Title

Recent Development Of Fire Retardancy Of Fiber-Reinforced Laminated Composites Utilizing Carbon Nanofiber Sheets

Abstract

Recently, various nanoparticles have been paid attention as novel fire retardants. Although it has been pointed out that carbon nanofibers (CNF) have lower efficiency of fire retardancy through directly dispersing CNF in polymer resins, the cost advantage of CNF arouse our interest of exploring novel methods to improve their fire retardancy. In our work, CNF were fabricated into various freestanding carbon nanofiber sheets (CNS). They were integrated into glass fiber mat (GFM)/polyester composites through different ways. Their fire retardancy was evaluated with cone calorimeter test at an external radiated heat flux of 50 kW/m2. The results show that one single layer of CNS did not benefit the improvement of fire retardancy on the top surface of composites. But, multi-plies CNS with alternate arrangement with GFM or CNF containing clay particles on the top surfaces could significantly improve the fire retardancy of composites.

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Publication Title

Earth and Space Conference 2008: Proceedings of the 11th Aerospace Division International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments

Volume

323

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1061/40988(323)181

Socpus ID

70349402941 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/70349402941

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