Enthusiasm with Purpose: Our Aims and Objectives
Aims
- Determine the actual level of performance protection provided by intumescent fire protection coatings in non-standard fire scenarios
- Seek an Industrial Partner
- Develop the foundations for innovative non-standard heating scenario tests for future use in rating assessments of fire retardant materials.
- Upon completion of research programme, orally present any conclusive research findings and recommendations to our Industrial Partner's research and development team
- Collect data to show levels of corrosive and toxic species contained in Intumescent coatings to provide scope for future Intumescent coatings studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Objectives
- Establish final four heating scenarios on which experimental analysis will be based. Eurocode smouldering, standard and non-standard heating scenarios will be analysed within the four scenarios.
- Design realistic temperature-time plots for non-standard heating scenarios.
- Perform preliminary fire laboratory experiments using the cone calorimeter and the flame propagation apparatus with the aim of calibrating, and becoming familiar with, each apparatus.
- Develop appropriate incident heat flux equivalence curves, for each of the four different fire scenarios, for use in cone calorimeter, and/or flame propagation apparatus, laboratory experiments.
- Perform preliminary tests on 'Black Body' samples and also control tests for comparison with Intumescent coating performance test results.
- Obtain steel plate samples from Industrial partner. In order to achieve accurate experimental results, ideally each steel plate sample should be pre-coated by a certified third party, and have thermocouples attached, before delivery.
This website was created, by Connie Leydon and Patricia Lehane, in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, in Civil Engineering (Leydon) / Civil & Environmental Engineering (Lehane), at the University of Edinburgh, U.K. ©
