Fire and polymers II : materials and tests for hazard prevention : developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering, Inc. at the 208th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, August 21-26, 1994 /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: American Chemical Society. Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering, American Chemical Society. Meeting
Other Authors: Nelson, Gordon L., 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, 1995.
Series:ACS symposium series ; 599.
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Table of Contents:
  • Fire and polymers : an overview / Gordon L. Nelson
  • Triarylphosphine oxide containing nylon 6,6 copolymers / I-Yuan Wan, J.E. McGrath, and Takashi Kashiwagi
  • Copolycarbonates and poly(arylates) derived from hydrolytically stable phosphine oxide comonomers / D.M. Knauss, J.E. McGrath, and Takashi Kashiwagi
  • Aromatic organic phosphate oligomers as flame retardants in plastics / Rudolph D. Deanin and Mohammad Ali
  • Chlorinated flame retardant used in combination with other flame retardants / R.L. Markezich and D.G. Aschbacher
  • Developments in intumescent fire-retardant systems : ammonium polyphosphate-poly(ethyleneurea formaldehyde) mixtures / G. Camino, M.P. Luda, and L. Costa
  • Intumescent systems for flame retarding of polypropylene / Menachem Lewin and Makoto Endo
  • Reductive coupling promoted by zerovalent copper : a potential new method of smoke suppression for vinyl chloride polymers / J.P. Jeng, S.A. Terranova, E. Bonaplata, K. Goldsmith, D.M. Williams, B.J. Wojciechowski, and W.H. Starnes, Jr.
  • Effect of some tin and sulfur additives on the thermal degradation of poly(methyl methacrylate) / Jayakody A. Chandrasiri and Charles A. Wilkie
  • Effect of zinc chloride on the thermal stability of styrene-acrylonitrile copolymers / Sang Yeol Oh, Eli M. Pearce, and T.K. Kwei
  • Thermal decomposition chemistry of poly(vinyl alcohol) : char characterization and reactions with bismaleimides / Jeffrey W. Gilman, David L. VanderHart, and Takashi Kashiwagi
  • New types of ecologically safe flame-retardant polymer systems / G.E. Zaikov and S.M. Lomakin
  • Some practical and theoretical aspects of melamine as a flame retardant / Edward D. Weil and Weiming Zhu
  • Flammability improvement of polyurethanes by incorporation of a silicone moiety into the structure of block copolymers / Ramazan Benrashid and Gordon L. Nelson
  • Surface modification of polymers to achieve flame retardancy / Charles A. Wilkie, Xiaoxing Dong, and Masanori Suzuki
  • Flammability properties of honeycomb composites and phenol-formaldehyde resins / Marc R. Nyden, James E. Brown, and S.M. Lomakin
  • Synthesis and characterization of novel carbon-nitrogen materials by thermolysis of monomers and dimers of 4,5-dicyanoimidazole / Eric C. Coad and Paul G. Rasmussen
  • High-temperature copolymers from inorganic-organic hybrid polymer and multi-ethynylbenzene / Teddy M. Keller
  • Linear siloxane-acetylene polymers as precursors to high-temperature materials / David Y. Son and Teddy M. Keller
  • Further development of the N-gas mathematical model : an approach for predicting the toxic potency of complex combustion mixtures / Barbara C. Levin, Emil Braun, Magdalena Navarro, and Maya Paabo
  • Correlation of atmospheric and inhaled blood cyanide levels in miniature pigs / F.W. Stemler, A. Kaminskis, T.M. Tezak-Reid, R.R. Stotts, T.S. Moran, H.H. Hurt, Jr., and N.W. Ahle
  • Environmental nitrogen dioxide exposure hazards of concern to the U.S. Army / M.A. Mayorga, A.J. Januszkiewicz, and B.E. Lehnert
  • Application of the Naval Medical Research Institute toxicology detachment neurobehavioral screening battery to combustion toxicology / G.D. Ritchie, J. Rossi, III, and D.A. Macys
  • Smoke production from advanced composite materials / D.J. Caldwell, K.J. Kuhlmann, and J.A. Roop
  • Formation of polybrominated dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans in laboratory combustion processes of brominated flame retardants / Dieter Lenoir and Kathrin Kampke-Thiel
  • Analysis of soot produced from the combustion of polymeric materials / Kent J. Voorhees
  • The computer program roomfire : a compartment fire model shell / Marc L. Janssens
  • Upward flame spread on composite materials / T.J. Ohlemiller and T.G. Cleary
  • Protocol for ignitability, lateral flame spread, and heat release rate using lift apparatus / Mark A. Dietenberger
  • Fire properties of materials for model-based assessments for hazards and protection needs / A. Tewarson
  • Controlled-atmosphere cone calorimeter / M. Robert Christy, Ronald V. Petrella, and John J. Penkala
  • X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis) studies in flame retardancy of polymers / Jianqi Wang
  • Thermal analysis of fire-retardant poly(vinyl chloride) using pyrolysis-chemical ionization mass spectrometry / Sunit Shah, Vipul Davé, and Stanley C. Israel
  • Smoke corrosivity : technical issues and testing / Marcelo M. Hirschler
  • "Green products", a challenge to flame-retardant plastics : recycling, marking, ecolabeling, and product take-back / Gordon L. Nelson
  • Tools available to predict full-scale fire performance of furniture / Marcelo M. Hirschler
  • Combustion behavior of upholstered furniture tested in europe : overview of activities and a project description / Björn Sundström
  • Fire-safe aircraft cabin materials / Richard E. Lyon.