- Author
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Sarkos, C. P.
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Spurgeon, J. C.
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Nicholas, E. B.
- Title
- Laboratory Fire Testing of Cabin Materials Used in Commercial Aircraft.
- Coporate
- Federal Aviation Admin., Atlantic City, NJ
- Journal
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Journal of Aircraft,
Vol. 16,
No. 2,
78-83,
February 1979
- Keywords
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commercial aircraft
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fire tests
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flammability
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smoke
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toxic gases
- Identifiers
- materials flammability
- Abstract
- This paper is to familiarize individuals with the kinds of materials currently used in the cabin interior of a commercial airliner, to describe some of the more important fire tests used to evaluate these materials, and to summarize the behavior of these cabin materials when subjected to each of the fire test methods. Specifically, a detailed description is presented of the following respective test methods for flammability, smoke, toxic gas emissions: vertical Bunsen burner test, National Bureau of Standards (NBS) smoke chamber, and a combustion test furnace test. Fire test data on 75 cabin materials are summarized for burn length, flame-out time, specific optical density of smoke, and yields of hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide.