- Author
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Braun, E.
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Klote, J. H.
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Davis, S.
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Levin, B. C.
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Paabo, M.
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Gann, R. G.
- Title
- Performance of School Bus Seats: A Fire Hazard Assessment.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- Fire Retardant Chemicals Association. Fire Safety Developments and Testing: Toxicity--Heat Release--Product Development--Combustion Corrosivity. October 21-24, 1990,
Fire Retardant Chemicals Assoc., Lancaster, PA,
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL,
105-125 p.,
1990
- Keywords
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fire safety
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toxicity
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heat release
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product development
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combustion
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buses
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seats
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fire hazards assessment
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combustion products
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tests
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large scale fire tests
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fire models
- Identifiers
- tenability; fire performance; HAZARD I; TENAB
- Abstract
- A full-scale fire performance protocol for the evaluation of school bus seat assemblies is described. This protocol is based on the results of full-scale testing of end-use seat assemblies and computer fire modeling of the ignition source and burning item(s) in a single compartment enclosure. Tenability criteria were applied to the results of the full-scale tests and computer fire model calculations. These results showed that temperature is a suitable criteria for this application. Occupant tenability limits are exceeded for ignition sources over 300 kW, independent of the type of seat assembly. Toxicity of the decomposition products plays a secondary role in determining occupant survivability.