, systems, components, and materials used across these essential sectors, with all regulations and standards brought up to date.
- Relays all new developments in fire safety standards, regulations and performance requirements
- Covers a broad range of infrastructure sectors such as construction, transport, and mining
- Updated to include cutting-edge fire tests and the latest iteration of standards including ISO, ASTM, and EN
- Cover Image
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Preface to Second Edition
- Contributors
- Chapter 1 Considerations for material flammability
- Abstract
- 1.1 Definition of flammability
- 1.2 Key aspects of flammability
- 1.3 Standardized bench-scale flammability tests
- 1.4 Standardized real-scale flammability tests
- 1.5 Customized flammability tests
- 1.6 Fire modeling as a complement to flammability testing
- 1.7 Likely future trends
- References
- Chapter 2 Fundamental measurement techniques
- Abstract
- 2.1 Temperature measurements
- 2.2 Heat flux
- 2.3 Heat release rate
- 2.4 Smoke production rate
- 2.5 Mass loss rate
- 2.6 Heat of combustion
- 2.7 Soot and toxic gas yields
- 2.8 Ignition temperature and thermal inertia of solids
- 2.9 Error and uncertainty of measurements
- References
- Chapter 3 Flammability of wood construction products
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 European classes for the reaction to fire performance of building products
- 3.3 Reaction to fire performance of wood products
- 3.4 European K classes for fire protection ability
- 3.5 Fire protection ability for wood products
- 3.6 Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 4 Flammability tests for building facades
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Factors to consider when choosing a façade flammability test
- 4.3 Full-scale or intermediate-scale façade flammability test methods
- 4.4 Small- or bench-scale methods used to classify external cladding flammability
- 4.5 Building regulations
- 4.6 Performance in selected test methods
- 4.7 Specific tests for wildland urban interface (WUI) fire scenarios
- 4.8 The use of desktop studies to evaluate façade flammability
- 4.9 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 5 Fire hazard assessment of wall and ceiling fire spread in rooms
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Classification systems and test methods
- 5.3 Flame spread models for room lining materials
- 5.4 Example of a thermal flame spread and fire model for combustible linings — B-RISK
- 5.5 Combustible surface linings in post-flashover fires
- 5.6 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 6 Fire behavior of sandwich panels
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction: description of sandwich panels
- 6.2 Typical fire problems related to sandwich panels
- 6.3 Overview of major recent developments in fire test methods
- 6.4 Overview of major test methods and approaches used by insurance companies
- 6.5 Recent research related to sandwich panels
- 6.6 Areas for further progress in testing of sandwich panels
- References and bibliography
- Chapter 7 Flammability tests for upholstered furniture and mattresses
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 The role of upholstered furniture and mattresses in fires
- 7.3 Description of the burning behavior of upholstered furniture (Fleischmann and Hill, 2004)
- 7.4 Standard test methods for upholstered furniture and mattresses
- 7.5 Modeling of furniture fires
- 7.6 Additional information
- References
- Chapter 8 Cables
- Abstract
- 8.1 Fire hazards related to cables
- 8.2 The European Union requirements on cables in the construction products regulation, CPR
- 8.3 Some results of research projects related to cables
- 8.4 Areas for further development
- References
- Chapter 9 Flammability tests for electrical appliances
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Fire statistics
- 9.3 Fire performance
- 9.4 Standardisation/regulation
- 9.5 Environmental considerations
- References
- Chapter 10 Flammability tests for regulation of building and construction materials
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 United States flammability requirements
- 10.3 Canadian flammability requirements
- 10.4 European flammability requirements
- 10.5 Japanese flammability requirements
- 10.6 Chinese flammability requirements
- 10.7 Future trends
- 10.8 Sources of further information
- References
- Chapter 11 Fire testing in road and railway tunnels
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Overview of large-scale tunnel experiments
- 11.3 Description of large-scale tests
- 11.4 Summation of measured HRR data
- 11.5 Summation of the temperature data
- 11.6 Summation of flame length data
- 11.7 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 12 Flammability tests for aircraft
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 FAA approvals for design and production of airplanes
- 12.3 FAA fire test requirements inside the fuselage for transport category airplanes
- 12.4 FAA fire test requirements outside the fuselage
- 12.5 Future FAA directions
- References
- Chapter 13 Flammability testing in the mining sector
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Regulated materials for flammability
- 13.3 Definitions and terms
- 13.4 Flammability tests and performance criteria
- 13.5 Evaluated materials/products
- 13.6 Future applications/trends
- 13.7 Summary
- 13.8 Sources of information
- References
- Chapter 14 Flammability tests for railway passenger cars
- Abstract
- 14.1 Introduction and history
- 14.2 Small-scale testing
- 14.3 Tests on assemblies
- 14.4 Full-scale tests
- 14.5 Future trends
- References
- Chapter 15 Ships and submarines
- Abstract
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 Ships
- 15.3 Submarines
- 15.4 Future trends
- 15.5 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 16 Tests for spontaneous ignition of solid materials
- Abstract
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Heat-based methods: adiabatic and isothermal calorimetry
- 16.3 Heat-based methods: differential thermal analysis (DTA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
- 16.4 Heat-based methods: basket heating
- 16.5 Heat-based methods: Chen's method
- 16.6 Heat-based methods: crossing-point temperature (CPT)
- 16.7 Non-heat-based methods: thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)
- 16.8 Non-heat-based methods: oxygen consumption and generation of gaseous oxidation products
- 16.9 Non-heat-based methods: generation of solid oxidation products
- 16.10 Advantages and drawbacks of various test methods
- 16.11 Conclusions
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 464
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: November 17, 2021
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081028018
- eBook ISBN: 9780081028186
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