- Author
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Huggett, C.
- Title
- Time-Dependent Fire Behavior of Aircraft Cabin Materials. Final Report. March 1976-June 1977.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- Department of Transportation, Washington, DC
- Report
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FAA-RD-77-99; ARD520,
December 1977,
41 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- CONTRACT-DOT-FA76WAI-610
- Keywords
-
aircraft cabins
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fire growth
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fire hazards
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compartment fires
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fire safety
- Abstract
- In an aircraft cabin or other inhabited compartment, the early stages of fire growth are critical to life safety. During this period the rate of fire growth, as measured by the mass fuel consumption rate m, can be represented approximately as a simple exponential function of time, m = moe(kt).