Fire Smoke and Toxicity of Composites on High Speed Craft

摘要

The U.S. Coast Guard is seeking to develop Cone calorimeter acceptance criteria to qualify linings, and combustible components of furniture and other contents as fire restricting materials for high speed craft. In support, a research program was conducted at Southwest Research Institute between August 1997 and July 1998 to develop data for comparing the results of various fire tests. Eight composite materials and one textile wall covering were tested in the ISO 9705 room. The same materials were also evaluated in small- scale according to the test procedures of the Cone calorimeter, the IMO Surface Flammability Test, and the IMO Smoke and Toxicity Test. The ISO 9705 room tests and some of the Cone calorimeter experiments were supplemented with toxic gas analysis using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. This report covers the IMO Smoke and Toxicity Tests, and the supplemental toxic gas analysis in the room/corner and Cone calorimeter tests.