- Author
- Abramowitz, A. | Eklund, T. I.
- Title
- Model Tests of Aircraft Interior Panel Flammability.
- Coporate
- Federal Aviation Administration, Atlantic City Airport, NJ
- Journal
- Journal of Fire Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 2, 129-140, March/April 1985
- Keywords
- aircraft interiors | model studies | insulating materials
- Abstract
- Prototype aircraft interior panels were installed as ceilings in a quarter-scale enclosure model lined with a non-flammable insulating material. Flashover conditions were generated by a 52-kilowatt propane burner. The heat requirements for flashover, with an inert ceiling, agreed with those predicted by an NBS correlation for full-scale room fires. The flammability of the prototype panels was experimentally found to be related to their ignition temperatures. In these tests, Nomex (TM) honeycomb panels with epoxy impregnated facesheets as well as those with phenolic impregnated Kevlar (TM), sustained ignition. The panels faced with phenolic impregnated fiberglass or graphite did not burn.