- Author
- Braun, E. | Klote, J. H. | Davis, S. | Levin, B. C. | Paabo, M. | 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
- fire safety | toxicity | heat release | product development | combustion | buses | seats | fire hazards assessment | combustion products | tests | large scale fire tests | 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.