Optical measurement of smoke from plastic building materials

Wan Ki Chow; Julian K.M. Kwok

doi:10.1016/0950-0618(89)90003-2

Optical measurement of smoke from plastic building materials

Wan Ki Chow, Julian K.M. Kwok

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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This paper reports the optical measurement of smoke from burning sheets of building materials used widely in the building industry, including plywood, cardboard, acrylic, phenol-formaldehyde, polyethylene, polycarbonate and nylon. A modified NBS chamber was constructed to measure smoke by a white light source and an HeNe laser. The 'forward-scattering' effect between the light and the smoke particles were investigated revealing that acrylic, polycarbonate and nylon will give the forward scattering effect, indicating that smoke concentration from such materials should not be measured by white light sources.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	130-134
Number of pages	5
Journal	Construction and Building Materials
Volume	3
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0950-0618(89)90003-2
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1989

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Civil and Structural Engineering
Building and Construction
General Materials Science

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