Thermal oxidative decomposition estimation combining TGA and DSC as optimization targets for PMMA

The authors would like to express their thanks to the Nuclear Safety Council for the cooperation and cofinancing of the project "Simulation of fires in nuclear power plants" and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness for the PYRODESIGN Project grant, Ref.: BIA2012-37890, financed jointly by ERDF.

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