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    Flammability Testing of Fabrics by Govardhana Rao Chilukoti

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    This document discusses key terms and issues related to testing the flammability of fabrics. It outlines several applications where defining a fabric's flammability behavior is important for safety, including furnishings, transport, construction, medical, and defense. The document defines terms used in flammability testing such as ignition, flaming, glowing, smoldering, melting, flame spread time, flaming debris, surface flash, and afterglow time. It also mentions two common flammability tests - the simple ignition test and the flame spread test.

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    Flammability Testing of Fabrics by Govardhana Rao Chilukoti

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    This document discusses key terms and issues related to testing the flammability of fabrics. It outlines several applications where defining a fabric's flammability behavior is important for safety, including furnishings, transport, construction, medical, and defense. The document defines terms used in flammability testing such as ignition, flaming, glowing, smoldering, melting, flame spread time, flaming debris, surface flash, and afterglow time. It also mentions two common flammability tests - the simple ignition test and the flame spread test.

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    This document discusses key terms and issues related to testing the flammability of fabrics. It outlines several applications where defining a fabric's flammability behavior is important for safety, including furnishings, transport, construction, medical, and defense. The document defines terms used in flammability testing such as ignition, flaming, glowing, smoldering, melting, flame spread time, flaming debris, surface flash, and afterglow time. It also mentions two common flammability tests - the simple ignition test and the flame spread test.

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    Flammability Testing of Fabrics by Govardhana Rao Chilukoti

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    Venkatesh Bairabathina
    This document discusses key terms and issues related to testing the flammability of fabrics. It outlines several applications where defining a fabric's flammability behavior is important for safety, including furnishings, transport, construction, medical, and defense. The document defines terms used in flammability testing such as ignition, flaming, glowing, smoldering, melting, flame spread time, flaming debris, surface flash, and afterglow time. It also mentions two common flammability tests - the simple ignition test and the flame spread test.

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    Flammability testing of

    fabrics

    Govardhana Rao Chilukoti


    Assistant Professor
    VFSTR Deemed to be University
    • Apart from apparel clothing, the need for
    textiles requiring defined flammability
    behaviour for improved safety spans a range
    of applications that includes:

    – furnishing and bedding (domestic and contract)


    – Transport
    – civil engineering,
    – medical and
    – defence
    Key issues of fabric flammability
    Terms used
    • Ignition: Flaming of the test specimen for a
    period of 1s or more after removal of the igniting
    flame.

    • Flaming: Combustion in gaseous phase with


    emission of light

    • Glowing: Combustion of a material in the solid


    phase without flame but emission of light from
    the combustion zone.
    • Smouldering: combustion of a material with or
    without emission of light generally evidence
    by smoke.

    • Melting: Liquefaction of material when


    exposed to heat to the extent of forming a
    hole in its structure, by either shrinking and/or
    dripping away under the specified test
    conditions.
    • Flame spread time: the time taken by a flame
    on a burning material to travel a specified
    distance measured from when the igniting
    flame is applied or after it has been remove.

    • Flaming debris: materials separating from the


    specimen during the test procedure and
    falling below the initial lower edge of the
    specimen and continuing to flame as they fall.
    • Surface flash: rapid spread of flame over the
    surface of a material without ignition of its
    basic structure.

    • Afterglow time: the time for which a material


    continues to glow, under specified test
    condition, after cessation of flaming or after
    removal of the ignition source, ignoring
    glowing debris.
    Simple ignition test
    Flame spread test

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