American soldiers and marines involved in the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have suffered increased incidence of burn injury, often as a direct result of exposure to improvised explosive devices. In this work, a one dimensional numerical pyrolysis model for transient heat conduction, incorporating material transformations described by chemical kinetics, is used to investigate the res...

For this study, we categorized waste from railroad operation into seven types; i.e., wood, vinyl, fiber, Styrofoam, food, paper and plastic. We then performed a combustion test using a cone calorimeter that is used widely for evaluating the combustion properties of combustible materials, to evaluate the heat release rate, smoke production rate, carbon monoxide production, carbon dioxide product...

Smoke production in a smoke chamber is characterized by the accumulation of and continuous consumption oxygen leading to vitiated atmosphere. However, method proposed predict evolution at 25 kW/m2 using material properties calculated from cone calorimeter, as already shown previous article. These represent ability produce specific mass loss rate. The influence flame retardant on these can be us...

Summary Past research on the effect of oxygen concentration heat release rate and carbon monoxide yield has focused materials in isolation there is a lack that studies end‐use products. This paper investigates per unit area (HRRPUA) for two different cables mineral oil used as an operating fluid vacuum pumps. A standard cone calorimeter was to conduct tests at ambient 21% open controlled atmosp...

The cone calorimeter is considered the most significant bench scale instrument in fire testing. This apparatus has been adopted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 5660-1) for measuring heat release rate (HRR) of a sample. It has been shown that most fuels generate approximately 13.1 MJ of energy per kg of oxygen consumed. Therefore, HRR is based on the fact that the oxyg...