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Publication Date:
February 1999
Limpback, 297pp with 56 tables and 143 illustrations.
Price £50 incl p+p.
This fifth meeting in the
series was held in San Antonio, Texas and covered topics on
Performance Based Codes; Building Applications, Modelling,
Materials Testing; Electrical Applications; Transportation
Applications and Commercial Papers.
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| TABLE
OF CONTENTS |
| NFPA
initiatives on performance based codes |
| Performance
based codes and the international codes council. |
| Office
building fire research program: An engineering based approach
to fire safety design |
| The
role of material fire properties and fire testing in performance
based fire safety codes. |
| An
update on what's burning in homes |
| Fire
stops performance in wall/floor joints of multi-family dwellings |
| Fire
tests of load-carrying timber frame assemblies exposed to standard
and parametric fires. |
| Comparison
of test protocols for standard room/corner tests. |
| An
engineering approach to satisfying code requirements in China. |
| A
comparison between the European SBI test and reaction-to-fire
test methods |
| Modelling
ignition & pyrolysis of charring fuels. |
| Modelling
the char behaviour of structural timber. |
| Measurement
of thermophysical properties of PMMA and cellulose. |
| Cone
calorimeter as a screening test for ASTM E-84 tunnel test. |
| The
use of modelling in burn injury evaluation beneath clothing
layers |
| A
comparison of results between the OSU and the cone calorimeter. |
| Investigation
materials from fire using a test method of spontaneous ignition. |
Evaluation
of thermally resistant polymers using cone calorimetry. |
| Microscale
heat release rates of polymers. |
| Measurements
on the effects of smoke on active circuits. |
| Comparison
of cone calorimeter data with FM3972 for communication cables. |
| Maritime
fire safety standards - Some in sight from an AHJ. |
| Fire
safety of composites in the US Navy. |
| New
NFPA codes of life safety of merchant marine vessels. |
| Evaluation
of passenger train car materials in the cone calorimeter. |
| The
next step - development of zinc borate synergists in the polymer
industry. |
| Fire
testing instruments for the next Millennium. |
| Fire
TrapTM - A passive thermomechanical technique to
dynamically extinguish fires in waste container |
| Expandable
graphite flake as an intumescent flame retardant additive. |
| Authors
index |
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