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Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Polyurethane Foam Combustion

Authors: David Torvi, Beth Weckman

Published in: Fire Technology | Issue 3/2014

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Flexible and rigid polyurethane foams can be formulated with a wide variety of mechanical, thermal, chemical and physical properties. Since they are lightweight and can be engineered for specific purposes, they are finding increasing application in the world around us—the construction, insulation, furniture and transportation industries. Yet, hydrocarbon based foams are very flammable, so fire safety and fire performance are key factors for many applications, as well as for their long term use in most sectors. As such, multi-faceted research is underway in many countries with focus on foam fire behaviour, application and scaling of fire test results and product safety of polyurethane foams and related products. …

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Pitts WM (2011) Applied heat flux distribution and time response effects on cone calorimeter characterization of a commercial flexible polyurethane foam. Fire Technol. doi:10.1007/s10694-011-0235-8

Hadden R, Alkatib A, Rein G, Torero JL (2012) Radiant ignition of polyurethane foam: the effect of sample size. Fire Technol. doi:10.1007/s10694-012-0257-x

Ezinwa JU, Robson LD, Obach MR, Torvi DA, Weckman EJ (2011) Evaluating models for predicting full-scale fire behaviour of polyurethane foam using cone calorimeter data. Fire Technol. doi:10.1007/s10694-011-0239-4

Title: Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Polyurethane Foam Combustion
Authors: David Torvi
Beth Weckman
Publication date: 01-05-2014
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Fire Technology / Issue 3/2014
Print ISSN: 0015-2684
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8099
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-014-0390-9

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