Flammability of materials and forensic approach in fire investigation

摘要

The paper deals with the application of new methods for determining the flammability of materials by fire investigation. A common cause of fires is ignition or spontaneuos ignition. Fires of liquid and solid materials have different mechanisms of initiation. Standardized laboratory tests provided flammability parameters may lead to misinterpretation initiation of fire. Use of modern methods such as conical calorimeter, safety calorimeter, thermal analysis and fire modelling are used to simulate conditions close to the fire. In terms of forensic approach using the selected methods to determined conditions for the initiation of solid materials fire.