FIRE-RESIST
 
 
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DEVELOPING NOVEL FIRE-RESISTANT HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPOSITES GRANT AGREEMENT NO.: 246037
Acronym: FIRE-RESIST
Start date: February 1, 2011
End date: January 31, 2015
Total project value: ~ 7.7 Million €
Project coordinator: University of New Castle Upon Tyne
Total number of partners: 19
Contact person (name/email): Ms. Flor Angela Quintero / Fire-Resistrisk-technologies.com
Official webpage (coordinator): http://www.fire-resist.eu/FireResist/index.xhtml
Description: The overall aim of the project is to develop novel, cost-effective, high-performance, lightweight polymer matrix composite materials with a step-change improvement in fire behaviour. FIRE-RESIST will achieve this by carefully targeted research in five key areas:
1. Multi-micro-layered structural materials that are designed to delaminate extensively when exposed to heat, thereby generating a multiplicity of internal interfaces that provide a fire barrier of exceptionally low thermal conductivity.
2. Hybrid thermoset composites that are polymeric at normal temperature, but which decompose under fire to provide highly protective ceramic char phases.
3. High char polymer matrix composites derived from naturally occurring furan and cork.
4. The commingling of particle-doped polymer fibres and conventional fibre reinforcements as a highly efficient means of dispersing fire retarding particles within a polymer composite.
5. Advanced multi-scale simulation of polymer matrix composites in fire through the use of a fire degradation material model in conjunction with coupled computational fluid dynamics and structural finite element analysis as a tool for research, development and design.
R-Tech Specific Role: Scenario development, based on a Markov chain, to analyse the possible development of the innovative FIRE-RESIST material technologies in the different phases of the product development process and during initial implementation. A multi-criteria decision support tool will also be employed to prioritise and optimise the portfolio of development alternatives.