Polymers and polymer composites have been increasingly used in construction, infrastructure, automobile, aircraft and aerospace applications, etc. In particular, both the residential and commercial construction markets have been identified as one of the largest markets for implementation of composites in the field. The reasons for high popularity of composites in the construction industry should be attributed to their excellent properties such as light weight, the ability to produce complex shapes, corrosion, thermal, sound and electrical resistance, and lower maintenance costs. However, a major drawback of polymers and composites is their susceptibility to heat and fire. In the literature, a vast number of papers have addressed the pyrolysis modeling. This paper applies a commercial software package, COMSOL (3.5a) to solve the non-Arrhenius type pyrolysis modeling based on the moving mesh technique and compare our data with the literature. Two examples were excerpted from the literature. Present simulations are in excellent agreement with those reports using different numerical methods in the literature as shown in Figures

Polymer pyrolysis modeling based on moving mesh

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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