Improved fire- and smoke-resistant materials for commercial aircraft interiors : a proceedings / Committee on Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Matierls for Commercial Aircraft Interiors, National Materials Advisory Board, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interiors.

Series:

Publication NMAB ; 477-2.

Publication NMAB ; 477-2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aircraft cabins--Materials--Fire testing.

Aircraft cabins.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book describes the Conference on Fire and Smoke-Resistant Materials held at the National Academy of Sciences on November 8-10, 1994. The purpose of this conference was to identify trends in aircraft fire safety and promising research directions for the Federal Aviation Administration's program in smoke and fire resistant materials. This proceedings contains 15 papers presented by distinguished speakers and summaries of the workshop sessions concerning toxicity issues, fire performance parameters, drivers for materials development, and new materials technology.

Contents:

""Improved Fire- and Smoke- Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interiors""; ""Copyright""; ""PREFACE""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PART I INVITED PAPERS""; ""Federal Aviation Administration Fire Safety Mission""; ""Airplane Accidents and Fires""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""COMMERCIAL JET TRANSPORT ACCIDENT STATISTICS""; ""Background for Accident Data-Collection Processes""; ""Aviation Accident Data for Hull Losses and Fatalities""; ""Hull-Loss Data""; ""Fatality Data""; ""COMMERCIAL JET TRANSPORT FIRE STATISTICS""; ""SELECTED FIRE SCENARIOS""; ""Example: 727, Salt Lake City""

""Example: DC-9, Cincinnati""""Example: 737-200, Calgary and Manchester""; ""SUMMARY""; ""Heat Exposure and Burning Behavior of Cabin Materials During an Aircraft Post-Crash Fuel Fire""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""FULL-SCALE FIRE TESTS""; ""Pool Fire""; ""Pool Fire/Fuselage Impact""; ""Radiant Heating of Cabin through Fuselage Opening""; ""Effects of Wind on Cabin Heating""; ""Fuel-Fire Hazards Accumulation within Cabin""; ""Characteristics of Burning Cabin Materials""; ""DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED FIRE-TEST CRITERIA FOR CABIN MATERIALS""; ""References""

""Fundamental Fire Properties of Combustible Materials""""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE BURNING PROCESS""; ""FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES THAT INFLUENCE FIRE BEHAVIOR""; ""Physical Properties""; ""Chemical Properties""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""References""; ""Fire Tests and Hazard Evaluation""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""HAZARDS DUE TO FIRE""; ""MEASURES OF HAZARD""; ""FLASHOVER AND VENTILATION-LIMITED FIRES""; ""Development Fire""; ""Onset of Flashover""; ""Ventilation-Limited Fire""; ""THE DEVELOPING FIRE ON MATERIALS AND PRODUCTS""; ""FLAMMABILITY COMPONENTS""; ""Dependent Factors""

""FLAMMABILITY HAZARD CLASSIFICATION""""Classification by Traditional Tests""; ""Evaluation by Scientific Methods""; ""IMPORTANCE OF HEAT FLUX""; ""Effect of Heat Flux on Fire-Growth Components""; ""Heat Flux in Fire Scenarios""; ""TESTING STRATEGIES""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""; ""Fire Properties of Materials""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PYROLYSIS""; ""Heat of Gasification""; ""Surface Re-Radiation Loss""; ""COMBUSTION""; ""IGNITION""; ""Ignition of Thermally Thick Materials""; ""Ignition of Thermally Thin Materials""; ""Thermal Response Parameter (TRP)""; ""FIRE PROPAGATION""

""Fire-Propagation Index""""GENERATION OF HEAT AND FIRE PRODUCTS""; ""Heat Release Rate""; ""Heat Release Parameter""; ""The Effect of Ventilation on the HRP""; ""Mass Generation Rate of a Product""; ""Product Generation Parameter""; ""The Effect of Ventilation on the PGP""; ""Preferential Conversion of Carbon in the Material to CO with Decrease in Fire Ventilation""; ""Preferential Conversion of Carbon in the Material to Smoke with Decrease in Fire Ventilation""; ""THERMAL AND NONTHERMAL DAMAGE""; ""CORROSION""; ""SMOKE DAMAGE""; ""FLAME EXTINCTION""; ""SUMMARY""; ""NOMENCLATURE""

""References""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-309-17624-7

1-280-19282-8

9786610192823

0-309-55653-8

0-585-02402-2

OCLC:

923267605