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  • Fire Behaviors of Multilayer Latex Foam Coated by Thin Surface Fabric under Bottom Ventilation Conditions

  • Yiming Shen, Kai Zhang*, Dongmei Huang† , Chaoyi Wang, Chen Chen, De Li, and Long Shi**,†

  • College of Quality and Safety Engineering, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310018, China
    *Economic Technology Research Institute of the State Grid in Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310016, China
    **Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne 3004, Australia

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This Article

  • 2021; 45(1): 89-100

    Published online Jan 25, 2021

  • 10.7317/pk.2021.45.1.89
  • Received on Aug 2, 2020
  • Revised on Oct 9, 2020
  • Accepted on Oct 25, 2020

Correspondence to

  • Dongmei Huang, Long Shi**

  • College of Quality and Safety Engineering, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310018, China
    **Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne 3004, Australia

  • E-mail: dmhuang@cjlu.edu.cn, long.shi@rmit.ed.au