TY - JOUR
TI - Time to flashover of a vinyl based lining material: Cone calorimeter experiments
AU - Xu Qiang
AU - Hristov Jordan Y
AU - Cao Liying
AU - Que Xinggui
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2011
VL - 15
IS - 3
SP - 785
EP - 792
PT - Article
AB - Fire behaviour of a vinyl based lining material with and without  anti-corrosion painting has been evaluated through 35 and 50kW/m2 cone  calorimeter tests. The minimum heat flux requited for surface ignition was  estimated. The data were compared by those provided by a revised  Kokkala-Thomas’s classification index prediction model, the  Östman-Tsantaridis empirical linear regression model and the Hansen-Hovde  multiple discriminant function analysis (MDA). All results collected allowed  to predict the material flashover time and to classify the lining material.  The results illustrate some differences in the classification of the  material due to different approaches of the models used.