Flammability Testing of Materials Used in Construction, Transport, and Mining

2. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-08-102801-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 700 g

Flammability 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.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and all those involved in fire testing standards (manufacturers, regulators and practitioners); scientists and engineers working in the fire safety of materials, high performance polymers and fire retardants, PhD and Masters students working on fire safety engineering or polymeric materials

Autoren/Hrsg.

Apte, Vivek

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Bergbau, Hüttenwesen
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Werkstoffprüfung
• Technische Wissenschaften Verkehrstechnik | Transportgewerbe Verkehrstechnologie: Allgemeines
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Gebäudebrandschutz
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Festigkeitslehre, Belastbarkeit
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Feuerwehrtechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Understanding material flammability 2. Fundamental measurement techniques 3. Flammability of wood products 4. Flammability tests for external cladding on buildings 5. Fire hazard assessment of wall and ceiling fire spread in rooms 6. Fire behaviour of sandwich panels 7. Flammability tests for upholstered furniture and mattresses 8. Flammability tests for cables 9. Flammability tests for electrical appliances 10. Flammability tests for regulation of building and construction materials 11. Fire testing in road and railway tunnels 12. Flammability tests for aircraft 13. Flammability testing in the mining sector 14. Flammability tests for railway passenger cars 15. Ships and submarines 16. Tests for spontaneous ignition of solid materials

Über Autor(innen)

Apte, Vivek
Dr Vivek Apte is an accredited consulting fire safety engineer and the founding director of AV Fire Engineering Pty Ltd in Sydney. After completing his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Newcastle and post-doctoral work at Sydney University, Vivek has worked in Australia as a research scientist, engineer, consultant, and visiting lecturer for more than three decades. Covering academia, the government, and the private sector, his career has included time at CSIRO, Sydney University, the University of Western Sydney, and WorkCover New South Wales.