- Author
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National Research Council
- Title
- Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Interior Materials for Commercial Transport Aircraft.
- Coporate
- National Materials Advisory Board, Washington, DC
- Sponsor
- Department of Transportation, Washington, DC
- Report
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NMAB-477-1,
1995,
79 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Materials Advisory Board, Washington, DC
- Contract
- DOT-GRANT-FAA-93-G-033
- Keywords
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commercial aircraft
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transport aircraft
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aircraft interiors
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evaluation
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furniture
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fire resistant materials
- Identifiers
- design and function requirements for aircraft interior materials; evaluation of materials fire performance; development of candidate materials for future interiors; conclusions and recommendaitons: research opportunities
- Abstract
- The Aviation Safety Research Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-591) provides the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with a mandate to conduct long-term investigations concerned with fire safety, including fire containment and the fire resistance of cabin materials. As part of their response to this legislation, the FAA Technical Center established a program to investigate improved fire-resistant materials for aircraft interiors, with the objective "to discover the fundamental relationships between the composition and structure of materials and their behavior in fires to enable the design of a totally fire-resistant cabin for future commercial aircraft." The Committee on Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interior was established to provide guidance for this effort. The two principal objectives of the committee's task were (1) to idnetify promising materials technologies, design issues (both overall and for individual components), and fire performance parameters (both full scale and for individual components) that, if properly optimized, would lead to improved fire and smoke resistance of materials and components used in aircraft interiors; and (2) to identify long-range research directions that hold the most promise for producing predictive modeling capability, new advanced materials, and the required product development to achieve totally fire-resistant interiors in future aircraft. The emphasis of the resulting study is on long-term innovation leading to impacts on fireworthiness of aircraft interiors 10-20 years hence.