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Special Study:
U.S. Air Carrier Accidents Involving Fire, 1965-1974 and
Factors Affecting the Statistics, National Transportation
Safety Board, Report NTSB-AAS-77-1, February 17,
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Washington, D.C., 1986, Chapter 1
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Future of Aircraft Cabin Fire Safety, Proceedings of the
International Conference for the Promotion of Advanced Fire
Resistant Aircraft Materials, Atlantic City, New Jersey,
February 9-11, (1993) p. 365
Aircraft
Material Fire Test Handbook, DOT/FAA/CT-89/15, September
1990
National
Materials Advisory Board, Fire Safety Aspects of Polymeric
Material, Volume 6, Aircraft: Civil and Military, Publication
NMAB 318-6, Washington, D.C., 1977, p.68
C.P. Sarkos and
R.G. Hill, Effectiveness of Seat Cushion Blocking Layer
Materials Against Cabin Fires, SAE Technical Paper 821484,
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V. Babruskas and
J.F. Krasny, Prediction of Upholstered Chair Heat Release
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R.G. Hill, T.I.
Eklund, C.P. Sarkos, Aircraft Interior Panel Test Criteria
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Postcrash Fuel Fire Hazard Measurements in a Wide-Body
Aircraft Cabin, FAA-NA-79-42 (December 1979)
L.J. Brown,
Cabin Hazards From a Large External Fuel Fire Adjacent to an
Aircraft Fuselage, FAA-RD-79-65 (August 1979)
J.G. Quintiere,
G. Haynes, B.T. Rhodes, Applications of a Model to Predict
Flame Spread Over Interior Finish Materials in a Compartment,
Proceedings of the International Conference for the Promotion
of Advanced Fire Resistant Aircraft Materials, Atlantic City,
New Jersey, February 9-11, (1993) p. 207
Materials
Research Agenda for the Automotive and Aircraft Industries,
National Materials Advisory Board, Commission on Engineering
and Technical Systems, National Research Council, NMAB-468,
National Academy Press, Washington D.C., 1993
Fire- and
Smoke-Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interiors,
NMAB-477-1, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.
1995
Proceedings of
the Committee on Improved Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Materials
for Commercial Aircraft Interiors, NMAB-477-2, National
Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1995
P.S. Guard and
J.M. Peterson, Future Material Development Trends for
Commercial Airplane Interiors, Proceedings of the
International Conference for the Promotion of Advanced Fire
Resistant Aircraft Materials, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Feb.
9-11, (1993) p. 313
J.A. Milke and
A.J. Vizzini, Thermal Response of Fire-Exposed Composites,
J.Comp. Techn. & Res., 13(3) 145-151 (1991)
U. Sorathia, T.
Dapp, and J. Kerr, Flammability Characteristics of Composites
for Shipboard and Submarine Internal Applications, Proc. 36th
Int¹l SAMPE Symposium, 36(2), 1868-1877(1991)
U. Sorathia,
C.M. Rollhauser, and W. A. Hughes, Improved Fire Safety of
Composites for Naval Applications, Fire and Matls., 16 119-125
(1992)
D.S. Malin,
Cone Corrosimeter Testing of Fire Retardant and other
Polymeric Materials for Wire and Cable Applications,
Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Fire
Safety, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 10-14, 1994
R.G. Diehl,
Applications of Continuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics in
Aircraft Interiors, Proceedings of the International
Conference for the Promotion of Advanced Fire Resistant
Aircraft Materials, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Feb. 9-11,
(1993) p. 93