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14 - Civil and Construction Engineering
University of Manchester
Global modelling of fire protection performance of intumescent coating under different cone calorimeter heating conditions
This is an output of the EPSRC funded project EP/F060718/1 (Characterising fundamental fire protection performance of intumescent coating under realistic conditions) with substantial support from Leighspaints (Dr. A P Taylor). The current assessment method is only applicable to the standard fire condition. Based on our experimental, analytical and numerical simulation results, this paper developed a method to extract fundamental properties of intumescent coatings that can be used for different fire conditions. This groundbreaking research is being further pursued to develop a new European assessment method for intumescent coatings in a new EU FP7 proposal FIRECOAT (project ID 601593).