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Title: Foamed Plastics
Author: C.E. Leyes
Abstract: Foamed plastics, sometimes called expanded, cellular or sponge plastics are a group of low density, high quality materials which can be engineered to meet specific end requirements of density, cell size, etc.
Report: FSR-0214 Pages: 21 Size: 2.60 MB
Title: Full-Scale Air Transport Category Fuselage Burnthrough Tests
Author: Harry Webster
Abstract: This report represents the observations, test data, and _onclusions obtained during the course of six full-scale fuselage burnthrough tests. These tests were conducted at the Laurinburg-Maxton Airport, Maxton, North Carolina, in conjunction with Charlotte Aircraft Corporation. A comprehensive data base was developed which represented the flammability resistance of an intact fuselage when exposed to an exterior fuel fire. Three tests were conducted with the fuselage on the ground simulating a wheels-up condition, and three tests were conducted with the wheels down. TEST RESULTS. 1. The aluminum skin provides protection from a fully developed fuel fire for 30 to 60 seconds. 2. The fiberglass acoustical insulation is an effective thermal barrier. 3. Flame penetration into the cheek area provides a fire path into the cabin through the floor air return grills. 4. The aircraft with its gear extended is more vulnerable to burnthrough from a pool fire than an aircraft resting on its belly.5. Areas, such as the empennage crawlthrough, that are not acoustically insulated are more vulnerable to burnthrough than other parts of the insulated fuselage.
Report: DOT/FAA/CT-TN89/65 Pages: 34 Size: 6.84 MB
Title: Full-Scale Fire Experiments: Prior Work
Author: E. Nicholas
Abstract: Earlier research at Batelle-Columbus was based on the recognition that more deaths occurred in residential fires because of anoxia and the inhalation of toxic gases than because f burns.
Report: FSR-0193 Pages: 13 Size: 642 KB
Title: Gas Chromatography Application To Fire Detection
Author: Dr. Arthur Flores
Abstract: The principle of operation consists of the separation of the components of a gaseous mixture pulse injected into a moving stream of inert carrier gas by the action of adsorption-desorption phenomena on a solid surface or the partitioning phenomena at the surface of a solid surface which has been coated with a liquid. The components of the mixture are eluted in separate pulses in the carrier stream. They may be detected and measured in the order in which they are eluted by thermal conductivity detectors (100 ppm sensitivity) or detectors utilizing ionization (sensitivities to ppb levels). Sampling is discontinues
Report: FSR-0030 Pages: 7 Size: 236 KB
Title: Glossary of Composite Material Terms
Author: U.S. Department of Transportation
Abstract: Glossary
Report: FSR-0230 Pages: 39 Size: 2.05 MB

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