The effect of intumescent mat on post-fire performance of carbon fibre reinforced compositesTools Zhu, Chenkai, Li, Jingjing, Clement, Mandy, Yi, Xiaosu, Rudd, Chris and Liu, Xiaoling (2019) The effect of intumescent mat on post-fire performance of carbon fibre reinforced composites. Journal of Fire Sciences, 37 (3). pp. 257-272. ISSN 0734-9041
AbstractThis study investigated the effect of intumescent mats (M1 and M2) with different compositions on the post-fire performance of carbon fibre reinforced composites. The sandwich structure was designed for composites where M1 (carbon fibre reinforced composite-M1) or M2 (carbon fibre reinforced composite-M2) mats were covered on the composite surface. A significant reduction in the peak heat release rate and total heat release was observed from the cone calorimetric data, and carbon fibre reinforced composite-M1 showed the lowest value of 148 kW/m2 and 29 MJ/m2 for peak heat release rate and total heat release, respectively. In addition, a minor influence on mechanical properties was observed due to the variation of composite thickness and resin volume in the composite. The post-fire properties of composite were characterised, and the M1 mat presented better retention of flexural strength and modulus. The feasibility of two-layer model was confirmed to predict the post-fire performance of composites and reduce the reliance on the large amounts of empirical data. © The Author(s) 2019.
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