Fire safety advances in high performance plastic products
Subtitle: papers presented at La Mansion Del Rio, San Antonio, Texas, March 13-16, 1994
By: [Joint meeting], Society of Plastics Engineers, Polymer Modifiers and Additives Division, and the Fire Retardant Chemicals Association.
Contributors: Society of Plastics Engineers. Polymer Modifiers and Additives Division.; Fire Retardant Chemicals Association (U.S.)
Publisher: Fire Retardant Chemicals Association
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Lancaster, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Fire resistant plastics -- Congresses.; Fire resistant polymers -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Update : equipment for compounding FR materials / Marcie McMurrer; value: Technology advances in the compounding of flame retardants / Daniel F. Mielcarek; value: Modifying polycarbonate for improved processing and flame retardancy / Elisabeth Papazoglou; value: Process traceability when compounding fire retardants / David Beddus; value: UV absorption, a critical component in FR systems / Edward A. Myszak; value: The effect of antimony oxide on the physical properties of ABS / Richard T. Schwarz; value: Improved flame retardant coatings and adhesives / Richard S. Rose; value: Easy processing flame retarded polycarbonate / Joseph Green; value: Improving the dispersibility of flame retardants without adverse processing/performance problems / Stephen G. Horvat; value: Thermally stable aluminum-based flame retardants for use where processing conditions are too severe for ATH / William E. Horn; value: Rediscovery of phenolic composites for safe use in enclosed areas / Aram Mekjian; value: Applications development of melamine chemicals as flame retardants / Peter Flippo; value: A new generation cone calorimeter : an improved fire science tool for the testing of materials / Frederick P. Schall; value: Uses, idiosyncrasies and limitations of fire tests / Ronald V. Petrella; value: History of development of heat release rate apparatus / A. Tewarson; value: The present test methods for flame-retarded plastics and the possible future developments in new fire test methods in China / Ou Yuxiang; value: Full scale furniture fire testing : actual test methods and predictive tools / Marcelo M. Hirschler.