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Comparison of Fire Behaviors of Thermally Thin and Thick Rubber Latex Foam under Bottom Ventilation Yuan, Q, Huang, D, Hu, Y, Shen, L, Shi, L and Zhang, M 2019, 'Comparison of Fire Behaviors of Thermally Thin and Thick Rubber Latex Foam under Bottom Ventilation', Polymers, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-12. Document type: Journal Article Collection: Journal Articles Title Comparison of Fire Behaviors of Thermally Thin and Thick Rubber Latex Foam under Bottom Ventilation Author(s) Yuan, Q Huang, D Hu, Y Shen, L Shi, L Zhang, M Year 2019 Journal name Polymers Volume number 11 Issue number 1 Start page 1 End page 12 Total pages 12 Publisher M D P I AG Abstract Fire behaviors of rubber latex foam under different thickness conditions (d = 1, 2, and 5 cm) were explored by using a self-built small-scale experimental platform. It can be shown that the flame spread menchanism of thermally thin and thermally thick rubber latex foam is different. Rubber latex foam with a thickness of 2 cm shows higher fire risk, whose value of flame spread rate, maximum flame height, maximum mass loss rate, and maximum temperature are 2.93 × 10-3 m/s, 851.88 mm, and 1.83 g/s, 948.00 °C, respectively. On the one hand, this may due to the different mechanisms of flame spread, resulting in different preheating zones on the surface. On the other hand, this may because the thickness of residue formed by thermally thick materials is larger than the thin ones, obstructing the contact of the rubber latex foam with fresh air. In addition, a special phenomenon is noticed during the stage II, where the bottom unburned zone is located in the four edges (thermally thin material) and middle player (thermally thick material). Subject Construction Materials Keyword(s) rubber latex foam fire behavior thermally thin materials thermally thick materials DOI - identifier 10.3390/polym11010088 Copyright notice © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ISSN 2073-4360 Related Links Link Description https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym11010088 Link to Published Version   Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 21 Feb 2019, 13:02:27 EST Tue, 26 Feb 2019, 23:25:36 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in Thomson Reuters Web of Science Article Cited 0 times in Scopus Article Altmetric details: Access Statistics: 12 Abstract Views  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 21 Feb 2019, 12:10:00 EST by Catalyst Administrator