The purpose of the present study has been to develop an analytical tool for studying and predicting the thermochemical response of Coating 313 when exposed to a fuel fire environment. To achieve this objective, the existing Aerotherm Charring Material Thermal Response and Ablation (CMA) computer program has been modified to treat swelling materials. The modified code is now designa?ted Aerotherm Transient Response of Intumescing Materials (TRIM) code. In addition, thermophysical property data for Coating 313 have been analyzed and reduced for use in the TRIM code, an input data sensitivity study has been performed, and performance tests of Coating 313/steel substrate models have been carried out. The end product of the study is a reliable computational model, the TRIM code, which has been thoroughly validated for Coating 313.
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