Fire Research Division

Materials and Products Group

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The Materials and Products Group performs research to understand fundamentally the mechanisms that control the ignition, flame spread, and burning rate of materials and the chemical and physical characteristics that affect these aspects of flammability. It develops methods of measuring and predicting the response of a material to a fire, which includes characterizing the burning rates of charring and non-charring polymers and composites, delineating and modeling the enthalpy and mass transfer mechanisms of materials combustion, and developing computational molecular dynamics and other mechanistic approaches to understand the relationships between polymer structure and flammability.

Jeff Gilman, Leader
(301) 975-6573
email: jwgilman@nist.gov

 

 

 

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