HECOL370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Consumer Product Safety Act, Combustibility And Flammability, Aramid
13 Jul 2018
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Safety - textile flammability consumers" selection and quality assessment criteria consumers assume that textile products in the marketplace are safe. Textiles are ammable and this is one area of performance that is regulated by federal law. Astm d4391 standard terminology relating to burning behaviour of textiles. Iso 4880 burning behaviour of textiles and textile products - vocabulary combustion - a chemical process of oxidation that occurs at a rate fast enough to produce heat and usually light either as glow or ames. Re triangle - fuel (textile) oxygen ignition source. Ammable textile - any combustible textile that burns with a ame. 27. 5-94 flame resistance - 45 angle test - one second. 45 angle test - one second flame impingement specimen mounted in metal frame (cid:3) dried in oven and stored in desiccator until tested - most severe dry conditions place in tester at 45 angle.
