Combustion of Polymethylmethacrylate Spheres at Normal and Reduced Gravity.
Combustion of Polymethylmethacrylate Spheres at Normal
and Reduced Gravity.
(251 K)
Yang, J. C.; Hamins, A.; Gorchkov, N. N.; Glover, M.
NISTIR 5904; October 1996.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual
Conference on Fire Research: Book of Abstracts.
October 28-31, 1996, Gaithersburg, MD, 135-136 pp, 1996.
Sponsor:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lewis
Research Center, Cleveland, OH
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Keywords:
fire research; fire science; polymethyl methacrylate;
gravity; combustion; experiments
Abstract:
Polymer combustion is a highly complicated process where
chemical reactions may occur not only in the gas phase,
but also in the condensed phase as well as at the
solid-gas interphase. The complication arises due to
the coupling between the condensed phase and gas phase
phenomena. While some polymers form a char layer during
combustion, others exhibit swelling, bubbling, melting,
sputtering, and multi-stage combustion. The combustion
of polymeric materials is related to many applications
including solid and hybrid rocket propulsion, and of
recent interest, waste incineration.
