A review of combustion and flame spread over thermoplastic materials: Research advances and prospects

Y Chen, Q Feng, Y Nie, J Zhang, L Yang - Fire, 2023 - mdpi.com
As thermoplastic materials are widely used in buildings, the fire hazards of thermoplastic
materials are increasingly becoming a central issue in fire safety research due to their …

Analysis of heat transfer during flame spread over energized-wire under high currents

K Tang, S Wu, H Zhang, C Li, B Yuan… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrical wire is one of the primary causes of electrical fires because of short circuiting or
overload current. Experiments were carried out to characterize the influence of high currents …

Experimental and numerical studies of downward flame spread over PMMA with and without addition of tri phenyl phosphate

OP Korobeinichev, SA Trubachev, AK Joshi… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - Elsevier
Experimental and numerical studies of downward flame spread over polymethyl
methacrylate (PMMA) with and without addition of triphenyl phosphate (TPP) are reported …

The effect of triphenyl phosphate inhibition on flame propagation over cast PMMA slabs

SA Trubachev, OP Korobeinichev, AI Karpov… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - Elsevier
The effect of triphenyl phosphate (TPP) retardant inhibition on flame propagation over the
horizontal surface of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) has been studied experimentally and …

Effects of one-side confinement and current on heat transfer mechanisms over single electrical wire flame spread behaviors

X Huang, M Zhang, H Ding, P Xu, X Zhang, X Li… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The electrical wire fire often occurs in the confined space, making the flame spread behavior
complex and the risk increase. In this paper, experimental and theoretical study on the flame …

An experimental study on flame spread over electrical wire with high conductivity copper core and controlling heat transfer mechanism under sub-atmospheric …

L Hu, K Zhu, Y Lu, X Zhang - International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
The present study revealed experimentally flame spread behavior over high-conductivity
copper (Cu) core electrical wire in sub-atmospheric pressures, and compares those with …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of U-shaped structure on upward flame spread and heat transfer behaviors of PMMA used in building thermal engineering

W An, X Yin, M Cai, Y Tang, Q Li, X Hu - Case Studies in Thermal …, 2020 - Elsevier
Both experimental and theoretical study on upward flame spread and heat transfer
behaviors of PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate) under different U-shaped structure factors (Π) …

Upward flame spread over discrete thick fuels under mixed convection flow

Y Zhang, J Fang, F Tian, L Song, AV Singh - Fire Safety Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, flame spread over a vertically oriented discrete fuel array is investigated
experimentally under mixed-convective flow conditions, using polymethyl methacrylate …

Effect of solid surface curvature and wall heat loss on the downward flame spread along the edge of thin PMMA sheets

Y Ma, Y Konno, Q Wang, L Hu, N Hashimoto… - Combustion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Flames propagating along the sample edges (edge flame) will transform two-dimensional
flame spread into three-dimensional flame spread, causing a significant interference with …

Numerical and experimental study of downward flame spread along multiple parallel fuel sheets

AK Joshi, A Kumar, V Raghavan, SA Trubachev… - Fire Safety Journal, 2021 - Elsevier
In the present study, downward flame spread over multiple parallel fuel sheets is
investigated experimentally and numerically to understand the mechanism that controls the …