Advanced Flame Protection of CFRP Through Nanotechnology

Abstract

This chapter refers about the optimization of fire resistance of CFRP. For this optimization the most promising nano scaled additives are used and varied regarding the particle content, size and effect of flame retardancy. One major challenge is to optimize the particle dispersion and to determine the optimal particle concentrations in consideration of the effect of flame retardancy and the resulting material properties. Additionally a fire testing method has to be determined that resolves the potentially small differences in the used variations. Therefore standard fire and mechanical test's are used as well as a simple thermal material method, given with the thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA) including a single differential thermal analysis (SDTA) that also suits for a fast comparison of the materials fire properties. Hereby obtained results are compared and a related behaviour of the fire properties can be shown between tandard fire te ts and thermal material tests using the TGA-device.