TEK 531 - Flame Retardancy in Textile Materials

Course Objectives

The purpose of this course is to teach students
1. How to use the state of the art in textile fire retardancy studies and
2. Fire retardant chemicals and fire-retarded polymers, while considering the interrelationship among polymer degradation, fire retardant efficacy, fire testing and environmental concerns.
3. The course examines polymer materials and their fire retardancy.

Course Description

An Introduction to Polymeric Flame Retardancy, Polymer Degradation and the Matching of FR Chemistry to Degradation. Physical Parameters Affecting Fire Growth. Halogen-Containing Flame Retardants. Phosphorus-Based Flame Retardants. Fire-Retardant Fillers. Recent Developments in Silicon-Based Flame Retardants. Boron-Based Flame Retardants and Flame Retardancy. Char Formation and Characterization. Multi-Components FR Systems, Design of Interlayers for Fire-Retarded Polymeric Systems. Fundamentals of Fire Testing and What Tests Measure. Uses of Fire Tests in Materials Flammability Development. Fire Toxicity and its Assessment. Flame-Retardant Design for Fiber Reinforced Materials. Flame Retardancy Design for Textiles. FR Design for Foam Materials.