Evaluation of aircraft interior panels under full-scale cabin fire test conditions

Review of Smoke Toxicity of Fiber-Polymer Composites Used in Aircraft

“…Death in humans will occur within 1 h when the CO concentration in air reaches about 1500 ppm. In addition to CO, other toxic gases have been measured inside aircraft cabins during fire, including hydrogen chloride, hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen fluoride, and high concentrations of graphite dioxide (CO 2 ) [38,39].…”

“…Laboratory tests using these instruments are useful for ranking materials in terms of their relative smoke density values, although it is not possible to accurately scale up the smoke density values measured with such apparatus on a small material test piece to the smoke released by a large composite component in an actual aircraft fire. This requires large-scale tests performed inside aircraft cabins containing composite materials, and only a few such studies have been reported (e.g., [35][36][37][38][39]). Table 1 gives smoke density values for various aerospace composite materials with different polymer matrices.…”

Investigation of the flame properties and fire behavior of carbon‐reinforced PEKK, BMI and phenolic composites impacted by Jet‐A1/air flames

“…Aviation test standards have been the subject of in‐depth investigations and analyses since they are essential to assuring the safety and dependability of airplanes. The need to provide precise principles and processes for testing aircraft systems, components, and materials has motivated the development of aviation test standards 21,22 …”

“…The need to provide precise principles and processes for testing aircraft systems, components, and materials has motivated the development of aviation test standards. 21,22 In addition to safety considerations, it is important to recognize the significant impacts of gas emissions such as carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and carbon monoxide (CO) on human health and the environment.…”