Research on Assessment of the Ignitability of Upholstered Furniture by Using Wooden Crib as Ignition Source

Chenguang Liu; Jingxia Wu; Jianyong Liu

doi:10.2991/978-94-6463-780-9_16

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Research on Assessment of the Ignitability of Upholstered Furniture by Using Wooden Crib as Ignition Source

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Chenguang Liu¹^{, *}, Jingxia Wu¹, Jianyong Liu²^{, 3}

¹Shanghai Institute of Quality Inspection and Technical Research, Shanghai, 201114, China

²Guangzhou Building Material Institute Limited Company, Guangzhou, 510663, China

³Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fire Protection and Testing Technology, Guangzhou, 510663, China

^*Corresponding author. Email: liucg@sqi.org.cn

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Chenguang Liu

Available Online 3 July 2025.

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Keywords: soft furniture; flame retardant; small wooden stack; fire source; burning
Abstract: The ignitability of upholstered furniture was experimentally studied by using wooden crib as ignition source. Three different ignition source assembles were assessed and compared by measuring their combustion heat release rate, total calorific value, combustion duration, and temperature. Results indicated that one ignition source assembly (randomly purchased pine + normal lint + 1.4 ml ethanol) has the similar combustion effect with other two contrast items, but better comprehensive performance. By using selected ignition source, 30 upholstered furniture were tested, 70.6% mattresses specimens and 61.5% sofa specimens failed. These results demonstrate the feasibility of this method and suggest a new approach for assessing ignitability of upholstered furniture in presence of medium-scale ignition source, improve the flame retardant performance of soft furniture, suppress the occurrence of fires, or delay the spread of fire when a fire occurs.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Engineering Management and Safety Engineering (EMSE 2025)
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Publication Date: 3 July 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6463-780-9
ISSN: 2352-5401
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-780-9_16 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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