Citation

McGuire JH, D'Souza MV. Fire Technol. 1979; 15(2): 102-106.

Affiliation

Fire Research Section Division of Building Research, National Research Council of Canada, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF01983754

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A limited number of flammability tests of foamed plastics indicates that the ASTM E162 radiant panel test will rank thermosetting foamed plastics in a plausible merit sequence. The method attributes undue merit, however, to the influence of the low emissivity of aluminum-foil-facing and rates thermoplastic foams very favorably because of their melting and dripping characteristics.