A method to improve repeatability and reproducibility of the results of examination of the rate of heat released by shipbuilding materials

A specialised integrated research rig has been designed and built to validate the method of heat release dynamic error correction based on the FTP Code, part 5, and to control the rig operation and calibration. The basic rig component is a programmed gas burner with an option to select the function and parameters of burner’s operation. The use of the programmed burner increased the level of consistency (reproducibility and correlation) of the results of heat release rate measurements.