BFRL Staff Profiles / Fire Research Division

			Dr. Kashiwagi joined the Fire Program at NBS in 1971 and is currently a member of the Materials Fire Research Group and is working in the in-house supported fire safe materials project. He is studying the effects of the addition of nano-scale particles on flammability of commodity polymers. He is also a project leader in work for the NASA Microgravity Science Program on ignition and subsequent flame spread over a thermally thin polymeric sheet in microgravity. Dr. Kashiwagi is interested in studying a wide variety of aspects of the combustion of polymeric materials including flame retardants. His current interest is to determine the silicon-fared flame retardant additives or flammability properties of poleolefine polymers. Dr. Kashiwagi is a member of The Combustion Institute, American Chemical Society, American Mechanical Engineering Society and the International Association of Fire Safety Sciences.
	Takashi Kashiwagi Education Keio University, B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1963 Keio University, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1965 Princeton University, Ph.D., Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences, 1971 Position Guest Researcher Materials Flammability Group Fire Research Division Building and Fire Research Laboratory

Information Last updated: 1/19/2001

Takashi Kashiwagi