Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Textile Research Journal
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Krasny, J. F.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Apparel Flammability: Accident Simulations and Bench-Scale Tests

John F. Krasny

Center for Fire Research, National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, U.S.A.

Various apparel flammability characteristics of more than 60 fabrics were explored within the framework of the Cooperative Industry Program on General Apparel Flam mability sponsored by the American Textile Manufacturers Institute. Testing consisted of apparel fire simulations on a full size mannequin and a device simulating a moving leg, as well as laboratory measurements of ignition time, heat release, weight loss, and linear and area flame spread. This paper supplements earlier reports by participants in the program by providing a different analysis of the experimental results. Almost any test method used for these purposes satisfactorily identifies apparel fabrics with low burn injury potential. Differentiation according to injury potential among the other fabrics does not appear to be possible with any single test method, although the heat release test methods appear more promising than the others. Fabrics with short ignition times and high heat release rates and total heat release are believed to present a relatively high burn injury hazard. In addition, a tendency to continue burning after contact with a surface (as when a burning garment touches the skin), which is found only in a few fabric types, can add to the burn injury hazard. A test method concept that incorporates these three factors is discussed.

Textile Research Journal, Vol. 56, No. 5, 287-303 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/004051758605600502
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?