- Author
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Hasegawa, H.
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Draemel, R. B.
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Williamson, R. B.
- Title
- Study to Identify Design Parameters to be Considered in Construction of a Large Scale Fire Test Facility.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Berkeley
- Contract
- GRANT-NSG-2026
- Keywords
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large scale fire tests
- Abstract
- A large scale fire test facility for testing aircraft fuselage sections, airframe components, and other vehicle enclosures to fire threats of both internal and external origin is planned for construction at Ames Research Center. Large or full scale components will be placed in a suitable enclosure and tested by: (1) exposing interiors of component assemblies to typical fire threats and measuring progress of fire involvement, measuring enclosure temperature and pressure changes, measuring rate, obscuration and toxicity of gas evolution, and measuring detection parameters and quenching process; and (2) exposing exteriors of component assemblies to a pool fire simulator and measuring interior responses to this external fire threat. These tests will be conducted within a containing enclosure that will prevent the fire progress from interacting with life outside environment.