The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has conducted numerous full-scale aircraft fire tests for the purpose of characterizing a post-crash cabin-fire environment and developing improved criteria for fire testing cabin materials. The tests subjected aircraft fuselages to an external fuel fire, usually adjacent to an opening in the fuselage. This paper reviews those tests. Emphasis is on the heating conditions experienced by the fuselage skin and cabin hazard development arising from the fuel fire; the important cabin phenomena related to survival, such as stratification of fire hazards and flashover, and hazard-time profiles and materials fire involvement.
Heat Exposure and Burning Behavior of Cabin Materials During an Aircraft Post-Crash Fuel Fire
1995
12 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation Safety , Air Transportation , Combustion & Ignition , Aircraft , Aircraft construction materials , Aircraft safety , Combustion physics , Crash landing , Fire damage , Postflight analysis , Aircraft accidents , Aircraft compartments , Aircraft fuels , Cabin atmospheres , Fuel combustion , Aircraft survivability , Destructive tests , Environment effects , Flashover , Full scale tests , Heat flux , High temperature tests , Materials tests , Stratification , Reprints , Aircraft fires , Combustion products
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