Flammability Testing of Materials Used in Construction, Transport, and Mining

1. Understanding material flammability
Chris Lautenberger
2. Fundamental measurement techniques
Marc Janssens
3. Flammability of wood products
Birgit Anna-Lisa Östman
4. Flammability tests for external cladding on buildings
Kevin Frank, Ed Soja and Colleen Wade
5. Fire hazard assessment of wall and ceiling fire spread in rooms
Colleen Wade and Greg Baker
6. Fire behaviour of sandwich panels
Patrick Van Hees
7. Flammability tests for upholstered furniture and mattresses
Charles M. Fleischmann
8. Flammability tests for cables
Bjorn Sundstrom
9. Flammability tests for electrical appliances
Margaret Simonson McNamee
10. Flammability tests for regulation of building and construction materials
Laura Hasburgh and Kuma Sumathipala
11. Fire testing in road and railway tunnels
Haukur Ingason
12. Flammability tests for aircraft
J.M. Peterson
13. Flammability testing in the mining sector
H.C. Verakis
14. Flammability tests for railway passenger cars
R.D. Peacock and R.W. Bukowski
15. Ships and submarines
Brian Lattimer
16. Tests for spontaneous ignition of solid materials
H. Wang and Bogdan Z. Dlugogorski

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.

• Relays all new developments in fire safety standards, regulations and performance requirements
• Covers a broad range of infrastructure sectors such as construction, transport, and mining
• Updated to include cutting-edge fire tests and the latest iteration of standards including ISO, ASTM, and EN

Researchers and all those involved in fire testing standards (manufacturers, regulators and practitioners); scientists and engineers working in the fire safety of materials, high performance polymers and fire retardants; PhD and Masters students working on fire safety engineering or polymeric materials