Modélisation du comportement au feu d'un composite par calcul de pyrolyse : Approche combinée expérience-simulation à petite échelle

Abstract

The work presented in this paper comes within the framework of a 3-year French collaborative research project dedicated to the use of composite materials in shipbuilding. In this project, it is planned to use the CFD code FDS5 with a pyrolysis model to better account for the behaviour of composite walls in the simulation of fires onboard a ship. Prior to the simulation of complete fire scenarios, numerical simulations of actual experiments performed on composite material samples of increasing size were performed for validation and evaluation purposes. To illustrate this approach, we present the results of an experimental study of the fire behaviour of a composite material at small scale, then the simulation of these tests for validation. © 2009 AFM EDP Sciences.