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  • Effect of Ignition Position and Sample Thickness on Flame Spread in Flexible Polyurethane Foam

  • Qi Yuan*, Chang Li***, Paul Amyotte****, Lingfeng Wang*, Chunmiao Yuan*, **,† , Gang Li*, and Weidong Yan***

  • *Fire & Explosion Protection Laboratory, Northeastern University, Liaoning, Shenyang 110819, China
    **State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
    ***Department of Civil Engineering, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Liaoning, Shenyang 110168, China
    ****Department of Process Engineering, Applied Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS, B3H 4R2, Canada

  • Flexible Polyurethane Foam에서 화염확산에 대한 발화위치와 샘플 두께의 영향

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  • Polymer(Korea) 폴리머
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    ISSN 0379-153X(Print)
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This Article

  • 2022; 46(4): 444-454

    Published online Jul 25, 2022

  • 10.7317/pk.2022.46.4.444
  • Received on Dec 9, 2021
  • Revised on Mar 10, 2022
  • Accepted on Apr 27, 2022

Correspondence to

  • Chunmiao Yuan

  • *Fire & Explosion Protection Laboratory, Northeastern University, Liaoning, Shenyang 110819, China
    **State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

  • E-mail: yuanchunmiao@mail.neu.edu.cn