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12 - Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering
Newcastle University
Thermal-Mechanical Modelling of Laminates with Fire Protection Coating
The research presented in this paper, carried out in collaboration with colleagues at RMIT Australia, presents a new modelling approach to describe the thermal effects of the protection provided by two types of fire protection, namely passive and intumescent surface coatings, further extending the composites in fire models developed at Newcastle to consider fire protection coatings. Thermal analysis of the coatings was combined with a thermal-chemical model for heat transfer through the fibreglass laminate substrate that lay beneath the fire protective coating, and the approach was used to successfully predict performance of the structures.