| Abstract | The article describes the burning behavior of trail bikes usually used in Taiwan. Seven tests for single whole motorcycle burning were conducted in free space and in the arcade of a full-scale two-story building. Experimental results indicate the flames from the motorcycle with plastic body hull, in intense burning, may ignite any combustible materials in the arcade by radiation and flame touch, and their heating of the surroundings is quite dangerous. The heat release rate of the two main plastic parts of motorcycles, the pad and the hull, were measured by using an oxygen consumption calorimeter. Experimental results indicate the pad and hull contribute the largest heat release during the burning of bikes. |
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