Smouldering combustion is an important and complex phenomenon that is central to a wide
range of problems (hazards) and solutions (applications). A rich history of research in the …

The pyrolysis kinetics of charring materials plays an important role in understanding material
combustions especially for construction materials with complex degradation chemistry …

Most of unwanted fires are fuelled by polymeric materials, ranging from natural polymers
found in wood, cotton or wool, to synthetic polymers (“plastics”) derived from crude oil …

Currently, mechanisms used for the chemical kinetic modeling of solid degradation during
thermal exposure are based on a kinetic law which is an adaptation of the Arrhenius …

Engineered wood products (EWPs) are a group of materials having a very similar chemical
composition but having different and non-uniform thermo-physical properties throughout …

TG/DTG thermal pyrolysis analysis is performed under nitrogen from 100 to 1000° C at three
different heating rates for three types of most famous Egyptian mango leaves to be used as a …

Fire safety analyses in nuclear power plants need to assess the heat release rate (HRR) of
potential cable fires. This study deals with the FLASH-CAT model which assesses the HRR …

A material model was developed to predict changes in mass, density and thus volume of
cured preceramic polymers for CMC matrices as they pyrolyze into ceramics. Because part …

Abstract Shuffled Complex Evolution (SCE) algorithm was first used to estimate kinetic
parameters of the hypothetical three component charring material decomposing in three …

In a fire, the polymer combustion occurs when gaseous fuels react with oxygen. The heating
of a material could force the release of gaseous fuels during thermal decomposition and …