3rd Edition
Fire Retardancy of Polymeric Materials
The third edition of Fire Retardancy of Polymeric Materials provides a single source for all aspects of this highly challenging field of applied research. This authoritative book covers design and non-fire requirements that drive how these materials are fire protected.
Detailed study and consideration of chemistry, physics, materials science, economic issues and fire safety science is necessary to address considerations of mechanical, thermal, environmental, and end-use requirements on top of fire protection means that the field requires. This thoroughly revised new edition continues to offer comprehensive coverage of the scientific approach for those developing fire safe materials. It covers new topics such as bio-based materials, regulatory issues, recycling, newer flame retardant chemical classes, and more details on how to flame retard materials for specific market applications.
Written by a team of experts, this book covers the fundamentals of polymer burning and combustion and how to apply fire protection or flame-retardant chemistries to specific material classes and applications. The book is written for material scientists and fire safety scientists who seek to develop new fire safe materials or understand why materials burn in our modern environment.
Features
- Connects fundamentals of material flammability to practical fire safety needs
- Covers current fire safety requirements and regulations affecting flame retardant selection
- Provides information on chemical structure-property relationships for flame retardancy
- Provides practical guidance on how to design fire safe materials for specific fire risk scenarios
- The new edition is expanded to 32 chapters and all chapters are updated and revised with the newest information
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Materials Flame Retardancy and Fire Protection
Alexander B. Morgan; Charles A. Wilkie
Chapter 2: Thermal Decomposition of Flame Retardant Polymers
Aurelio Bifulco; Sabyasachi Gaan
2nd Edition Original Chapter Authors: D. Price, A. Richard Horrocks
Chapter 3: Physical Parameters Affecting Fire Growth
Alexander B. Morgan
2nd Edition Chapter Authors: Jose L. Torero and Guillermo Rein
Chapter 4: Halogen Containing Flame retardants
Sergei Levchik
2nd Edition Authors: Sergio Bocchini, Giovanni Camino
Chapter 5: Phosphorus-Containing Flame Retardants
Svetlana Tretsiakova-McNally; Paul Joseph
2nd Edition Authors: Paul Joseph, John R. Ebdon
Chapter 6: Flame Retardant Fillers
Charles A. Wilkie; A. Richard Horrocks
2nd Edition Author: Peter Hornsby
Chapter 7: Intumescence-based flame retardants
Serge Bourbigot
Chapter 8: Silicon and Inorganic Flame Retardants
Walid H. Awad
Chapter 9: Boron-Based Flame Retardants
Kelvin K. Shen
Chapter 10: Nitrogen-Based Flame Retardants
Christopher Simpson, Qingliang He, Michael Kuepfert
Chapter 11: Non halogen radical generators for enhanced flame retardancy of plastics
Carl-Eric Wilen; Rudolf Pfaendner
Chapter 12: Polymer Nanocomposites
Daniel F. Schmidt
2nd Edition Author: David D. Jiang
Chapter 13: Bio-based flame retardants
Xiu-Li Wang, Jing-Hong Liu, Yin-Long Wang, Zheng-Ming Li
Chapter 14: Conformal Flame Retardant Coating Systems
Thomas J. Kolibaba, Federico Carosio, Jaime C. Grunlan
Chapter 15: Flame Retardants without Conventional Flame-Retardant Elements
Bo-Wen Liu and Yu-Zhong Wang
Chapter 16: Multi-component Flame Retardant Systems
Bernhard Schartel
Chapter 17: Uses of Fire Tests for Flame-Retardant Material Development
Bernhard Schartel
Chapter 18: Material Flammability Measurements and Test Methods
Marc Janssens
Chapter 19: Fire Emissions and Smoke Toxicity
T Richard Hull; Anna A Stec
Chapter 20: Toward a Quantitative Relation between the Molecular Structure and Fire Growth on Polymeric Solids
Dushyant M. Chaudhari, Stanislav I. Stoliarov
Chapter 21: Full-Scale Fire Modeling and Simulation
Simo Hostikka
Chapter 22: Regulations, codes, and standards relevant to fire issues in the United States
Marcelo M. Hirschler
Chapter 23: Chemical Regulation of Flame Retardants
Adrian Beard
Chapter 24: Recycling of Flame Retardant Polymeric Materials: State of the Art and Future Perspectives
Aurelio Bifulco, Jiuke Chen, Arvindh Sekar, Wenyu Wu Klingler, Ali Gooneie, Sabyasachi Gaan
Chapter 25: Flame Retardant Design and Protection for Fiber-Reinforced Composites
Alexander B. Morgan, Baljinder K. Kandola
2nd Edition Chapter Authors: Michael G. Stevens and Alexander B. Morgan
Chapter 26: Flame Retardant Design and Protection for Wood and Wood Products
Laura E. Hasburgh, Grant T. Kirker, Katie M. Ohno
Chapter 27: Flame Retardant Design and Protection for Textiles
Baljinder K Kandola
Chapter 28: Flame Retardant Design and Protection for Electrical and Electronic Systems
Sergei Levchik, Eyal Eden and Lein Tange
Chapter 29: Flame Retardant Design and Protection for Wire and Cable
Walid H. Awad
Chapter 30: Flame Retardant Design and Protection for Building Materials.
Alexander B. Morgan, Alessandra Lorenzetti
Chapter 31: Flame Retardant Design and Protection for Furniture and Furnishings
Mauro Zammarano, Alessandra Lorenzetti, Michele Modesti, Alexander B. Morgan
Chapter 32: The Future of Material Fire Protection – Unmet Needs, New Fire Risk Scenarios, and New Flame Retardant Approaches
Alexander B. Morgan
Biography
Alexander B. Morgan received his B.S in Chemistry from Virginia Military Institute in 1994 and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of South Carolina in 1998. Dr. Morgan has over twenty-seven years of experience in the areas of materials flammability, polymeric material flame retardancy, fire science, fire testing, thermal decomposition chemistry, and fire safety engineering with an emphasis on chemical structure property relationships and fire safe material design. He has helped academic, government, and industrial customers solve their flame retardant and fire safety needs in a wide range of applications. Dr. Morgan is on the editorial review board for Fire and Materials, and is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Fire Science. He is also a member of ASTM, Sigma Xi, the International Association of Fire Safety Scientists, and the American Chemical Society. His current research areas include:
- New Flame Retardant Technology with Reduced Environmental Impact for Electronics, Building Materials, Bedding/Furniture, Wire & Cable, Transportation, Textiles.
- Fire Testing Method Development
- Fire Safety / Survivability for Aircraft and Ground Vehicles
- Materials Development, and Technology Assessment for Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Applications
Charles A. Wilkie received his BS degree in Chemistry from the University of Detroit in 1963 and his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Wayne State University in 1967. He subsequently joined Marquette University as an Assistant Professor and rose through the ranks until retiring in 2009; he now is Professor Emeritus. In 1978, he read a paper on phosphorus-based flame retardants and decided to move into that area. He has worked in the field of flame retardancy for more than 30 years. His initial work was to attempt to understand mechanistically how a flame retardant interacts with a polymer. His research group also did quite a bit of work on nano-composite based flame retardancy. Wilkie has served, and continues to serve, on the editorial boards of several journals and has been involved with organizing several meetings in this area.
