Research Catalog

Title

Aviation fuels with improved fire safety : a proceedings / Committee on Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety, National Materials Advisory Board, Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology
• National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety.
• National Research Council (U.S.). National Materials Advisory Board.
• Workshop on Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety (1996 : Washington, D.C.)

Description

xv, 141 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Subject

• Aircraft
• Airplanes > Fires and fire prevention > Congresses
• Airplanes > Fuel > Congresses
• Airplanes > Fuel systems > Congresses
• Gasoline

Note

• Proceedings of the Workshop on Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety, held on November 19-20, 1996, at the National Research Council's Georgetown Facility, Washington, D.C.
• "NMAB-490."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Background and Historical Perspective -- Workshop Discussions -- Summary of Progress and Opportunities -- Potential Surfactant Additives: The Search for the Oxymoron / Paul Becher -- Fire Safety in Military Aircraft Fuel Systems / Robert Clodfelter -- Rheology: Tools and Methods / Saad Khan, Joseph R. Royer and Srinivasa R. Raghavan -- Jet Fuel Chemistry and Formulation / William F. Taylor -- Concepts for Safe-Fuel Technology / Bernard R. Wright -- Engine Fuel System Design Issues / Matthias Eder -- Applications of Vulnerability Analysis and Test Methods to Aircraft Design / Hugh Griffis -- Aircraft Fuel System Design Issues / Harendra K. Mehta and A. Thomas Peacock -- Combustion Fluid Mechanics: Tools and Methods / Gerard M. Faeth -- Fundamentals of Fuel Ignition and Flammability / William A. Sirignano -- Post-Crash Fuel Dispersal / Sheldon R. Tieszen -- A. Workshop Participants -- B. New Concepts in Fuel Fire Research: Final Summary Report of Short-Term Advisory Services (STAS) Team -- C. Biographical Sketches of the Committee Members and Technical Consultant.

ISBN

0309058333

LCCN

^^^97068118^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library