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FDA FIRE AND MATERIALS Volume 15 f/W ILEY Publishers Since 1807 Fas FIRE AND MATERIALS AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL (Fire mater.) Editor-in-Chief John P. Redfern Managing S. J. Grayson 58 York Road Queen Mary and Westfield College Cheam Editor University of London Surrey SM2 6HJ UK UK Associate Editors M. Hirschler D. Purser Safety Engineering Laboratories Inc. 22 Prospero Way 38 Oak Road Hartford, Huntingdon Rocky River Cambridgeshire PE18 7PG, UK Ohio 44116, USA H. Suzuki M. Janssens Associate Director for Fire Research National Forest Products Ass. Environment, Design & Fire Department 1250 Connecticut Avenue, NW Building Research Institute Washington, DC 20036 1 Tatehara, Tsukuba-shi USA Ibaraki 305, Japan Advisory Board N. Alvares K. Kawagoe D. J. Rasbash Fire Science Applications Center For Fire Science & Tech 3 Wilton Road 751 Laurel Street, Suite 431 Science University of Tokyo Newington San Carlos, CA 94070 2641 Yamazaki Noda-Shi Edinburgh EH16 5NX USA Japan 278 |. Spilda V. Babrauskas N. R. Keltner Department of Chemistry Head, Fire Toxicity Thermal Test & Anal Dept, 7537 Slovak Technical University Measurement Sandia National Laboratories Kollan Sq 9 Bldg. 224, Room A363 Albuquerque Bratislava 81237 National Institute of Standards & New Mexico 87185 Czechoslovakia Technology (NIST) USA Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA B. Sundstrom W. H. Becker S. E. Magnusson Fire Technology BASF AG Department of Fire Safety Swedish National Testing Inst. Im Kastenbusch 15 Engineering Brinellgaten 4 D 6730 Neustadt-Hambach Lund Institute of Technology PO Box 857 Weinstrasse, Germany Lund University Box 118 S-05115 Boras, Sweden S-221 00 Lund, Sweden D. Buszard P. Thomas 373 Chester Road J. Mehaffey Kings Cottage Woodford, Cheshire SK7 100 Building Construction 1 Red Road G. Camino Technology Department Borehamwood Associato di Chimica Forintek Canada Corporation Herts WD6 4SW Macromoleculare all’ Eastern Div, 800 Montreal Road Universita di Torino Ottawa, Canada, K1G 3Z5 H. Tran Dipartimento di Chimica US Forest Products Laboratory Inorganica, Chimica Fisica E. Metcalfe 1 Gifford Pinchot Drive e Chimica dei Materials Dept of Biology & Chemistry Madison, WI 53705 via P. Giuria 7-10125, Thames Polytechnic USA Torino, Italy Wellington Street Woolwich, London R. B. Williamson G. Cox University of California Fire Research Station E. Mikkola Dept of Civil Engineering Building Research Establishment VTT Fire Laboratory 773 Davis Hall Melrose Avenue, Borehamwood PO Box 109 Berkeley CA 94720 Herts WD6 2BL 02151 Espoo, Finland USA C. F. Cullis Department of Chemistry F. H. Prager W. D. Woolley The City University Bayer AG Head, Fire Research Station Northampton Square ZF-DZA Brandtechnologie Building Research London EC1V OHB 5090 Leverkusen Establishment Bayerwerk, Germany Melrose Avenue R. Friedman Borehamwood Factory Mutual Research Corp Herts WD6 2BL PO Box 9102, Norwood Massachusetts 02062 USA Copyright © 1991 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, Norwich FIRE AND MATERIALS, VOL. 15, iii (1991) Contents of Volume 15 NUMBER 1 JANUARY-MARCH 1991 EDITORIAL Iignitability and Heat-release Properties of Forest Products W. D. GARDNER AND C. R. THOMSON Breaking of Window Glass Close to Fire, Il: Circular Panes O. KESKI-RAHKONEN A Laboratory-scale Gallery Fire Test on Rubber Conveyor Belts with Fabric Skeletons Y. NAKAGAWA, T. KOMAI AND M. KOHNO Thermogravimetry of Wood Treated with Water-insoluble Retardants and a Proposal for Development of Fire-retardant Wood Materials T. HIRATA, S. KAWAMOTO AND T. NISHIMOTO A Study of the Synergistic Action of Antimony Oxide in Fire-retardant Polyethylene Y. P. YANG, D. G. BREWER AND J. E. S. VENART Long-term Reproducibility of Small-scale Tests Used for Measuring the Flammability of Conveyor Belting K. J. MINTZ News NUMBER 2 APRIL-JUNE 1991 EDITORIAL The Thermo-oxidative Degradation of PTFE in the NIST Cup Furnace Toxicity Test E. METCALFE, A. R. HARMAN AND M. K. PATEL Ignition of Exterior Building Details in Bushfires: An Experimental Study N. A. McARTHUR AND P. LUTTON Cone Calorimetry—A Review of Tests Carried out on Plastics for the Association of Plastic Manufacturers in Europe M. J. SCUDAMORE, P. J. BRIGGS AND F. H. PRAGER Standardization of Formats and Presentation of Fire Data—the FDMS V. BABRAUSKAS, R. D. PEACOCK, M. JANSSENS AND N. E. BATHO ignition Temperatures of Dust Layers: Flaming and Non-flaming K. J. MINTZ Note: Correlation of Flash Points K. SATYANARAYANA AND M. C. KAKATI LETTER TO THE EDITOR ‘Cone Calorimetry’, by M. J. Scudamore, P. J. Briggs and F. H. Prager V. BABRAUSKAS News CONTENTS OF VOLUME 15 NUMBER 3 JULY-SEPTEMBER 1991 A Study of the Fire Behaviour of Polypropylene Letter Trays N. A. McARTHUR AND C. B. JOLLIFFE The Performance of Aluminium Building Products in Bushfires N. A. McARTHUR The Influence of Antimony Trihalides on Flammability and Ignitability of Polyethylene J. P. YANG, D. G. BREWER AND J. E. S. VENART Combustibility of Building Materials L. R. RICHARDSON AND M. E. BROOKS Fire Performance of Gusset Connections in Glue-laminated Timber A. H. BUCHANAN AND A. B. KING Note: Differential Thermal Analysis and Limiting Oxygen Index of Papyrus and its Treatment with Fire Retardants H. ABDEL-HAMID, A. EL-ENGIBAWY, E. S. H. EL-ASHRY AND A. KHAIRY LETTER TO THE EDITOR ‘Cone Calorimetry’, by M. J. Scudamore, P. J. Briggs and F. H. Prager M. J. SCUDAMORE, P. J. BRIGGS AND F. H. PRAGER News NUMBER 4 OCTOBER-DECEMBER 1991 Piloted Ignition of Wood: A Review M. JANSSENS The Role of Intumescents for Construction Products with Improved Fire Safety W. BECKER Toward the Goal of a Performance Fire Code R. W. BUKOWSKI AND T. TANAKA Surface Parameters from Small-scale Experiments used for Measuring HCI Transport and Decay in Fire Atmospheres F. M. GALLOWAY, M. M. HIRSCHLER AND G. F. SMITH Effect of Orientation on Burning Rate of Solid Combustible H. OHTANI, K. OHTA AND Y. 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