An algorithm is developed to predict the thermal response of aircraft ceiling materials during a post-crash fire scenario. The scenario involves an aircraft's emergency exit doorway which opens directly onto the flames of an external, fuel-spill fire which engulf a large portion of the fuselage. Data of near-ceiling temperatures acquired during a series of eight, full-scale, wide-body aircraft cabin, post-crash test simulations provide indirect validation of the algorithm. These tests involved cabins outfitted with single, mockup seats. Two other full-scale cabin tests involving fire spread through twenty-one seat arrays with different types of seat construction provide the input data required to exercise the algorithm in evaluations of fully outfitted cabins.
Thermal Response of Aircraft Cabin Ceiling Materials during a Post-Crash, External Fuel-Spill, Fire Scenario
1984
53 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Aeronautics , Transportation Safety , Aircraft fires , Fire tests , Aviation accidents , Aviation safety , Aviation fuels , Algorithms , Ceilings(Architecture) , Materials , Fire safety , Fire resistant materials , Aircraft seats , Aircraft crash fires , Exit , Emergency escape , Fire spread , Thermal response , Fuel spillage
Heat Exposure and Burning Behavior of Cabin Materials During an Aircraft Post-Crash Fuel Fire
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