| Title: | Modelling intumescent coatings for the fire protection of structural systems : a review |
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| Authors: | ID Lucherini, Andrea (Author)
ID de Silva, Donatella (Author) |
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| Files: |  URL - Source URL, visit https://doi.org/10.1108/JSFE-10-2023-0038
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.02 - Review Article |
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| Organization: |  ZAG - Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute
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| Abstract: | Purpose
Intumescent coatings are nowadays a dominant passive system used to protect structural materials in case of fire. Due to their reactive swelling behaviour, intumescent coatings are particularly complex materials to be modelled and predicted, which can be extremely useful especially for performance-based fire safety designs. In addition, many parameters influence their performance, and this challenges the definition and quantification of their material properties. Several approaches and models of various complexities are proposed in the literature, and they are reviewed and analysed in a critical literature review.
Design/methodology/approach
Analytical, finite-difference and finite-element methods for modelling intumescent coatings are compared, followed by the definition and quantification of the main physical, thermal, and optical properties of intumescent coatings: swelled thickness, thermal conductivity and resistance, density, specific heat capacity, and emissivity/absorptivity.
Findings
The study highlights the scarce consideration of key influencing factors on the material properties, and the tendency to simplify the problem into effective thermo-physical properties, such as effective thermal conductivity. As a conclusion, the literature review underlines the lack of homogenisation of modelling approaches and material properties, as well as the need for a universal modelling method that can generally simulate the performance of intumescent coatings, combine the large amount of published experimental data, and reliably produce fire-safe performance-based designs.
Research limitations/implications
Due to their limited applicability, high complexity and little comparability, the presented literature review does not focus on analysing and comparing different multi-component models, constituted of many model-specific input parameters. On the contrary, the presented literature review compares various approaches, models and thermo-physical properties which primarily focusses on solving the heat transfer problem through swelling intumescent systems.
Originality/value
The presented literature review analyses and discusses the various modelling approaches to describe and predict the behaviour of swelling intumescent coatings as fire protection for structural materials. Due to the vast variety of available commercial products and potential testing conditions, these data are rarely compared and combined to achieve an overall understanding on the response of intumescent coatings as fire protection measure. The study highlights the lack of information and homogenisation of various modelling approaches, and it underlines the research needs about several aspects related to the intumescent coating behaviour modelling, also providing some useful suggestions for future studies. |
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| Keywords: | intumescent coatings, fire protection, modelling, structural fire engineering, fire safety, performance-based design |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Author Accepted Manuscript |
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| Publication date: | 06.02.2024 |
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| Publisher: | Multi-Science, Emerald Publishing Limited |
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| Year of publishing: | 2024 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 483-507 |
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| Numbering: | vol. 15, no. 4 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-18716  |
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| UDC: | 620.1/.2 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2040-2325 |
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| DOI: | 10.1108/JSFE-10-2023-0038 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 191362051 |
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| Copyright: | © Emerald Publishing Limited |
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 17.04.2024 |
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| Views: | 510 |
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| Downloads: | 298 |
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