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Author Staff, National Research Council

Title Improved Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interiors : a Proceedings
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1900

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages)
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""
Bibliography ""References""
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Subject Aircraft cabins -- Materials -- Fire testing
Aircraft cabins -- Fire testing
Form Electronic book
Author Aircraft, Committee on Fire and Smoke-Resistant Materials for Commerical Transport
ISBN 9780309556538
0309556538