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Article

Electric Cable Construction Parameter and Its Potential to Foresee the Cable Fire Properties

by
Katarzyna Kaczorek-Chrobak
* and
Jadwiga Fangrat
*
Fire Research Department, Instytut Techniki Budowlanej, Filtrowa 1, 00-611 Warszawa, Poland
*
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Materials 2023, 16(4), 1689; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16041689
Submission received: 5 October 2022 / Revised: 7 February 2023 / Accepted: 14 February 2023 / Published: 17 February 2023
(This article belongs to the Section Construction and Building Materials)
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Abstract

A cable parameter related to the volume of effective non-combustible content, Ω, is proposed, which depends on the ratio of non-metallic, non-combustible component volume to non-metallic, combustible component volume, and the effective area of heat transfer within the cable during the combustion process. The correctness of the proposed cable parameter for circular cables is confirmed by tests and the determination of Spearman’s correlation. High Spearman’s correlation factors (close to −1) were obtained for total heat release and total smoke production as a function of the Ω cable parameter. The Ω cable parameter might be used in selecting cable samples for large geometric-scale fire testing within the same cable family.
Keywords: cable parameter; cable fire properties; reaction to fire of cables; fire safety cable parameter; cable fire properties; reaction to fire of cables; fire safety

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Kaczorek-Chrobak, K.; Fangrat, J. Electric Cable Construction Parameter and Its Potential to Foresee the Cable Fire Properties. Materials 2023, 16, 1689. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16041689

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Kaczorek-Chrobak K, Fangrat J. Electric Cable Construction Parameter and Its Potential to Foresee the Cable Fire Properties. Materials. 2023; 16(4):1689. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16041689

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Kaczorek-Chrobak, Katarzyna, and Jadwiga Fangrat. 2023. "Electric Cable Construction Parameter and Its Potential to Foresee the Cable Fire Properties" Materials 16, no. 4: 1689. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16041689

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Kaczorek-Chrobak, K., & Fangrat, J. (2023). Electric Cable Construction Parameter and Its Potential to Foresee the Cable Fire Properties. Materials, 16(4), 1689. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16041689

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