Effect of Joints on the Fire Endurance of Glassfibre Reinforced Plastic Pipes with Stagnant Water

摘要

Research on the behavior of fire exposed glassfiber reinforced plastic (GRP) pipes is currently underway at the Technical Center for Fire Prevention TNO, for the National Foundation for the Coordination of Maritime Research in the Netherlands. The first part of the research which has been carried out in 1983 was solely devoted to pipes without joints. In the present study the effect of joints is evaluated. To this aim it appeared to be necessary to improve the testing method.