Effect of Gas Phase Oxygen on Chain Scission and Monomer Content in Bulk Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Degraded by External Thermal Radiation.
Effect of Gas Phase Oxygen on Chain Scission and Monomer
Content in Bulk Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) Degraded by
External Thermal Radiation.
(114 K)
Brown, J. E.; Kashiwagi, T.
NISTIR 5499; September 1994.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual
Conference on Fire Research: Book of Abstracts.
October 17-20, 1994, Gaithersburg, MD, 103-104 pp, 1994.
Available from:
National Technical Information Service
Order number: PB95-104964
Keywords:
fire research; polymethyl methacrylate; vapor phases;
oxygen; monomers; thermal radiation; thermal
decomposition; heat flux; thermal degradation
Abstract:
The effect of the atmosphere on the thermal degradation
and gasification of bulk polymeric materials is not
fully understood with respect to ignition and flame
spread. It is of interest to know whether molecular
oxygen influences these aspects of polymer flammability
through direct attack on the condensed phase. To
investigate, at the molecular level, the effect of the
concentration of atmospheric oxygen on the decomposition
of bulk PMMA at different incident heat flux levels
simulating radiative heating on the surface by fires.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899