TY - CONF A1 - Schartel, Bernhard T1 - Bench-scale fire testing tailored for research and development N2 - - STT MuFu+ oven for intumescent coatings - Rapid Mass Calorimeter for high throughput screening - Bench-scale Cable Testing Module - Fire stability of composites T2 - 15th SKZ Conference on Trends in Fire Safety and Innovative Flame Retardants for Plastics CY - Würzburg, Germany DA - 14.03.2017 KW - STT MuFu+ KW - Rapid mass calorimeter KW - Fire stability KW - Bench-scale fire resistance tests KW - Cable KW - Intumescent coatings PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-39447 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Rabe, Sebastian A1 - Schartel, Bernhard T1 - Rapid mass calorimeter - High throughput fire performance screening N2 - Modern flame retardant polymeric materials often stand for multicomponent systems consisting of different ingredients. Using a variety of flame retardants, fillers, additives, synergists and adjuvants as well as applying different concentrations, particle size distributions, encapsulation, and so forth lead to a vast multidimensional matrix of possible formulations. Actual, comprehensive elucidations are no longer possible due to time, material and cost limitations. The task is dying for accelerated procedures, for high-throughput methods. Therefore we developed the Rapid Mass Calorimeter based on a Mass Loss Calorimeter with attached thermopile chimney and a linear motion unit for semi-automatic sample change. Together with the reduction in specimen size (2 cm x 2 cm), a saving of time around 70% and a saving of material of 96% is achieved not considering the strongly reduced calibration and maintenance efforts required for the Mass Loss Calorimeter. The correlations between the results of the Rapid Mass Calorimeter and the Cone Calorimeter as well as to the Oxygen Index and UL94 classification are described; the effects such as when reducing the specimen size are discussed. T2 - 27th Conference on Recent Advances in Flame Retardancy of Polymeric Materials, BCC CY - Stamford, Connecticut, USA DA - 22.05.2016 KW - Rapid mass calorimeter KW - Accelerated fire testing KW - Bench-scale fire testing PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-36867 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -