TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Manikin Test for Flame Engulfment Evaluation of Protective Clothing: Historical Review and Development of a New ISO Standard
JO  - Fire and materials
A1  - Camenzind, M. A.
A1  - Dale, D. J.
A1  - Rossi, René Michel
SP  - 285
EP  - 295
VL  - 31
IS  - 5
N2  - The overall performance of a firefighter turnout suit can only be evaluated using both bench-scale tests and an assessment based on an instrumented manikin under defined, close to real-life conditions in a laboratory. Using manikins in rating protective clothing has already a long history which will be reflected in this paper. Efforts all over the world to reproduce a flame engulfment situation in a laboratory are currently being combined in a new draft international standard (ISO/DIS 13506.3). A round robin test showed an acceptable reproducibility for this method based on a manikin test and a gas burner system. An overview of existing measurement systems and the results of this round robin are discussed and possible improvements for the standard flame engulfment test method are proposed.<p />
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SN  - 0308-0501
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fam.938
ID  - ref1
ER  -