Expanded Foam Glass - an Application for Fire Resistant Multilayer Materials

• Published in: IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 877; no. 1; pp. 12038 - 12045
• Main Authors: Mocanita, O, Chicet, D L, Rusu, O, Istrate, B, Munteanu, C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.06.2020
• Subjects: Bonding agents; Fire resistance; Granular materials; High temperature; Multilayers; Square plates; Thick plates; Thickness
• ISSN: 1757-8981; 1757-899X
• DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/877/1/012038

This study is focused on obtaining a fire-resistant multilayer material, which includes in the structure a layer with properties of high temperature resistance and low heat transfer. One of the research directions is focused on obtaining such a layer using expanded glass granules with two different dimensional ranges noted with A (1 - 2 mm) and B (0.25 - 0.5 mm). The target layer was realized with the shape of square plates of 50 × 50 mm, with a thickness of 5 and 10 mm respectively, from a mixture of quartz sand with a polymeric resin as bonding agent in which the expanded glass granules were inserted. The following samples were obtained: P5A and P5B (5 mm thick plates), respectively P10A and P10B (10 mm thickness plates). The samples were analyzed both from the morphological point of view (the emphasis being placed on the structure distribution of the expanded glass granules) and from the point of view of the resistance to high temperatures (by indirect exposure at temperatures between 400 - 600 ° C for 3 hours). The satisfactory behavior of the samples during the tests recommends the extension of the researches in this direction, in order to establish the optimal percentage of component elements.