Flammability Testing of Materials Used in Construction, Transport, and Mining / Edition 2

by Vivek Apte

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780081028018
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	11/22/2021
Series:	Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

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Presents a detailed and up-to-date review of new developments in the flammability testing of materials in a broad range of application fields