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Fire Properties of Polymer Composite Materials

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-1-4020-5356-6

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This book is the first to deal comprehensively with the important topic of the fire behaviour of polymer composite materials. Composites are used in a diverse range of applications, including land and marine transport, aerospace, the chemical industry, and most branches of civil engineering infrastructure. It is our belief that fire behaviour is the single most important factor limiting the wider use of composites in many of these areas. Our aim in producing this volume is therefore to stimulate the work that is needed to overcome this fundamental problem. The first step in such a journey is, of course, to summarise what is presently known, which is what we have attempted here. The book covers all of the key issues on the behaviour of polymer composites in fire.


Subject: Chemistry and Materials Science, Automobil, Industrie, combustion, composite, composite material, composite materials, damage mechanics, dynamics, mechanics, mechanisms, model, modeling, polymer, polymers, safety