(SFPE Seminar) A generalized methodology to characterize pyrolysis and flammability behavior for flame retardant polymer composites
CPD

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Date
11 Sep 2023
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Organiser
BEEE
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Time
16:00 - 17:00
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Venue
Hybrid (Physical: Room Z208, Block Z, PolyU; Virtual: Online via Zoom)
Speaker
Dr. Yan Ding
Summary
A solution to the polymer flammability problem is to incorporate flame retardants into the polymer to reduce its fire hazard. The development of effective flame retardant polymeric materials is of great interest to the fire protection community. To enable intelligent design of flame retardant polymeric materials, it is important to understand the relation between the material composition and the chemical and physical properties that control the fire growth process. This webinar details a generalized approach to characterize flame retardant materials for the development of flammability models that relate the fire behavior to material composition. More importantly, this approach enables a quantitative analysis of the action of the additives and allows for identification of the physical and/or chemical phenomena responsible for their action.
Keynote Speaker

Dr. Yan Ding
Associate Professor of Faculty of Engineering at the China University of Geosciences, Wuhan
Dr. Yan Ding is the Associate Professor of Faculty of Engineering at the China University of Geosciences, Wuhan. She received the B.S. degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and the Ph.D. degree from University of Maryland, College Park. Before joining China University of Geosciences, Dr. Ding spent two years working as a researcher at Avient Corporation, USA. Her research focused on development of experimental and computational approaches to the analysis of flammability of polymeric and composite solids.